Question Which among below are the focus areas under operations maturity? (a) Metrics culture (b) Strong interface with COE and PE (c) Process definition, Implementation and Compliance (d) Recording customer complaints (e) Conducting meetings
All of above
a, b, and e
(a) Planning (b) Knowledge transfer (c) Pilot and guided support (d) Service operations (e) Business relationship management
Objective of this phase is to ensure Proposal terms and conditions are clearly understood by the delivery team and corresponding statement of work is agreed upon by all stakeholders. Which phase is this? (a) Proposal (b) Transition (c) Formalization and Due diligence (d) Service delivery
Objective of this phase is to ensure effective transfer of all the information and knowledge required from customer/vendor to run offshore services independently by Cognizant Team. Which phase is this? (a) Service operations (b) Transition (c) Formalization and Due diligence (d) Service delivery
Cognizant Team starts handling tickets and circulates daily dashboard in which phase of transition? (a) Planning (b) Pilot and guided support (c) Knowledge transfer
What is the frequency of the steady state phase Project management review (PMR) for d large engagements? (a) Weekly (b) Fortnightly (c) Monthly (d) Quarterly
(a) Six Sigma score (b) CSAT score (c) Delivery maturity index (d) Compliant register
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Why is it important to daily measure the SLA/KPI performance and publish daily dashboard? (a) OM Quality person requires it (b) Daily measurement triggers real-time corrective actions (c) Because it needs to be considered for daily practice level SLA compliance score (d) None of above
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Which of the following statements is true for a service management plan (SMP)?
(a) Once approved the SMP is not revised. (b) SMP requires a review whenever there are major changes. (c) It is necessary to update the Change Log on subsequent reviews and approvals of SMP (d) None of above
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To restore normal service operation as quickly as possible and minimize the adverse impact on business operations is the objective of which ITIL process?
(a) Request fulfillment (b) Release management (c) Capacity management (d) Incident management
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Which among the following is not an exit criterion for the Pilot and guided support phase? (a) Availability of signed off run books or technical SOPs (b) Daily dash board implemented (c) KT execution as per plan. (d) Process documents reviewed and signed-off
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(a) Minimize the impact of incidents that cannot be prevented (b) Preventing problems and resulting incidents (c) Eliminating recurring incidents
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(d) Restoring normal service operations as quickly as possible and minimize the adverse impact on What is best description of a known error?
(a) Incident with causal analysis done (b) A problem that has a documented root cause and a work around. (c) Service request which has not been completed but scheduled (d) Knowledge base with errors
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Which of the following is the correct sequence of activities for handling an incident?
(a) Identification, logging, categorization, prioritization, Initial diagnosis, Functional escalation, Investigation and diagnosis, Resolution and recovery, closure. (b) Identification, prioritization, logging, categorization, Initial diagnosis, Functional escalation, Investigation and diagnosis, Resolution and recovery, closure. (c) Identification, logging, Initial diagnosis, categorization, prioritization, Functional escalation, Investigation and diagnosis, Resolution and recovery, closure. (d) Identification, Investigation, logging, categorization, Functional escalation, Prioritization, Initial diagnosis, Resolution and recovery, closure. The goal of configuration management is to?
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(a) Account for all the financial assets of the organization (b) Provide accurate information on configurations and their documentation to support all the other Service Management processes (c) Build service models to justify ITIL implementation (d) Implement ITIL across the organization
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(a) Minimize impact of change related incidents (b) Standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient and prompt handling of changes (c) All changes are handled in a prompt manner. (d) All budgets and expenditure are accounted for
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Business, service and component based considerations are handled as a sub-process of which ITIL process? (a) Capacity management (b) Supplier management (c) Incident management (d) Change management
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Determining the vital business functions and impact arising from IT component failure is c done in which ITIL process.
(a) Capacity management (b) Supplier management (c) Availability management (d) Change management
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Which is the team from CTS that reviews the project specific BCP requirements and tests the BCP at defined frequency? (a) Operations maturity (b) Global information security (GIS) (c) Finance (d) HR
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An Incident occurs when: (a) A user is unable to access a service during service hours (b) An authorized IT staff member is unable to access a service during service hours (c) A network segment fails and the user is not aware of any disruption to service (d) A user contacts the Service Desk about slow performance of an application.
