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How does ITIL help to reduce costs and minimize total cost of ownership (TCO)
for IT investments?
IT investments and staff always find that they break their work timelines. This happens
since the unscheduled work always takes priority over the work that is planned. ITIL can
help an organization stop this continuous cycle and can therefore, help employees
focus on the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and other activities in their department.
2. Who decides the categorization of a proposed change within an ITIL compliant
Change Management process?
It is the task of Change Manager
A Change Manager will plays a key role in ensuring that the projects (change initiatives)
meet their objectives within timelines and said budgets by increasing employee
adoption and usage. This person will focus on the people’s side of change, including
changes to business processes, systems and technology, job roles and organization
structures.
3. After a Change has been implemented, an evaluation is performed. What is this
evaluation called?
It is known as Post Implementation Review (PIR)
PIR is an assessment and review of the complete working solution. It will be performed
after a period of live running, sometimes after the project is completed.
The Post Implementation Review is used to evaluate the effectiveness of system
development after the system has been in production for a specific period (usually 6
months). It is a free-form report, and not all sections are relevant or necessary to the
final product. A description of the Post Implementation Review Report is always
attached.
4. What ITIL process ensures that the organization is aware of new and changing
technology?
Capacity Management is responsible for ensuring that the organization is aware of new
and changing technology. It is the discipline that checks and verifies that IT
infrastructure is provided at the right time in the right volume at a right price with utmost
efficiency.
This involves input from many areas of the business to identify what services are (or will
be) required, what IT infrastructure is required to support these services, what level of
Contingency will be needed, and what will be the cost of this infrastructure.
5. Suppose a Service Level Manager requires confirmation wherein the internal
Service Desk can answer a certain percentage of calls within 10 seconds. In what
document would the Service Desk’s agreement to this requirement be recorded?
An operational level agreement (OLA) is a contract that defines how various IT groups
within a company plan to deliver a service or set of services. OLAs are designed to
address and solve the problem of IT silos by setting forth a specific set of criteria and
defining a specific set of IT services to be performed by each department.
It should be noted that the term Service Level Agreement (SLA) is used in many
companies while discussing agreements between two internal groups. However,
according to Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework for best
practices, this type of internal contract should is better known as an Operational Level
Agreement.
6. What two Service Management processes will most likely use risk analysis and
management methodology?
The two service management processes are- Availability Management and IT Service
Continuity Management
ITIL Availability Management aims at defining, analyzing, planning, measuring and
improving all aspects of the availability of IT services. Availability Management is
responsible for ensuring that all IT infrastructure, processes, tools, roles, etc are
appropriate for the agreed availability targets.
IT Service Continuity Management (ITSCM) aims at managing risks that could seriously
impact IT services. ITSCM ensures that the IT service provider can always provide
minimum agreed Service Levels, by reducing the risk from disaster events to an
acceptable level and planning for the recovery of IT services. ITSCM should be
designed to support Business Continuity Management.
7. Explain Service portfolio, Service catalogue and service pipeline.
Service portfolio – Defines services provided by service provider across all Market and
all customers. The objective of ITIL Service Portfolio Management is to manage the
service portfolio. Service Portfolio Management ensures that the service provider has
the right mix of services to meet required business outcomes at an appropriate level of
investment.
Service Catalogue is the sub set of Service portfolio. Services ready to be offered to
customers is listed in service catalogue. An IT service catalog, sometimes called an IT
service portfolio, is a list of available technology resources and offerings within an
organization.
Service Pipeline consists of services under development. It is a great opportunity to
view the direction of a service provider’s growth as it discusses and includes the future
services that are currently under development by the service provider.
8. What is the difference between ITIL v3 and v2?
11. What is the relation between Availability, Availability service time and
downtime?
Availability % = (Available service time –downtime) / Available service time
to ensure that all the IT services are available and are functioning correctly whenever
customers and users want to use them in the framework of the SLAs in force.
12. What is ISO/IEC 27002?
ISO/IEC 27002:2013 gives guidelines for organizational information security standards
and information security management practices including selection, implementation and
management of controls, taking into consideration the organization’s information
security risk environment(s).
It is designed to be used by organizations that intend to: