ITIL® 4 Foundation Quiz Questions and Answers

ITIL® 4 is the very latest version of ITIL®. This one hour, 40 question quiz should really test your knowledge of the very latest thinking in IT Service Management 'Best Practice'.
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Question 1 ID: 923

What is this a purpose of?

"To support the agreed quality of a service by handling all pre-defined, user-initiated service requests in an effective and user-friendly manner.”

A) Service relationship management

B) Service Design practice

C) Service offerings

D) Service request management practice

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Question 2 ID: 903

What are the 5 components of the SVS?

A) Processes, functions, teams, organisations, partners.

B) Guiding principles, governance, service value chain, practices, continual improvement.

C) Problem, incident, event management, request management, access management.

D) Availability, reliability, resilience, continuity, mean time to restore service.

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Question 3 ID: 901

What are the factors that can affect multiple dimensions?

A) Positional, equitable, sociable, testable, legal, essential

B) Political, economical, social, technological, legal, environmental

C) Practical, ergonomically, social, technological, lethal, essential

D) Problematical, economical, societal, traceable, legitimate, environmental.

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Question 4 ID: 918

Why are Incidents Categorised?

A) Because priority needs to be determined

B) Because root cause needs to be determined

C) To identify the correct team to escalate to

D) To enable impact to be determined

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Question 5 ID: 905

What is the output of the SVS?

A) System Validation

B) Value

C) Return On Investment

D) Restoration Of Service

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Question 6 ID: 644

Which statement is true of the Service Value Chain?

A) All activities in the SVC always follow the same path

B) Demand and value are activities in the SVC

C) The SVC activities are interconnected

D) The Service Value System is an activity of the SVC

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Question 7 ID: 667

The Problem management practice contributes to the Deliver & Support Value Chain Activity by:

A) preventing incident repetition and supporting timely incident resolution

B) by preventing incident causes and supporting quality incident resolution

C) by preventing all incidents, thereby reducing the importance of the Incident Management practice

D) by preventing all incidents, thereby reducing the importance of the Change Control practice

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Question 8 ID: 899

Which of these is NOT a guiding principle?

A) Focus On Value

B) Start Where You Are

C) Adopt An Agile Mentality

D) Progress Iteratively With Feedback

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Question 9 ID: 668

Which statement about the relationship of Service Request Management to Value Chain Activities is correct?

A) Service Request Management has no involvement with Obtain/Build

B) Service request Management may contribute Incident causes to Design and Transition

C) Service request Management may contribute Incident causes to Improvement

D) Service Request Management’s involvement with Obtain/Build is that service requests may require acquisition of pre-approved service components

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Question 10 ID: 642

Which of the following are correct Dimensions of Service Management?

1. Information and people

2. Information and technology

3. Value streams and people

4. Value streams and processes

A) Items 1 & 2

B) Items 2 & 3

C) Items 1 & 4

D) Items 2 & 4

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Question 11 ID: 632

Which of the following statements is correct?

A) Utility is fitness for use

B) Utility is fitness for purpose

C) Utility is both fitness for purpose and fitness for usefulness

D) Utility is fitness for availability

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Question 12 ID: 669

Channels for accessing the Service Desk can include:

1. Telephone systems

2. Corporate social media tools

3. Physical visits to the service desk by users

4. Complaints made directly to a Supplier by a user

A) Items 1, 2 and 3

B) Items 1, 2 and 4

C) Items 1, 3 and 4

D) Items 2, 3 and 4

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Question 13 ID: 638

What is true of the Guiding Principle “Optimize and automate”

A) Before an activity is automated, it should be simplified and optimized

B) Before an activity is optimized, it should be simplified and automated

C) All activities should be automated

D) All activities with which we have difficulties should be automated

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Question 14 ID: 913

The purpose of the ______________ practice is to make new and changed services and features available for use.

A) Information Security Management Practice

B) Project Management Practice

C) Monitoring & Event Management Practice

D) Release Management Practice

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Question 15 ID: 646

Which Value Chain Activity has an output of “knowledge and information about new and changed products and services to all value chain activities”?

A) Design and Deliver

B) Deliver and Support

C) Design and Transition

D) Transition and Support

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Question 16 ID: 637

The ITIL Guiding Principles?

A) Should be used instead of the Agile Manifesto and 12 Guiding Principles

B) Replace the 3 Ways of DevOps

C) Are not needed if you are using Scrum

D) Are in tune with the messages of Agile, DevOps and Scrum

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Question 17 ID: 914

The purpose of the _____________ practice is to move new or changed hardware, software, documentation, processes, or any other component to live environments. It may also be involved in deploying components to other environments for testing or staging.

A) Incident Management Practice

B) Problem Management Practice

C) Service Request Management Practice

D) Deployment Management Practice

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Question 18 ID: 639

What is true of the Guiding Principle “Collaborate and promote visibility”?

A) Everyone must agree with the next course of action

B) Every stakeholder must agree the next course of action

C) Collaboration does not mean consensus

D) Collaboration does mean consensus with everyone

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Question 19 ID: 894

Service Offerings may include?

A) Goods, access to resources and service actions

B) Resources, assets, and capabilities

C) Service consumption, service provision, and service relationships

D) Value realisation, value loss and profit realisation

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Question 20 ID: 633

Which of the following statements is most correct?

