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ITIL Foundations
ITIL Study Questions
Question | Answer |
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What are the service Life Cycle processes? | Strategy, Design, Transition. operation. Continual Service Improvement (CSI) |
What makes up best practices? | Sources, Drivers, Enablers, Scenarios |
What is in best practice sources? | Standards, industry practices, academic research, training and education, internal experience |
What is in best practice drivers? | substitutes. regulators, customers |
What is in best practice enablers? | employees, customers, suppliers, advisors, technology |
What is in best practice scenarios? | competition, compliance, commitment |
Why is ITIL successful? | Vender neutral, non-prescritptive, best practice. |
What is a service? | Value, outcome, end to end A means of delivering value to customers by facilitating outcomes |
What does VOCR stand for? | Value Outcomes, costs, risks (Helps define a service) |
Define value | Business outcomes, preferences, perception Level to which a service meets a customers needs. |
What are the primary elements of value? | Utility (fits a purpose) and warrants (fit for use) |
What makes up warranty in terms of value? | Availability,capacity, continuity, security |
What makes up utility in terms of value? | performance supported, constraints removed |
Define service management | A set of specialized organizational capabilities for providing value Capabilities/resources ---> into valuable services |
What make up capabilities and resources for assets? | capabilities: managment, organization,processes,knowledge,people resources: financial cap, infrastructure, applications, information, people |
Who are the stakeholders in service management? | customers, users, suppliers |
Define a process | a structured set of activities designed to accomplish a specific objective inputs ---> activities ---> outputs |
What are the characteristics of a processes | Measurability, specific results, customer or stakeholders, responds to specific trigger |
What are the generic roles of a process? | Service owner (acountability of the service (not day to day)), process owner (accoutnability of the process (not day to day)) process manager process practitioner |
What does RACI model stand for? | Responsible, accountable consulted, informed |
What are the three types of metrics? | technology metrics (component metrics), process metrics, service metrics (end to end) |
What is KPI and CFS? | Critical success factor make up of KPI: key performance indicator Qualitatice/quantitative Compliance, quality, performance, value |
What is the process of the deming cycle? | PDCA: plan, do, check, act |
What makes up service strategy process and what is it? | Defines the perspectice, position, plans and patters that a service provider needs to be able to execute to meet an organizations business outcomes Service protfolio management, financial management for it services, business relationship management. |
What is governance? | Defines the direction, polices and rules for conducting business |
What are the service provider types? | Type 1: internal 2: shared services 3: external service |
What makes up the service portfolio? | Service pipeline --> service catalog --> retired services |
What is risk management? | identifying risks, analyzing risks (qualitative/quantitative), managing risks |
What is service portfolio management? | part of strategy. ensures the right mix of services to balance investment. enables decisions on which services to provide. |
What is financial management for it services? | Part of strategy. establish framework to manage the cost of service stratagy. |
What is ABC stand for? | Accoutning, budgeting, charging. Part of financial management. |
What is business relationship management | part of strategy. focuses on the understanding how services meet the customers requirements from a strategic and tactical level |
What makes up service design? | Design coordination, service catalog man service level man, availability man, capacity man, it service continuity management, information security man, supplier man. |
Whats the purpose of design? | design it services together with the governing it practices, processes and policies, to realize the service providers strategy |
What are the 4 Ps? | people, processes, products/technology, partners/suppliers |
What is the SDP? | Serice design package (blueprint) |
What are the service design five major aspects | STAMP: solution, tools, architecture, measurable, process |
What is design coordination? | part of design. Ensures consistent design to meet the current and evolving business outcomes an requirements |
What is service level management? | part of design. define, document, agree, monitor, measure, report and review it services provided and instigate appropriate corrective measures |
What is an SLA? | Service level agreement: written agreement between an it service provider and the it customers |
what is an OLA? | operational level agreement: agreement between an it service provider and another part of the same organization. |
What is an SLR? | service level requirments: a customers requirments for it services |
What is SIP? | service improvement plan: formal plan aimed at implementing improvements to a process or it service |
what is service catalog management? | part of design. managed service catalog information |
what is supplier management? | part of design. obtain value for money from suppliers |
what is information security management? | part of design. focal point of all it security issues. |
what is availability management? | part of design. ensure the level of availability delivered in all it services. reactive vs proactive. service,component,realiability, maintainability,serviceability, |
What is capacity management? | part of design. ensures agreed service performance targets are met or exceeded |
what is continuity management? | part of design. managing the risks that could effect IT. appropriate mechanisms to meet or exceed agreed targets. |
what is BIA? | Business impact analysis. Goes with continuity. quantify the impact of loss of service. |
what is service transition? | Transition planning and support, change management, service asset and configuration management, release and deployment management, knowledge management. ensures that new modified or retired services meet the expectation of the business. |
What is a model? | predefined steps for handling a known type of event. |
What is transition planning and support? | part of transition. overall planning for service transitions and coordinate the resources that they require. |
what is SACM? | part of transition. service asset and configuration management. ensures the assets required to deliver services are properly controlled. manages the CIs |
whats a CI? | Configuration items. part of SACM. versions baselines constituent components etc... |
What is DML? | part of SACM. definitive media library: secure library in which the definitivve authorized version of all media CIs are stored. |
what is CMS? | configuration management system. part of SACM. a set of tools data and information used to support SACM. inside the SKM. |
What is change management? | part of transition. lifecycle of all changes. |
What are the types of changes in change management? | Standard: pre authorized low risk common. Emergency: must be implemented soon. Normal: any service change that is not standard or emergency. |
Whats a change proposal? | proposal for change. |
whats remediation planning? | actions taken to recover after a failed change. |
what is CAB? | change advisory board. ECAB is emergancy. |
Whats the change life cycle? | create, record, review, assess and eval, build, deploy, record/close. |
What is release and deploy management? | plan, schedule and control the build, test and deployment. |
What is knowledge management? | part of transition. improve the quality of decision making. |
Whats DIKW? | data, information, knowledge, wisdom. |
what is SKM? | knowledge managment system. holds CMS which hold CMD |
what is service operation? | Event, incident, request, problem, access. Fucntions: service desk, tech man, it ops man, app man. deliver services agreed levels at agreed levels to business customers and users. |
What is an event? | any change of state that has a significance for the management of the configuration its CI or IT service. |
Whats an alert? | notification that something has changed/failed/threshold reached. |
What is an incident? | Unplanned interruption, reduction in quality, failure of configuration item. Impact/urgency measured. |
What is a service request? | information or for small changes that are low risk, frequently performed. |
Whats a problem? | underlying cause of incident. |
Whats a workaround? | reduces impact of an incident when there is no full resolution. |
Whats a known error? | = problem + root cause + workaround |
what is KEDB? | known error database. |
What is event management? | part of operation. detect all changes of state that have significance for the management of CI or it services. |
What is incident management? | part of operation. restore normal service operation as quickly as possible. identify, lof, catagorize, prioritize, diagnose, escalation, investigation, resolution. |
What is request fulfillment? | part of operations. manage life cycle of all service requests. |
What is problem management? | part of operation. prevent problems and resulting incidents from happening. diagnose root cause of incidents. |
what is access management? | part of operations. provides the right for users to be able to use a service. |
What is IT operations control? | console management, job scheduling, backups print and output. |
What is technical management? | mainframe, server, network, storage, databases, directory, desktop, middleware, internet. |