1.
Which ITIL process ensures that the IT Services are restored as soon as possible in the case of a malfunction?
2.
Operations Control refers to?
3.
Which of the following is NOT an example of a Service Request?
4.
Which of the following is NOT an objective of Service Operation?
5.
Scenario
Brewster's is a toy factory that has been in business for 30 years. The company started with a small family run shop and has grown consistently over the years.
They are now supplying toy stores nationwide and are considered to be the primary supplier of children's collectable novelty erasers.
Brewster's IT department is relatively small (currently 15 staff) but efficient. They have recently employed an IT Manager in an attempt to improve the management of the infrastructure, as well as more effective use of resources and identification of areas for improvement.
The Brewster's management teams do not have a lot of IT knowledge. The newly appointed IT Manager is very ITIL focused and wants to implement as many
ITSM processes as is appropriate there are currently no formal processes in place. On starting with the company the IT Manager completed an internal assessment of the IT infrastructure including staff skills analysis, and collated the results from customer satisfaction surveys completed over the last 5 years.
The main areas of concern are as follows:
Responses from customer satisfaction survey:
Overall a consistent satisfaction level. However, responses completed during the past 12 months show an increase in customers who were unsatisfied with call waiting times when contacting the service desk for help with online orders and requests for information.
Customers added the following additional comments:
1. "Never get to speak to the same person twice when dealing with an Incident number, had to call several times to receive follow up on progress"
2. "Some of the Service Desk staff seem under qualified to deal with my questions about new applications/incidents/service requests" Results from Staff Skills Analysis:
Staff, in general, have a good knowledge of IT systems and a basic understanding of the business processes and objectives. However, staff are not well informed of upcoming releases of new or changed services and not given adequate information to relay to the customers.
Staff added the following additional comments:
1. "Communication between Service Operation departments has become inefficient - there are meetings for the sake of meetings, but the important information we need to know to do our day to day jobs is lacking"
2. "I still don't know what half of the people do, that work in the IT department!" Results from General IT Infrastructure assessment:
Lack of event monitoring and planning
Lack of input from Operational Support departments into Service Design
Lack of skill and information sharing across the Operational Support teams with regards to Incident, Problem, Workarounds and Known Error data.
Little to no proactive activities being carried out.
Refer to Scenario
Which of the following options would be most suitable to address the issues identified from the Customer Satisfaction Survey?
6.
Scenario
Brewster's is a toy factory that has been in business for 30 years. The company started with a small family run shop and has grown consistently over the years.
They are now supplying toy stores nationwide and are considered to be the primary supplier of children's collectable novelty erasers.
Brewster's IT department is relatively small (currently 15 staff) but efficient. They have recently employed an IT Manager in an attempt to improve the management of the infrastructure, as well as more effective use of resources and identification of areas for improvement.
The Brewster's management teams do not have a lot of IT knowledge. The newly appointed IT Manager is very ITIL focused and wants to implement as many
ITSM processes as is appropriate there are currently no formal processes in place. On starting with the company the IT Manager completed an internal assessment of the IT infrastructure including staff skills analysis, and collated the results from customer satisfaction surveys completed over the last 5 years.
The main areas of concern are as follows:
Responses from customer satisfaction survey:
Overall a consistent satisfaction level. However, responses completed during the past 12 months show an increase in customers who were unsatisfied with call waiting times when contacting the service desk for help with online orders and requests for information.
Customers added the following additional comments:
1. "Never get to speak to the same person twice when dealing with an Incident number, had to call several times to receive follow up on progress"
2. "Some of the Service Desk staff seem under qualified to deal with my questions about new applications/incidents/service requests"
Results from Staff Skills Analysis:
Staff, in general, have a good knowledge of IT systems and a basic understanding of the business processes and objectives. However, staff are not well informed of upcoming releases of new or changed services and not given adequate information to relay to the customers.
Staff added the following additional comments:
1. "Communication between Service Operation departments has become inefficient - there are meetings for the sake of meetings, but the important information we need to know to do our day to day jobs is lacking"
2. "I still don't know what half of the people do, that work in the IT department!" Results from General IT Infrastructure assessment:
Lack of event monitoring and planning
Lack of input from Operational Support departments into Service Design
Lack of skill and information sharing across the Operational Support teams with regards to Incident, Problem, Workarounds and Known Error data.
Little to no proactive activities being carried out. Refer to Scenario
Which of the following options would be the most effective option to address the issues identified from the Staff Skills Analysis?
7.
Scenario
Brewster's is a toy factory that has been in business for 30 years. The company started with a small family run shop and has grown consistently over the years.
They are now supplying toy stores nationwide and are considered to be the primary supplier of children's collectable novelty erasers.
Brewster's IT department is relatively small (currently 15 staff) but efficient. They have recently employed an IT Manager in an attempt to improve the management of the infrastructure, as well as more effective use of resources and identification of areas for improvement.
The Brewster's management teams do not have a lot of IT knowledge. The newly appointed IT Manager is very ITIL focused and wants to implement as many
ITSM processes as is appropriate there are currently no formal processes in place. On starting with the company the IT Manager completed an internal assessment of the IT infrastructure including staff skills analysis, and collated the results from customer satisfaction surveys completed over the last 5 years.
The main areas of concern are as follows:
Responses from customer satisfaction survey:
Overall a consistent satisfaction level. However, responses completed during the past 12 months show an increase in customers who were unsatisfied with call waiting times when contacting the service desk for help with online orders and requests for information.
