ITIL Intermediate Capability Stream:

RELEASE, CONTROL AND VALIDATION (RCV) CERTIFICATE Sample Paper 1, version 5.1
Gradient Style, Complex Multiple Choice

SCENARIO BOOKLET
This booklet contains the scenarios upon which the 8 examination questions are based. All questions are contained within the Question Booklet and each question will clearly state the scenario to which it relates. In order to answer each of the 8 questions, you will need to read the related scenario carefully. On the basis of the information provided in the scenario, you will be required to select which of the four answer options provided (A, B, C or D) you believe to be the optimum answer. You must choose ONE answer only, and the Gradient Scoring system works as follows: If you select the CORRECT answer, you will be awarded 5 marks for the question If you select the SECOND BEST answer, you will be awarded 3 marks for the question If you select the THIRD BEST answer, you will be awarded 1 mark for the question If you select the DISTRACTER (the incorrect answer), you will receive no marks for the question.

In order to pass this examination, you must achieve a total of 28 marks or more out of a maximum of 40 marks (70%).

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Scenario One
You are the release and deployment manager for a food manufacturer experiencing rapid sales growth in a competitive market. The busiest sales period of the year starts in four weeks. The organization uses an application known as FMX that is developed and hosted in-house. This is integrated with a word processing package and a supporting Java application. These are installed on all PCs and laptops. All PCs have the same configuration. According to the configuration records a large number of laptops have not received a Java upgrade for two years. Half of the users in the sales department use laptops. Some users are complaining that the performance of FMX is slow and, at peak times, this makes the application unusable. There is a release policy in the company containing the following key statements: All software should be tested before deployment Releases must meet business requirements Risks to the business should be minimised Releases will be deployed every three months

A release package, RP1, has been created containing the following release units: Release unit description Release unit number RU1 RU2 Reason for change

FMX performance improvement FMX quarterly upgrade Java upgrade for PCs and laptops Word processing quarterly upgrade

RU3

RU4

Improve performance for sales and manufacturing. Resolves twelve low impact problems. Six monthly service packs from the supplier containing support for more languages. The version currently deployed will no longer be supported by the manufacturer in six months time. Quarterly service pack from the supplier. No critical fixes.

RP1 is scheduled to be deployed in four weeks time on 01 December. Testing the release package took two weeks. Tests executed using PCs were successful, however, two tests executed using laptops failed. The symptom is that the laptop sometimes freezes and must be rebooted, with a five-minute loss of service. The root cause has been identified as an error in the RU3 Java upgrade. The software team has advised that a permanent resolution may take three weeks to develop.

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Scenario Two
A global company has made a major investment to deploy a collaboration tool to automate its incident management and request fulfilment processes, and to provide a knowledge base for its service desk agents around the world. The vendor of the new tool started the project 12 months ago. The tool was installed, tested and deployed within the first four months of the project. However, eight months after the launch of the new system, little benefit has been realized by the company. Business end-users continue to complain about IT support quality, including the disappointing performance for first-time-fix and incident turnaround time. Management reports show that the usage rate of the system as a knowledge management tool is declining from initial start-up levels. The new tool appears to be contributing very little to the improvement of overall performance. The senior management of the company has concluded that the knowledge management functionality provided by the collaboration tool is not performing as expected. They have invited the quality manager to conduct an investigation and to recommend ways of improving the situation.

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Scenario Three
You are the change manager in a large company with multiple data centres located across different cities of North America. You implemented a change management process about six months ago and initially this appeared to be working well. However, recently the chief information officer (CIO) called an emergency meeting with all the department managers to discuss some recent, major customer complaints about changes being implemented without advance notice, significant issues after implementation, and a service desk that is often unable to resolve issues that arise. When the CIO collected some feedback from the IT middle management, the comments included the following statements: Our engineers are too busy; we cant have them fill out all the paperwork for change management The tool is too simplistic and does not provide a lot of help. Id rather skip using it to save time We see few benefits but lots of administrative overhead to follow this process The users want their changes implemented immediately; there is no time to follow any processes.

The CIO has asked you to review the current situation and to develop an improvement plan.

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Scenario Four
A global publishing company, GPC, is working with an external supplier to deliver a new and innovative, online download service. Historically, the external supplier has had application performance issues and security breaches caused by a lack of testing. The sales and marketing department is responsible for a successful launch. It is working closely with the IT organization to achieve this. GPCs IT organization is adopting ITIL practices and its service owners are now responsible for the acceptance testing of new or changed IT services, IT service operation, and the management of their IT suppliers in the service operation lifecycle stage. IT supplier management is responsible for ensuring that the external supplier delivers its commitment through service design and service transition. Information security management is responsible for preventing security breaches throughout the service lifecycle. The IT deployment manager is responsible for ensuring that the download service level requirements can be tested through service design and service transition before handing over responsibility to the service owner in service operations. You are the IT service validation and test manager and you need to improve IT stakeholder involvement in testing at the right points through the service lifecycle. In the service test plan, the service owner is responsible for verifying and sign-off of the following test models: SLR Service level requirements DEP Deployment SO Service operation.

Other key IT stakeholders are the IT deployment manager, information security management, and IT supplier management.

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Scenario Five
A large company created the enterprise service desk (ESD) function six months ago in order to consolidate individual service desks from several business functions into a centralized service desk. A large number of complaints have been received about the effectiveness and efficiency of the ESD in responding to and resolving incidents and problems. The root cause has been identified as a lack of an enterprise-wide configuration management data source. Before the ESD was established, each service desk function maintained its own IT asset and configuration information within multiple data sources. The information was duplicated and often inconsistent across the different service desks. Many suppliers also maintained their own records, leading to further inconsistency with the enterprises actual physical environment. The configuration information was not consolidated when the ESD was created. There is currently no enterprise-wide configuration management system (CMS). In order to investigate incidents and problems, ESD and IT staff have to retrieve configuration information from the multiple data sources. This also affects change management, release and deployment management and financial management. Improvement plans are being developed for each of these processes.

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Scenario Six
A large organization develops, sells and provides a hosted IT service to the pharmaceutical industry. All application development is done by an internal IT development team. You are the newly-appointed service transition manager. Following the deployment of a recent major release, a high number of incidents and problems were reported, which caused significant business disruption and lack of confidence in IT. These should have been identified and resolved during testing. Investigations have highlighted the following possible causes: There was no separate test environment There was no independent testing Roles and responsibilities for service transition were unclear.

A separate test environment has now been purchased. You decide to put together a service transition management team using the ITIL guidelines with the following roles: Role A: Service validation and testing manager Role B: Release and deployment manager Role C: Release packaging and build practitioner Role D: Build and test environment manager.

You have the following people available: Caroline, who has been the IT quality and test manager for the last two years Erik, who has been the IT development manager for the last five years Dermot, who joined the organization last week as a project manager in the technical management function and who has experience building and deploying releases.

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Scenario Seven
A large bank has implemented service management using ITIL guidelines for all service lifecycle stages. You are the head of service transition. The board of directors has decided to outsource the management of all desktops and laptops to an external company. This strategic change will include transferring all desktop and laptop assets, and reviewing and revising the service levels with the business. The external company will also provide a new service to collect laptops from people who leave the organization. The outsourced services will be piloted in one area of the bank. Some of the IT service management staff are confused about how service transition processes and activities are applied through the service lifecycle stages. The chief information officer has asked you to give them a presentation. The aim is to improve their understanding using examples that are relevant to the outsourcing project.

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