ITIL v4 Coursework Flashcards
What are the 4 dimensions of service management?
Organizations and people
Information and technology
Partners and Suppliers
Value streams and processes
A set of specialized organizational capabilities for enabling value for customers in the form of services
Service management
The perceived benefits, usefulness and importance of something co-created through an active collaboration between providers, consumers and other organizations
Value
What is the purpose of an organization?
To create value for stakeholders
A person or a group of people that has its own functions with responsibilities, authorities and relationships to achieve its objectives
Organization
The provider can be external to the customer’s organization, or internal i.e. they can both be part of the same organization
Service provider
When receiving services, an organization takes on what role?
Service consumers
The role that defines the requirements for a service and takes responsibility for the outcomes of service consumption
Customer
The role that uses services
User
The role that authorizes budget for service consumption
Sponsor
A means of enabling value co-creation by facilitating outcomes that customers want to achieve, without the customer having to manage specific costs and risks
Service
A configuration of an organization’s resources designed to offer value for a consumer
Product
A description of one or more services, designed to address the needs of a target consumer group
Service offering
A co-operation between a service provider and service consumer
Service relationship
Activities performed by an organization to provide services
Service provision
Activities performed by an organization to consume services
Service consumption
Joint activities performed by a service provider and a service consumer to ensure continual value co-creation based on agreed and available service offerings
Service relationship management
Ownership is transferred to the consumer and the consumer takes responsibility for future use
Goods
Ownership is not transferred to the consumer. Access is granted / licensed under agreed terms or conditions
Access to resources
Performed according to agreement with the consumer to address a consumer need
Service action
A tangible or intangible deliverable of an activity
Output
A result for a stakeholder enabled by one or more outputs
Outcomes
What are the two types of costs involved in service relationships
Costs removed from a consumer
Costs imposed on a consumer
The amount of money spent on a specific activity or resource
Cost
A possible event that could cause harm or loss, or make it more difficult to achieve objectives
Risk
The functionality offered by a product or service to meet a particular need
Utility
Assurance that a product or service will meet agreed requirements
Warranty
Which word is NOT part of the ITIL definition of service?
A. Outcome
B. Risk
C. Value
D. Output
D. Output
Which statement about warranty is correct?
A. Assurance that a product or service will meet agreed requirements
B. A configuration of an organization’s resources designed to offer value for a consumer
C. The perceived benefits, usefulness, and importance of something
D. The functionality offered by a product or service to meet a particular need
A. Assurance that a product or service will meet agreed requirements
Which statement about a sponsor is correct?
A. A person who defines the requirements for a service and takes responsibility for the outcomes of service consumption
B. A role that is accountable for the delivery of a specific service
C. A person who authorizes budget for service consumption
D. A person or organization that has an interest or involvement in an organization, product, service, practice, or other entity
C. A person who authorizes budget for service consumption
PESTLE:
General lifestyle changes, changes in populations, distributions and demographics and the impact of different mixes of culture
Social
PESTLE:
Major current and emerging technologies of relevance for your business
Technological
PESTLE:
Worldwide and national proposed and passed legislation, requirements for working conditions, professional practice, contracting, etc.
Legal
PESTLE:
Local, national and international environmental impacts, outcomes of political and social factors
Environmental
A set of interrelated or interacting activities that transform inputs into outputs. Defines the sequence of actions and their dependencies
Process
A series of steps an organization undertakes to create and deliver products and services to consumers
Value stream
Which of the four dimensions is concerned with “the supporting information and knowledge needed to deliver and manage the services”?
A. Organization and people
B. Information and technology
C. Partners and suppliers
D. Value streams and processes
B. Information and technology
Which of the four dimensions is concerned with “the supporting information and knowledge needed to deliver and manage the services”?
A. Organization and people
B. Information and technology
C. Partners and suppliers
D. Value streams and processes
B. Information and technology
Which of these are influencing factors for partner and supplier strategy?
- Corporate hospitality
- Resource scarcity
- Demand patterns
- Personal relationship with supplier
A. 1 and 2
B. 2 and 3
C. 3 and 4
D. 1 and 4
SG-43
Which of these are influencing factors for partner and supplier strategy?
