Showing posts with label Service Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Service Design. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 January 2012

EXAM - RACI Model


What is a RACI model used for?

A. Defining roles and responsibilities
B. Monitoring services
C. Performance analysis
D. Recording Configuration Items

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Answer: A


RACI is a model used to help define Roles and Responsibilities.
RACI stands for
  • Responsible
  • Accountable
  • Consulted
  • Informed.

Wednesday, 18 January 2012

EXAM - Processes needed to operate a new service


Defining the processes needed to operate a new service is part of:

A. Service Design: Design the processes
B. Service Strategy: Develop the offerings
C. Service Transition: Plan and prepare for deployment
D. Service Operation: IT Operations Management

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Answer: A

The ITIL Service Design (SD) volume provides good-practice guidance on the design of IT services, processes, and other aspects of the service management effort. Significantly, design within ITIL is understood to encompass all elements relevant to technology service delivery, rather than focusing solely on design of the technology itself.
As such, service design addresses how a planned service solution interacts with the larger business and technical environments, service management systems required to support the service, processes which interact with the service, technology, and architecture required to support the service, and the supply chain required to support the planned service.
Within ITIL, design work for an IT service is aggregated into a single service design package (SDP). Service design packages, along with other information about services, are managed within the service catalogues. List of covered processes:
  • Design coordination (Introduced in ITIL 2011 Edition)
  • Service Catalogue
  • Service level Management
  • Availability Management
  • Capacity Management
  • IT Service Continuity Management (ITSCM)
  • Information Security Management System
  • Supplier Management

EXAM - Risk Management Concerns

Which of the following should NOT be a concern of Risk Management?

A. To ensure that the organization can continue to operate in the event of a major disruption or disaster
B. To ensure that the workplace is a safe environment for its employees and customers
C. To ensure that the organization assets, such as information, facilities and building are protected from
threats, damage or loss
D. To ensure only the change requests with mitigated risks are approved for implementation



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Answer: D

Risk is often defined as  the uncertainty of outcome, whether positive opportunity or negative threat.
The objective of Risk Management is to identify, assess and control risks. This includes analyzing the value of assets to the business, identifying threats to those assets, and evaluating how vulnerable each asset is to those threats.

Risks are addressed within several processes in ITIL but there is no dedicated Risk Management process and risk management is often called "lost process of ITIL V3". However, ITIL v3 does call for coordinated risk assessment exercise.