How may the Service Desk be delivered?
A) With Full/Part-Time Staff
B) Using A Virtual Approach
C) With Mixed Teams
D) There Is No ‘’Right Way’’
What is this a definition of?
"A possible event that could cause harm or loss or make it more difficult to achieve objectives".
A) Event Management
B) Risks
C) Outcomes
D) Result
The Problem management practice contributes to the Deliver & Support Value Chain Activity by:
A) preventing incident repetition and supporting timely incident resolution
B) by preventing incident causes and supporting quality incident resolution
C) by preventing all incidents, thereby reducing the importance of the Incident Management practice
D) by preventing all incidents, thereby reducing the importance of the Change Control practice
The Service Desk should be …?
A) Outsourced whenever possible to save money
B) Adequately resourced, motivated, lead and supported
C) Only outsourced if there are problems with the Service Desk
D) Automated in every case
The ITIL Guiding Principles?
A) Should be used instead of the Agile Manifesto and 12 Guiding Principles
B) Replace the 3 Ways of DevOps
C) Are not needed if you are using Scrum
D) Are in tune with the messages of Agile, DevOps and Scrum
Which of the following are correct Dimensions of Service Management?
1. Information and people
2. Information and technology
3. Value streams and people
4. Value streams and processes
A) Items 1 & 2
B) Items 2 & 3
C) Items 1 & 4
D) Items 2 & 4
Service desk staff require training and competency in several areas, especially which customer service skills?
A) Empathy, Incident analysis, Incident prioritization, Effective communications, Emotional intelligence
B) Socialising, categorisation, prioritisation, conflict analysis, root cause analysis
C) Change assessment, major problem reviews, customer service review meetings, supplier management.
D) Metrics analysis, time management skills, negotiation skills, team leadership skills.
"A co-operation between a service provider and service consumer."
A) A Friendship
B) An Understanding
C) Outsourcing
D) A Service Relationship
The Purpose of the Service Desk ...?
A) “is to capture demand for incident resolution and problems"
B) “is to capture demand for incident resolution and service requests"
C) “is to capture demand for incident resolution and changes"
D) “is to capture demand for changes and problems"
Which of the following statements is most correct?
A) Value is subjective and is influenced by factors such as financial cost, perceptions, previous experiences, speed, ease of use, safety etc
B) Value is purely objective and can only be measured by money spent and made
C) Value can only be provided by the service provider to the customer
D) Value is the responsibility of the customer to provide to the users
Name the Four dimensions of Service Management.
A) Organisations & people, Information & technology, partners & suppliers, value streams & processes.
B) Value streams & processes, organizations & technology, partners & resources, costs & benefits.
C) Value, outcomes, costs & risks.
D) Budgeting, accounting, charging & value on investment
How regularly should Service Review Meetings be held?
A) At least annually
B) At least half-annually
C) At least quarterly
D) No precise time, but these meetings should be held regularly.
Which statement is true of Continual Improvement? It must ….
A) be embedded into every role
B) be embodied in a single team
C) be embodied in a single person
D) be embedded into a single improvement technique
Which of the following are outputs of Obtain/Build?
1. Service components for deliver and support
2. Service components for design and transition
3. Knowledge and information about new and changed service components to all value chain activities
4. Improvement status reports from improve
A) Items 1, 2 and 4
B) Items 2, 3 and 4
C) Items 1, 2 and 4
D) Items 1, 2 and 3
The purpose of the _____________ practice is to move new or changed hardware, software, documentation, processes, or any other component to live environments. It may also be involved in deploying components to other environments for testing or staging.
A) Incident Management Practice
B) Problem Management Practice
C) Service Request Management Practice
D) Deployment Management Practice
“Functionality offered by a product or service to meet a particular need."
A) An assurance that a product or service will meet agreed requirements.
B) Utility
C) Information security management
D) Service relationship management
Service Requests should …?
A) Not be automated, as they are all different
B) Should all be automated
C) Be automated to the greatest degree possible
D) Should be automated only if they trigger other processes, such as Change Control
What is the best definition of Utility?
A) The functionality offered by a product or service to meet a particular need
B) The amount of capacity available
C) The network bandwidth available
D) A company that supplies gas or electricity
Service Consumption is defined as?
A) Activities performed by an organization to provide services
B) Activities performed by an organization to construct services
C) Activities performed by an organization to consume services
D) Activities performed by an organization to produce services
“Joint activities performed by a service provider and a service consumer to ensure continual value co-creation based on agreed and available service offerings.”
