2011 88 ITILv3 Exam Prep Questions PDF
2011 88 ITILv3 Exam Prep Questions PDF
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Every Incident not being a failure in the IT Infrastructure. Every Incident that results in a failure in the IT Infrastructure. Every Request for Infrastructure moves (e.g.. Office move) Every Request for Information not pertaining to the IT Infrastructure.
Answer : A Explanatyion : A Service Request is defined by ITIL as "every Incident not being a failure in the IT Infrastructure". 39. Error Control is carried out by which ITIL discipline ? A. B. C. D. E.
Incident Management Change Management Problem Management Configuration Management Capacity Management
Answer : C Explanation : Error Control is carried out by the Problem Management discipline & covers the processes involved in the successful correction of Known Errors.
40. You are a Change Manager for a large company. On Friday evening Problem Management submit an urgent RFC. There's been a failure within the infrastructure of the production CRM System and a Change is required urgently to resume the Service. As time is very limited which of the following Change activities might you for go. A. B. C. D.
Answer : C Explanation : In the case of an urgent Change, there may not be time to carry out all the Change
activities as thoroughly as usual. In such instances Testing may be short tracked but as much testing as possible should be carried out. Remember Testing does not have to stop because a Change has gone live. 41. Service Support & Service Delivery are 2 of the 5 core books within ITIL. Which 3 of the following titles A. B. C. D. complete the core group ?
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E. F.
Answer : A , B , E 43. Some well known methods of Service Desk charging include: (Select 3) A. B. C. D. E.
Service Entitlement CPU Usage Cost per Call File store Usage Time & Materials
Answer : A , C , E Explanation : Service Entitlement refers to the purchase of a predefined support & maintenance contract which stipulates the amount of support to be given. Time & Materials & Cost per call are also common methods of service charging. Cost per call will usually be a variable cost depending on the type of incident reported. CPU Usage & File store charging are inputs for a charge back method but alone do not constitute a charging method. 45. Which of the following Incident Management responsibilities is the Service Desk responsible for ? A. B. C. D.
Answer : a , b , c ,d Explanation : All the listed Incident Management responsibilities fall with the Service Desk.
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46. Of the following classifications, what are the 3 types of Technical models that should be considered when implementing a Service Desk ? A. B. C. D. E.
Answer : A , D ,E Explanation : When implementing a Service Desk a decision needs to be taken concerning the technical level of the Service Desk. The models explicitly mentioned within Service Support include Expert, Skilled & Unskilled. It is very important to be weary of where bottlenecks may arise from each model. Typically an Expert Service Desk will spend a great amount of time on calls, therefore in large volumes this may cause a backlog bottleneck. Conversely, an unskilled Service Desk will forward all Incidents through to 2nd Line generating a bottleneck at this level. 48. Within the realm of Security what do the letters C.I.A stand for. A.
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B. C. D.
Answer : C Explanation : C.I.A. stand for Confidentiality (the protection of data from unauthorised access), Integrity (completeness & soundness) , Availability (the ability of an IT service or component to perform its required function at a stated instant or over a period of time). 49. Complete the Phrase. The _______ is a strategic concept that stipulates the future direction of the company. A. B. C. D.
Answer : B Explanation : The Vision statement describes how the organisation wants to be in the future. The Mission statement outlines the "reason for being" while the Objectives indicate how the mission is to be achieved. 10. ITIL refer to the implementation of a permanent fix (i.e. to a Known Error etc) as a ___________.
The Costs of transferring one CI from one physical location to another (e.g.. In the case of a
Data Centre Migration).
The cost of goods or services sold from one Department to another. The cost incurred in the transfer of one employee from one Department to another. The costs associated with all facilities management functions (e.g.. Office Moves etc)
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Answer : B Explanation : Transfer Costs refer to the cost of goods or services sold from one Department to another. This would normally be seen in large Multinational companies. 51. While engaged in a conversation about ITIL, your friend, who works for a large organisation, advises you that Change Management and Configuration Management are the most important processes and should be implemented first at every organisation.
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true for all organisations. Read the entire question and be weary of such all encompassing statements. You'll know from your studies that in most cases the answer actually is "It Depends,..." 52. Who is responsible for preparing Management Reports concerning Incident Management data ?
The Problem Manager The Service Desk manager The Service Level Manager The Availability Manager
Answer : B Explanation : The Service Desk Manager has the responsibility to produce Management Reports concerning Incident Management data. 53. A Process can be measured in such a way so as to find its effectiveness & its efficiency.
I agree with the statement I disagree with the statement There is no difference between the 2 words.
Answer : A Explanation : Many Metrics measure the Effectiveness of a certain process (e.g.. How many Changes have been unsuccessful in the last month). Effectiveness concerns itself with cost, quality of the Output of the process. Efficiency is far more difficult to measure and typically measures the ratio of inputs to outputs.
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54 As the Service Level Manager for a medium sized company you are responsible for documenting the required level of service between your company and an external supplier from whom certain support services are required. Such a document is referred to as an
Service Level Agreement Operational Level Agreement Underpinning Contract Service Catalogue
Answer : C Explanation An Underpinning contract is a contract maintained between the organisation and an external supplier. This contract ensures all relevant targets contained in the SLA's & OLA's that require these external services, are underpinned by an agreed contract between the 2 company's. 55. The IT Infrastructure encompasses everything that you require to deliver an IT Service.
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To minimise the impact of incidents & problems on the business that stem from faults in the IT
Infrastructure, and to prevent the reoccurrence of incidents related to these faults.
To minimise the impact of incidents & problems on the business by ensuring the identification
of a work around as quick as possible and storing the information of this work around for future reference.
To facilitate proactive analysis of the IT Infrastructure and identify & correct potential faults
before they impact the user community.
To minimise the impact of incidents & problems on the business by implementing changes to
correct IT Infrastructure problems. Answer : A Explanation : The Goal of Problem Management is to minimise the impact of incidents & problems on the business that stem from faults in the IT Infrastructure, and to prevent the reoccurrence of incidents related to these faults. 58. You are the Application Support Manager at a large organisation. Your CRM system has 4 revision each year, and included in these revisions are both technical & functional updates. Where would this be documented ?
Annual maintenance cost for Middleware Software Training costs for Employees Purchase of a new Sun Server Time spent by employees on the maintaining the existing CRM system
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60. The aim of __________ is to match the actual costs with the predicted costs.
True False
Answer : B Explanation : "Straight Line", "Reducing Balance" & "By Usage" are all common methods of accessing Depreciation. 62. You and you team members are discussing IT Service Continuity Management & Business Continuity Management at your monthly strategy meeting. One of your colleagues suggests that the risks covered by ITSCM are not limited to those that could bring serious disruption to the business but include also those that bring minor disruptions. What are your feelings about this statement ?
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Capacity Management
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66. Which of the following is not associated with Availability Management ? (Select 2)
Kepner-Tregoe Analysis Fault Tree Analysis CRAMM CFIA Ishikawa Cause & Effect (Fishbone)
Answer : A , E Explanation : Kepner-Tregoe Analysis & Ishikawa Cause & Effect diagram are not associated with Availability Management but instead with Problem Management. 67. Which of the following in the most likely transition of events ?
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Known Error, Incident, Problem, RFC RFC, Incident, Problem, Known Error Incident, Problem, Known Error, RFC
Answer : D Explanation : The Service Desk raise Incident records. Any single Incident or matched Incidents can lead to a Problem record being raised by Problem Management. Root Cause analysis on that Problem record may possibly identify a Known Error which will be stored in the CMDB. A RFC may be raised to correct the Known Error permanently (known in ITIL speak as a Structural Resolution) 68. You are putting together the Service Catalogue for your organisation. Which of the following will you include ? (Select 3)
List of Services & Service Characteristics being provided The Financial Cost of each Service The Configuration Items involved in the Service Provision The Customers of the Service The Maintainers of the Service
Answer : A, D , E Explanation : A Service Catalogue would normally document the Services being provided and their characteristics. The Customers of each Service and the individuals/groups that maintain those Services.
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69. Match the appropriate owner (ITIL discipline) with the following acronyms i) CDB ii) DSL iii) SIP iv) FSC v) MTBF
i) Capacity Management ii) Availability Management iii) Service Level Management iv)
Configuration Management v) Incident Management
i) Configuration Management ii) Capacity Management iii) Service Level Management iv)
Change Management v) Availability Management
i) Capacity Management ii) Configuration Management iii) Service Level Management iv)
Configuration Management v) Incident Management
i) Capacity Management ii) Configuration Management iii) Service Level Management iv)
Change Management v) Availability Management Answer : ) Capacity Management ii) Configuration Management iii) Service Level Management iv) Change Management v) Availability Management Explanation : CDB = Capacity Management Database, DSL = Definitive Software Library (Configuration Management), SIP = Service Improvement Program (Service Level Management), FSC = Forward Schedule of Changes (Change Management), MTBF = Mean Time Between Failures (Availability Management) 70. Which of the following is not a responsibility of Change Management ? (Select 2)
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Raising & Recording RFC's Assessing the impact of proposed Changes Implementation of Changes Reporting on Changes Implementation Coordinating Change Implementation
Answer : C , A Explanation : Both Option 1 & 3 are not responsibilities of Change Management. Request for Change (RFC's) are not raised by Change Management but are raised to Change management by other processes such as Problem Management or Capacity Management etc. Implementation of Changes is not carried out by Change Management but by the relevant Support Teams.
