Review Questions Flashcards
Identify the missing word in the following sentence.
The purpose of the service configuration management practice is to ensure that accurate and reliable information about the configuration of services, and the [?]
that support them, is available when and where it is needed.
A. suppliers
B. assets
C. customers
D. CIs
D
Which process is used to compare the value that new services offer with the value of the services they have replaced?
A. Availability management
B. Capacity management
C. Service portfolio management
D. Service catalogue management
C
Which is a purpose of the ‘service desk’ practice?
A. To reduce the likelihood and impact of incidents by identifying actual and potential causes of incidents
B. To capture demand for incident resolution and service requests
C. To set clear business-based targets for service performance
D. To maximize the number of successful IT changes by ensuring risks are properly assessed
B
Which statement about service desks is CORRECT?
A. The service desk should work in close collaboration with support and development teams
B. The service desk should rely on self-service portals instead of escalation to support teams
C. The service desk should remain isolated from technical support teams
D. The service desk should escalate all technical issues to support and development teams
A
Which are the elements of process control?
A. Inputs, outputs and triggers
B. Work instructions, procedures and roles
C. Resources, capabilities and metrics
D. Process owner, policy and objectives
D
What should be used to set user expectations for request fulfilment times?
A. The consumer demand for the service
B. The time that the customer indicates for service delivery
C. The service levels of the supplier
D. The time needed to realistically deliver the service
D
When should a change request be submitted to resolve a problem?
A. As soon as a solution for the problem has been identified
B. As soon as a workaround for the problem has been identified
C. As soon as the analysis of the frequency and impact of incidents justifies the change
D. As soon as the analysis of cost, risks and benefits justifies the change
D
What is the starting point for optimization?
A. Standardizing practices and services
B. Determining where the most positive impact would be
C. Securing stakeholder engagement
D. Understanding the vision and objectives of the organization
D
Which ITIL practice has a purpose that includes reducing the likelihood of incidents?
A. Change control
B. Continual improvement
C. Problem management
D. Service desk
C
What is typically needed to assign complex incidents to support groups?
A. The incident priority
B. The incident category
C. A change schedule
D. A self-help tool
B
How does customer engagement contribute to the ‘service level management’ practice?
* 1.It captures information that metrics can be based on
* 2.It ensures the organization meets defined service levels
* 3.It defines the workflows for service requests
* 4. It supports progress discussions
A. 1 and 4
B. 3 and 4
C. 2 and 3
D. 1 and 2
A
What are the ITIL guiding principles used for?
A. To help an organization make good decisions
B. To direct and control an organization
C. To identify activities that an organization must perform in order to deliver a valuable service
D. To ensure that an organization’s performance continually meets stakeholders’ expectations
A
Which practice has a purpose that includes restoring normal service operation as quickly as possible?
A. Problem management
B. Incident management
C. Deployment management
D. Supplier management
B
Which statement about emergency changes is CORRECT?
A. The testing of emergency can be eliminated in order to implement the change quickly
B. The assessment and authorization of emergency changes is expedited to ensure they can be implemented quickly
C. Emergency changes should be authorized and implemented as service requests
D. Emergency changes must be fully documented before authorization and implementation
B
Which guiding principle recommends standardizing and streamlining manual tasks?
A. Optimize and automate
B. Collaborate and promote visibility
C. Focus on value
D. Think and work holistically
A
Which of the following should IT service continuity strategy be based on?
* 1. Design of the service metrics
* 2. Business continuity strategy
* 3. Business impact analysis (BIA)
* 4. Risk assessment
C
How does information about problems and known errors contribute to ‘incident management’?
A. It enables the reassessment of known erros
B. It enables quick and efficient diagnosis of incidents
C. It removes the need for collaboration during incident resolution
D. It removes the need for regular customer updates
B
What should all ‘continual improvement’ decisions be based on?
A. Accurate and carefully analysed data
B. Details of how services are measured
C. A recent maturity assessment
D. An up-to-date balanced scorecard
A
What is the purpose of the ‘relationship management’ practice?
A. To support the agreed quality of a service handling all agreed, userinitiated service requests
B. To set clear business-based targets for service performance
C. To establish and nurture the links between the organization and its stakeholders
D. To align the organization’s practices and services with changing business needs
C
A major incident has been closed, but there is a risk that it might happen again. How should this be logged and managed?
A. As an event
B. As a problem
C. As a service request
D. As a change request
B
What type of change is pre-authorized, low risk, relatively common, and follows a procedure or work instruction?
A. A standard change
B. An emergency change
C. An internal change
D. A normal change
A
Which statement about the ‘service desk1 practice is CORRECT?
A. It provides a link with stakeholders at strategic and tactical levels
B. It carries out change assessment and authorization
C. It investigates the cause of incidents
D. It needs a practical understanding of the business processes
D
Arrange the following steps of software lifecycle in correct order.
* 1. Retire
* 2. Test
* 3. Operate
* 4. Deploy
* 5. Ideation
* 6. Develop
* 7. Design
A. Ideation, Design, Develop, Deploy, Test, Operate, Retire
B. Retire, Test, Operate, Deploy, Ideation, Develop, Design
C. None of the above
D. Ideation, Test, Develop, Deploy, Design, Operate, Retire
A
How do all value chain activities transform inputs to outputs?
A. By using a combination of practices
B. By using a single functional team
C. By determining service demand
D. By implementing process automation
A
Which is one of the five aspects of service design?
A. Management information systems and tools
B. Risk analysis and management approach
C. Management policy for business case creation
D. Corporate governance and policy
A
Which practice identifies metrics that reflect the customer’s experience of a service?
A. Continual improvement
B. Service desk
C. Service level management
D. Problem management
C
Which practice provides a single point of contact for users?
A. Incident management
B. Change control
C. Service desk
D. Service request management
C
Which statement BEST describes the value of service strategy to the business?
A. It allows higher volumes of successful change
B. It reduces unplanned costs through optimized handling of service outages
C. It reduces the duration and frequency of service outages
D. It enables the service provider to understand what levels of service will make their customers successful
D
Which practice has a purpose that includes helping the organization to maximize value, control costs and manage risks?
A. Relationship management
B. IT asset management
C. Release management
D. Service desk
B
Who is responsible for defining metrics for change management?
A. The change management process owner
B. The change advisory board (CAB)
C. The service owner
D. The continual service improvement manager
A
How does a service consumer contribute to the reduction of disk?
A. By paying for the service
B. By managing server hardware
C. By communicating constraints
D. By managing staff availability
C
What is defined as a cause, or potential cause, of one or more incidents?
A. Change
B. Event
C. Known error
D. Problem
D
What MAIN factors are considered to assess the priority of an incident?
A. The urgency and impact
B. The impact and complexity
C. The cost and urgency
D. The complexity and cost
A
Which statement about a ‘continual improvement register’ is CORRECT?
A. It should be managed at the senior level of the organization
B. It should be used to capture user demand
C. There should only be one for the whole organization
D. It should be re-prioritized as ideas are documented
D