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ITIL ITIL-Practitioner - ITIL Practitioner Certification - IT Service Management

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CruiseAlong Cars

CruiseAlong Cars is a car manufacturing and sales company with corporate headquarters in the United States of America. It has grown by acquisition over the last 20 years and has operations in over 50 countries.Each country has its own IT organization, with some central corporate IT services provided by the US parent company. In some countries CruiseAlong Cars has outsourced infrastructure and service desks. The largest IT supplier is Global City IT Services (GCITS). In two countries GCITS provides CruiseAlong Cars with full outsourced services. They also provide selected services in other countries.

Some of the issues that CruiseAlong Cars needs to address include:

    Inefficiencies caused by the current IT structure

    Inconsistency of IT services when employees are travelling

CruiseAlong Cars is working with a European university (the University of Bachstein) to research and develop driverless car technology. The venture operates as an independent company called DriveYou.com, and

CruiseAlong Cars owns a 51% share.

DriveYou.com

This is a small, innovative company, that is jointly owned by CruiseAlong Cars and the University of Bachstein

(UoB). DriveYou.com develops custom applications using a highly collaborative, rapid and iterative development approach. Their employees are mostly research and development experts, working from multiple locations, with a significant number working from home. Initial driverless car testing is being conducted in the

US at the Nevegon State Department of Transportation.

Infrastructure and cloud services are purchased from Global City IT Services and other providers, and these relationships are managed by a DriveYou.com supplier manager.

Some of the issues that DriveYou.com needs to address include:

Better structure and accountability around their work practices Compliance with safety and other regulatory requirements.

University of Bachstein (UoB)

The UoB is a university that is based Germany, with a satellite campus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In the past,

some IT services were funded and run centrally, and some were funded and run independently by each faculty. Centrally owned services include a ‘walk-in’ service desk, plus a separate service desk in the main library, run by library staff. Library services and IT are both part of the university’s administrative services division. Recently, under a new CIO, there has been a drive to centralize and consolidate IT as a corporate function, although this has not been fully achieved.

The central IT department runs a variety of legacy systems, which serve students, administrators, researchers and academics. It also runs some high performance computing systems and high bandwidth networks across the main campus area.

Some of the issues that the UoB needs to address include:

    Complete the centralization and consolidation of IT

    Manage growth and increasing IT demand

    Demonstrate value through competitive, responsive and transparent services

Global City Services (GCITS)

GCITS is a global service provider which has grown through acquisition and which offers a wide range of services, including IT support, infrastructure and consulting. GCITS has mature and efficient IT service management processes, and holds an ISO/IEC 20000 certification.

GCITS provides the entire infrastructure and some cloud services for DriveYou.com, as well as a range of services in different countries to CruiseAlong Cars.Some of the issues that GCITS needs to address include:

    Succeed in establishing a strategic partnership with CruiseAlong Cars

Nevagon State Department of Transportation (NSDoT)

NSDot is a government agency in the US state of Nevagon, where DriveYou.com is running their trials. It is

responsible for managing transportation systems and safety. DriveYou.com must work with the agency to

ensure that their trials comply with safety regulations, and the program includes bi0directional sharing of large

amounts of data.

The NSDoT’s internal IT team writes and manages most of their agency-specific applications, however most

other applications and infrastructure are provided by the Nevagon State central IT department.

GCITS have a major audit coming up to verify continued compliance to the ISO/IEC 20000 standard. In

preparation for the audit, they are conducting a series of internal audits.

GCITS has grown through acquisition. The latest acquisition, Optimsolv, does not comply with ISO/IEC 20000.

Optimsolv has a number of process improvements that need to be implemented to attain compliance. GCITS

has six months to ensure that Optimsolv is compliant.

Optimsolv has made the improvements identified in the audit. The GCITS IT Manager needs to determine that

Optimsolv staff have accepted the required changes.

What is the BEST course of action for the GCITS IT Manager to take FIRST?

A.

Survey Optimsolv senior managers to gain general feedback on employee satisfaction.

B.

Carry out stakeholder analysis to determine which Optimsolv employees to survey.

C.

Directly observe impacted Optimsolv employees in their roles.

D.

Create a resistance management plan for Optimsolv employees.

What is organizational change management (OCM) MOST likely to contribute to in an organization?

A.

The knowledge required to support the adoption of new technology platforms.

B.

Cultural changes required as a result of adopting new business processes.

C.

Standard changes that are made to IT service assets and configuration items.

D.

The development of underpinning processes for a change management standard.

Why is stakeholder management an important part of any improvement initiative?

A.

To identify the leader who will fund the change.

B.

To determine the level of resource allocated to the change.

C.

To determine risk levels presented by organizational culture.

D.