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71 rue or False: One of the objectives of Capacity Management is to ensure that IT Services are designed to deliver the levels of availability required by the business.
True False
Answer : B Explanation : False, design for availability is not a key activity driven by Capacity Management but by Availability Management. Design for Availability ensures that the required level of Availability for an IT Service can be met. This is done by ensuring that design Activity adopts 2 distinct perspectives: i) Design for Availability & ii) Design for Recovery 72. Which of the following statements are incorrect ? (Select 3)
ITIL provides a standard to which organisations can assess their Service Management
processes.
ITIL is flexible enough to fit any organisation. ITIL guidelines should be followed regimentally. Once an organisation starts to adapt the
guidelines to fit their environment the benfits that the best practices can bring are lost.
Although ITIL does consider the Business Perspective, the satisfaction of Business
requirements is not a core principal of ITIL. Answer : D , A , C Explanation : ITIL provides a set of Industry "best practices", it does not provide a standard for organisations to be assessed against. These "best practice" guidelines provided by ITIL should be adopted & adapted by the organisation to fit their environment (one size does fit all). Business requirements and their satisfaction are core to ITIL (ie. Customer Service). 73. True or False: The availability measurements provided to the IT Support organisation will be the same reports provided to the Users & Business.
True
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False
Answer : B Explanation : False, in order to satisfy the differing perspectives of each group, Availability Management needs to consider the spectrum of measures needed to report the 'same' level of Availability in different ways. 74. Within Capacity Management 4 activities are carried out iteratively and form a natural cycle. These activities are Implementation, Analysis, Monitoring & Tuning. In what order should these activities be carried ?
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Monitoring, Analysis, Tuning, Implementation Analysis, Implementation, Tuning, Monitoring Monitoring, Implementation, Tuning , Analysis Implementation, Analysis, Tuning, Monitoring
Answer : A Explaantion : Monitoring should be implemented on all components & data collected. This data should be analysed by experts and tuning recommendations should be reported. RFC's should result from the tuning recommendations for implementation. 75. A Package Release is best described as a Release where:
All components of the Release are built, tested, distributed & implemented altogether. Only those CI's that have actually changed since the last Release are included. Individual Releases, are grouped to form a single Release A Release which implies the installation of an "out of the box" solution.
Answer : C Explanation : A Package Release is where individual Releases are grouped together both Full & Delta to form a single Release. 76. True or False: A Virtual Service Desk is implemented at a central physical location but accessed by all sites through the utilisation of advanced telephony technology (eg. ACD Advanced Call Distribution)
True False
Answer : B Explanation : False, a Virtual Service Desk is not implemented at a central physical location but can be setup over multiple sites. Access is however through a central point of contact and technology such as ACD's are utilised to balance and route inbound calls. 77. Which of the following statements concerning Change Management are correct ? (Select 2)
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All Changes must be reviewed by the CAB.
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A FSC is a schedule that contains all the details of Changes Approved and their proposed
implementation date.
Answer : C Explanation : Serial Number's will not be recorded as Configuration Items. They are attributes of the
Desktop CI's. 80. What does the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) refer to ?
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A series of books that document industry best practice for support & delivery of IT services A storage location for IT Software also know as the Definitive Software Library (DSL) A Library which houses detailed specifications on Industry standard Infrastructure
Answer : B Explanation : The IT Infrastructure Library is a series of books that document industry best practice for support and delivery of IT Services. ITIL was developed in the 1980's and started out its life as a guide for the UK Government 81. The processes that fall under the umbrella of Service Support include: (Select 3)
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True False
Answer : B Explanation : False, it usually more efficient to have the customers report less critical incidents or requests by email etc. 83. In terms of Incident Management which of the following sequence of steps are correct.
Incident - Known Error - Problem - RFC Incident - Problem - Known Error - RFC Known Error - Incident - Problem - RFC Incident - Known Error - RFC - Problem
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Answer : B Explanation : Incidents may result in a Problem which may eventuate in a Known Error. To correct the Known Error we raise a Request for Change. 84. True or False: It is important to implement Configuration Management with Change & Release Management.
True False
Answer : A Explanation : Configuration Management, Change Management & Release Management are so closely related that it is imperative that they are implemented together. 85. ACD, CTI & IVR are all technologies that assist the ______ .
