Itil V4
Itil V4
   •   A. The testing of emergency can be            9. What are 'engage', `˜plan' and `˜improve'
       eliminated in order to implement the change      examples of?
       quickly
   •   B. The assessment and authorization of
       emergency changes is expedited to ensure         •   A. Service value chain activities
       they can be implemented quickly                  •   B. Service level management
   •   C. Emergency changes should be authorized        •   C. Service value chain inputs
       and implemented as service requests              •   D. Change control
   •   D. Emergency changes must be fully
       documented before authorization and           10. Which statement about outcomes is CORRECT?
       implementation
                                                        •   A. An outcome can be enabled by more than
5. Which practice coordinates the classification,           one output
   ownership and communication of service               •   B. Outcomes are how the service performs
   requests and incidents?                              •   C. An output can be enabled by one or more
                                                            outcomes
   •   A. Supplier management                           •   D. An outcome is a tangible or intangible
   •   B. Service desk                                      activity
   •   C. Problem management
   •   D. Relationship management
11. Which statement about service desks is               16. Which statement about the steps to fulfill a
    CORRECT?                                                 service request is CORRECT?
   •   A. The service desk should work in close             •   A. They should be complex and detailed
       collaboration with support and development           •   B. They should be well-known and proven
       teams                                                •   C. They should include incident handling
   •   B. The service desk should rely on self-             •   D. They should be brief and simple
       service portals instead of escalation to
       support teams                                     17. What is defined as a cause, or potential cause,
   •   C. The service desk should remain isolated            of one or more incidents?
       from technical support teams
   •   D. The service desk should escalate all              •   A. Change
       technical issues to support and development          •   B. Event
       teams                                                •   C. Known error
                                                            •   D. Problem
12. Which practice updates information relating to
    symptoms and business impact?                        18. Which guiding principle recommends eliminating
                                                             activities that do not contribute to the creation
   •   A. Service level management                           of value?
   •   B. Change control
   •   C. Service request management                        •   A. Start where you are
   •   D. Incident management                               •   B. Collaborate and promote visibility
                                                            •   C. Keep it simple and practical
13. Which is included in the purpose of the `˜design        •   D. Optimize and automate
    and transition' value chain activity?
                                                         19. When should the effectiveness of a problem
   •   A. Ensuring that service components are               workaround be assessed?
       available when needed
   •   B. Providing transparency and good                   •   A. Whenever the workaround is used
       stakeholder relationships                            •   B. Whenever the problem is resolved
   •   C. Supporting services according to                  •   C. Whenever the workaround becomes a
       specifications                                           known error
   •   D. Continually meeting stakeholder                   •   D. Whenever the problem is prioritized
       expectations for costs
                                                         20. Identify the missing word in the following
14. Which practice has a purpose to support the              sentence.
    quality of the service by handling all agreed user       A change is defined as the addition,
    initiated service requests?                              modification, or removal of anything that could
                                                             have a direct or indirect effect on [?].
   •   A. Change control
   •   B. IT asset management                               •   A. assets
   •   C. Service desk                                      •   B. values
   •   D. Service request management                        •   C. elements
                                                            •   D. services
15. Which is NOT a component of the service value
    system?                                              21. Which dimension considers how knowledge
                                                             assets should be protected?
   •   A. The guiding principles
   •   B. Governance                                        •   A. Organizations and people
   •   C. Practices                                         •   B. Partners and suppliers
   •   D. The four dimensions of service                    •   C. Information and technology
       management                                           •   D. Value streams and processes
22. What is a means of enabling value co-creation          •   B. To make new or changed services
    by facilitating outcomes that customers want to            available for use
    achieve, without the customer having to manage         •   C. To move new or changed components to
    specific costs and risks?                                  live environments
                                                           •   D. To set clear business-based targets for
   •   A. Service management                                   service performance
   •   B. Continual improvement
   •   C. A service                                     27. Which is a service request?
   •   D. An IT asset
                                                           •   A. Requesting a workaround for an issue
23. Identify the missing words in the following            •   B. Requesting information about how to
    sentence.                                                  create a document
    The management of information security                 •   C. Requesting an enhancement to an
    incidents usually requires [?].                            application
                                                           •   D. Requesting investigation of a degraded
   •   A. Immediate escalation                                 service
   •   B. Specialist teams
   •   C. A separate process                            28. Identify the missing word in the following
   •   D. Third party support                               sentence.
                                                            The purpose of the supplier management
24. What are the ITIL guiding principles used for?          practice is to ensure that the organization's
                                                            suppliers and their [?] are managed
                                                            appropriately to support the seamless provision
   •   A. To help an organization make good                 of quality products and services.
       decisions
   •   B. To direct and control an organization
   •   C. To identify activities that an organization      •   A. costs
       must perform in order to deliver a valuable         •   B. users
       service                                             •   C. value
   •   D. To ensure that an organizationג€™s               •   D. performances
       performance continually meets
       stakeholdersג€™ expectations                     29. What is a recommendation of the `˜focus on
                                                            value' guiding principle?
25. Which is the CORRECT approach for managing a
    large improvement initiative as smaller                •   A. Make ג€˜focus on valueג€™ a
    iterations?                                                responsibility of the management
                                                           •   B. Focus on the value of new and significant
   •   A. Each iteration should be designed before             projects first
       starting the initiative and implemented             •   C. Focus on value for the service provider
       without feedback                                        first
   •   B. Feedback should only be taken into               •   D. Focus on value at every step of the
       account when one iteration fails to meet its            improvement
       objective
   •   C. Feedback should be reduced for large          30. Which guiding principle recommends
       improvements as it is unlikely that                  standardizing and streamlining manual tasks?
       circumstances will change
   •   D. Each iteration should be continually re-         •   A. Optimize and automate
       evaluated based on feedback                         •   B. Collaborate and promote visibility
                                                           •   C. Focus on value
26. What is the purpose of the `˜deployment                •   D. Think and work holistically
    management' practice?
33. When planning `˜continual improvement', which    39. Which two statements about an organization's
    approach for assessing the current state of a        culture are CORRECT?
    service is CORRECT?                                  1. It is created from shared values based on how
        A. An organization should always use a           it carries out its work
        single technique to ensure metrics are           2. It is determined by the type of technology
        consistent                                       used to support services
        B. An organization should always use a           3. It should be based on the culture of
        strength, weakness, opportunity and threat       prospective suppliers
        (SWOT) analysis                                  4. It should be based on the objectives of the
        C. An organization should always develop         organization
        competencies in methodologies and                A. 1 and 2
        techniques that will meet their needs            B. 2 and 3
        D. An organization should always use an          C. 3 and 4
        approach that combines Lean, Agile and           D. 1 and 4
        DevOps methodologies
                                                     40. When should a change request be submitted to
34. How does a service consumer contribute to the        resolve a problem?
    reduction of disk?                                   As soon as a solution for the problem has been
       A. By paying for the service                      identified
       B. By managing server hardware                    B. As soon as a workaround for the problem has
       C. By communicating constraints                   been identified
       D. By managing staff availability                 C. As soon as the analysis of the frequency and
                                                         impact of incidents justifies the change
35. What helps diagnose and resolve a simple             D. As soon as the analysis of cost, risks and
    incident?                                            benefits justifies the change
        A. Rapid escalation
        B. Formation of a temporary team             41. Which guiding principle helps to ensure that
        C. The use of scripts                            better information is available for decision
        D. Problem prioritization                        making?
                                                         A. Keep it simple and practical
                                                         B. Think and work holistically
                                                         C. Optimize and automate
                                                         D. Collaborate and promote visibility
                                                           B. Changes that need to be scheduled and
42. Which practice has a purpose that includes             assessed following a process
    observing a service to report selected changes         C. Changes that are typically initiated as service
    of state identified as events?                         requests
    A. Information security management                     D. Changes that must be implemented as soon
    B. Monitoring and event management                     as possible
    C. Incident management
    D. Change control                                  49. What is the expected outcome from using a
                                                           service value chain?
43. Which describes a standard change?                     A. Service value streams
    A. A change that needs to be scheduled,                B. Customer engagement
    assessed and authorized following a defined            C. Value realization
    process                                                D. The application of practices
    B. A change that is typically implemented as a
    service request                                    50. Which statement about outcomes is CORRECT?
