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ITIL Vocab

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Pre-defined - agreed steps to handle a particular type of problem.






2. Services being proposed - developed or changed






3. Support business continuity plans and strategy. Ensure IT services can be resumed in agreed timescales






4. Make designs into reality; transition to operation environment; control risk and service disruption






5. Emergency Change Advisory Board






6. Shows there are many elements of a process






7. Interfaces and dependencies of services and their components






8. Employees - customers - vendors - suppliers - advisors - technology






9. Understand - anticipate - and influence demand for services






10. Service and Component






11. Handled as Normal - standard - or Emergency






12. Corporate (fairness and transparency) and business (business objectives)






13. Ensures process is efficient - effective - consistent






14. Service providers ability to coordinate - control - and deployed resources to produce value






15. Provide pre-defined steps for handling service requests.






16. Service Knowledge Management System.






17. Analyze trends and patterns - aim to prevent replication - learn from past to use in the future






18. Match evolving demands of capacity and performance.






19. Change Advisory Board






20. Vital for understanding service dependencies and relationships to overall service knowledge.






21. Changes to service portfolio or to services; project proposals - operational - user access.






22. Needed for process activities to continue






23. Data - Information - Knowledge - Wisdom






24. Direct inputs to production of services






25. Review with customer about targets






26. Superior performance vs alternatives. Implement IT Service management as strategic asset. Think and act strategically. Remember customers have preferences influenced by perceptions. Adopt a marketing mindset






27. Info Security management System






28. Vision? Now? Want to be? How to get there? Did we get there? How to keep it going?






29. Technical - people






30. Planning - Identification - Cotnrol - Status Reporting - Verification and Audit.






31. Improve performance of service assets and utility & warranty of services






32. Identification - logging - categorization - prioritization - Initial Diagnosis - Escalation - Investigation and Diagnosis - Resolution and Recovery - Closure






33. Activities to turn input to output






34. Big Bang vs Phased. Push vs Pull. Automation vs Manual.






35. Plan ofr successful efficient deployment with minimal unpredicted impact - and giving knowledge to staff during transition.






36. Ensure proper funding which is driven by strategy - capacity - and anticipated demand






37. Legally binding agreement between 2 or more parties






38. Local - Centralized - Virual - Follow-the-sun.






39. Plan - Design - improve






40. Understand how differences generate demand






41. Fair value for a service






42. Associated with service and process metrics






43. Compliance - quality - performance and value






44. Business Impact Analysis






45. Design of new and changed services; cost effective - efficient - high quality






46. Manage Identities and rights efficiently






47. Key assets - threats - vulnerability - impact






48. Specialized to perform certain work with specific outcomes. Own capabilities and resources. Build knowledge. Provide structure and stability.






49. Uncertainty of outcome; positive or negative






50. They are synchronous