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ITIL 1
IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT CHAPTERS 1-1 to 3-11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the 5 core volumes that define each phase of the Service Lifecycle from initial definition to live operation and continual improvement? | Service Stategy (SS), Service Design (SD), Service Transition (ST), Service Operation (SO), Continual Service Improvement (CSI) |
| Focus is on developing the capacity to achieve and maintain a strategic advantage; to refine and create policies, guidelines and policies, guidelines and processes that cross all the ITIL Service Lifecycle; the 'axis' of the lifecycle. | Service Strategy (SS) |
| Takes the SS Strategy and creates the design that will eventually operationalize those buisness objectives; the focus is on the design for new change; changed and updated services. | Service Design (SD) |
| Provides guidance for the development and improvement of capabilities for transition new and changes services into live service operation. | Service Transition (ST) |
| Manages the day-to-day operation of a service and provides guidance on the effective and efficient delivery and support. | Service Operation (SO) |
| Provides critical guidance in creating and maintaining value for customers through better design, transition and operation of services; interacts with all phases of the lifecycle. | Continual Service Improvements (CSI) |
| A means of delivering value to customers by facilitating the outcomes customers want to achieve without the ownership of specific costs and risk. | Service |
| Typical service Constraints. | resources, regulations, contacts, etc. |
| Comprised of the components: Utility and Warranty. | Value |
| The functionality offered by a product or service from the customer's perspective. It is operationalized by achieving specified results or by preventing specific risks and costs. (fit for purpose) | Utility |
| A promise or guarantee that a product or service will meet its agreed requirements. It is operationalized by ensuring sufficient availability, capacity, continuity and security. (fit for use) | Warranty |
| The parameters that will allow a service to meet customer needs and at the same time, enhance performance and reduce the influence of those constraints. | Solution Space |
| A service provided to one or more customers by an IT Service is based on the use of information technology and supports the customer's business processes. | IT Service |
| An It Service is made form a combination of people, processes, products, and partners and should be defined in a service level agreement. | IT Service |
| A set of specialized organizational capabilities for providing value to customers in the form of services. | Service Management |
| A generic term that includes IT infrastructure, people, money or anything else that might help to deliver an IT Service. | Resource |
| The ability of a service organization, person, process, application, configuration item or IT service to carry out an activity. | Capability |
| The implementation and management fo quality IT Services that meet the needs of the Business by IT Service Providers through an appropriate mix of people, process and information technology. | IT Service Management |
| Practices that allow an individual organization to realize value. | The concept of GOOD PRACTICE. |
| Practices that allow an individual organization to realize value and when those practices are utilized by other organizations it is. | The concept of BEST PRACTICE. |
| Organizations that are a fallacy as they would have to impliment every practice in every volume exactly as described without consideration for their operational | ITIL Compliant |
| 4 P's of Strategy | Perspective, Position, Plan, Pattern |
| clear vision and focus or mission which clearly demonstrates how the business interacts with a customer or how service are provided; truly a governing set of beliefs, values and a sense of purpose shared by the entive organization. | Perspective |
| clearly defined stance that defines the key policies (e.g., complete on the basis of value or low cost; bias toward utility or warranty, etc..) for service delivery; descriptive word is 'distinctiveness' | Position |
| A type of Position that focuses on a variety of customer's needs and aims to meetin them in a unique fashion | Variety-based positioning |
| A type of positioning where as service providers choose to provide most, if not all of the needs of a customer. | Needs-based positioning |
| A type of position that provide services respective of size, location, scale, structure of the customers' need. | Access-based positioning |
| Precision notion of organizational development which describes the transition(intended strategy) between 'as is' to 'to be' (e.g., method and executon of actions) | Plan |
| Consistency in decisions and actions over time which allows an organization to define fundamental work patterns or outcomes | Pattern |
| Align IT services with current and future business, Improve the quality of IT services to deliver value to the customer, Reduce the long term cost of service provision | Three Key Goals of IT Service Management |
| Services facilitate outcomes by the following: | Enhancing the performance of tasks, reducing the effect of constraints |
| IT Today is: | Require increasingly advanced methods to meet business needs, Use a diverse range of technologies, Failure to adopt structured, proactive working practices |