    C. A high-risk change that needs very thorough         A. Outcomes are one or more services that fulfill
    assessment                                             the needs of a service consumer
    D. A change that must be implemented as soon           B. Service providers help service consumers
    as possible                                            achieve outcomes
                                                           C. Outcomes help service consumers achieve
44. How does information about problems and                outputs
    known errors contribute to 'incident                   D. Helping service consumers achieve outcomes
    management'?                                           reduces service provider costs
    A. It enables quick and efficient diagnosis of
    incidents                                          51. Which skill is an essential part of the 'service
    B. It removes the need for regular customer            level management' practice?
    updates                                                A. Technical knowledge
    C. It removes the need for collaboration during        B. Listening
    incident resolution                                    C. Diagnosis
    D. It enables the reassessment of known errors         D. Problem analysis
45. Which practice owns and manages issues,            52. What are the three phases of 'problem
    queries and requests from users?                       management'?
    A. Incident management                                 A. Problem logging, problem classification,
    B. Service desk                                        problem resolution
    C. Change control                                      B. Incident management, problem management,
    D. Problem management                                  change enablement
                                                           C. Problem identification, problem control,
46. What defines the requirements for a service and        error control
    takes responsibility for the outcomes of service       D. Problem analysis, error identification, incident
    consumption?                                           resolution
    A. An IT asset
    B. A customer                                      53. Which is a purpose of the 'engage' value chain
    C. A configuration item (CI)                           activity?
    D. A user                                              A. Meeting expectations for quality, costs and
47. Which stakeholders co-create value in a service        time-to-market
    relationship?                                          B. Providing transparency and good
    A. Investor and supplier                               relationships
    B. Consumer and provider                               C. Ensuring the continual improvement of
    C. Provider and supplier                               services
    D. Investor and consumer                               D. Ensuring that the organization's vision is
                                                           understood
48. Which describes normal changes?
    A. Changes that are low-risk and pre-authorized
54. Identify the missing word in the following             service
    sentence.                                              4. Normal changes should be handled as service
    The purpose of the service configuration               requests
    management practice is to ensure that accurate         A. 1 and 2
    and reliable information about the configuration       B. 2 and 3
    of services, and the [?] that support them, is         C. 3 and 4
    available when and where it is needed.                 D. 1 and 4
    A. suppliers
    B. CIs                                             60. What is an IT asset?
    C. customers                                           A. Any financially valuable component that can
    D. assets                                              contribute to delivery of an IT product or
                                                           service
55. What is described by the service value system?         B. Any component that needs to be managed in
    A. How all the components and activities of the        order to deliver a service
    organization work together as a system to              C. A request from a user mat initiates a service
    enable value creation                                  action
    B. Services based on one or more products,             D. The removal of anything that could have a
    designed to address needs of a target consumer         direct or indirect effect on services
    group
    C. Joint activities performed by a service         61. Which dimension includes a workflow
    provider and a service consumer to ensure              management system?
    continual value co-creation                            A. Organizations and people
    D. How to apply the systems approach of the            B. Partners and suppliers
    guiding principle think and work holistically          C. Information and technology
                                                           D. Value streams and processes
56. Which practice requires that staff demonstrate
    excellent customer service skills, such as         62. Identify the missing word in the following
    empathy and emotional intelligence?                    sentence.
    A. Problem management                                  A service is a means of enabling value co-
    B. Supplier management                                 creation by facilitating outcomes that customers
    C. Release management                                  want to achieve, without the customer having to
    D. Service desk                                        manage specific [?] and risks.
                                                           A. information
57. What is defined as any component that needs to         B. costs
    be managed in order to deliver an IT service?          C. utility
    A. A service request                                   D. warranty
    B. A configuration item (CI)
    C. An incident                                     63. Which of these should be logged and managed
    D. An IT asset                                         as a problem?
                                                           A. A user requests delivery of a laptop
58. Which guiding principle recommends using the           B. A monitoring tool detects a change of state
    minimum number of steps necessary to achieve           for a service
    an objective?                                          C. Trend analysis shows a large number of
    A. Progress iteratively with feedback                  similar incidents
    B. Focus on value                                      D. 'Continual improvement' needs to prioritize an
    C. Think and work holistically                         improvement opportunity
    D. Keep it simple and practical
                                                       64. In which two situations should the ITIL guiding
59. Which two statements about the 'service request        principles be considered?
    management' practice are CORRECT?                      1. In every initiative
    1. Service requests are part of normal service         2. In relationships with all stakeholders
    delivery                                               3. Only in specific initiatives where the principle
    2. Complaints can be handled as service                is relevant
    requests                                               4. Only in specific stakeholder relationships
    3. Service requests result from a failure in           where the principle is relevant
   A. 1 and 2                                               C. plans
   B. 2 and 3                                               D. process
   C. 3 and 4
   D. 1 and 4                                            70. How should automation be implemented?
                                                             A. By replacing human intervention wherever
65. Which guiding principle recommends                       possible
    coordinating all dimensions of service                   B. By replacing the existing tools first
    management?                                              C. By initially concentrating on the most
    A. Start where you are                                   complex tasks
    B. Progress iteratively with feedback                    D. By optimizing as much as possible first
    C. Think and work holistically
    D. Keep it simple and practical                      71. Which activity is part of the 'continual
                                                             improvement' practice?
66. What is the purpose of the 'relationship                 A. Identifying and logging opportunities
    management' practice?                                    B. Delivering tactical and operational
    A. To establish and nurture the links between            engagement with customers
    the organization and its stakeholders                    C. Populating and maintaining the asset register
    B. To align the organization's practices and             D. Providing a clear path for users to report
    services with changing business needs                    issues, queries, and requests
    C. To set clear business-based targets for
    service performance                                  72. Which competencies are required by the 'service
    D. To support the agreed quality of a service            level management' practice?
    handling all agreed, user-initiated service              A. Problem investigation and resolution
    requests                                                 B. Business analysis and commercial
                                                             management
67. How should the workflow for a new service                C. Incident analysis and prioritization
    request be designed?                                     D. Balanced scorecard reviews and maturity
    A. Use a single workflow for all types of service        assessment
    request
    B. Use different workflows for each type of          73. Which practice uses techniques such as SWOT
    service request                                          analysis, balanced scorecard reviews, and
    C. Avoid workflows for simple service requests           maturity assessments?
    D. Leverage existing workflows whenever                  A. Incident management
    possible                                                 B. Problem management
                                                             C. Continual improvement
                                                             D. Service request management
68. What is the purpose of the 'information security     74. Which statement about costs is CORRECT?
    management' practice?                                    A. Costs imposed on the consumer are costs of
    A. To protect the information needed by the              service utility
    organization to conduct its business                     B. Costs removed from the consumer are part
    B. To observe services and service components            of the value proposition
    C. To ensure that accurate and reliable                  C. Costs imposed on the consumer are costs of
    information about the configuration of services          service warranty
    is available when and where it is needed                 D. Costs removed from the consumer are part of
    D. To plan and manage the full lifecycle of all IT       service consumption
    assets
                                                         75. What is typically needed to assign complex
69. Identify the missing word in the following               incidents to support groups?
    sentence.                                                A. A self-help tool
    The use of [?] should support, not replace what          B. The incident priority
    is observed, when using the 'start where you are'        C. A change schedule
    guiding principle.                                       D. The incident category
    A. measurement
    B. tools
76. Which practice has a purpose that includes            A. It is performed by customers using a mix of
    aligning the organization's practices and             IT systems, services and processes
    services with changing business needs?                B. It is performed by IT service providers using a
    A. Service level management                           mix of suppliers and their products
    B. Service configuration management                   C. It is performed by the service desk using a
    C. Relationship management                            mix of people, process and technology
    D. Continual improvement                              D. It is performed by IT service providers using
                                                          a mix of people, process and technology
77. A major incident has been closed, but there is a
    risk that it might happen again. How should this   83. Which is the CORRECT explanation of the `˜R'
    be logged and managed?                                 role in a RACI matrix? (Not in ITIL 4)
    A. As a change request                                 A. This role ensures that activities are executed
    B. As a service request                                correctly
    C. As an event                                         B. This role has ownership of the end result
    D. As a problem                                        C. This role is involved in providing knowledge
                                                           and input
78. What should be done to determine the                   D. This role ensures the flow of information to
    appropriate metrics for measuring a new                stakeholders
    service?
