EXIN ITIL Service Capability Operational Support and Analysis

QUESTION NO: 1
Scenario
Brewster's is a toy factory that has been in business for 30 years.The company started with a small family run shop and has grownconsistently over the years. They are now supplying toy storesnationwide and are considered to be the primary supplier of children'scollectable novelty erasers.
Brewster's IT department is relatively small (currently 15 staff) butefficient. They have recently employed an IT Manager in an attemptto improve the management of the infrastructure, as well as moreeffective use of resources and identification of areas for improvement.
The Brewster's management teams do not have a lot of ITknowledge. The newly appointed IT Manager is very ITIL focusedand wants to implement as many ITSM processes as is appropriatethere are currently no formal processes in place. On starting with thecompany the IT Manager completed an internal assessment of the ITinfrastructure - including staff skills analysis, and collated the resultsfrom customer satisfaction surveys completed over the last 5 years.
The main areas of concern are as follows:
Responses from customer satisfaction survey:
- Overall a consistent satisfaction level. However, responses completed during the past 12 months show an increase in customers who were unsatisfied with call waiting times when contacting the service desk for help with online orders and requests for information.
- Customers added the following additional comments: - "Never get to speak to the same person twice when dealing with an Incident number, had to call several times to receive follow up on progress" - "Some of the Service Desk staff seem under qualified to deal with my questions
about new applications/incidents/service requests"
Results from Staff Skills Analysis:
Staff, in general, have a good knowledge of IT systems and a basic understanding of the business processes and objectives. However, staff are not well informed of upcoming releases of new or changed services and not given adequate information to relay to the customers.
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Staff added the following additional comments:
"Communication between Service Operation departments has become inefficient -
there are meetings for the sake of meetings, but the important information we need
to know to do our day to day jobs is lacking"
"I still don't know what half of the people do, that work in the IT department!"
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Results from General IT Infrastructure assessment:
Lack of event monitoring and planning Lack of input from Operational Support departments into Service Design Lack of skill and information sharing across the Operational Support teams with regards to Incident, Problem, Workarounds and Known Error data. Little to no proactive activities being carried out.
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Refer to Scenario
Which of the following options would be the most effective option toaddress the issues identified from the General IT Infrastructureassessment?

A. You decide to recommend implementation of the EventManagement process to formalize the event monitoring,planning and overall management. Ensure that there isresource sharing between the Service Design teams andthe Operational Support teams as their input is necessaryto ensure services are designed that will work efficiently inthe live environment. In addition, implement the Problem Management process at the same time, to ensure there are both reactive andproactive activities taking place with regards to Problems,a knowledge bank of information including known errors,workarounds, problems and incident records is producedand maintained. B. Implement the Problem Management process, to ensurethere are both reactive and proactive activities taking placewith regards to Problems, a knowledge bank of informationincluding known errors, workarounds, problems andincident records is produced and maintained. Once this process is established, working efficiently andstaff have become more accustomed to this new way ofworking, use this success to recommend theimplementation of the Event Management process. C. You are not concerned with the lack of skill sharingbetween the Operational Support departments andService Design as they are two separate entities of theService Lifecycle with their own objectives. You areconcerned, however, with the lack of Event monitoring andplanning and foresee this as being a potential major issue.You decide to recommend implementation of the EventManagement process to formalize the event monitoring,planning and overall management. Ensure that there isresource sharing between the Service Design teams andthe Operational Support teams as their input is necessaryto ensure services are designed that will work efficiently inthe live environment. D. You are not concerned with the lack of skill sharingbetween the Operational Support departments andService Design as they are two separate entities of theService Lifecycle with their own objectives. You areconcerned, however, with the lack of skill sharing betweenthe Operational Support teams and decide to formalize the1st, 2nd and 3rd lines of support and recommend theadoption of a database that will incorporate all Incidentrecords, Problem records, Known Error records,Workarounds and Event information, so that all staff canhave access to and use this information.

