ITIL Management Practices Flashcards
Aligning the organization’s practices and services with changing business needs through the ongoing identification of services or any element involved in the efficient and effective management of products and services is the purpose of what practice
Continual Improvement
What are the 6 key activities of the SVC?
Engage, Plan, Obtain/Build, Design and Transition, Deliver and Support, & Improve
Products and Serivces are apart of the SVC.
False
What are the outputs of the SVC?
Products and Services (which customers value)
Securing time and budget, identifying, logging, assessing and prioritizing opportunities, all describes what?
The key activities of CIP (Continual Improvement Practices)
Methods and techniques of Continual Improvement includes:
LEAN, Agile, DevOps, Balanced Scorecard, & SWOT methods
Customer, Financial, Innovation (learning and growth), Internal (Business Processes), and Vision all makes up the what?
The Balanced Scorecard
SWOT stands for:
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
To maximize the number of successful IT renovations by ensuring that risks have been properly assessed, authorizing, and managing change is the purpose of what practice?
Change Enablement
What is known as the addition, modification, or removal of anything that could have a direct or indirect effect on services?
Change
Scopes defined by each organization generally includes:
Anything that might directly or indirectly impact a product or service
What are Beneficial Changes?
Changes which deliver additional value
What are Additional Risk?
Adverse effect of changes
People who are able to understand the risks and the expected benefits and then authorized before they are deployed usually deals with what?
Change Assessment
A person or group who approves change are known as what?
Change Authority
What must you do to ensure that change enablement is both efficient and effective?
Ensure the correct change authority is assigned to each type of change
A Change Schedule is used to:
Plan changes, Assist in Communication, Avoid Conflicts, Assign Resources
What supports risk assessment to gather input from many stakeholders and raises awareness and facilitate readiness?
A Change Schedule
Low risk, pre-authorized changes that are well-understood and fully documented.
Standard Changes
Changes that need to be scheduled, assessed, & authorized following a standard process
Normal Changes
What are the 3 types of changes?
Standard, Normal, & Emergency Change
Changes that must be implements asap.
Emergency Changes
To resolve an incident or implement a security patch, what change would you implement?
Emergency Change
To minimize the negative impact of incidents by restoring normal service operations as quickly as possible, describes what practice?
Incident Management
An unplanned interruption to a service, or reduction in the quality of a service.
Incident
Why do we use Incident Management tools?
It provides tracking and Automated Incident Matching
What should be timestamped and tracked?
Incident Management (which helps with documentation and Problem Management)
What should be logged and managed to ensure that it is resolved in a time that meets the expectations of the customer and user
Every incident
What should be prioritized based on the agreed classification?
Incidents
Why would you use separate processes?
To manage major incidents and for managing information security incidents
What should include information about symptoms, Business impact, Configuration Item affected, actions completed, and actions planned?
Updates
Investigation of more complicated incidents often requires what?
Knowledge and expertise, rather than procedural steps
Typically, the routing is based on what?
Incident Category
Who usually resolve incidents?
Users using Self-Help, Service Desk, or Support Team for resolution
Which practice reduces the likelihood and impact of incidents by identifying actual and potential causes of incidents and managing workarounds and known errors?
Problem Management
What is a problem?
A cause or potential cause of prior, current, or future incidents
A problem that has been analyzed and has not been resolved.
A Known Error
A solution that reduces or eliminates the impact of an incident or problem.
A Workaround
When should you use a workaround?
When a full resolution is not yet available