An IT department in a large enterprise has been managing a service that is core to the enterprise's strategy and objectives. Recently, the quality of a service has been falling. Investigations have revealed that the service team works on resolving incidents, requests and
problems, and also development, testing, and releasing new functionality. Due to the mixed workload, the team are unable to complete many tasks to the level of quality required.
Which approach would MOST LIKELY help in this situation?
An organization is a market leader for software that has seen a sharp decline in local installations of its software. Customers are increasingly preferring its subscription-based cloud solution. As the company rapidly adapts its product offering to favour subscription-based cloud solutions, some people within the company do not agree with the new focus.
Which method would be effective in ensuring that the change in focus is supported across the organization?
A customer is retiring a service and has terminated the contract for the service with the service provider. The service provider will continue to deliver other services to the customer. Which activity should the service provider include in the plans to offboard the service?
What helps people to understand the value of an initiative, and reduces their resistance?
Which statement about service requests is CORRECT?
A service provider is collecting requirements for a cloud-based document storage service. Which is an example of a utility requirement for this service?
An organization works in a highly regulated industry. A new regulation has been introduced that requires additional information to be recorded about users each time the service desk logs an incident in the service logging tool. They want to put controls in place to ensure that the regulation is followed.
Which is the BEST approach?
Governance is a core component of the service value system.
How does governance support high-velocity IT?
A commercial service provider is creating a new strategic plan. It has developed the following tactics and operational plans:
• Tactic 1 - acquire new resilient infrastructure
• Tactic 2 - launch services by region
• Operational plan 1 - operate infrastructure to meet service levels
• Operational plan 2 - train staff on new infrastructure skills.
Which strategy do these tactics and operational plans support?
A service provider has recently released an upgrade to its payroll service. The service provider had told the customer that the upgrade would include functionality to copy information from various other HR systems, to reduce the amount of manual data entry. However, this statement was not documented at the time, and the proposed functionality was not included in the design.
Which practice includes activities which could have helped to avoid this situation?
Users are complaining that service desk agents do not listen to them and make assumptions about what their issues are.
Which action would BEST help to improve this situation?
Which TWO are possible sources of demand for a value stream to restore a live service?
1. Someone is unable to log into their user account for the service
2. A monitoring tool detects a service failure
3. The service desk calls a user to provide a status update for an incident
4. A user provides feedback to the incident manager when an incident is closed
A customer usually has good control of a service provider in terms of achieving service levels, but often struggles to
assess service value
Which level of service relationship maturity does this situation describe?
Which dimension of service management considers governance, management, and communication?
An organization has recently made improvements to how users request new phones, track their arrival, and get help setting the phone up.
Which practice has been most affected by these improvements?
A service provider has recently started providing services to a new client. Surveys have shown that most of the client’s staff are satisfied with their experience across the user journey. However, some users are taking longer to get started because they are unaware or confused by the procedures to access and utilize the services.
Which is the BEST recommendation to improve the user journey?
A service provider is launching a new service. The target market is users who have limited experience of using the internet and are unlikely to use social media.
Which is the BEST method of providing user support?
Which statement about the end-to-end customer journey is CORRECT?
An organization is aiming to develop a partnership relationship with its service consumers. One of the objectives is to increase the level of trust and customers' satisfaction by establishing a service mindset across the organization.
Which initiative is the BEST way to achieve it?
Users often do not provide feedback because they do not believe it will be addressed.
Which is the BEST method for encouraging users to submit feedback in this situation?
A service provider wants to use a technology-generated approach for updating a software application installed on the mobile devices of the service users. Which is the MOST APPROPRIATE method?
What should be done FIRST when designing a customer journey?
Which activity describes user-centered service design?
At which steps in the customer journey should the approach to authorizing and enabling the user to use service be defined?
An organization's customers have historically been satisfied with the functionality and performance of its services. Recently, however, the organization is getting complaints about both the performance of the services and areas such as sales and customer support.
How can the organization BEST collect the information needed to address these complaints?
Which BEST describes the primary role of a governing body?
An internal IT service provider does not have all the skills needed to create and deliver a new service, but could develop them with enough time. There are many external service providers who can provide this service.
Which approach should the organization follow to decide if they should use the internal service provider or source the service externally?
An organization that has been successful in the past is now struggling to succeed in a highlycompetitive industry. Customer expectations that are changing in unpredictable ways, and unclear user requirements, are making it difficult for the organization to decide a course of action. Several conflicting approaches have been suggested.
In the context of the Cynefin framework, which approach would BEST enable the organization to progress?