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 2
Scenario
Vision Media is an international media organization, operating variouslines of business including:
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Film Production Television (production and delivery of their own channel in the United States VisionOne) Print media (including newspapers in 15 countries) Online Advertising
The organization has recently been restructured, and now iscomprised of the following companies and departments:
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Vision Films (production of movies and television shows) VisionOne (television channel) VisionNews (coordinates all of the sub-companies involved in the delivery of printed newspapers, as well as being the centralized source of news information for all company owned media outlets) VisionNet (managing the online and internet businesses) Legal Services Finance and Administration Human Resources Information Technology
The organization is also actively pursuing growth in the online market,and is currently holding discussions with the leading online newsprovider about the possible acquisition of their company. This wouldincrease the overall size of Vision Media by around 15%.
The Information Technology department acts as a Shared ServiceUnit, providing IT Services to all of sub-companies and departments,which complement some of the Internal Service Providers that alsoexist. The director of Information Technology has realized the need toimprove the quality of services offered by implementing ITIL, and hasdecided to do so using a phased approach. Some of the ServiceDesign and Service Transition processes have already beenimplemented, and they are now planning the implementation ofService Operation.
While the IT director does have tentative support from the otherdirectors and CEO, budgets for implementing the Service Operationprocesses have not been finalized, and still require a business caseto be formally submitted.
Refer to the exhibit.
There is some confusion as to how the process of AccessManagement should be designed. In particular, there is debate as tohow the process should be integrated into the overall approach of ITService Management within Vision Media. The IT director has askedfor submissions from some of her staff, describing how they thinkAccess Management should be designed.
Which of the following submissions describes the most appropriateway in which to design and implement Access Management withinVision Media?

A. The design of an efficient Access Management process will need toaccount for the existing IT Service Management processes alreadyimplemented within the IT department, as well as the HumanResource requirements of Vision Media in general. This will requireinterfaces to be created with: Information Security Management: Which is responsible forthe development and renewal of security policies, guidelinesand procedures, which are then executed by AccessManagement Capacity Management: Which is responsible for the design ofsystems and infrastructure, which are in turn supported byAccess Management Knowledge Management: Each Knowledge base will requirevarious levels of access to be defined and enforced. Change Management: Request for Changes (RFCs) will ofteninvolve modification of access rights Demand Management: Which will provide information as tothe patterns of business thatwill generate requests foraccess Outside the scope of IT Service Management, some of the interfaces that will also need to be created are: Legal Services: So that the Legal department can verify the request for access is appropriate and lawful.
General: Direct requests from department managers Requests for enabling increased access for VIP staff B. It is important that the implementation of Access Managementconsiders a number of key interfaces with existing IT ServiceManagement processes, as well as other business processes, toensure success and satisfaction of its defined objectives. Thisincludes: Information Security Management: Which is responsible forthe development and renewal of security policies, guidelinesand procedures, which are then executed by AccessManagement Availability Management: Which is responsible for the designof security systems and infrastructure, which are in turnsupported by Access Management Request Fulfillment: Access Management will often betriggered by Service Requests, taken by the Service Desk orsubmitted using automated and self-help mechanisms Change Management: Request for Changes (RFCs) will ofteninvolve modification of access rights Configuration Management: Which can be used to recordrelationships between users and systems they can access. Outside the scope of IT Service Management, some of the interfaces that will also need to be created are: Human Resources: So that effective (and automated) communication exists to assist in the creation, modification, removal and audit of access rights. General:
Direct requests from department managers Requests for enabling restricted access to contractorsand external suppliers C. Access Management will need to be implemented in isolation fromexisting IT Service Management processes already in place at VisionMedia so that its' integrity can be ensured. The only exception to thisis Information Security Management, which is responsible for thedevelopment and renewal of security policies, guidelines andprocedures. Access Management uses these as formal inputs, whichare then executed accordingly. D. The design of a quality Access Management process will need toconsider the current state of IT Service Management that exists withinthe IT department, as well as the organizational requirements ofVision Media in general. This will require interfaces to be createdwith: Information Security Management: Which is responsible forthe development and renewal of security policies, guidelinesand procedures, which are then executed by AccessManagement Service Level Management: Which is responsible defining thecustomer requirements for access to IT services Request Fulfillment: Access Management will often betriggered by Service Requests, taken by the Service Desk orsubmitted using automated and self-help mechanisms Change Management: Request for Changes (RFCs) will ofteninvolve modification of access rights Demand Management: Which will provide information as tothe patterns of business that will generate requests foraccess. Outside the scope of IT Service Management, some of the interfacesthat will also need to be created are: Human Resources: So that effective (and automated)communication exists to assist in the creation, modification,removal and audit of access rights. General: Direct requests from department managers Requests for enabling increased access for VIP staff

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 3
There have been multiple incidents recorded by the Service Desk. Itappears that the network is congested due to multiple connections.
What kind of actions should the Service Desk analyst take in thisinstance?

A. They should ask the Capacity Manager to expand the capacity of the network B. They should ask the Service Level Manager to revise the Service Level Agreements (SLA) with a decreased availability target C. They should ask the Problem Manager to look into the problem right away D. They should ask the Security Manager to check whether too many authorizations may have been issued.

Correct Answer: C

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