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Service Delivery process. 87. Having implemented the ITIL Service Management Processes at your organisation, you do not need to concern yourself about any process related issues. The ITIL processes will ensure successful operations.
True False
Answer : A Explanation : True, SIP stands for Service Improvement Program. Service Level Management will initiate such a program if the Service Levels provided is less than that specified in the Service Level Requirements. 89. True or False: Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) refers to the mean elapsed time between the occurrence of an incident to the restoration of the service.
True False
Answer : B Explanation : MTBF refers to the mean time between the restoration of a service to the subsequent next failure of that service.
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90. TCO is an acronym for
Technical Change Ownership Total Cost of Ownership Total Cost of Operations Technical Cost of Operations
Answer : B Explanation : TCO stands for Total Cost of Ownership. This is defined as the complete costs of owning an asset, which encompasses much more than the initial purchase cost of that asset.
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True _____False
Answer : B Explanation : Problem Management should be implemented with or after Incident Management. Effective Problem Management relies heavily on effective Incident Management. 91. Which of the following is not likely to be an input for the Change Management process ?
Business ; OLA Service Level Manager ; OLA Business ; SLA Service Level Manager ; SLA
Answer : D Explanation : The Service Level Manager is responsible for documenting the Service Level Requirements with the Business representatives. This document forms the basis for SLA or SLO negotiations. 93. Planning, Implementation, Control, Status Accounting & Verification are all activities of which discipline:
Financial Management for IT Services Capacity Management Configuration Management Change Management
Answer : C Explanation : Planning, Implementation, Control, Status Accounting & Verification are all activities of Configuration Management. 94. The Release Management process shares very close relations with which of the following processes ? (Select 2)
Change Management Configuration Management Capacity Management Problem Management Service Level Management
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Answer : A B Explanation : Release, Change & Configuration Management share very close relations. Without adequate Change Control your Configuration Information would soon be obsolete, inaccurate Configuration Data means that Changes cannot be properly assessed for impact. Without Change & Configuration Management, Releases will be uncontrolled. 95. What would not be a task for the Service Desk ?
Managing the Changes for a certain IT Service Providing Incident Management Reports Establishing User Accounts Granting low level access rights
Answer : A Explanation : Changes are managed by the Change Management process not by the Incident Management process. The Service Desk carries out most of the Incident Management process steps. 96. True or False: You subscribe to the latest ITSM Publication issued monthly at a cost of $50 p/a. This is an example of an Operational Cost ?
True False
Answer : A Explanation : Operational costs are the daily costs of running a business and include such costs as staff costs, subscriptions, consumables etc. 97. Although Financial Management for IT Services interacts with most IT service processes it is most closely linked with which of the following (Select 3).
Capacity Management Configuration Management IT Service Continuity Management Service Level Management Availability Management Change Management
Answer : D , B , A Explanation : Financial Management for IT Services is most closely linked with Capacity Management, Configuration Management & Service Level Management.
98. True or False: With Notional Charging an invoice is produced and payment is required where as with Real Charging an invoice is produced but no payment is required ?
True False
Answer : B Explanation : False, Notional Charging as the name suggests is symbolic charging where an invoice is produced but no payment is required. With Real Charging payment is required. 99. At a job interview for an IT Service Continuity Manager position, the CTO asks you to run through the
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4 stages of the Business Continuity Lifecycle. What is the correct sequence of phases ?
1. Requirements & Strategy 2. Initiation 3. Implementation 4. Operational Management 1. Operational Management 2. Initiation 3. Requirements & Strategy 4. Implementation 1. Implementation 2. Initiation 3. Operational Management 4. Requirements & Strategy 1. Initiation 2. Requirements & Strategy 3. Implementation 4. Operational Management
Answer : D 100. Consider the following statements: 1) IT Service Continuity forms part of the overall Business Continuity Process 2) Business Continuity Management is concerned with ensuring the continuation of the Critical Business Processes in the event of a disaster. 3) Testing is a critical part of the overall ITSCM process.
Only statement 1 is true Both 1 & 3 are true All statements are correct Only statement 2 is correct
Answer : C Explanation : All the statements mentioned are correct. 1) ITSCM forms part of the overall BCM process. ITSCM will not be effective by itself. 2) BCM is concerned with ensuring the continuation of the business critical processes in the event of a disaster (or service interruption). These business critical processes are core to the service/products provided by the company. 3) Testing is an integral part of the ITSCM processes. Testing should be carried out regularly and following any major changes. 101. Which ITIL discipline aims to maintain & improve IT Service quality through a regular cycle of agreeing, monitoring & reporting.
Capacity Management