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Determining vital business functions and designing greater level of resilience is done by? (a) Capacity management (b) Supplier management (c) Availability management (d) Change management
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(a) Business impact analysis (b) Risk Assessment (c) Testing strategy (d) Monitoring service availability
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(a) The part of the contract that specifies responsibility of each party (b) An agreement between service provider and an internal organization (c) An agreement between service provider and an external organization (d) An agreement between service provider and their customer
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Important metric used to actively manage and report on the process, IT service or activity is called as? (a) Critical success factor (b) Key performance indicator (c) Kano model (d) Operational level agreement
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(a) There are SLA breaches (b) Customer escalations (c) Customer satisfaction survey is not meeting the expectations
(d) There are non-conformances reported in internal audit cycle (e) None of above (f) All of above
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(a) Proposal (b) Formalization and due diligence (c) Transition (d) Delivery management
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a, b, and c
(a) Probability (b) Impact (c) Detectability (d) Skills of delivery manager (e) Customer location
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The delivery maturity index for a project is a factor of which parameters listed below?
b, c
(a) SLA performance (b) Escalations (c) Knowledge management (d) Risk Assessment (e) Monetary Awards from customer
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(a) Operations maturity (b) COE (Committee of expertise) (c) Production engineering (d) NSS
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A formally negotiated agreement to identify expectations, clarify responsibilities and facilitate communication between service provider and customer, to provide a certain level of service is called as (a) Operational level agreement (b) Project plan (c) Service level agreement (d) Work Order
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A formally negotiated agreement to identify expectations, clarify responsibilities and facilitate communication between service provider and customer, to provide a certain level of service is called as
(a) Operational level agreement (b) Project plan (c) Service level agreement (d) Work Order
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A document which explains the formulae details, exceptions, data source etc for a metrics is called as (a) SLA/KPI Operational definition document (b) PMR (c) Heat Map report (d) Automation maturity index
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Which report mentions the trending of DMI/AMI and TMI across verticals and engagements? (a) Risk and escalation report (b) Transition status report (c) Heat Map assessment report
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(a) Qview (b) Six Sigma yellow belt (c) ITIL-CCP (d) CSQA (e) PMP
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Which activity takes place immediately after recording and registering an incident?
Which ITIL process has the objective to monitor the IT services by maintaining a logical Capacity Mgt model of the IT infrastructure and IT services? Which statement best describes the role of a service desk First point of contact for the customer
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Registering incidents
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A service desk receives different type of calls. Which if the following is an incident?
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Which process is responsible for discussing reports with the customer showing whether Continual service services have met their targets? improvement
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Which of the following are the objectives of release and deployment management process? a. To ensure there are clear release and deployment plans b. To ensure that skills and knowledge are transferred to operations and support staff
A, b, and c only
A, b, and c only
c. To ensure there is minimal unpredicted impact on production services, operations and support d. To provide cost justifiable IT capacity that is matched to the needs of the business Service level agreement is The part of contract that specifies responsibility of each party The relative importance of the incident based on impact and urgency
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The ability to detect events, make sense of them and determine appropriate control action
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An Incident or Problem for which the root cause is known and for which a temporary Work-around or a permanent alternative has been identified is called as Which of the following is NOT an objective of problem management?
Change
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A complex incident which requires a root cause analysis before any workaround can be found
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A measure of how long it will be until an incident, problem or change has a significant impact on the usiness is a definition of A process to notify all stakeholders, opening a dedicated bridge and updating stakeholders on the progress, implementing decisions taken in the call, contacting COEs/SMEs if the issue is not resolved is defined in A problem management is an
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Proactive process
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What is the use of additional technical expertise in the incident management process called?
Incident classification
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The ability of a Configuration Item or IT Service to resist Failure or to Recover quickly following a Failure is called as Which ITIL process is responsible for determining the hardware necessary in order to support an application?