        A. Measuring the performance over the first    84. Which statement about change management is
        six months, and basing a solution on the           CORRECT?
        results                                            A. It optimizes overall business risk
        B. Asking customers to provide numerical           B. It optimizes financial exposure
        targets that meet their needs                      C. It ensures that all changes are authorized by
        C. Asking customers open questions to              the change advisory board (CAB)
        establish their requirements                       D. It ensures that service requests follow the
        D. Using operational data to provide               normal change management process
        detailed service reports
                                                       85. Which statement about the `˜four Ps' of service
79. Which dimension includes activities and                design is CORRECT?
    workflows?                                             A. Processes refers to skill and training
    A. Organizations and people                            B. Partners refers to suppliers and vendors
    B. Information and technology                          C. People refers to technology and tools
    C. Partners and suppliers                              D. Products refers to producers and metrics
    D. Value streams and processes
                                                       86. What is the primary focus of business capacity
80. What should be used to set user expectations           management?
    for request fulfillment times?                         A. Management, control and prediction of the
    A. The time that the customer indicates for            performance, utilization and capacity of
    service delivery                                       individual elements of IT technology
    B. The consumer demand for the service                 B. Review of all capacity supplier agreements
    C. The time needed to realistically deliver the        and underpinning contracts with supplier
    service                                                management
    D. The service levels of the supplier                  C. Management, control and prediction of the
                                                           end-to-end performance and capacity of the live,
81. Which is one of the five aspects of service            operational IT services
    design?                                                D. Future business requirements for IT services
    A. Management information systems and tools            are quantified, designed, planned and
    B. Risk analysis and management approach               implemented in a timely fashion
    C. Management policy for business case
    creation                                           87. Which is NOT a structure of service desk that is
    D. Corporate governance and policy                     described in the ITIL service operation
                                                           guidance?
82. Which statement about IT service management            A. Local
    is CORRECT?                                            B. Centralized
   C. Outsourced                                        93. What MAIN factors are considered to assess the
   D. Virtual                                               priority of an incident?
                                                            A. The urgency and impact
88. What type of change is pre-authorized, low risk,        B. The impact and complexity
    relatively common, and follows a procedure or           C. The cost and urgency
    work instruction?                                       D. The complexity and cost
    A. A standard change
    B. An emergency change                              94. Which term is used to describe the prediction
    C. An internal change                                   and control of income and expenditure within an
    D. A normal change                                      organization?
                                                            A. Charging
89. Which service transition process provides               B. Governance
    guidance about converting data into                     C. Budgeting
    information? (ITIL 3)                                   D. Accounting
    A. Change evaluation
    B. Knowledge management                             95. Where should all master copies of controlled
    C. Service validation and testing                       software and documentation be stored? (ITIL 3)
    D. Service asset and configuration management           A. In the definitive capacity library
                                                            B. In the definitive media library
90. Which service catalogue view is considered              C. In the definitive security library
    beneficial when constructing the relationship           D. In the definitive production library
    between services, SLAs, OLAs, and other
    underpinning agreements? (ITIL 3)                   96. Which stage of the service lifecycle has the
    A. Service-based SLA view                               purpose of looking for ways to improve process
    B. Wholesale customer view                              efficiency and cost effectiveness? (ITIL 3)
    C. Retail customer view                                 A. Service operation
    D. Supporting services view                             B. Service transition
                                                            C. Continual service improvement
91. Service transition contains detailed descriptions       D. Service strategy
    of which processes? (ITIL 3)
    A. Change management, service asset and             97. Which of the following should IT service
    configuration management, release and                   continuity strategy be based on?
    deployment management                                   1. Design of the service metrics
    B. Change management, capacity management,              2. Business continuity strategy
    event management, service request                       3. Business impact analysis (BIA)
    management                                              4. Risk assessment (ITIL 3)
    C. Service level management, service portfolio          A. 1, 2 and 4 only
    management, service asset and configuration             B. 1, 2 and 3 only
    management                                              C. 2, 3 and 4 only
    D. Service asset and configuration management,          D. 1, 3 and 4 only
    release and deployment management, request
    fulfillment                                         98. What is NOT within the scope of service
                                                            catalogue management? (ITIL 3)
92. Which is an objective of the design coordination        A. Contribution to the definition of services
    process?                                                B. Interfaces between all services and
    A. To produce service design packages and               supporting services
    ensure they are handed over to service                  C. Interfaces between the service catalogue and
    transition                                              service portfolio
    B. To assess and evaluate all changes and their         D. Fulfilment of business service requests
    impact on service designs
    C. To document the initial structure and            99. What three elements make up the Service
    relationship between services and customers             Portfolio?
    D. To gather and document new service level             A. Customer portfolio, service catalogue and
    requirements from the customer                          retired services
   B. Customer portfolio, configuration                 D. Technology metrics can be used to determine
   management system and service catalogue              the overall health of a process
   C. Service pipeline, service catalogue and
   retired services                                  106. What takes place in the `Did we get there?`
   D. Service pipeline, configuration management        step of the continual service improvement (CSI)
   system and service catalogue                         approach?
                                                        A. An initial baseline assessment
100. Who is responsible for defining metrics for        B. The production of a detailed CSI plan
   change management?                                   C. Verifying that improvement targets have
   A. The change management process owner               been achieved
   B. The change advisory board (CAB)                   D. Understanding priorities for improvement
   C. The service owner
   D. The continual service improvement manager      107. Which is an example of improving service
                                                        utility using service management automation?
                                                        (ITIL 3)
101. Which is a supplier category?                      A. Pre-determined routing of a service request
   A. Technical                                         B. Reducing the time to compile service data
   B. Commodity                                         C. Monitoring service availability
   C. Customer                                          D. Faster resource allocation
   D. Resource
                                                     108. What is the CORRECT definition of service
102. Which process is used to compare the value         management?
   that new services offer with the value of the        A. A set of specialized assets for transitioning
   services they have replaced?                         services into the live operational environment
   A. Availability management                           B. A set of specialized organizational
   B. Capacity management                               capabilities for delivering value to customers in
   C. Service portfolio management                      the form of services
   D. Service catalogue management                      C. The capability of supplier to deliver services
                                                        to providers in exchange for money
103. Which is an important principle of                 D. The capability of service providers to
   communication in service operation? (ITIL 3)         minimize their costs without reducing the value
   A. Information should always be communicated         of the services
   B. It has an intended purpose or a resultant
   action                                            109. Which is the correct combination of items
   C. Meetings are always the best method of            that makes up an IT service?
   communication                                        A. Customers, providers and documents
   D. It is stored in the configuration management      B. Information technology, people and
   system                                               processes
                                                        C. Information technology, networks and people
104. What do customer perceptions and business          D. People, processes and customers
   outcomes help to define?
   A. The value of a service                         110. Which problem management activity
   B. Service metrics                                   ensures that a problem can be easily tracked
   C. The total cost of a service                       and management information can be obtained?
   D. Key performance indicators (KPIs)                 A. Categorization
                                                        B. Detection
105. Which statement about metrics is                   C. Prioritization
   CORRECT? (ITIL 3)                                    D. Escalation
   A. Process metrics can be used to measure end-
   to-end service performance                        111. What can be used to help determine the
   B. Technology metrics can be used to measure         impact level of a problem? (ITIL 3)
   component performance and availability               A. Definitive media library (DML)
   C. Process metrics can be used to measure the        B. Configuration management system (CMS)
   utilization of a supplierג€™s network                C. Statement of requirements (SOR)
                                                        D. Standard operating procedures (SOP)
                                                         B. An input from availability management to
112. Which are phases of the release and                 service level management, detailing the service
   deployment process? (ITIL 3)                          design plan
   1. Release build and test                             C. A formal plan to implement improvements to
   2. Review and close                                   a service or process
   3. Categorize and record                              D. An input from financial management for IT
   4. Change authorization and schedule                  services to service level management, detailing
   A. 1 and 2                                            the budget plan
   B. 1 and 3
   C. 2 and 4                                         118. Which statement about the known error
   D. 3 and 4                                            database (KEDB) is CORRECT? (ITIL 3)
                                                         A. It is maintained by the service desk and
113. Which function is responsible for the               updated with the details of each new incident
   management of a data centre? (ITIL 3)                 B. It is a part of the configuration management
   A. Technical management                               database (CMDB) and contains workarounds
   B. Service desk                                       C. It is maintained by problem management and
   C. Application management                             is used by the service desk to help resolve
   D. Facilities management                              incidents
                                                         D. It is maintained by incident management and
114. Which are the elements of process control?          contains solutions to be implemented by
   (ITIL 3)                                              problem management
   A. Inputs, outputs and triggers
   B. Work instructions, procedures and roles         119. Which process works with incident
   C. Resources, capabilities and metrics                management to ensure that security breaches
   D. Process owner, policy and objectives               are detected and logged?
                                                         A. Change management
115. Which processes are responsible for the             B. Service level management
   regular review of underpinning contracts? (ITIL       C. Access management
   3)                                                    D. Continual service improvement
      A. Supplier management and service level
      management                                      120. What should a release policy include?
