ITIL Foundation Training Flashcards
Pass ITIL Foundation Course.
SACM
Service Asset & Configuration Management
CMDB
Configuration Management Database
ITSCM
IT Service Continuity Management
BCM
Business Continuity Management
CAB
Change Advisory Board - A group of people that support the assessment, prioritization, authorization and scheduling of changes. IT staff, MGMT and Suppliers
VBF
Vital Business Functions
SLA
Service Level Agreement
SLR
Service Level Requirements
SLM
Service Level Management
CSI
Continual Service Improvement
3 Main Principles of Governance
FAT
Fairness – Wherever the rules come from, they must be fair.
Accountability – Rules should be followed. Hold people accountable for their behavior.
Transparency – The rules cannot be a secret. Everyone must know these rules.
Governance
Overarching concept that Defines the directions, policies and rules for conducting business are common for both the business and IT
OLA
Operation Level Agreement
KPI
Key Performance Indicator
CSF
Critical Success Factors
Process Control 3 Requirements
Effective
Efficient
Repeatable
Amount of CSI’s per process?
2-5
Amount of KPI’s per CSI?
2-5
DML
Definitive Media Library - Store and protect all software media and prevent viruses or corruption.
CMS
The Configuration Management System - A group of databases such as: CMDBs + Incidents + Problem + KEDB + Chg + RFC + REL + TOOLS
It is part of the SKMS
SKMS
Service Knowledge Management System - AMIS + SMIS + SCMIS+ TOOLS
CMS is a part of this
Purpose of Change Management
To control the lifecycle of all changes, enabling beneficial changes to be made with minimum disruption to IT services
Standard Change
Pre-authorized, low risk, common and routine
Emergency Change
Immediate, asap
Normal Change
Any change that is non standard or emergency, but will have an approval process.
Change Model
pre-defined ways of handling a change of a particular type.
Change Proposal
A Change Proposal is often required for changes with a significant cost, risk or business impact and would typically be initiated via the Service Portfolio Management process.
Remediation
Actions taken to recover after a failed change or release
ECAB
Emergency Change Advisory Board - Subgroup of CAB to make Emergency Changes
7 R’s of Change Management
Raised Reason Return Risks Resources Responsible Relationship
PIR
Post Implementation Review (after a change of some sort)
4 Authorization Phases of Release & Deployment
Release Planning
Build & Test
Check into DML
Post Implementation Review - PIR
DIKW
Data Information Knowledge Wisdom
Event
Any change of state that has significance for the management of a configuration item (CI) or IT service
Alert
Notification that:
A threshold has been reached
Something has changed
A failure has occurred
Incident
An unplanned interruption to an IT service or reduction in the quality of an IT service
Failure of a Configuration Item that has not yet impacted service
Types of Events
Informational - Signify Regular Operation
Warnings - Signify unusual but not exceptional
Exceptions - Signify exceptional operation
Service Management LifeCycle 5 Steps
- Service Strategy
- Service Design
- Service Transition
- Service Operation
- Continual Service Improvement
4 things that make up Best Practice
Sources
Enablers
Drivers
Scenarios
Keys to ITIL’s Global Success?
Vendor-Neutral
Non Prescriptive
Best practice
Service
A means of delivering value to customers by facilitating outcomes customers want to achieve without the ownership of specific costs and risks.
VOCR
VOCR
Value
Outcomes
Costs
Risks
Core services
Core Services anchor the value proposition for the customer and provide the basis for their
continued utilization and satisfaction
Enabling services
Enabling services are services that are needed in order for a core service to be delivered.
Enhancing services
Enhancing services are services that are added to a core service to make it more exciting or
enticing to the customer