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An analysis is made regarding the expansion of the customer information database. The Availability management result indicates that the mainframe disk capacity must be increased to accommodate the expected growth of the database in the foreseeable future. Which process is responsible for sharing this information on time, to make sure that the available disk space is sufficient? How a change that must be made quickly is called? Fast change
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What is a request to replace something within the IT infrastructure called? What is the term used for a fully described and approved change that does not have to be evaluated by change management each time?
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Which ITIL process carries out a risk analysis on the possible threats to and vulnerabilities of the IT infrastructure?
Configuration management
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What does the term detail level mean in context of the configuration management data Relationship between the base? different configuration items
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Some of the invitees for the transition kick-off meeting are Contract review, Resource/Infrastructure requirements review and set-up, establishing transition governance are carried out in which stage of the transition process? Few activities carried out in the KT Phase of the transition are a. Organize Quiz / Tests to evaluate the effectiveness of knowledge acquisition by the team b. Transfer of knowledge between onshore and offshore teams c. Obtain call/ticket history and baseline figures d. Obtain information on interfaces and handoffs with third party vendors. e. Publish daily dashboard on ticket/call handling performance.
VP-IT IS Planning
a, b, and c
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A standard change is one for which the approach is pre-authorized by change management
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Which of the following statement are correct? a. Problem management can support service desk by providing known errors to speed up the incident resolution. b. Problem management provides information to service level management about the impact of changes. The following options are considered within which process? a. Big bang Vs phased
A only
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Incident management
Incident management
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It is important for the operation of a given application that the version of the software installed on each of the computers on the network is the same. Which process is responsible for this?
Change management
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An issue resulting in a financial loss to the customer or a work stopper issue is a An up-to date database containing carefully written articles of tickets which have been resolved overtime by technical specialists and which has an excellent information retrieval system (search engine), and a well designed content format and classification structure is The Automation Maturity index for an engagement is assessed by which function? IT IS Projects reports the SLA compliance, Customer Complaints & any project issues, if any on a daily basis in the form of a A customer-based Service Level Agreement structure includes:
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NSS PMR
An SLA covering all Customer groups and all the services they use
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Which of the following metrics is most relevant in determining the value added by Problem Management to the Service Desk?
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Within a CMDB, which relationships are most likely to exist between Incidents and Problems? (1) One Incident to one Problem (2) One Incident to many Problems (3) Many Incidents to one Problem Does Problem Management depend ENTIRELY on having a mature Incident Management process in place?
1 & 2 only
Yes, because without a mature Incident Management process in place there is no reliable information available When it is urgent
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Draft SLAs, catalogue services, review underpinning contracts and OLAs, draft SLRs, negotiate, agree SLAs
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Which of the following represents the four stages of the Demming cycle in the correct order One of the key objectives of Metrics group(SMG) is to
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Combination of two or more measures used to compare processes, projects, products. E.g. Productivity, Seat Utilization etc is defined as PMR stands for
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The group that is involved in defining & maintaining the Technical procedures to run day PE to day activities required to support the service at an operations or procedural level is OM facilitates productivity and automation initiatives in various deliveries along with COE and PE teams. IT IS QView is aligned to ITIL V3 LifeCycle What is the RACI model used for? TRUE TRUE Documenting the roles and relationships of stakeholders in a process or activity.
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Which are the missing Service Operation processes from the following? 1. Incident Management
Knowledge Transfer
Infrastructure Readiness is a part of Pilot & Guided Phase SMP stands for
Effectiveness of Transition is measured as part of Resource Identification is a part of which Transition Phase
It is equally important to understand the Customer Infrastructure during the KT Phase Transition CSAT survey is administered to Customer to obtain feedback on Transition by A business agreement between organization and the customer, forming the basis for project execution. Contract/ SoW Should are reviewed by technical, finance and legal groups before submitting to customer. The Agreement containing terms and conditions and description of services which may be used in absence of Master Agreement to serve as contractual documents During the Transition Phase, Risk updation is a part of OM Statement
TRUE
(a) Transition ScoreCard (b) Deployment & Effectiveness ScoreCard (c) Transition PMR (d) Transition Workbook
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The objective of the Change Management process is most accurately described as?