      B. Supplier management and change                  A. The process owner and process manager for
      management                                         each type of release
      C. Availability management and service level       B. The roles and responsibilities for incident and
      management                                         problem resolution
      D. Supplier management and availability            C. The naming convention and expected
      management                                         frequency of each type of release
                                                         D. The naming convention for all configuration
116. Which statement BEST describes the value            items (CI) recorded in the configuration
   of service strategy to the business? (ITIL 3)         management system (CMS)
   A. It allows higher volumes of successful
   change                                             121. Which guiding principle is PRIMARILY
   B. It reduces unplanned costs through optimized       concerned with end-to-end service delivery?
   handling of service outages                           A. Focus on value
   C. It reduces the duration and frequency of           B. Think and work holistically
   service outages                                       C. Optimize and automate
   D. It enables the service provider to understand      D. Collaborate and promote
   what levels of service will make their
   customers successful                               122. What is the purpose of the `˜problem
                                                         management' practice?
117. What is a definition of a service                   A. To protect the information needed by the
   improvement plan (SIP)? (ITIL 3)                      organization to conduct its business
   A. A formal plan to implement improvements to         B. To reduce the likelihood and impact of
   a customerג€™s business processes                     incidents by identifying actual and potential
   causes of incidents, and managing                      B. A problem
   workarounds and known errors                           C. A change
   C. To align the organizationג€™s practices and         D. An event
   services with changing business needs through
   the ongoing identification and improvement of       128. Which statement about the use of
   services                                               measurement in the `˜start where you are'
   D. To minimize the negative impact of incidents        guiding principle is CORRECT?
   by restoring normal service operation as quickly       A. It should always be used to support direct
   as possible                                            observation
                                                          B. It should always be used instead of direct
                                                          observation
                                                          C. Measured data is always more accurate than
123. Which practice would help a user gain                direct observation
   access to an application that they need to use?        D. The act of measuring always positively
   A. Service configuration management                    impacts results
   B. Change enablement
   C. Service request management                       129. What is an incident?
   D. Service level management                            A. The planned removal of an item that might
                                                          affect a service
124. Why should some service requests be                  B. A result enabled by one or more outputs
   fulfilled with no additional approvals?                C. A possible future event that could cause harm
   A. To ensure that spending is properly                 D. A service interruption resolved by the use of
   accounted for                                          self-help tools
   B. To ensure that information security
   requirements are met                                130. What is defined as a change of state that
   C. To streamline the fulfillment workflow              has significate for the management of an IT
   D. To set user expectations for fulfillment times      service?
                                                          A. Event
125. Which is a purpose of the `˜service desk'            B. Incident
   practice?                                              C. Problem
   A. To minimize the negative impact of incidents        D. Known error
   by restoring normal service operation as quickly
   as possible                                         131. Which dimension includes the knowledge
   B. To be the entry point and single point of           needed for the management of services?
   contact for the service provider with all of its       A. Organizations and people
   users                                                  B. Value streams and processes
   C. To support the agreed quality of a service by       C. Information and technology
   handling all pre-defined, user-initiated service       D. Partners and suppliers
   requests
   D. To establish and nurture the links between       132. What is a set of specialized organizational
   the organization and its stakeholders at               capabilities for enabling value for customers in
   strategic and tactical levels                          the form of services?
                                                          A. Service offering
126. Which are elements of the service value              B. Service provision
   system?                                                C. Service management
   A. Service provision, service consumption,             D. Service consumption
   service relationship management
   B. Governance, service value chain, practices       133. What is the PRIMARY use of a change
   C. Outcomes, utility, warranty                         schedule?
   D. Customer value, stakeholder value,                  A. To support the ג€˜incident managementג€™
   organization                                           practice and improvement planning
                                                          B. To manage emergency changes
127. What is defined as an unplanned interruption         C. To plan changes and help avoid conflicts
   or reduction in the quality of a service?              D. To manage standard changes
   A. An incident
134. What are guiding principles?                       140. Which is a key activity carried out in the
   A. A set of interconnected activities that help an      `˜did we get there?' step of the `˜continual
   organization deliver a valuable service                 improvement' model?
   B. A description of one or more services that           A. Define measurable targets
   help address the needs of a target consumer             B. Perform baseline assessments
   group                                                   C. Execute improvement actions
   C. A set of specialized organizational                  D. Evaluate measurements and metrics
   capabilities for enabling value for customers
   D. Recommendations that help an organization         141. What is important for a `˜continual
   when adopting a service management approach             improvement register' (CIR)? (ITIL 3)
                                                           A. Improvement ideas are documented,
135. Which guiding principle focuses on reducing           assessed and prioritized
   costs and human errors?                                 B. Improvement ideas from many sources are
   A. Focus and value                                      kept in a single CIR
   B. Collaborate and promote visibility                   C. Improvement ideas that are not being
   C. Optimize and automate                                actioned immediately are removed from the CIR
   D. Think and work holistically                          D. Improvement ideas are tested, funded and
                                                           agreed
136. What is the purpose of the `˜incident
   management' practice?                                142. What can a service remove from the
   A. To minimize the negative impact of incidents         consumer and impose on the consumer?
   by restoring normal service operation as                A. Utility
   quickly as possible                                     B. Asset
   B. To capture demand for incident resolution            C. Cost
   and service requests                                    D. Outcome
   C. To reduce the likelihood and impact of
   incidents by identifying actual and potential        143. In which step of the `˜continual
   causes of incidents                                     improvement model' is an improvement plan
   D. To support the agreed service quality by             implemented?
   effective handling of all agreed user-initiated         A. What is the vision?
   service requests                                        B. How do we get there?
                                                           C. Take action
137. Which practice makes new services                     D. Did we get there?
   available for use?
   A. Change enablement                                 144. Which is a purpose of the 'service level
   B. Release management                                   management' practice?
   C. Deployment management                                A. To establish and nurture the links between
   D. IT asset management                                  the organization and its stakeholders
                                                           B. To ensure that the organizationג€™s suppliers
138. Which guiding principle considers the                 and their performance are managed
   importance of customer loyalty?                         appropriately
   A. Progress iteratively with feedback                   C. To set clear business-based targets for
   B. Focus on value                                       service levels
   C. Optimize and automate                                D. To support the agreed quality of a service
   D. Start where you are                                  handling all agreed, user-initiated service
                                                           requests
139. Which guiding principle helps to ensure that
   each improvement effort has more focus and is        145. Which is an example of a business-related
   easier to maintain?                                     measurement?
