Which is recommended as part of the ‘progress iteratively with feedback’ guiding principle?
- A . Prohibit changes to plans after they have been finalized
- B . Organize work into small manageable units
- C . Reduce the number of steps that produce tangible results
- D . Analyse the whole situation in detail before taking any action
What is included in the purpose of the ‘continual improvement’ practice?
- A . Ensuring that delivery of services is properly assessed, monitored, and improved against targets
- B . Identifying and continually improving relationships with and between stakeholders
- C . Creating collaborative relationships with key suppliers to realize new value
- D . Aligning the organization’s practices and services with changing business needs
Which term is used to describe removing something that could have an effect on a service?
- A . A change
- B . An incident
- C . An IT asset
- D . A problem
How does the ‘incident management’ practice set user expectations?
- A . By using collaboration tools to communicate effectively
- B . By agreeing, and communicating target resolution time
- C . By assigning resources to ensure that all incidents are resolved as quickly as possible
- D . By automated matching of incidents to known errors
What is the difference between the ‘incident management’ and ‘service desk’ practices?
- A . Incident management resolves complex issues, service desk resolves simpler issues
- B . Incident management restores service operation, service desk provides communication with users
- C . Incident management manages interruptions to services, service desk monitors achieved service quality
- D . Incident management resolves issues service desk investigates the underlying causes of issues
What is a user?
- A . The role that uses services
- B . The role that authorizes budget for service consumption
- C . The role that defines the requirements for a service
- D . The role that directs and controls an organization
Which is a description of service provision?
- A . Activities that an organization performs to deliver services
- B . Away to help create value by facilitating outcomes that service consumers need
- C . Cooperation between two organizations to ensure that a service delivers value
- D . A formal description of one or more services, designed to address the needs of a service consumer
How do ‘continual improvement registers’ help to create value?
- A . By monitoring achievement against service level targets
- B . By making improvements visible
- C . By assigning change authorities for change requests
- D . By documenting all improvement ideas in a single place
Which statement about the inputs and outputs of the value chain activities is CORRECT?
- A . Inputs and outputs are fixed for each value chain activity
- B . Each value chain activity receives inputs and provides outputs
- C . Some value chain activities only have inputs, whereas others only have outputs
- D . The organization’s governance will determine the inputs and outputs of each value chain activity
What is the value of a service?
- A . A result for a stakeholder enabled by the outputs of the service
- B . A tangible or intangible deliverable of the service
- C . The amount of money that is created or saved for the service consumers by using the service
- D . The benefits, usefulness, or importance of the service, as perceived by the stakeholders
Which is the MOST LIKELY way of resolving major incidents?
- A . A support team following detailed procedures for investigating the incident
- B . Users establishing a resolution using self-help
- C . A temporary teamworking together to identify a resolution
- D . The service desk identifying the cause and a resolution
What is the CORRECT order for the three phases of problem management?
- A . Problem identification, problem control error control
- B . Error control, problem control, problem identification
- C . Problem identification, error control, problem control
- D . Problem control, error control, problem identification
Which value chain activity ensures that ongoing service activity meets user expectations?
- A . Plan
- B . Deliver and support
- C . Engage
- D . Obtain/build
What is included in the purpose of the IT asset management’ practice?
- A . Making new and changed assets available for use
- B . Supporting decision-making about purchase, re-use, retirement, and disposal of assets
- C . Providing information on how assets are configured and the relationships between them
- D . Moving assets to live or other environments for testing or staging
Which component is focused on the activities need ed by an organization to help it co-create value?
- A . Practices
- B . Continual improvement
- C . Service value chain
- D . Guiding principles
Why and how is a user MOST LIKELY to contact the service desk?
- A . To discuss the cause of an incident via a phone call
- B . To request access to a resource via a self service portal
- C . To authorize an emergency change via live chat
- D . To report a problem using a mobile app
Which is the cause, or potential cause, of one or more incidents?
- A . A known error
- B . A problem
- C . A change
- D . An event
Which guiding principle recommends using ideas from ITIL, Lean, Dev Ops, Kanban, and other sources to help drive improvements?
- A . Focus on value
- B . Start where you are
- C . Think and work holistically
- D . Optimize and automate
What is used as a tool to help define and measure performance?
- A . An incident record
- B . A continual improvement register
- C . A service level agreement
- D . A change schedule
Which is a financially valuable component that can contribute to the delivery of a service?
- A . Service offering
- B . Sponsor
- C . Configuration item
- D . IT asset