Practice Tests Flashcards
What is the definition of a service?
a) The means by which an organization is directed and controlled
b) A set of specialized organizational capabilities for enabling value to customers
c) A method for visualizing work, identifying potential blockages and resource conflicts, and managing work in progress
d) 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.
d) 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.
Identify the missing word(s) in the following sentence. Utility is the [?] offered by a product or service to meet a particular need.
a) Assurance
b) Promise
c) Functionality
d) Outcome
c) Functionality
Identify the missing word in the following sentence. [?] is the practice of ensuring that risks are properly assessed, authorizing changes to proceed, and managing a change schedule in order to maximize the number of successful IT changes.
a) IT asset management
b) Service configuration management
c) Change enablement
d) Service level management
c) Change enablement
Identify the missing word(s) in the following sentence. An event is any change of state that has significance for the management of a(n) [?] or other configuration items.
a) Output
b) Product
c) Service
d) Outcome
c) Service
What is the purpose of the ‘information security management’ practice?
a) Protecting an organization by understanding and managing risks to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information
b) Ensuring that services achieve agreed and expected performance levels, satisfying current and future demand in a cost-effective way
c) Ensuring that services deliver agreed levels of availability or that change can be assessed
d) Systematically observing services and service components and recording and reporting selected changes of state identified as events
a) Protecting an organization by understanding and managing risks to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information
What is the purpose of the ‘monitoring and event management’ practice?
a) Supporting the agreed quality of a service by handling all pre-defined, user-initiated service requests in an effective and user-friendly manner
b) Systematically observing services and service components and recording and reporting selected changes of state identified as events
c) Minimizing the negative impact of incidents by restoring normal service operation as quickly as possible
d) Ensuring that all an organization’s projects are successfully delivered
b) Systematically observing services and service components and recording and reporting selected changes of state identified as events
What is the purpose of the ‘incident management’ practice?
a) Supporting the agreed quality of a service by handling all pre-defined, user-initiated service requests in an effective and user-friendly manner
b) Ensuring that services deliver agreed levels of availability or that change can be assessed
c) Ensuring that all an organization’s projects are successfully delivered
d) Minimizing the negative impact of incidents by restoring normal service operation as quickly as possible
d) Minimizing the negative impact of incidents by restoring normal service operation as quickly as possible
What is defined as the practice of ensuring that accurate and reliable information about the configuration of services, and the configuration items that support them, is available when and where needed?
a) Change enablement
b) IT asset management
c) Service configuration management
d) Service level management
c) Service configuration management
Identify the missing word in the following sentence. The [?] is the practice of capturing demand for incident resolution and service requests.
a) Incident management
b) Service level management
c) Service request management
d) Service desk
d) Service desk
Dion Training has decided to offer two membership levels to their training programs. The first membership level includes all of their video courses, practice exams, and study guides for a single monthly fee. This plan does not provide the students with the actual exam voucher to take the certification exams, though. What term best describes this membership level which provides several services for a single price?
a) An outcome
b) Value
c) A service offering
d) An output
c) A service offering
Which describes outputs?
a) Tangible or intangible deliverables
b) Functionality offered by a product or service
c) Results for a stakeholder
d) Configuration of an organization’s resources
a) Tangible or intangible deliverables
What term best describes a person or a group of people that has its own functions with responsibilities, authorities, and relationships to achieve its objectives?
a) Consumer
b) Service provider
c) Customer
d) Organization
d) Organization
Which describes the nature of the guiding principles?
a) A guiding principle is mandatory and must be used when adopting a new service within the organization
b) A guiding principle is specific and only applies to one initiative within the organization
c) An organization must implement the guiding principles exactly as defined by the ITIL 4 Foundation manual
d) A guiding principle is a recommendation used as guidance in all circumstances.
d) A guiding principle is a recommendation used as guidance in all circumstances.
Which guiding principle is most affected by the customer experience (CX)?
a) Progress iteratively with feedback
b) Focus on value
c) Think and work holistically
d) Start where you are
b) Focus on value
Dion Training Solutions wants to build a new service to automatically fulfill exam voucher orders for students. Currently, exam vouchers are fulfilled manually by a staff member once the order is received from the student by copying and pasting the voucher number from a spreadsheet into an email template and sending out the email to the students. Before attempting to automate this fulfillment process, the team lead takes an inventory of the current services, processes, and procedures that are being used by the voucher fulfillment team to see if they might be able to be reused. What guiding principle best describes this scenario?
a) Focus on value
b) Collaborate and promote visibility
c) Start where you are
d) Keep it simple and practical
c) Start where you are
Dion Training Solutions has decided to create an online course for the ITIL 4 Foundation exam. The company developed their curriculum and then invited 50 students to participate in live training to determine if the training was effective. During the training, some students didn’t understand the concept of the service value chain, so the instructor rewrote that portion of the curriculum. Which guiding principle is being demonstrated by this approach to curriculum development?
a) Focus on value
b) Collaborate and promote visibility
c) Optimize and automate
d) Progress iteratively with feedback
d) Progress iteratively with feedback
You are working to design a new service for internal use across your organization. As part of your design efforts, you form a small team with relevant stakeholders from the human resources, information technology, sales, and other relevant departments to ensure the service adequately meets each department’s needs and hope this results in great acceptance of the service when delivered. Which guiding principle best describes this scenario?
a) Focus on value
b) Collaborate and promote visibility
c) Start where you are
d) Keep it simple and practical
b) Collaborate and promote visibility
John is currently working to create a new service that would allow a customer to purchase a digital product online and have it delivered to the user’s inbox. John is responsible for the payment portion of this service, but Sally is responsible for the digital product fulfillment portion of the service. Which of the following should John do in order to follow the principle of ‘think and work holistically’?
a) John should optimize his code to ensure it runs efficiently
b) John should meet with Sally to determine how the digital product fulfillment will occur
c) John should wait until Sally’s portion is complete before beginning his to ensure they work together properly
d) John should tell Sally to wait until his portion is done before starting hers to ensure compatibility
b) John should meet with Sally to determine how the digital product fulfillment will occur
Which of these are a key focus of the ‘organization and people’ dimension?
a) Security and compliance
b) Activities that transform inputs into outputs
c) Roles and responsibilities
d) Contracts and agreements
c) Roles and responsibilities
Which of these are NOT a key focus of the ‘partners and suppliers’ dimension?
a) Workflow management and inventory systems
b) Roles and responsibilities
c) Contracts and agreements
d) Security and compliance
a) Workflow management and inventory systems
Which ITIL concept describes the service value chain?
a) Seven guiding principles
b) Four dimensions of service management
c) Service value system
d) Practices
c) Service value system
What operating model outlines the key activities required to respond to demand and facilitate value realization through the creation and management of products and services?
a) Continual improvement
b) Service value chain
c) Practices
d) Guiding principles
b) Service value chain
Which value chain activity includes portfolio decisions for design and transition?
a) Engage
b) Improve
c) Plan
d) Deliver and support
c) Plan
Which step of the continual improvement model states that “each improvement initiative should support the organization’s goals and objectives”?
a) Where are we now
b) What is the vision
c) Where do we want to be
d) How do we get there
b) What is the vision