   A. Start where you are                                  A. The number of passengers checked in
   B. Collaborate and promote visibility                   B. The average time to response to change
   C. Progress iteratively with feedback                   requests
   D. Think and work holistically                          C. The average resolution time for incidents
                                                           D. The number of problems resolved
146. What describes the steps needed to create            C. A service that increases constraints on the
   and deliver a specific service to a consumer?          consumer
   A. Service management                                  D. A service that supports the performance of
   B. Practices                                           the consumer
   C. A value stream
   D. Service level management                         153. Which two practices use workarounds?
                                                          A. Change enablement and continual
147. Which statement about the automation of              improvement
   service requests is CORRECT?                           B. Change enablement and problem
   A. Service requests that cannot be automated           management
   should be handled as incidents                         C. Problem management and incident
   B. Service requests and their fulfillment should       management
   be automated as much as possible                       D. Incident management and continual
   C. Service requests that cannot be automated           improvement
   should be handled as problems
   D. Service requests and their fulfillment should    154. Which statement about the `˜change
   be carried out by service desk staff without           enablement' practice is CORRECT?
   automation                                             A. Standard changes are those that need to be
                                                          scheduled, assessed and authorized following a
148. Identify the missing word in the following           standard process
   sentence.                                              B. Normal changes are triggered by the
   A user is [?] that uses services.                      creation of a change request which can be
   A. an organization                                     created manually or automated
   B. a role                                              C. Assessment and authorization of normal
   C. a team                                              changes should be expedited to ensure they can
   D. a supplier                                          be implemented quickly
                                                          D. There should be a separate change authority
149. Which gives a user access to a system?               for standard changes which includes senior
   A. Service requirement                                 managers who understand the risks involved
   B. Service agreement
   C. Service consumption                              155. Which is included in the purpose of the
   D. Service provision                                   `˜deliver and support' value chain activity?
                                                          A. Meeting stakeholder expectations for time to
150. What is a change schedule PRIMARILY used             market
   for?                                                   B. Understanding the organizationג€™s service
   A. To help plan, authorize and schedule                vision
   emergency changes                                      C. Understanding stakeholder needs
   B. To publish a list of service requests that          D. Providing services to agreed specifications
   users can select
   C. To ensure that a single change authority         156. What must always be done before an activity
   reviews every change                                   is automated?
   D. To help plan changes, assist in                     A. Check that the activity has already been
   communication and avoid conflicts                      optimized
                                                          B. Check that suitable new technology has been
151. What is used to link activities within the           purchased
   service value chain?                                   C. Ensure that DevOps has been successfully
   A. Service level agreements                            implemented
   B. Inputs, outputs and triggers                        D. Ensure the solution removes the need for
   C. Opportunity, demand and value                       human intervention
   D. Service desk
                                                       157. Which practice has a purpose that includes
152. Which describes the utility of a service?            managing risks to confidentiality, integrity and
   A. A service that is fit for use                       availability?
   B. A service that meets its service level targets      A. Information security management
                                                          B. Continual improvement
   C. Monitoring and event management                     D. Investigating a major incident
   D. Service level management
                                                       165. Which value chain activity ensures that
158. What is a change schedule used for?                  service components meet agreed
   A. To help plan emergency changes                      specifications?
   B. To help authorize standard changes                  A. Plan
   C. To help assign a change authority                   B. Design and transition
   D. To help manage normal changes                       C. Obtain/build
                                                          D. Deliver and support
159. Which ITIL practice recommends performing
   service reviews to ensure that services continue    166. Which ITIL practice has the purpose to
   to meet the needs of the organization?                 establish and nurture the links between the
   A. Service desk                                        organization and its stakeholders at strategic
   B. Service request management                          and tactical levels?
   C. Service level management                            A. Supplier management
   D. Service configuration management                    B. Change enablement
                                                          C. Relationship management
160. Which role approves the cost of services?            D. Service desk
   A. User
   B. Change authority                                 167. What includes governance as a component?
   C. Sponsor                                             A. Practices
   D. Customer                                            B. The service value chain
                                                          C. The service value system
                                                          D. The guiding principles
161. What actions does a service desk take for all
   issues, queries and requests that are reported to   168. Which practice needs people who
   them?                                                  understand complex systems and have creative
   A. Schedule, assess, authorize                         and analytical skills?
   B. Diagnose, investigate, resolve                      A. Change enablement
   C. Initiate, approve, fulfill                          B. Service level management
   D. Acknowledge, classify, own                          C. Service request management
                                                          D. Problem management
162. Which is an external input to the service
   value chain?                                        169. What is the definition of a known error?
   A. The ג€˜improveג€™ value chain activity              A. An unplanned interruption to a service, or
   B. An overall plan                                     reduction in the quality of a service
   C. Customer requirements                               B. A cause, or potential cause, of one or more
   D. Feedback loops                                      incidents
                                                          C. A problem that has been analyzed and has
163. Which is included in the purpose of the              not been resolved
   `˜service level management' practice?                  D. Any change of state that has significance for
   A. To maximize the number of successful                the management of a service or other
   service and product changes                            configuration item (CI)
   B. To ensure accurate information about the
   configuration of services is available              170. Which will NOT be handled as a service
   C. To set clear business-based targets for             request?
   service levels                                         A. The degradation of a service
   D. To ensure that suppliers and their                  B. The replacement of a toner cartridge
   performance are managed appropriately                  C. The provision of a laptop
                                                          D. A complaint about a support team
164. Which usually requires a team of
   representatives from many stakeholder groups?       171. What are typically recognized through
   A. Fulfilling a service request                        notifications created by an IT service, CI or
   B. Authorizing an emergency change                     monitoring tool?
   C. Logging a new problem                               A. Incidents
   B. Problems                                           A. A current state assessment that is carried out
   C. Events                                             at the start of an improvement initiative
   D. Requests                                           B. The identification of all interested parts at the
                                                         start of an improvement initiative
172. Which dimension considers data security             C. An improvement initiative that is broken into
   and privacy?                                          a number of manageable sections
   A. Organizations and people                           D. An assessment of how all the parts of an
   B. Information and technology                         organization will affect an improvement
   C. Partners and suppliers                             initiative
   D. Value streams and processes
                                                      179. Which guiding principle considers customer
173. Which term relates to service levels aligned        and user experience?
   with the needs of service consumers?                  A. Collaborate and promote visibility
   A. Service management                                 B. Focus on value
   B. Warranty                                           C. Start where you are
   C. Cost                                               D. Keep it simple and practical
   D. Utility
                                                      180. Which statement about the `˜change
174. Which directly assists with the diagnosis           enablement' practice is CORRECT?
   and resolution of simple incidents?                   A. Service requests are usually normal changes
   A. Scripts for collecting user information            that can be implemented quickly without
   B. Use of shift working patterns                      authorization
   C. Fulfillment of service requests                    B. Emergency changes are changes that must be
   D. Creation of a temporary team                       fully tested and fully documented prior to
                                                         implementation
175. Which approach is CORRECT when applying             C. Standard changes are changes that need to
   the guiding principle `˜keep it simple and            be scheduled, assessed and authorized
   practical'?                                           following a standard process
   A. Only add controls and metrics when they are        D. Emergency changes are changes that must
   needed                                                be implemented as soon as possible and
   B. Design controls and metrics first, then            therefore authorization is expedited
   remove those not adding value
   C. Design controls and metrics and add them        181. Which of these activities is carried out as
   individually until all are implemented                part of `˜problem management'?
   D. Only add controls and metrics that are             A. Creating incident records
   required for compliance                               B. Diagnosing and resolving incidents
                                                         C. Escalating incidents to a support team for
176. Which practice forms a link between the             resolution
   service provider and the users of services?           D. Trend analysis of incident records
   A. Change enablement
   B. Service level management                        182. What does `˜change enablement'
   C. Problem management                                 PRIMARILY focus on?
   D. Service desk                                       A. Changes to service levels
                                                         B. Changes to products and services
177. Which is a purpose of release management?           C. Changes to organizational structure
   A. To protect the organizationג€™s information        D. Changes to skills and competencies
   B. To handle user-initiated service requests
   C. To make new and changed services available      183. Identify the missing word(s) in the following
   for use                                               sentence.
   D. To move hardware and software to live              The service desk should be the entry point and
   environments                                          single point of contact for the [?] with all of its
                                                         users.
178. What is recommended by the guiding                  A. Service consumer
   principle `˜progress iteratively with feedback'?      B. Service provider
                                                         C. Customer
   D. Supplier
                                                      190. Which does the ITIL service value system
184. Which is handled as a service request?              discourage?
   A. An investigation to identify the cause of an       A. Coordinated authorities and responsibilities
   incident                                              B. Organizational silos
   B. A compliment about an IT support team              C. Interfaces among practices
   C. The failure of an IT service                       D. Organizational agility
   D. An emergency change to implement a
   security patch                                     191. An SLA is a service level agreement.
                                                         Which describes the `˜watermelon SLA' effect?
