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What is BITA
Business IT alignment
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What is OCG
The organization that governs ITIL took over from CCTA
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What is InformationTechnology Service Management Forum
Organizatin with chaapters in 40 countries dedicated to service management
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what is difference between version 2 and 3
Service lifecycle was introducted Version 3
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What does ITIL stand for?
Information Technology Infrastructure Library
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What is ITIL?
The Systematic approach to dlivery of quality IT
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What is IT governance according to Van Grembergen
IT governance consists of a comprehensive famework of structure, processes, and relational mechnaisms. Sturucture involves the responsible functions such as IT executives and accounts and a diversity of IT committees. Process refer to a strategic IT decision making and monitoring. Relational Mechanisms include business/IT participation and partnership, strategic diaglog, and shared learning
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What is the difference between governance and management
Goverance creates a setting in which one can manage
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what is the Kaizen principle
improvement in smaller setps works best
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What is CMMI?
Capablity Maturity Model Integration provides both a staged and continual improvement model
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Does ITIL focus on process or lifecycle management
lifecycle management
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What is a good practice
ITIL is a good practice. It is a practice that has proven itself in practice
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What is a service
A service is a means of delivering value to customers by facilitating outcomes the customers wants to acheive without he ownership of specific costs or risks
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What is value
utility - what the cusomer receives and warranty - how it is provided
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What is service managemnt
is a set of specialized organizational capabilities fo providing value to customers in the form of services
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What is a system?
A system is a group of interrelating or independent components that form a unified whole operating together for a common purpose
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what is a function
function is a subdivision of an organization that is specialied in fulfilling a specific type of work and is responsible for specific end results. functions are independent subdivision with capabilities and resources that are required for their performance and results
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What is a process
A process is a stuctured set of activities designed to accomplish a defined objective process reults in a goal oriented change and utilize feedback for self enhancing and self corrective actions
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What are the five phses of service lifecycle
Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transistion, Service Operation, continual Service improvement
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What is service strategey?
- The four Ps
- perspective - clear vision
- position - take a clear vision and focus
- plan - form a precise notion of how the organization should develop itself
- pattern - maintain consistency in decisions and actions
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What are the building blocks of well perforing service providers?
market focus, distinctive capabilities, performance anatomy
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What does strategy perspective define
the convications, values and goals that govern the behavior of the entire organnization. It determines the direction through which the service provider can acheive its objectives
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What is strategy as a position?
defines the distinguishing charactersitics of service provider in the eye of the customer
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What is strategy as a plan
focuses on the organization action plan in a competitive market
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What is strategy as a pattern
it represents the organizations procedures
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What are the objectives of a service strategy
- define service objectives
- determine the direction for growth opportunities
- setting investment priorities
- defining outcomes learning objectives
- creating strategic assets
- identifying the competition
- surprising the competition
- surpassing the competition by delivering distinctive performances
- devising plans that will ensure dominance over the competition now and in the future
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What is service value?
The utility and warranty
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What is utility
Fitness for purpose. the increase of a possible profit
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What is warranty
Fitness for use. stands for the decline in possible losses. Affirms how utility will be delivered. For example is is available enough, large enough, continuous enough
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what are examples of capabilities?
management, organization, processes, knowledge, people (both cababilities and people)
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What are examples of resources
capital, infrastructure, applications, information , peiopl (both a cpability and a resource
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What are the types of service providers
type I - internal service provider, type II -shared Services Unit, type III - external service provider
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What are the four acitivities in the service strategy process
define the market, development of the offer, development of strategic assests, preperation for implementation
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What is a BRM and what is the role?
Business Relationship Manager is reposnible for having insight into the customers business and being familar with their objectives
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What does the service portfolio represent
opportunities and readiness of a service provider to serve the customers and the market.
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What are the 3 subsets of the service portolio?
- service catalogue
- service pipeline
- retired services
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What are the business service catalogue and the technical service catalog role in the service catalogue
- The business service catalogue is the mapping of critical business processes to underlying IT services and keeping the details of those relationaships
- Technical Service Catalogue is not visible to the customer and contains deteial on the tehcnical comp[osition of the services
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What is service management
the capability of an organiztion to deliver services to customers
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What are the three types of information that determine the objectives of a service
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What are the 3 ITIL processes at a strategic level
- Financail Management
- Demand Management
- Service Portfolio Management
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In financial management what are the two esstinail value componenets
Provision value (production cost) and service value potential (value adding componenet)
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What are the work metods in SPM (service portfolio managemtn)?
Define, Analyze, approve, Charter
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What are the five phases of organizational development?
- Phase 1 - Network - informal, ad hoc
- Phase 2- Directive establishment of hierarchal structures
- Phase 3 - Delegation shift from finctional to process ownership
- Phase 4 - Coordination centralization of technical functions and decentralization of service management
- Phase 5 - Collaboration focus on improvement of cooperation with the business
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What are the four steps recommended by ITIL preparing for automation
- Simplfy the process
- Clarify the flow of activities and allocation of tasks
- Minimize the area in which users interact with underlying system and process
- Do not rush implementaiton
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What is a business case
a decision making suporrt and planning instrument that plans for the likely consequences of a business action
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When determing preprogram ROI, what are the two decision criteri
- screening decision - NPV
- prefernce decision IRR
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In what stage is the service portfolio and catalog define?
Service Strategy
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What do service models describe?
they describe how service assets interact with customer assets and create value foa given portfolio of contracts
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What are the four definitions of quality
- level of excellence
- price-quality relationship
- confomrity to specificatons
- meeting or exceedling expecationtions
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What is MTBF? Is a higher or lower MTBF better?
Higher better. Mean time between fialure
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what is TCU
Total cost of utilization that includes the cost for direct consumption and also cost incurred indirectly
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what is MRO
Mainteancne and Repair operations
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