Practise Exam 2 Flashcards
What is the definition of a service?
- The means by which an organization is directed and controlled
- A set of specialized organizational capabilities for enabling value to customers
- A method for visualizing work, identifying potential blockages and resource conflicts, and managing work in progress.
- 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.
4 - 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.
A service is 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.
- Assurance
- Promise
- Functionality
- Outcome
Functionality
Utility is the functionality offered by a product or service to meet a particular need.
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.
- IT asset management
- Service Configuration Management
- Change Enablement
- Service Level Management
3 - Change Enablement
Change enablement 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.
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.
- Output
- Product
- Service
- Outcome
3 - Service
An event is any change of state that has significance for the management of a service or other configuration item.
What is the purpose of the ‘information security management’ practice?
- Protecting an organization by understanding and managing risks to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.
- Ensuring that services achieve agreed and expected performance levels, satisfying current and future demand in a cost-effective way.
- Ensuring that services deliver agreed levels of availability or that change can be assessed.
- Systematically observing services and service components and recording and reporting selected changes of state identified as events.
1 - Protecting an organization by understanding and managing risks to the confidentiality,
Information security management is the practice of 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?
- Supporting the agreed quality of a service by handling all pre-defined, user-initiated service requests in an effective and user-friendly manner.
- Systematically observing services and service components and recording and reporting selected changes of state identified as events.
- Minimizing the negative impact of incidents by restoring normal service operations as quickly as possible.
- Ensuring that all an organisations projects are successfully delivered.
2 - Systematically observing services and service components and recording and reporting selected changes of state identified as events.
Monitoring and event management is the practice of 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?
- Supporting the agreed quality of a service by handling all pre-defined, user-initiated service requests in an effective and user-friendly manner.
- Ensuring that services deliver agreed levels of availability or that change can be assessed.
- Ensuring that all an organizations projects are successfully delivered.
- Minimizing the negative impact of incidents by restoring normal service operations as quickly as possible.
4 - Minimizing the negative impact of incidents by restoring normal service operations as quickly as possible.
Incident management is the practice of 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?
- Change Enablement
- IT-Asset Management
- Service Configuration Management
- Service Level Management
3 - Service Configuration Management
Service configuration management is 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.
Identify the missing word in the following sentence.
The [?] is the practice of capturing demand for incident resolution and service requests.
- Incident Management
- Service Level Management
- Service Request Management
- Service Desk
4 - Service Desk
The service desk is the practice of capturing demand for incident resolution and service requests.
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?
- An outcome
- Value
- A Service Offering
- An Output
3 - A service offering
A service offering is a description of one or more services, designed to address the needs of a target consumer group (which may include goods, access to resources, and service actions). In the case of this service offering, Dion Training is providing students with everything they need to study for the certification exam (videos, practice exams, and a study guide), but they are not providing the students with the actual exam voucher to take the exam. The service provider may offer a different package or bundle that provides the voucher as well.
What is the definition of utility?
- The assurance that a product or service will meet agreed requirements.
- A possible event that could cause harm or loss, or make it more difficult to achieve objectives.
- The functionality offered by a product or service to meet a particular need.
- A tangible or intangible deliverable that is produced by carrying out an activity.
3 - The functionality offered by a product or service to meet a particular need.
Utility is the functionality offered by a product or service to meet a particular need.
Identify the missing word(s) in the following sentence. A customer is a person who defines the requirements for a service and takes responsibility for the [?] of service consumption.
- Outcomes
- Cost
- Outputs
- Benefits
1 - Outcomes
A customer is a person who defines the requirements for a service and takes responsibility for the outcomes of service consumption.
What is the definition of an IT asset?
- A particular set of settings or options on a given piece of equipment.
- Any valuable component that can contribute to the delivery of an IT-product or service.
- A means of enabling value co-creation by facilitating outcomes that customers want to achieve, wothout the customer having to manage specific costs and risks.
- Any component that needs to be managed in order to deliver an IT-Service.
2 - Any valuable component that can contribute to the delivery of an IT-product or service.
An IT asset is any valuable component that can contribute to the delivery of an IT product or service.
Identify the missing word(s) in the following sentence.
A(n) [?] is any component that needs to be managed in order to deliver an IT service.
- Products
- Output
- Asset
- Configuration Item
4 - Configuration Item
A configuration item is any component that needs to be managed in order to deliver an IT service.
What is the purpose of the ‘relationship management’ practice?
- Establishing and nurturing links between an organization and its stakeholders at strategic and tactical levels.
- Supporting the agreed quality of a service by handling all pre-defined, user-initiated service requests in an effective and user-friendly manner.
- Setting clear business-based targets for service performance so that the delivery of a service can be properly assessed, monitored, and managed against these targets.
- Ensuring that an organizations suppliers and their performance levels are managed appropriately to support the provision of seamless quality products and services.
1 - Establishing and nurturing links between an organization and its stakeholders at strategic and tactical levels.
Relationship management is the practice of establishing and nurturing links between an organization and its stakeholders at strategic and tactical levels.
What is the purpose of the ‘problem management’ practice?
- Ensuring that service deliver agreed levels of availability or that change can be assessed.
- Supporting the agreed quality of a service by handling all pre-defined, user initiated service requests in an effective and user-friendly manner.
- Minimizing the negative impact of incidents by restoring normal service operation as quickly as possible
- Reducing the likelihood and impact of incidents by identifying actual and potential causes of incidents, and managing workarounds and known errors.
4 - Reducing the likelihood and impact of incidents by identifying actual and potential causes of incidents, and managing workarounds and known errors.
Problem management is the practice of reducing the likelihood and impact of incidents by identifying actual and potential causes of incidents, and managing workarounds and known errors.
Identify the missing word in the following sentence. [?] management is the practice of minimizing the negative impact of incidents by restoring normal service operation as quickly as possible.
- Availability
- Event
- Incident
- Problem
3 - Incident
Incident management is the practice of minimizing the negative impact of incidents by restoring normal service operation as quickly as possible.
What is defined as the practice of aligning an organization’s practices and services with changing business needs through the ongoing identification and improvement of all elements involved in the effective management of products and services?
- Service level management
- Service request management
- Continual Improvement
- Capacity and performance management
3 - Continual Improvement
Continual improvement is the practice of aligning an organization’s practices and services with changing business needs through the ongoing identification and improvement of all elements involved in the effective management of products and services.
Identify the missing word in the following sentence. Service [?] management is the practice of setting clear business-based targets for service performance so that the delivery of a service can be properly assessed, monitored, and managed against these targets.
- Capacity
- Availability
- Request
- Level
4 - Level
Service level management is the practice of setting clear business-based targets for service performance so that the delivery of a service can be properly assessed, monitored, and managed against these targets.
Dion Training has decided not to run their own email servers. Instead, Dion Training pays a monthly service fee to Google’s G-Suite to provide email services to the company so that Dion Training can receive emails from its students. What best describes this co-creation of value by Dion Training and Google in order to provide email support to Dion Training’s students?
- Service Offering
- Service Relationship Management
- Service Provision
- Service Consumption
2 - Service Relationship Management
Service relationship management refers to the joint activities performed by a service provider and a service consumer to ensure continual value co-creation based on agreed and available service offerings. In this example, Google is acting as the service provider and Dion Training is acting as the service consumer for the email services. This enables the co-creation of value to Dion Training and aids in their ability to provide email support to their students.