A) Cost Realization And Benefit
B) Total Cost Of Ownership (TCO)
C) Value On Investment (VOI)
D) Service Relationship Management
What are the factors that can affect multiple dimensions?
A) Positional, equitable, sociable, testable, legal, essential
B) Political, economical, social, technological, legal, environmental
C) Practical, ergonomically, social, technological, lethal, essential
D) Problematical, economical, societal, traceable, legitimate, environmental.
Match the following roles with the correct description
1) User
2) Service Consumer
3) Sponsor
4) Customer
W) What is described as a “generic role that is used to simplify the definition and description of the structure of service relationships”.
X) Who is defined as a “person who authorizes budget for service consumption.”
Y) Who is defined as a “person who defines the requirements for a service”.
Z) Who is defined a “person who uses services.”
A. 1Y, 2X, 3Z, 4W
B. 1Y, 2W, 3Y, 4X
C. 1Z, 2W, 3X, 4Y
D. 1Z, 2X, 3Y, 4W
Which phrase is missing from the following statement?
“The purpose of the [...] practice is to protect the information needed by the organization to conduct its business”
A) Service configuration management
B) Obtain/Build
C) IT asset management
D) Information security management
What is defined as the “ability of an IT service or other configuration item to perform its agreed function when required?”
A) Performance
B) Availability
C) Security
D) IT Asset
What are the 7 Steps of the Continual Improvement Model?
A) Where are we now, what’s the vision, did we get there, how do we keep the momentum going, take action, how do we get there, where do we want to be.
B) How do we keep the momentum going, what’s the vision, did we get there, how do we get there, where are we now, take action, where do we want to be
C) Did we get there, how do we keep the momentum going, take action, where are we now, how do we get there, what’s the vision, where do we want to be
D) What’s the vision, where are we now, where do we want to be, how do we get there, take action, did we get there, how do we keep the momentum going
The statement "the addition, modification, or removal of anything that could have a direct or indirect effect on services" is…?
A) The purpose of Change Control
B) The definition of a Change
C) The purpose of Release Management
D) The definition of a Release
"A cause, or potential cause, of one or more incidents.”
A) A Service Disruption
B) A Service Interruption
C) An Incident
D) A Problem
"To 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.”
A) Service Strategy Practice
B) Service Level Management Practice
C) Information Security Management Practice
D) Workforce & Talent Management Practice
What is true of the Guiding Principle “Optimize and automate”
A) Before an activity is automated, it should be simplified and optimized
B) Before an activity is optimized, it should be simplified and automated
C) All activities should be automated
D) All activities with which we have difficulties should be automated
Guiding Principles are?
A) Ubiquitous and endangering
B) Utility and enduring
C) Universal and enduring
D) Utility and endangering
What is true of the Guiding Principle “Collaborate and promote visibility”?
A) Everyone must agree with the next course of action
B) Every stakeholder must agree the next course of action
C) Collaboration does not mean consensus
D) Collaboration does mean consensus with everyone
Which of the following statements is correct?
A) Utility is fitness for use
B) Utility is fitness for purpose
C) Utility is both fitness for purpose and fitness for usefulness
D) Utility is fitness for availability
What is this the definition of?
"A request from a user or user’s authorized representative that initiates a service action that has been agreed as a normal part of service delivery.”
A) Access Management practice
B) Service request
C) Availability management practice
D) Capacity & performance management practice
"The perceived benefits, usefulness and importance of something.”
A) Costs
C) Value
D) Governance
How are Value Streams created?
A) Value Streams are created by specific combinations of Value Chain activities & Practices
B) Value Streams are created by a combination of Assets & Capabilities.
C) Value Streams are created by a combination of Incidents & Problems.
D) Value Streams are created by a combination of defined inputs & outputs.
"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) A Service
B) Service Management
C) Supplier Management
D) Service Continuity Management
"A set of specialised organisational capabilities for enabling value for customers in the form of services"
A) Service Integration And Management (SIAM)
C) Service Consumption
D) Service Provision
Service Offerings may include?
A) Goods, access to resources and service actions
B) Resources, assets, and capabilities
C) Service consumption, service provision, and service relationships
D) Value realisation, value loss and profit realisation
Once designed, Value Streams should.
A) Not improved until the next full audit review
B) Only improved if an issue is identified.
C) Improved continually.
D) Not improved at all
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