Ensuring that all changes are recorded, managed, tested and implemented in a controlled manner
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The spell check module of a word-processing software package contains a number of errors. The Development department has corrected these errors in a new version. Which process is responsible for ensuring this updated version is tested?
Configuration Management
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The ISO standard for IT service management is The cumulative effect of the chances of uncertain occurrences adversely affecting project objectives is a First call resolution % is a typical metrics for a
Incident management
Change management
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Project metrics
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Which among the following is not a KPI for service level management
Which among the following a NOT a parameter in the delivery maturity index?
SLA performance
The total time elapsed from the time of disaster until IT infrastructure and data is recovered and project can resume operations is the A collection of one or more changes that includes new and/or changed configuration items that are tested and then introduced into the live environment is a
Change
Term used to describe a secure compound in which the definitive authorized versions of Definitive software library all software CIs are stored and protected is
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It is mandated by OM QR
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What is Q view? Which of the following is correct with regards to organization quality objectives/
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Quality and productivity organization structure includes: Proposal phase of the IT IS Process framework belongs to which ITIL process areas?
Formalization and Due diligence phase of IT IS Process framework belongs to which ITIL process areas? Knowledge transfer of IT IS Process framework belongs to which ITIL process areas? Pilot and guided support of IT IS Process framework belongs to which ITIL process areas? Resource identification is a part of which phase of Transition lifecycle?
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Planning Phase
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CSAT is administered during the KT phase of the Transition ? TRUE or FALSE How is the transition progress tracked in an engagement
Steady State
Audits are conducted only during steady state RFP stands for
Deployment parameters in the D&E scorecard are : (i) Governance (ii) Customer reports (iii) Process Documentation (iv) CritSit Management
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Effectiveness parameters in the D&E scorecard are : (i) Governance (ii) Customer reports (iii) Process Documentation (iv) CritSit Management
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PMR is conducted only during steady state TCG leads are not a part of Transition Governance meetings
TRUE TRUE
Preparing Transition Plan in line with SoW and obtain customer sign off is responsibility Quality Representative of MSA stands for Major Supplier Agreement
Level Of Investigation
CRITSIT Management is done during which phase BusinessImpact Understanding presentation is done during ?
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Non-disclosure agreement signed at the start of interaction with the customer Input for Knowledge Transfer phase is Process & Technical SOP documentation are done during?
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During Knowledge Transfer first draft of SMP is prepared Objective of Pilot & Guided Support phase is?
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https://c20ecosyste m.cognizant.com
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Transition phase
Which group administers the Business C-sat survey What are the 3 phases of Transition Phase
Run books contain information about: Transition C-Sat is conducted at the end of which phase?
Q-View is a :
Reporting Tool
Assurance Engineering
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Which one is people and Process challenge ? Multi-location support
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Which are the Short cycle Time IT service management Challenges Changing architectures
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Helps control costs and risks that can potentially damage customer relationships SLA Compliance
The objective of Daily Dashboard is to? Which phase has the Objective to ensure Proposal terms and conditions are clearly understood by the delivery team and corresponding statement of work is agreed upon by all stakeholders Practice level Daily dashboard is : Audit Findings are logged in ?
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Proposal
Option 2 a, b and c
Option 4 a, b, and e
Option 5
Correct Option 2
c and d
None of above
None of above
b, c and d
c, d an e
a, b and c
b and c
b and c
1 and 4 only
2 and 3 only
b and c
d and e
a, b, and c
b and d
d and e
a, b, c, and d.
a, b and c
Classification
Matching
3 1
Solving a problem
All of above
A and c only
A, c and d only
All of above
A and c only
A, c and d only
An agreement between service provider and an internal organization The speed with which the incident needs to be resolved
An agreement between service provider and an external supplier The number of staff that will be assigned to work on the incident so that it is resolved in time
An agreement between service provider and their customer The escalation path that would be followed to ensure resolution of incident
A user logs onto an internal website to download a licensed copy of software from a list of approved options.
Helping to align people and Contributing to the process for a delivery of reduction of impact. service
The ability to report on the successful delivery of services by checking the uptime of infrastructure services
Problem
Known error
Event
Restoring normal service operation as quickly as possible and minimizing adverse impact on business
An incident that is so The incident which has complex that the service high impact on the desk takes longer than five business. times the normal time to log it.