To identify whose support is needed for the change.

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CruiseAlong Cars

CruiseAlong Cars is a car manufacturing and sales company with corporate headquarters in the United States of America. It has grown by acquisition over the last 20 years and has operations in over 50 countries. Each country has its own IT organization, with some central corporate IT services provided by the US parent company. In some countries CruiseAlong Cars has outsourced infrastructure and service desks. The largest IT supplier is Global City IT Services (GCITS). In two countries GCITS provides CruiseAlong Cars with full outsourced services. They also provide selected services in other countries.

Some of the issues that CruiseAlong Cars needs to address include:

    Inefficiencies caused by the current IT structure

    Inconsistency of IT services when employees are travelling

CruiseAlong Cars is working with a European university (the University of Bachstein) to research and develop driverless car technology. The venture operates as an independent company called DriveYou.com, and

CruiseAlong Cars owns a 51% share.

DriveYou.com

This is a small, innovative company, that is jointly owned by CruiseAlong Cars and the University of Bachstein (UoB). DriveYou.com develops custom applications using a highly collaborative, rapid and iterative development approach. Their employees are mostly research and development experts, working from multiple locations, with a significant number working from home. Initial driverless car testing is being conducted in the

US at the Nevegon State Department of Transportation.

Infrastructure and cloud services are purchased from Global City IT Services and other providers, and these relationships are managed by a DriveYou.com supplier manager.

Some of the issues that DriveYou.com needs to address include:

    Better structure and accountability around their work practices

    Compliance with safety and other regulatory requirements.

University of Bachstein (UoB)

The UoB is a university that is based Germany, with a satellite campus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In the past, some IT services were funded and run centrally, and some were funded and run independently by each faculty. Centrally owned services include a ‘walk-in’ service desk, plus a separate service desk in the main library, run by library staff. Library services and IT are both part of the university’s administrative services division. Recently, under a new CIO, there has been a drive to centralize and consolidate IT as a corporate function, although this has not been fully achieved.

The central IT department runs a variety of legacy systems, which serve students, administrators, researchers and academics. It also runs some high performance computing systems and high bandwidth networks across the main campus area.

Some of the issues that the UoB needs to address include:

    Complete the centralization and consolidation of IT

    Manage growth and increasing IT demand

    Demonstrate value through competitive, responsive and transparent services

Global City Services (GCITS)

GCITS is a global service provider which has grown through acquisition and which offers a wide range of services, including IT support, infrastructure and consulting. GCITS has mature and efficient IT service management processes, and holds an ISO/IEC 20000 certification.

GCITS provides the entire infrastructure and some cloud services for DriveYou.com, as well as a range of services in different countries to CruiseAlong Cars.Some of the issues that GCITS needs to address include:

    Succeed in establishing a strategic partnership with CruiseAlong Cars

Nevagon State Department of Transportation (NSDoT)

NSDot is a government agency in the US state of Nevagon, where DriveYou.com is running their trials. It is responsible for managing transportation systems and safety. DriveYou.com must work with the agency to ensure that their trials comply with safety regulations, and the program includes bi0directional sharing of large amounts of data.

The NSDoT’s internal IT team writes and manages most of their agency-specific applications, however most other applications and infrastructure are provided by the Nevagon State central IT department.

CruiseAlong Cars central IT organization wants to implement a new ITSM toolset to replace their outdated system. The new ITSM toolset will be used by all CruiseAlong Cars’ IT departments and their service desks.

The business case for the improvement has not been made yet. This could include financial contribution from various countries. The overall goal of the initiative is to achieve efficiencies and cost reductions through the centralization of processes and data for reporting across country-based IT departments.

The business case for a new ITSM toolset has been approved. The project manager will soon start the detailed planning.

What is the BEST way to communicate with key stakeholders, and at which step of the CSI approach?

A.

During ‘where are we now?’ send an email to all IT country organizations describing the benefits of the project and inviting them to contribute.

B.

During ‘where are we now?’ send an email to a selection of IT country organizations, requesting their involvement in the project.

C.

During ‘where do we want to be?’ send an email to all IT country organizations describing the benefits of the project and inviting them to contribute.

D.

During ‘where do we want to be?’ send an email selection of IT country organizations, requesting their involvement in the project.

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CruiseAlong Cars

CruiseAlong Cars is a car manufacturing and sales company with corporate headquarters in the United States of America. It has grown by acquisition over the last 20 years and has operations in over 50 countries.Each country has its own IT organization, with some central corporate IT services provided by the US parent company. In some countries CruiseAlong Cars has outsourced infrastructure and service desks. The largest IT supplier is Global City IT Services (GCITS). In two countries GCITS provides CruiseAlong Cars with full outsourced services. They also provide selected services in other countries.