- Corporate hospitality
- Resource scarcity
- Demand patterns
- Personal relationship with supplier
A. 1 and 2
B. 2 and 3
C. 3 and 4
D. 1 and 4
B. 2 and 3
Recommendations that can guide an organization in all circumstances, regardless of changes in its goals, strategies, type of work, or management structure
Guiding principles
ITIL SVS (Service Value System)
Recommendations that can guide an organization in all circumstances, regardless of changes in its goals, strategies, type of work, or management structure
Guiding principles
ITIL SVS (Service Value System)
The means by which an organization is directed and controlled
Governance
ITIL SVS (Service Value System)
A set of interconnected activities that an organization performs to deliver a valuable product or service to its consumers and to facilitate value realization
Service value chain
ITIL SVS (Service Value System)
Sets of organizational resources designed for performing work or accomplishing an objective
Practices
ITIL SVS (Service Value System)
A recurring organizational activity performed at all levels to ensure that an organization’s performance continually meets stakeholders’ expectations. ITIL 4 supports continual improvement with the ITIL continual improvement model
Continual improvement
7 Guiding Principles
Everything that the organization does needs to map, directly or indirectly, to value for the stakeholders
Focus on value
7 Guiding Principles
Do not start from scratch and build something new without considering what is already available to be leveraged. There is likely to be a great deal in the current services, processes, programs, projects and people that can be used to create the desired outcome
Start where you are
7 Guiding Principles
Do not attempt to do everything at once. Even huge initiatives must be accomplished iteratively. By organising work into smaller, manageable sections that can be executed and completed in a timely manner, it is easier to maintain a sharper focus on each effort
Progress iteratively with feedback
7 Guiding Principles
Working together across boundaries produces results that have greater buy-in, more relevance to objectives and better likelihood of long-term success
Collaborate and promote visibility
7 Guiding Principles
No service, or element used to provide a service, stands alone. The outcomes achieved by the service provider and consumer will suffer unless the organization works on the service as a whole, not just on its parts
Think and work holistically
7 Guiding Principles
If a process, service, action or metric provides no value, or produces no useful outcome, eliminate it. In a process or procedure, use the minimum number of steps necessary to accomplish the objective(s)
Keep it simple and practical
7 Guiding Principles
Resources of all types, particularly human resources (HR), should be used to their best effect. Eliminate anything that is truly wasteful and use technology to achieve whatever it is capable of. Human intervention should only happen where it really contributes value.
Optimize and automate
Which of these are guiding principles of ITIL?
- Collaborate and promote visibility
- Keep it simple and practical
- Maximize benefit to the enterprise
- Empower and excite
A. 1 and 2
B. 2 and 3
C. 3 and 4
D. 1 and 4
A. 1 and 2
What term typically refers to the use of technology to perform a step or series of steps correctly and consistently with limited or no human intervention?
A. Continuous Delivery
B. Automation
C. Optimization
D. Technical debt
B. Automation
To make something as effective and useful as it needs to be
Optimization
Which of these is connected to the “think and work holistically” principle?
A. Judging what to keep
B. Involve the right people
C. Role of measurement
D. Altering one element can impact others
D. Altering one element can impact others
Align the organization’s practices and services with changing business needs through the ongoing identification and improvement of services, service components, practices or any element involved in the efficient and effective management of products/ services
Continual improvement
Which step of the continual improvement model would involve “Evaluate metrics and Key Performance Indicators”?
A. What is the vision?
B. Where are we now?
C. Where do we want to be?
D. Did we get there?
C. Where do we want to be
Which of the following is NOT a step in the continual improvement model?
A. What is the vision?
B. Did we get there?
C. How might we fail?
D. Where are we now?
C. How might we fail?
In the continual improvement model which step is immediately before “Did we get there”?
A. How do we get there?
B. Take action
C. What lessons can we learn?
D. What is the vision?
B. Take action
What are the six value chain activities?
Plan
Improve
Engage
Design and transition
Obtain/build
Deliver and support
To ensure a shared understanding of the vision, current status and improvement direction for all four dimensions and all products and services across the organization
Plan
To provide a good understanding of stakeholder needs, transparency, and continual engagement and good relationships with all stakeholders
Engage
To ensure that products and services continually meet stakeholder expectations for quality, costs and time-to-market
Design and transition