185. Which is a key requirement for a successful         A. A single SLA defines target service levels for
   service level agreement (SLA)?                        multiple customer, so every customer sees
   A. Using individual metrics that relate to the        reports about other customersג€™ experiences.
   service catalogue                                     B. The metrics in an SLA are focused on
   B. Using bundled metrics to relate performance        internal measures, so that reports show
   to outcomes                                           everything is good, while the customer is not
   C. Using single-system-based metrics that relate      satisfied.
   to outputs                                            C. SLA targets change very frequently, so that
   D. Using an agreement between the service             each report includes new measures and trends
   provider and service supplier                         cannot be analyzed.
                                                         D. Introducing SLAs for a service enables
186. Which is considered by the `˜partners and           customer to see that the service provider is
   suppliers' dimension?                                 doing a really good job, so this improves
   A. Using artificial intelligence                      satisfaction.
   B. Defining controls and procedures
   C. Using formal roles and responsibilities         192. Which practice includes conducting regular
   D. Working with an integrator to manage               reviews to ensure that services are still
   relationships                                         appropriate and relevant?
                                                         A. Service level management
187. Which practice recommends using tools for           B. Service desk
   collaboration and the automated matching of           C. Continual improvement
   symptoms?                                             D. Change enablement
   A. Problem management
   B. Service level management                        193. What is a service?
   C. Incident management                                A. A possible event that could cause harm or
   D. Service request management                         loss, or make it more difficult to achieve
                                                         objectives
188. Which helps to manage an incident when it           B. A means of enabling value co-creation by
   is unclear which support team should be               facilitating outcomes that customers want to
   working on the incident?                              achieve, without the customer having to
   A. Disaster recovery plans                            manage specific costs and risks
   B. Swarming                                           C. A tangible or intangible deliverable of an
   C. Target resolution times                            activity
   D. Self-help                                          D. Joint activities performed by a service
                                                         provider and a service consumer to ensure
189. Which statement about the `˜continual               continual value co-creation based on agreed and
   improvement' practice is CORRECT?                     available service offerings
   A. Continual improvement participation should
   be limited to a small dedicated team.              194. Which TWO are important aspects of the
   B. It is the role of senior management to             `˜service request management' practice?
   authorize improvement initiatives.                    1. Standardization and automation
   C. Training should be provided to those               2. Providing a variety of channels for access
   involved in continual improvement.                    3. Establishing a shared view of targets
   D. A single continual improvement register            4. Policies for approvals
   should be maintained by senior management.            A. 1 and 2
   B. 2 and 3                                         201. Which statement about outcomes is
   C. 3 and 4                                            CORRECT?
   D. 1 and 4                                            A. They are deliverables provided to service
                                                         consumers.
195. What is required by all service desk staff?         B. They allow service consumers to achieve a
   A. Excellent technical knowledge                      desired result.
   B. Root cause analysis skills                         C. They provide products to service providers
   C. Demonstration of emotional intelligence            based on outputs.
   D. Knowledge of telephony technology                  D. The co-create value for service providers by
                                                         reducing costs and risks.
196. Which practice establishes a channel
   between the service provider and its users?        202. Which guiding principle says that services
   A. Relationship management                            and processes should NOT provide a solution
   B. Change enablement                                  for every exception?
   C. Supplier management                                A. Keep it simple and practical
   D. Service desk                                       B. Think and work holistically
                                                         C. Optimize and automate
197. Which practice includes the use of                  D. Collaborate and promote visibility
   approaches such as Lean, Agile and DevOps
   with the aim of facilitating a greater amount of   203. Identify the missing word in the following
   change at a quicker rate?                             sentence.
   A. Service desk                                       The purpose of the `˜supplier management'
   B. Monitoring and event management                    practice is to ensure that the organization's
   C. Service level management                           suppliers and their performances are [?]
   D. Continual improvement                              appropriately to support the seamless provision
                                                         of quality products and services.
198. Which practice has a purpose that includes          A. measured
    maximizing success by ensuring that risks have       B. rewarded
    been properly assessed?                              C. managed
    A. Relationship management                           D. defined
    B. Change enablement
C. Release management                                 204. Identify the missing word in the following
D. Monitoring and event management                       sentence.
                                                         The purpose of the service configuration
199. Which practice provides users with a way to         management practice is to ensure that accurate
   get various requests arranged, explained and          and reliable information about the [?], and the
   coordinated?                                          CIs that support them, is available when and
   A. Service level management                           where it is needed.
   B. Relationship management                            A. relationships with suppliers
   C. Continual improvement                              B. configuration of services
   D. Service desk                                       C. skills of people
                                                         D. authorization of changes
200. Which helps to streamline the fulfilment of
   service requests?                                  205. Which practice requires skills and
   A. Understanding which service requests can           competencies related to business analysis,
   be accomplished with limited approvals                supplier management and relationship
   B. Creating new workflows for every service           management?
   request                                               A. Monitoring and event management
   C. Separating requests relating to service            B. Incident management
   failures from the degradation of services             C. Service level management
   D. Eliminating service requests which have            D. IT asset management
   complex workflows
                                                      206. When should a workaround be created?
                                                         A. As soon as possible, once the incident is
                                                         logged
   B. After the resolution of a problem                 213. How should an organization prioritize
   C. When a problem cannot be resolved quickly            incidents?
   D. When a potential permanent solution has              A. Ask the user for their preferred resolution
   been identified                                         timeframe.
                                                           B. Assess the availability of the appropriate
207. What is a configuration item?                         support team.
   A. Any financially valuable component that can          C. Use an agreed classification which is based
   contribute to delivery of an IT product or service      on the business impact of the incident.
   B. Any component that needs to be managed in            D. Create an order of incidents based on the
   order to deliver an IT service                          dates and times when they were logged.
   C. Any change of state that has significance for
   the management of a service                          214. Which is a purpose of the `˜relationship
   D. A problem that has been analyzed but has not         management' practice?
   been resolved                                           A. To systematically observe services and
                                                           service components
208. Identify the missing words in the following           B. To protect the information needed by the
   sentence.                                               organization to conduct its business
   When an organization has decided to improve a           C. To be the entry point and single point of
   service, it should start by considering [?].            contact for the service provider with all of its
   A. existing information                                 users
   B. new methods                                          D. To identify, analyze, monitor, and continually
   C. additional measurements                              improve links with stakeholders
   D. revised processes
                                                        215. Which statement about problems is
209. Which is a use of the change schedule?                CORRECT?
   A. Assigning resources to changes                       A. Problems are not related to incidents.
   B. Deciding the approval authority for changes          B. Problems must be resolved quickly in order to
   C. Automating the change process                        restore normal business activity.
   D. Creating change models                               C. Problem analysis should focus on one of the
                                                           four dimensions to achieve a fast diagnosis.
210. Which dimension of service management                 D. Problem prioritization involves risk
   considers the workflows and controls needed to          assessment.
   deliver services?
   A. Organization and people                           216. Which is a risk that might be removed from a
   B. Information and technology                           service consumer by an IT service?
   C. Partners and suppliers                               A. Service provider ceasing to trade
   D. Value streams and processes                          B. Security breach
                                                           C. Failure of server hardware
211. Which guiding principle considers how the             D. Cost of purchasing servers
   steps of a process can be performed as
   efficiently as possible?                             217. Which is one of the MAIN concerns of the
   A. Start where you are                                  `˜design and transition' value chain activity?
   B. Focus on value                                       A. Understanding the organizationג€™s vision
   C. Think and work holistically                          B. Understanding stakeholder needs
   D. Optimize and automate                                C. Meeting stakeholder expectations
                                                           D. Ensuring service components are available
212. Which statement about the `˜incident
   management' practice is CORRECT?                     218. Which is a result of applying the guiding
   A. It identifies the cause of major incidents.          principle `˜progress iteratively with feedback'?
   B. It authorizes changes to resolve incidents.          A. The ability to discover and respond to failure
   C. It maintains detailed procedures for                 earlier
   diagnosing incidents.                                   B. Standardization of practices and services
   D. It resolves the highest impact incidents first.      C. Understanding the customerג€™s perception
                                                           of value
   D. Understanding the current state and
   identifying what can be reused                       225. Which statement about `˜continual
                                                           improvement' is CORRECT?
