ITIL Vocab Flashcards

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Service Management

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A set of specialized organizational capabilities for enabling value to customers in the form of services

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Value

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The perceived benefits, usefulness, and the importance of something

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Organization

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A person or a group of people that has its own functions with responsibilities, authorities and relationships to achieve its objectives

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Customer

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The role that defines requirements for services and takes responsibility for outcomes from service consumption

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User

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The role that uses the service

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Sponsor

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The role that authorizes the budget for service consumption

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Stakeholder

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A person or organization that has an interest or involvement in an organization, product, service, practice or other entity

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Service

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A means of enabling value cocreation by facilitating outcomes that customers want to achieve, without the customer having to manage specific costs and risks

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Product

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A configuration of resources, created by the organization, that will be potentially valuable for their customers

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Service Offering

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A description of one or more services, designed to address the needs of a target consumer group; a service offering may include goods, access to resources, and service actions

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Service relationship management

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consists of joint activities performed by a service provider and a service consumer to ensure continual value co-creation based on agreed and available service offerings

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Service Provisioning

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consists of activities performed by a service provider to provide services

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Service Consumption

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consists of activities performed by a service consumer to consume services

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Output

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is a tangible or intangible deliverable of an activity

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Outcome

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is a result for a stakeholder enabled by one or more output

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Costs

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Refers to the amount of money spent on a specific activity or resource

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Risks

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Refers to possible events that could cause harm or loss, or make it more difficult to achieve objectives

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Utility

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The functionality offered by a product or service to meet a particular need

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Warranty

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The assurance that a product or service will meet agreed requirements

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Process

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A set of interrelated or interacting activities that transform inputs into outputs

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4 Dimensions of Service Management

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Organizations & people, Information & technology, partners & suppliers, and value streams & processes

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Dimension 1 of Service Management: Organization & People

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Culture, required staffing & competencies , roles & responsibilities, and formal organizational structure

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Dimension 2 of Service Management: Information & Technology

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Information and knowledge, technologies, and the relationships between the components

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Dimension 3 of Service Management: Partners & Suppliers

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service provider/service consumer relationship, organizations partner & supplier strategy, factors that influence supplier strategies, service integration & management

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Value Stream

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Series of steps to create and deliver services and value to service consumers

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Dimension 4: Value Streams & Processes

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Activities the organization undertakes, how the activities are organized, and how value is ensure for all stakeholders effectively and efficiently.

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Service Value System (SVS)

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Describes how all the components and activities of the organization work together as a system to enable value creation

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Opportunities

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Represents options or possibilities to add value for stakeholders or otherwise improve the organization

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Demand

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Is the need or desire for products or services among internal and external consumers

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Components of the SVS (service value system)

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Guiding Principals, Governance, service value chain, practices, continual improvement

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The outcome of the service value system

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value

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Guiding Principals

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There are 7 of them, and they are recommendations that can guide an organization in all circumstances, regardless of changes in its goals, strategies, type of work, or management structure

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Governance

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Is the means by which an organization is directed and controlled

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Practices

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Sets of organizational resources designed for performing work or accomplishing an objective

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Continual Improvement

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Is recurring organizational activity performed at all levels to ensure that organization’s performance continually meets stakeholders expectations.

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Service Value Chain

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an operating model that outlines the key activities required to respond to demand and facilitate value creation

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Plan

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This activity is to ensure a shared understanding of the vision, current status and improvement direction

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Improve

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this activity is to ensure continual improvement of products, services, and practices

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Engage

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This activity is to provide a good understanding of stakeholder needs

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Design & Transition

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This activity is to ensure that products & services continually meet stakeholder expectations for quality, cost and time to market

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Obtain/Build

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This activity is to ensure that service components are available when and where the are needed

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Deliver & Support

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This activity is to ensure that services are delivered and supported according to agreed specifications

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7 Guiding Principals

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Focus on value, start where you are, progress iteratively with feedback, collaborate & promote visibility, think & work holistically, keep it simple & practical, optimize & then automate

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Practice

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a set of organizational resources designed for performing work or accomplishing an objective

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Process

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a set of interrelated or interacting activities that transform inputs into outputs

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General Management Practices

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Continual improvement, information & security management, relationship management, supplier management

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Service Management Practices

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Change enablement, incident management, IT asset management, monitoring & event management, problem management, release management, service configuration management, service desk, service level management, service request management

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Technical Management Practice

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Deployment management

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Change enablement

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to maximize the number of successful service and product changes by ensuring that risks have been properly assessed, authorizing changes to proceed, and managing the change schedule

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Change

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The addition, modification or removal of anything that could have a direct or indirect effect on services

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Continual Improvement Practice

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To align the organizations practices and services with changing business needs through ongoing improvement.

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Continual Improvement Register

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Database or structured document to track and manage improvement idea from identification through to final action

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Information Security Management Practice

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To protect the information needed by the organization to conduct its business

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Relationship Management Practice

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To estabis and nurture the links between the organization and its stakeholders at strategic and tactical levels

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Supplier Management Practice

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to ensure that the organizations suppliers and their performances are managed apropriately to support the seamless provision of quality products and services

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Different Types of Changes

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Standard (pre-authorized), Normal (scheduled), emergency (expedited)

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Incident

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an unplanned interruption to a service or reduction in the quality of a service

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Incident Management Practice

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To minimize the negative impact of incidents by restoring normal service operation as quickly as possible

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IT Asset Management Practice

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To plan and manage the full lifecycle of all IT assets to help the organization

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IT Asset

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Any financially valuable component that can contribute to the delivery of an IT product or service

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Event

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Any change of state that has significance for the management of a service or other configuration item

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Monitoring and Even Management Practice

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Manages events throughout their lifecycle in order ot prevent, minimize or eliminate their negative impact on the business

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Problem Management Practice

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Reduce the likelihood and impact of incidents by identifying actual and potential causes of incidents, and managing workarounds and known errors

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Problem

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A cause or potential cause of one or more incidents

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Known Error

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A problem that has been analyzed and has not been resolved

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Problem Managment

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Problem identification, Problem Control, Error Control

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Workaround

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A solution that reduces or eliminate the impact of an incident or problem for which a full resolution is not yet available

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Release Management Practice

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Purpose is to make new and changed services and features available for use

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Release

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A version of a service or other configuration item or a collection of configuration items, that is made available for use

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Service Configuration Management Practice

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Ensure that accurate and reliable information about the configuration of services, and the CI’s that support them is available when and where it is needed. (e.g. Tableau and where/how data travels)

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Configuration Item

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Any component that needs to be managed in order to deliver an IT service

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Service Desk Practice

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Is to capture demand for incident resolution and service requests (provides support for people and business)

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Service Level Management Practice

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To set clear business based targets for service levels and to ensure that delivery of services is properly assessed, monitored, and managed against these targets

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SLA

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A documented agreement between a service provider and a customer that identifies services required and the expected level of service

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Service Request Management Pracitce

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To support the agreed quality of service by handling all pre-defined, user initiated service requests in an effective and user friendly manner (normal part of service delivery, not a degradation of service) upload of FRPL data

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Deployment Management Practice

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Is to move new or changed hardware, software, documentation, processes, or any other component to live environments