Customers added the following additional comments:
1. "Never get to speak to the same person twice when dealing with an Incident number, had to call several times to receive follow up on progress"
2. "Some of the Service Desk staff seem under qualified to deal with my questions about new applications/incidents/service requests" Results from Staff Skills Analysis:
Staff, in general, have a good knowledge of IT systems and a basic understanding of the business processes and objectives. However, staff are not well informed of upcoming releases of new or changed services and not given adequate information to relay to the customers.
Staff added the following additional comments:
1. "Communication between Service Operation departments has become inefficient - there are meetings for the sake of meetings, but the important information we need to know to do our day to day jobs is lacking"
2. "I still don't know what half of the people do, that work in the IT department!"
Results from General IT Infrastructure assessment:
Lack of event monitoring and planning
Lack of input from Operational Support departments into Service Design
Lack of skill and information sharing across the Operational Support teams with regards to Incident, Problem, Workarounds and Known Error data.
Little to no proactive activities being carried out.
Refer to Scenario
Which of the following options would be the most effective option to address the issues identified from the General IT Infrastructure assessment?
8.
Scenario
Brewster's is a toy factory that has been in business for 30 years. The company started with a small family run shop and has grown consistently over the years.
They are now supplying toy stores nationwide and are considered to be the primary supplier of children's collectable novelty erasers.
Brewster's IT department is relatively small (currently 15 staff) but efficient. They have recently employed an IT Manager in an attempt to improve the management of the infrastructure, as well as more effective use of resources and identification of areas for improvement.
The Brewster's management teams do not have a lot of IT knowledge. The newly appointed IT Manager is very ITIL focused and wants to implement as many
ITSM processes as is appropriate there are currently no formal processes in place. On starting with the company the IT Manager completed an internal assessment of the IT infrastructure including staff skills analysis, and collated the results from customer satisfaction surveys completed over the last 5 years.
The main areas of concern are as follows:
Responses from customer satisfaction survey:
Overall a consistent satisfaction level. However, responses completed during the past 12 months show an increase in customers who were unsatisfied with call waiting times when contacting the service desk for help with online orders and requests for information.
Customers added the following additional comments:
1. "Never get to speak to the same person twice when dealing with an Incident number, had to call several times to receive follow up on progress"
2. "Some of the Service Desk staff seem under qualified to deal with my questions about new applications/incidents/service requests"
Results from Staff Skills Analysis:
Staff, in general, have a good knowledge of IT systems and a basic understanding of the business processes and objectives. However, staff are not well informed of upcoming releases of new or changed services and not given adequate information to relay to the customers.
Staff added the following additional comments:
1. "Communication between Service Operation departments has become inefficient - there are meetings for the sake of meetings, but the important information we need to know to do our day to day jobs is lacking"
2. "I still don't know what half of the people do, that work in the IT department!"
Results from General IT Infrastructure assessment:
Lack of event monitoring and planning
Lack of input from Operational Support departments into Service Design
Lack of skill and information sharing across the Operational Support teams with regards to Incident, Problem, Workarounds and Known Error data.
Little to no proactive activities being carried out.
Refer to Scenario
Through further investigation you identify that there is no formal means of collecting data to identify service improvement, other than customer surveys. These are very subjective and do not give a balanced picture regarding quality of service.
Through discussions with the Continual Service Improvement Manager, you decide to start collecting a range of metrics to help identify service improvements.
Which metrics would be relevant to Service Desk?
9.
Scenario
Vericom is a leading provider of government, business and consumer telecommunication services, and is currently seeking ways in which to improve its utilization of IT services to drive growth across its' multiple lines of business. One of the largest organizations in the United Kingdom, Vericom is comprised of the following business units:
Verinet (providing ADSL, cable, 3GSM, dialup and satellite services)
Infrastructure Services (planning, installing and maintaining the PSTN and mobile network infrastructure)
VericomTV (Pay TV)
Consumer Sales and Marketing (including 400 Vericom retail outlets) Business and Government
Finance and Administration
Information Technology Services (Shared Service Unit, however some business units also have their own internal service provider)
Human Resources
Vericom Wholesale (for wholesale of Vericom infrastructure services)
Due to the extensive scope of infrastructure deployed and large employee and customer base, Vericom continues to rely on legacy systems for some critical IT services; however this is seen as a barrier to future organizational growth and scalability of services offered. The CIO of Vericom has also raised the concern that while improvements to the technology utilized is important, this also needs to be supported by quality IT Service Management practices employed by the various IT departments.
The project of improving the IT Service Management practices employed by Vericom has been outsourced to external consultants who are aware of the major IT refresh that is going to be occurring over the next 24 months.
Refer to the scenario.
The Verinet business unit which provides internet services is currently facing increased competition from other Internet Service Providers seeking to entice Verinet customers away with offerings such as free VOIP (voice over internet protocol) and Naked DSL (unconditioned local loop). To combat this, Verinet wishes to develop a new marketing campaign highlighting the high quality and availability of services offered.
Before this occurs, the Service Manager within Verinet (who has previously implemented ITIL in other organizations) had recommended implementing Event
Management to assist in the continued ability for providing high quality, highly available internet services to the UK population. She has been faced by some resistance, who believe that it is not required as Capacity, Availability, Incident and Problem Management have already been implemented. Which of the following would be the BEST response to the Verinet directors in describing the benefits of introducing Event Management to Verinet?