219. Which practice is responsible for moving              A. All improvement ideas should be logged in a
   new or changed components to live or other              single ג€˜continual improvement registerג€™
   environments?                                           B. A single team should carry out ג€˜continual
   A. Release management                                   improvementג€™ across the organization
   B. Deployment management                                C. ג€˜Continual improvementג€™ should have
   C. Change enablement                                    minimal interaction with other practices
   D. Supplier management                                  D. Everyone in the organization is responsible
                                                           for some aspects of ג€˜continual
220. Which should be handled by `˜service                  improvementג€™
   request management'?
   A. A request to implement a security patch           226. Which step of the continual improvement
   B. A request to provide a laptop                        model includes baseline assessments?
   C. A request to resolve an error in a service           A. Did we get there?
   D. A request to change a target in a service level      B. Where are we now?
   agreement                                               C. What is the vision?
                                                           D. Where do we want to be?
221. What can help to reduce resistance to a
   planned improvement when applying the guiding        227. Which describes a `˜change authority'?
   principle `˜collaborate and promote visibility'?        A. A model used to determine who will assess a
   A. Restricting information about the                    change
   improvement to essential stakeholders only.             B. A person who approves a change
   B. Increasing collaboration and visibility for the      C. A tool used to help plan changes
   improvement.                                            D. A way to manage the people aspects of
   C. Involving customers after all planning has           change
   been completed.
   D. Engaging every stakeholder group in the           228. Which is NOT a component of the service
   same way, with the same communication.                  value system?
                                                           A. The service value chain
222. What can be described as an operating                 B. Opportunity and demand
   model for the creating and management of                C. Continual improvement
   products and services?                                  D. Governance
   A. Governance
   B. Service value chain                               229. Which practice has a strong influence on the
   C. Guiding principles                                   user experience and perception of the service
   D. Practices                                            provider?
                                                           A. Service desk
223. What is a definition of a problem?                    B. Change enablement
   A. An unplanned interruption to a service, or           C. Service level management
   reduction in the quality of a service                   D. Supplier management
   B. A cause, or potential cause, of one or more
   incidents                                            230. Which statement about service relationship
   C. An incident for which a full resolution is not       management is CORRECT?
   yet available                                           A. It focuses on the service actions performed
   D. Any change of state that has significance for        by users
   the management of a configuration item (CI)             B. It requires the service consumer to create
                                                           resources for the service provider
224. Which action is performed by a service                C. It requires co-operation of both the service
   provider?                                               provider and service consumer
   A. Requesting required service actions                  D. It focuses on the fulfilment of the agreed
   B. Authorizing budget for service consumption           service actions
   C. Ensuring access to agreed resources
   D. Receiving of the agreed goods
231. What is the MOST important reason for                D. Outcomes help a service consumer to assess
   prioritizing incidents?                                the cost of a specific activity
   A. To ensure that user expectations are realistic
   B. To ensure that incidents with highest impact     237. Which skill is required by the `˜service level
   are resolved first                                     management' practice?
   C. To help information-sharing are learning            A. Supplier management
   D. To provide links to related changes and             B. Technical expertise
   known errors                                           C. Event monitoring
                                                          D. Problem management
232. Which `˜service level management' activity
   helps staff to deliver a more business-focused      238. Which statement about the `˜continual
   service?                                               improvement model' is CORRECT?
   A. Creating targets based on the percentage of         A. Organizations should work through the steps
   uptime of a service                                    of the model in the sequence in which they are
   B. Understanding the ongoing requirements of           presented
   customers                                              B. The flow of the model helps organizations to
   C. Using complex technical terminology in              link improvements to its goals
   service level agreements (SLAs)                        C. The model is applicable to only certain parts
   D. Measuring low-level operational activities          of the service value system
                                                          D. Organizations should use an additional model
233. Which practice has a purpose that includes           or method to link improvements to customer
   the handling of pre-defined, user-initiated            value
   demands for service?
   A. Service request management                       239. What is the definition of warranty?
   B. Service configuration management                    A. A means of identifying events that could
   C. Deployment management                               cause harm or loss
   D. Change enablement                                   B. A means of determining whether a service is
                                                          fit for purpose
234. Which guiding principle considers which              C. A means of identifying a result for a
   parts of an existing process should be kept by         stakeholder
   identifying how they contribute to value               D. A means of determining whether a service is
   creation?                                              fit for use
   A. Progress iteratively with feedback
   B. Collaborate and promote visibility               240. Which practice has a purpose that includes
   C. Think and work holistically                         managing risks relating to confidentiality,
   D. Keep it simple and practical                        integrity and availability?
                                                          A. Information security management
235. What is the purpose of the `˜monitoring and          B. Change enablement
   event management' practice?                            C. Problem management
   A. To restore normal service operation as              D. Service configuration management
   quickly as possible
   B. To manage workarounds and known errors           241. Which statement about value creating
   C. To capture demand for incident resolution           activities is CORRECT?
   and service requests                                   A. Each value stream should be designed with a
   D. To systematically observe services and              specific combination of service value chain
   service components                                     activities
                                                          B. Service value chain activities have pre-
236. Which statement about outcome is                     determined dependencies on ITIL practices
   CORRECT?                                               C. A value stream is an operating model for
   A. Outcomes rely on outputs to deliver results         creating value through products and services
   for a stakeholder                                      D. Organizations should ensure that each value
   B. Outcomes use activities to produce tangible         stream is applicable to many scenarios
   or intangible deliverables
   C. Outcomes give service consumers assurance        242. Which is provided by the `˜engage' value
   of products or services                                chain activity?
   A. Ensuring that stakeholder expectations for       248. What is the purpose of the `˜deployment
   quality are met                                        management' practice?
   B. Ensuring that stakeholder needs are                 A. To protect the information needed by the
   understood by the organization                         organization to conduct its business
   C. Ensuring that service components are                B. To make new and changed services and
   available when needed                                  features available for use
   D. Ensuring that services are operated to meet         C. To move new or changed components to live
   agreed specifications                                  environments
                                                          D. To plan and manage the full lifecycle of all IT
243. Which is part of the `˜focus on value'               assets.
   guiding principle?
   A. Understanding what services help the             249. Which two statements about the guiding
   service consumer                                       principles are CORRECT?
   B. Reducing the number of steps in the                 1. The guiding principles support continual
   customer experience                                    improvement
   C. Assessing services to identify parts that can       2. Each guiding principle applies to a selection
   be reused                                              of the available stakeholder groups
   D. Identifying activities that can be achieved in      3. Organizations should decide which one of the
   smaller iterations                                     guiding principles is relevant to them
                                                          4. Organizations should consider how the
244. Which is part of the definition of a                 guiding principles interact with each other
   customer?                                              A. 1 and 2
   A. The role that defines the requirements for a        B. 2 and 3
   service                                                C. 3 and 4
   B. A means of enabling value co-creation               D. 1 and 4
   C. The role that authorizes budget for service
   consumption                                         250. Which statement about change authorities is
   D. A set of specialized organizational                 CORRECT?
   capabilities for enabling value                        A. Change authorities are only required for
                                                          authorizing emergency changes
245. Which guiding principle helps an                     B. Change authorities are assigned when each
   organization to understand the impact of an            change is deployed
   altered element on other elements in a system?         C. Change authorities are only required for
   A. Focus on value                                      authorizing normal changes
   B. Start where you are                                 D. Change authorities are assigned for each
   C. Think and work holistically                         type of change and change model
   D. Keep it simple and practical
                                                       251. When is the earliest that a workaround can
246. Identify the missing words in the following          be documented in `˜problem management'?
   sentence.                                              A. After the problem has been logged
   The `˜incident management' practice should             B. After the problem has been prioritized
   maintain [?] for logging and managing incidents.       C. After the problem has been analyzed
   A. a dedicated team                                    D. After the problem has been resolved
   B. a formal process
   C. detailed procedures                              252. Which is an activity of `˜problem
   D. a value chain activity                              identification'?
                                                          A. Analyzing information from software
247. An organization asks a stakeholder to review         developers
   a planned change. Which guiding principle does         B. Establishing problem workarounds
   this demonstrate?                                      C. Analyzing the cause of problems
   A. Collaborate and promote visibility                  D. Establishing potential permanent solutions
   B. Start where you are
   C. Focus on value                                   253. Which practice uses technologies such as
   D. Keep it simple and practical                        intelligent telephony systems, a knowledge base
                                                          and monitoring tools?