Some of the issues that CruiseAlong Cars needs to address include:

    Inefficiencies caused by the current IT structure

    Inconsistency of IT services when employees are travelling

CruiseAlong Cars is working with a European university (the University of Bachstein) to research and develop driverless car technology. The venture operates as an independent company called DriveYou.com, and

CruiseAlong Cars owns a 51% share.

DriveYou.com

This is a small, innovative company, that is jointly owned by CruiseAlong Cars and the University of Bachstein

(UoB). DriveYou.com develops custom applications using a highly collaborative, rapid and iterative development approach. Their employees are mostly research and development experts, working from multiple locations, with a significant number working from home. Initial driverless car testing is being conducted in the

US at the Nevegon State Department of Transportation.

Infrastructure and cloud services are purchased from Global City IT Services and other providers, and these relationships are managed by a DriveYou.com supplier manager.

Some of the issues that DriveYou.com needs to address include:

Better structure and accountability around their work practices Compliance with safety and other regulatory requirements.

University of Bachstein (UoB)

The UoB is a university that is based Germany, with a satellite campus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In the past,

some IT services were funded and run centrally, and some were funded and run independently by each faculty. Centrally owned services include a ‘walk-in’ service desk, plus a separate service desk in the main library, run by library staff. Library services and IT are both part of the university’s administrative services division. Recently, under a new CIO, there has been a drive to centralize and consolidate IT as a corporate function, although this has not been fully achieved.

The central IT department runs a variety of legacy systems, which serve students, administrators, researchers and academics. It also runs some high performance computing systems and high bandwidth networks across the main campus area.

Some of the issues that the UoB needs to address include:

    Complete the centralization and consolidation of IT

    Manage growth and increasing IT demand

    Demonstrate value through competitive, responsive and transparent services

Global City Services (GCITS)

GCITS is a global service provider which has grown through acquisition and which offers a wide range of services, including IT support, infrastructure and consulting. GCITS has mature and efficient IT service management processes, and holds an ISO/IEC 20000 certification.

GCITS provides the entire infrastructure and some cloud services for DriveYou.com, as well as a range of services in different countries to CruiseAlong Cars.Some of the issues that GCITS needs to address include:

    Succeed in establishing a strategic partnership with CruiseAlong Cars

Nevagon State Department of Transportation (NSDoT)

NSDot is a government agency in the US state of Nevagon, where DriveYou.com is running their trials. It is responsible for managing transportation systems and safety. DriveYou.com must work with the agency to ensure that their trials comply with safety regulations, and the program includes bi0directional sharing of large amounts of data.

The NSDoT’s internal IT team writes and manages most of their agency-specific applications, however most other applications and infrastructure are provided by the Nevagon State central IT department.

The IT department at the UoB does not have a service catalogue or a service portfolio, and there is limited understanding of the structure and value of services in the organization. Many of the individual departments and faculties are resistant to the CIO’s vision for global services.

They have decided to appoint business relationship managers (BRMs) who will be expected to address many

of the challenges, in order to support collaboration and help to define global services. Some business analysts

are going to be transferred to these new positions.

The BRMs have learned that none of the customers are satisfied with a new service, even though it meets all the functional requirements agreed with a wide range of UoB customer and user group representatives.

Which guiding principle should have been followed to avoid this situation, and why?

A.

Guiding principle: Keep it simple

Why: The customers and users were not kept informed of the progress of the project resulting in negative perception of the results

B.

Guiding principle: Progress iteratively

Why: Everything the service provider does needs to map directly to value for the UoB customers and other stakeholders

C.

Guiding principle: Design for experience

Why: Even though functional requirements were met the UoB customer interaction with the service was ignored leading to dissatisfaction

D.

Guiding principle: Collaborate

Why: The wrong people were involved in the agreement of functional requirements when designing the solution.

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CruiseAlong Cars

CruiseAlong Cars is a car manufacturing and sales company with corporate headquarters in the United States of America. It has grown by acquisition over the last 20 years and has operations in over 50 countries.Each country has its own IT organization, with some central corporate IT services provided by the US parent company. In some countries CruiseAlong Cars has outsourced infrastructure and service desks. The largest IT supplier is Global City IT Services (GCITS). In two countries GCITS provides CruiseAlong Cars with full outsourced services. They also provide selected services in other countries.

Some of the issues that CruiseAlong Cars needs to address include:

    Inefficiencies caused by the current IT structure

    Inconsistency of IT services when employees are travelling

CruiseAlong Cars is working with a European university (the University of Bachstein) to research and develop driverless car technology. The venture operates as an independent company called DriveYou.com, and

CruiseAlong Cars owns a 51% share.