1 2
Reactive process
Analyzing trends
Functional escalation
Availability management
1 2
Capacity management
Change management
Security management
Urgent change
An unplanned change
Standard change
2 3
Problem management
Capacity management.
When it is found that When it is found that something went wrong something went wrong when scheduling resources when testing a change.
Testing a release
All of above
5 1
a, b, c, d and e
b and c
all except e
All of above.
Each standard change is granted by the nominated authority for that change
Standard changes are only raised using the request fulfillment process.
B only
Both A and B
Neither of above.
Release management
Release management
Always
Randomly
Release management
3 1
COE MetBook
3 3
SLAs for each service that are Customer-focused and written in business language
An SLA for each service type, covering all those Customer groups that use that Service
An SLA with each individual Customer group, covering all of the services they use
2 & 3 only
1 & 3 only
All of them
No, because the quality of Incident Management information is of little importance to proactive Problem Management
No, because progress can Yes, because trend still be made on solving analysis cannot be long-standing Problems undertaken without a lot of accurate Incident Management information Never
When it is a Major Incident If the person reporting the incident is very senior
A mixture of business, Clear and concise, leaving Legally worded as they technical and legal no room for ambiguity. must be contractually language, so that they can binding be understood by everyone
Draft SLAs, review underpinning contracts and OLAs, negotiate, catalogue services,
Review underpinning contracts and OLAs, draft SLAs, catalogue services, negotiate, agree SLAs
Catalogue services, establish SLRs, review underpinning contracts and OLAs, negotiate service levels, agree SLAs
Metrics
Request
2 3
SIP
OM
TCG
FALSE FALSE Defining requirements for a Analyzing the business new service or process impact of an incident Creating a balanced scorecard showing the overall status of Service Management.
1 1 1
Facilities Management and Change Management and Event Management Service Level Management.
Facilities Management and Change Management and Event Management Service Level Management.
Steady State
Planning
FALSE Service Management Process MetBook Steady State Software Management Process Transition WorkBook Planning Service Management Project D&E ScoreCard Pilot & Guided Phase
2 1
4 3
FALSE Transition Manager Contract FALSE Master Service Agreement Statement of Work Letter of Intent PE Clause COE Letter
1 2 2 1 4
2 only
1, 2 and 3 only
Ensuring that all changes Protecting services by not have appropriate back-out allowing changes to be plans in the event of failure made.
Senior business managers, All customers, users and IT Information Security IT executives and the staff Management staff only. Security Manager
Incident Management
Problem Management
Release Management.
Availability Management
1 1 2
Change management
Capacity management
Availability management
Incident management
Profitability
Service improvements
Number of SLAs where the Number of Services where Number of resources which agreed service levels are SLAs are backed up by have cleared ITIL v3. fulfilled corresponding OLAs/ UCs
Knowledge management
BCP Objective.
Release
Incident
Request.
CMDB
It is a template in qview
1 4
IT IS SAG
IT IS SMG
4 1
Service design and Service Service Transition & Transition Service operations
Service transition Service transition Service transition Pilot & Guided Support Phase
2 3 3 1
KT
KT
2 1
KT phase
FALSE Request for Proposal Request for policy Request for project
2 2
FALSE FALSE
2 1
Delivery Lead
Transition Manager
Operations Manager
Master Service Agreement Management Supplier Agreement Letter Of Intent Line Of Initiation
Letter Of Investigation
2 1
Contract review
FALSE Transition Plan KT SOW Pilot & Guided Support Phase All of the above All of the above
1 2 3
FALSE ram up providing support to Measuring, tracking & customer reporting of SLAs & KPIs All of the above
1 4
Tells us what to do
Tells us how to do
Changing architectures
3 4
1 2
Feedback Tool
Audit Tracker
1 1
Audit Effectiveness
Accountable Enabling
1 1 4
ISO 27001
Multi-location support 3
Communication
Set of industry best practices to increase the likelihood of achieving service excellence Customer Complaints
Knowledge Transfer
Daily Dashboard
2 2
Service Support
Service Delivery