   A. Service configuration management                   A. Monitoring and event management
   B. Service desk                                       B. Service configuration management
   C. Problem management                                 C. Problem management
   D. Deployment management                              D. Incident management
254. Which statement about standard changes is        260. Which activity is part of the 'continual
   CORRECT?                                              improvement' practice?
      A. A full assessment should be completed           A. Handling compliments and complaints from
      each time the change is implemented                users to identify improvements
      B. The change can be implemented with less         B. Improving relationships with and between
      testing if necessary                               stakeholders
      C. The appropriate change authority should         C. Prioritizing and creating business cases for
      be assigned to each type of change                 improvement initiatives
      D. The change does not require additional          D. Identifying the cause of unplanned
      authorization                                      interruptions to service
255. Which two are considered part of the             261. A service offering may include goods,
   `˜organizations and people' dimension of              access to resources, and service actions. Which
   service management?                                   is an example of a service action?
   1. Systems of authority                               A. A mobile phone enables a user to work
   2. Culture                                            remotely
   3. Relationships between organizations                B. A password allows a user connect to a WiFi
   4. Workflows                                          network.
   A. 1 and 2                                            C. A license allows a user to install a software
   B. 2 and 3                                            product
   C. 3 and 4                                            D. A service desk agent provides support to a
   D. 1 and 4                                            user
256. Which statement about the `˜service request      262. Identify the missing word in the following
   management' practice is CORRECT?                      sentence.
   A. Service requests are fulfilled using simple        A service is a means of enabling value co-
   workflows                                             creation by facilitating [?] that customers want
   B. A new workflow is created for each type of         to achieve, without the customer having to
   request                                               manage specific costs and risks.
   C. Additional approval is sometimes needed for        A. utility
   restoration of service                                B. warranty
   D. Financial authorization is sometimes required      C. outcomes
   for service requests                                  D. outputs
257. What is a cause, or potential cause, of one      263. Which statement about a service value
   or more incidents?                                    stream is CORRECT?
   A. A configuration item                               A. It uses inputs and outputs prescribed by ITIL
   B. A workaround                                       B. It is a service value chain activity
   C. An incident                                        C. It integrates practices for a specific scenario
   D. A problem                                          D. It provides an operating model for service
                                                         providers
258. Which guiding principle says that it is not
   usually necessary to build something new?          264. What term is used to describe whether a
   A. Focus on value                                     service will meet availability, capacity and
   B. Start where you are                                security requirements?
   C. Progress iteratively with feedback                 A. Outcomes
   D. Think and work holistically                        B. Value
                                                         C. Utility
259. Which practice includes management of               D. Warranty
   workarounds and known errors?
265. Which is a low risk change that has been             B. Automation is best applied to non-standard
   pre-approved so that no additional authorization       tasks
   is needed?                                             C. Technology eliminates the need for human
   A. A standard change                                   intervention
   B. A change model                                      D. Automation frees human resources for more
   C. An emergency change                                 complex activities
   D. A normal change
                                                       271. What is defined as any financially valuable
266. Which describes the `˜plan' value chain              component that can contribute to the delivery of
   activity?                                              a service?
   A. It ensures a shared understanding of the            A. Configuration item
   current status and vision for all products and         B. Product
   services across the organization                       C. IT asset
   B. It ensures that services are delivered and          D. Event
   supported according to agreed specifications
   and stakeholdersג€™ expectations                    272. Which dimension focuses on relationships
   C. It ensures that service components are              with other organizations that are involved in the
   available when and where they are needed, and          design, development, deployment and delivery
   meet agreed specifications                             of services?
   D. It ensures continual improvement of                 A. Organizations and people
   products, services, and practices across all           B. Information and technology
   value chain activities                                 C. Partners and suppliers
                                                          D. Value streams and processes
267. Which practice has the purpose of ensuring
   that the organization's suppliers and their         273. Which statement about service requests is
   performance and managed appropriately to               CORRECT?
   support the provision of seamless, quality             A. Complex service requests should be dealt
   products and services?                                 with as normal changes
   A. Release management                                  B. Service requests that require simple
   B. Supplier management                                 workflows should be dealt with as incidents
   C. Service management                                  C. Service requests require workflows that
   D. Relationship management                             should use manual procedures and avoid
                                                          automation
268. Which includes governance, management                D. Service requests are usually formalized
   practices, and continual improvement?                  using standard procedures for initiation,
   A. The service value system                            approval and fulfilment
   B. The ג€˜deliver and supportג€™ value chain
   activity                                            274. Which MOST helps an organization adapt
   C. The ג€˜focus on valueג€™ guiding principle          ITIL concepts so that they apply to the
   D. The ג€˜value stream and processesג€™                organization's specific circumstances?
   dimension                                              A. Continual improvement
                                                          B. Service value chain
269. Which phase of problem management                    C. Practices
   includes analysing incidents to look for patterns      D. Guiding principles
   and trends?
   A. Problem identification                           275. What is the MAIN benefit of `˜problem
   B. Problem control                                     management'?
   C. Error control                                       A. Restoring normal service as quickly as
   D. Post-implementation review                          possible
                                                          B. Reducing the number and impact of
270. Which statement about the `˜optimize and             incidents
   automate' guiding principle is CORRECT?                C. Maximizing the number of successful
   A. Activities should be automated before they          changes
   are optimized                                          D. Managing workarounds and known errors
276. Which guiding principle discourages `˜silo           D. The service provider gains a better
   activity'?                                             understanding of the customer experience
   A. Focus on value
   B. Start where you are                              283. What impact does automation have on a
   C. Collaborate and promote visibility                  service desk?
   D. Keep it simple and practical                        A. Less low level work and a greater ability to
                                                          focus on user experience
277. Which will help solve incidents more                 B. Increased phone contact and reduced ability
   quickly?                                               to focus on user experience
   A. Target resolution times                             C. Ability to work from multiple locations,
   B. Escalating all incidents to support teams           geographically dispersed
   C. Collaboration between teams                         D. Ability to work from a single centralized
   D. Detailed procedural steps for incident              location
   investigation
                                                       284. Which costs are included in the value
278. What varies in size and complexity, and uses         proposition of a service?
   functions to achieve its objectives?                   A. Additional expense that the service consumer
   A. A risk                                              has because they are using the service
   B. An organization                                     B. Money that the service consumer no longer
   C. A practice                                          needs to spend because they are using the
   D. An outcome                                          service
                                                          C. Tangible or intangible results for the service
279. Which practice facilitates operational               consumer because they are using the service
   communication between the service provider             D. The benefits, usefulness, and importance of
   organization and users in the service consumer         the service that are perceived by the service
   organization?                                          consumer
   A. Service level management
   B. Relationship management                          285. Which practice provides a communications
   C. Service desk                                        point for users to report operational issues,
   D. Monitoring and event management                     queries and requests?
                                                          A. Incident management
280. Which dimension considers the application            B. Continual improvement
   of artificial intelligence to service management?      C. Service desk
   A. Organizations and people                            D. Relationship management
   B. Information and technology
   C. Partners and suppliers                           286. Which BEST describes the purpose of the
   D. Value streams and processes                         `˜improve' value chain activity?
                                                          A. To organize a major improvement initiative
281. Which type of change is MOST LIKELY to be            into several smaller initiatives
   initiated as part of the `˜service request             B. To make new and improved services and
   management' practice?                                  features available for use
   A. A normal change                                     C. To ensure a shared understanding of the
   B. An emergency change                                 vision and improvement direction for all
   C. A standard change                                   products and services
   D. A change model                                      D. To continually improve all products and
                                                          services across all value chain activities
282. Which benefit is MOST aligned with the
   guiding principle `˜progress iteratively with       287. Which dimension is MOST concerned with
   feedback'?                                             skills, competencies, roles and responsibilities?
   A. Service providers are able to respond more          A. Organizations and people
   quickly to customer needs                              B. Information and technology
   B. Bottlenecks in the service providerג€™s             C. Partners and supplies
   workflow are identified                                D. Value streams and processes
   C. The complexities of the service providerג€™s
   IT systems are identified
288. Identify the missing word in the following         D. Value streams and processes
   sentence.
   A [?] is the addition, modification, or removal of
   anything that could have a direct or indirect
   effect on services.
   A. problem
   B. risk
   C. change
   D. configuration item