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Key Concepts of IT Service Management practice questions

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20 questionsDomain: Key Concepts of IT Service Management

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Key Concepts of IT Service Management questions

20 questions · select your answer, then reveal the explanation

A company is experiencing frequent service outages due to unauthorized changes to the production environment. Which ITIL practice would be most effective in preventing these issues?

An IT team is designing a new service. They need to ensure that the service delivers value to customers by addressing their needs. Which ITIL guiding principle is most directly applied?

An organization wants to improve its service desk performance. Which metric would best indicate that the service desk is effectively restoring service?

A company has implemented a new configuration management database (CMDB). Which ITIL practice is most directly supported by an accurate CMDB?

A service provider wants to ensure that a new IT service aligns with the business strategy. Which concept describes the formal documentation of the service's value proposition?

A company is experiencing a high number of recurring incidents due to a known error in a software application. Which ITIL practice should be used to permanently fix the underlying problem?

An IT department wants to improve the speed of service restoration. Which practice is primarily responsible for this?

A customer requests a new software installation that is pre-approved and follows a standard procedure. Which practice should handle this request?

An organization is planning to outsource its IT support. Which ITIL concept describes the relationship between the organization and the external service provider?

A service desk agent resolves an incident by resetting a password. The agent documents the resolution in the ticket. Which practice is being performed?

Which ITIL concept represents the perceived benefits, usefulness, and importance of something?

Which TWO of the following are components of the ITIL Service Value System (SVS)?

Which THREE of the following are purposes of the 'service desk' practice?

Which TWO of the following are ITIL guiding principles?

Which THREE of the following are dimensions of service management?

The exhibit shows details of a resolved incident. Based on the resolution code, what should the service desk do next?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.
```
Incident: INC12345
Priority: 2
Category: Network
Status: Resolved
Resolution Code: Workaround
Closure Time: 2023-11-01 14:30
```

The exhibit shows a service level agreement (SLA) target and current performance. Which action should be taken to address this?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.
```
SLA: Gold Support
Target: 99.9% Availability
Current: 99.5% Availability
```

The exhibit shows a change request. What is the next step in the change enablement process for this change?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.
```
Change: CHG00123
Type: Normal
Status: Pending Approval
Risk: Medium
```
Question 19hardmultiple choice
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A multinational retail company has recently migrated its e-commerce platform to a new cloud infrastructure. The IT operations team consists of 15 members distributed across three regions (Americas, EMEA, APAC). They use a centralized service desk tool that logs all incidents and service requests. Over the past month, the number of incidents has increased by 30%, primarily related to authentication failures and slow page load times. The service desk has been creating workarounds for each incident but has not yet identified any root causes. The IT manager wants to reduce the incident volume and improve service stability. The team is also under pressure to keep costs low. Which course of action should the IT manager take first?

A financial services firm uses a legacy on-premise system for customer account management. The IT team is small, with three administrators responsible for all changes, incidents, and problems. Recently, a change to the system's database schema caused a major outage lasting 4 hours. The post-mortem revealed that the change was not properly tested and was implemented without approval. The IT manager wants to prevent such incidents in the future while maintaining agility. The team often needs to make urgent changes to fix critical bugs. What should the IT manager do?

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