A) Value is subjective and is influenced by factors such as financial cost, perceptions, previous experiences, speed, ease of use, safety etc

B) Value is purely objective and can only be measured by money spent and made

C) Value can only be provided by the service provider to the customer

D) Value is the responsibility of the customer to provide to the users

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Question 21 ID: 886

What is this a definition of?

"A set of specialised organisational capabilities for enabling value for customers in the form of services"

A) Service Integration And Management (SIAM)

B) Service Management

C) Service Consumption

D) Service Provision

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Question 22 ID: 912

An organisation has a responsibility for the care and control of its hardware, software, people, and any other element involved in providing and maintaining services. Which practice is responsible for this?

A) IT Asset Management Practice

B) Change Enablement Practice

C) Service Configuration Management Practice

D) Service Portfolio Management Practice

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Question 23 ID: 636

Guiding Principles are?

A) Ubiquitous and endangering

B) Utility and enduring

C) Universal and enduring

D) Utility and endangering

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Question 24 ID: 922

What are the three phases of Problem Management?

A) Problem Resolution, Problem Solving, Problem Eradication

B) Problem Identification, Problem Control, Error Control

C) Problem Resistance, Problem Recovery, Problem Fixing

D) Problem Review, Problem identification, Problem analysis

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Question 25 ID: 643

What of the following is NOT an element of the Service Value System?

A) Start where you are

B) Guiding principles

C) Governance

D) Service value chain

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Question 26 ID: 650

Which practice has the purpose of planning and managing the full lifecycle of all IT assets?

A) IT Asset Management

B) Service Configuration Management

C) Plan and Engage

D) Partners and Suppliers

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Question 27 ID: 916

What are the three types of change referred to by ITIL?

A) Standard – Retrospective – Emergency

B) Normal – Retrospective – Emergency

C) Standard – Normal – Emergency

D) Emergency – Planned - Normal

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Question 28 ID: 906

What are the six Value Chain Activities?

A) Plan, support, enable, create, deliver, restore

B) Support, repair, restore, enhance, enable, retire

C) Plan, improve, engage, design & transition, obtain & build, deliver & support

D) Strategy, design, transition, operation, continual improvement, enhancement.

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Question 29 ID: 927

Service desk staff require training and competency in several areas, especially which customer service skills?

A) Empathy, Incident analysis, Incident prioritization, Effective communications, Emotional intelligence

B) Socialising, categorisation, prioritisation, conflict analysis, root cause analysis

C) Change assessment, major problem reviews, customer service review meetings, supplier management.

D) Metrics analysis, time management skills, negotiation skills, team leadership skills.

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Question 30 ID: 635

Service Consumption is defined as?

A) Activities performed by an organization to provide services

B) Activities performed by an organization to construct services

C) Activities performed by an organization to consume services

D) Activities performed by an organization to produce services

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Question 31 ID: 897

What is this a definition of?

"Activities performed by an organization to provide services."

A) Work Commitments

B) Work Schedule

C) Service Provision

D) Service Commitment

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Question 32 ID: 896

What is this a definition of?

“Joint activities performed by a service provider and a service consumer to ensure continual value co-creation based on agreed and available service offerings.”

A) Cost Realization And Benefit

B) Total Cost Of Ownership (TCO)

C) Value On Investment (VOI)

D) Service Relationship Management

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Question 33 ID: 888

What is this a definition of?

"A person or a group of people that has its own functions with responsibilities, authorities and relationships to achieve its objectives.”

A) A Team

B) A Function

C) A Process

D) An Organisation

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Question 34 ID: 924

What is this the definition of?

"A request from a user or user’s authorized representative that initiates a service action that has been agreed as a normal part of service delivery.”

A) Access Management practice

B) Service request

C) Availability management practice

D) Capacity & performance management practice

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Question 35 ID: 915

What are the 7 Steps of the Continual Improvement Model?

A) Where are we now, what’s the vision, did we get there, how do we keep the momentum going, take action, how do we get there, where do we want to be.

B) How do we keep the momentum going, what’s the vision, did we get there, how do we get there, where are we now, take action, where do we want to be

C) Did we get there, how do we keep the momentum going, take action, where are we now, how do we get there, what’s the vision, where do we want to be

D) What’s the vision, where are we now, where do we want to be, how do we get there, take action, did we get there, how do we keep the momentum going

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Question 36 ID: 631

What is the best definition of Utility?

A) The functionality offered by a product or service to meet a particular need

B) The amount of capacity available

C) The network bandwidth available

D) A company that supplies gas or electricity

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Question 37 ID: 921

What is this a definition of

"A problem that has been analysed and has not been resolved.”

A) An Incident

B) Root Cause

C) A Known Error

D) A Release

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Question 38 ID: 928

"To set clear business-based targets for service performance, so that the delivery of a service can be properly assessed, monitored, and managed against these targets.”

A) Service Strategy Practice

B) Service Level Management Practice

C) Information Security Management Practice

D) Workforce & Talent Management Practice

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Question 39 ID: 884

What is this a definition of?

"The assurance that a product or service will meet agreed requirements."

A) Utility

B) Warranty

C) Service offering

D) IT Asset Management

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Question 40 ID: 907

What kind of model is the Service Value Chain (SVC)?

A) Organisational

B) Operational

C) Outsourced

D) Original

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