Terms Flashcards

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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 and services

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Continual Improvement

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

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Change Control

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

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Incident Management

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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 Management

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Support the agreed-upon quality of a service by handling all predefined, user-initiated service requests in an effective and user-friendly manner

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Service Request Management

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6
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Capture demand for incident resolution and service requests. It should also be the entry point and single point of contact for the service provider with all of its users

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Service Desk

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Set clear business-based targets for service performance, so that the delivery of a service can be properly assessed, monitored, and managed against these targets

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Service Level Management

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Protect the information needed by the organization to conduct its business. This includes understanding and managing risks to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information, as well as other aspects of information security

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Information Security Management

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Establish and nurture the links between the organization and its stakeholders at strategic and tactical levels including the identification, analysis, monitoring, and continual improvement of relationships with and between stakeholders

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Relationship Management

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10
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Ensure that the organization’s suppliers and their performances are managed appropriately to support the seamless provision of quality products and services

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Supplier Management

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Plan and manage the full lifecycle of all IT assets, to help the organization maximize value; control cost; manage risk; support decision-making about purchase, reuse and retirement of assets; meet regulatory and contractual requirements

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IT Asset Management

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Systematically observe services and service components, and record and report selected changes of state identified as events

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Monitoring & Event Management

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13
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Make new and changed services and features available for use

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Release Management

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Ensure that accurate and reliable information about the configuration of services, and the CIs that support them, is available when and where it is needed

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Service Configuration Management

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

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Deployment Management

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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

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Service

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Perceived benefits, usefulness, and importance of something

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Value

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18
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Amount of money spent on a specific activity or resource

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Cost

19
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Possible events that could cause harm or loss, or make it more difficult to achieve objectives

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Risk

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A result for a stakeholder enabled by one or more outputs

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Outcome

21
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A tangible or intangible deliverable of an activity

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Output

22
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Functionality; what the service does; fit for purpose; support performance or remove constraints

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Utility

23
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Assurance that a product or service will meet agreed requirements; How the service performs; fit for use;

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Warranty

24
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Authorizes the budget for service consumption

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Sponsor

25
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A person who defines the requirements for a service and takes responsibility for the outcomes of service consumption

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Customer

26
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A person who uses services

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User

27
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Set of specialized organizational capabilities for enabling value to customers in the form of services

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Service management

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

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Service offering

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Activities performed by an organization to provide services. Includes management of resources, service performance management and continual improvement.

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Service provision

30
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Activities performed by an organization to consume services. Includes management of the consumer’s resources needed to use the service.

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Service consumption

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A cooperation between a service provider and service consumer

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Service relationship

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A cooperation between a service provider and service consumer

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Service relationship

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

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Service relationship management

34
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Person or a group of people that has its own functions with responsibilities, authorities, and relationships to achieve its objectives

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Organization

35
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Anything of financial value that can contribute to the delivery of an IT product or service

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IT Asset

36
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Any change of state that has significance for the management of a configuration item (CI) or IT service

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Event

37
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Any component that needs to be managed in order to deliver an IT service

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Configuration item

38
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Used to track and manage improvement ideas from identification through final action. Multiple CIRs can be maintained on individual, team, departmental, business unit and organizational levels.

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Continual improvement register (CIR)

39
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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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Change

40
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An unplanned interruption to a service or reduction in the quality of a service

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Incident

41
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A cause, or potential cause, of one or more incidents

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Problem

42
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A problem that has been analyzed and has not been resolved

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Known Error

43
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A solution that reduces or eliminates the impact of an incident or problem for which a full resolution is not yet available. Some workarounds reduce the likelihood of incidents.

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Work Around