DriveYou.com

This is a small, innovative company, that is jointly owned by CruiseAlong Cars and the University of Bachstein

(UoB). DriveYou.com develops custom applications using a highly collaborative, rapid and iterative development approach. Their employees are mostly research and development experts, working from multiple locations, with a significant number working from home. Initial driverless car testing is being conducted in the

US at the Nevegon State Department of Transportation.

Infrastructure and cloud services are purchased from Global City IT Services and other providers, and these relationships are managed by a DriveYou.com supplier manager.

Some of the issues that DriveYou.com needs to address include:

Better structure and accountability around their work practices Compliance with safety and other regulatory requirements.

University of Bachstein (UoB)

The UoB is a university that is based Germany, with a satellite campus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In the past,

some IT services were funded and run centrally, and some were funded and run independently by each faculty. Centrally owned services include a ‘walk-in’ service desk, plus a separate service desk in the main library, run by library staff. Library services and IT are both part of the university’s administrative services division. Recently, under a new CIO, there has been a drive to centralize and consolidate IT as a corporate function, although this has not been fully achieved.

The central IT department runs a variety of legacy systems, which serve students, administrators, researchers and academics. It also runs some high performance computing systems and high bandwidth networks across the main campus area.

Some of the issues that the UoB needs to address include:

    Complete the centralization and consolidation of IT

    Manage growth and increasing IT demand

    Demonstrate value through competitive, responsive and transparent services

Global City Services (GCITS)

GCITS is a global service provider which has grown through acquisition and which offers a wide range of services, including IT support, infrastructure and consulting. GCITS has mature and efficient IT service management processes, and holds an ISO/IEC 20000 certification.

GCITS provides the entire infrastructure and some cloud services for DriveYou.com, as well as a range of services in different countries to CruiseAlong Cars.Some of the issues that GCITS needs to address include:

    Succeed in establishing a strategic partnership with CruiseAlong Cars

Nevagon State Department of Transportation (NSDoT)

NSDot is a government agency in the US state of Nevagon, where DriveYou.com is running their trials. It is responsible for managing transportation systems and safety. DriveYou.com must work with the agency to ensure that their trials comply with safety regulations, and the program includes bi0directional sharing of large amounts of data.

The NSDoT’s internal IT team writes and manages most of their agency-specific applications, however most other applications and infrastructure are provided by the Nevagon State central IT department.

CruiseAlong Cars is planning to improve the provision and support of IT services for senior executives who travel. They will deploy new mobile technology to enhance the user experience. They will also improve the incident management and request fulfilment processes and standardize these across service desks.

They are taking an iterative approach and have released the first iteration of improvements. A project manager has been appointed for this improvement initiative.

During which two activities is it MOST important to measure average cost per incident?

A.

1 and 2.

B.

2 and 3.

C.

3 and 4.

D.

1 and 4.

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CruiseAlong Cars

CruiseAlong Cars is a car manufacturing and sales company with corporate headquarters in the United States of America. It has grown by acquisition over the last 20 years and has operations in over 50 countries.Each country has its own IT organization, with some central corporate IT services provided by the US parent company. In some countries CruiseAlong Cars has outsourced infrastructure and service desks. The largest IT supplier is Global City IT Services (GCITS). In two countries GCITS provides CruiseAlong Cars with full outsourced services. They also provide selected services in other countries.

Some of the issues that CruiseAlong Cars needs to address include:

    Inefficiencies caused by the current IT structure

    Inconsistency of IT services when employees are travelling

CruiseAlong Cars is working with a European university (the University of Bachstein) to research and develop driverless car technology. The venture operates as an independent company called DriveYou.com, and

CruiseAlong Cars owns a 51% share.

DriveYou.com

This is a small, innovative company, that is jointly owned by CruiseAlong Cars and the University of Bachstein

(UoB). DriveYou.com develops custom applications using a highly collaborative, rapid and iterative development approach. Their employees are mostly research and development experts, working from multiple locations, with a significant number working from home. Initial driverless car testing is being conducted in the

US at the Nevegon State Department of Transportation.

Infrastructure and cloud services are purchased from Global City IT Services and other providers, and these relationships are managed by a DriveYou.com supplier manager.

Some of the issues that DriveYou.com needs to address include:

Better structure and accountability around their work practices Compliance with safety and other regulatory requirements.

University of Bachstein (UoB)

The UoB is a university that is based Germany, with a satellite campus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In the past,

some IT services were funded and run centrally, and some were funded and run independently by each faculty. Centrally owned services include a ‘walk-in’ service desk, plus a separate service desk in the main library, run by library staff. Library services and IT are both part of the university’s administrative services division. Recently, under a new CIO, there has been a drive to centralize and consolidate IT as a corporate function, although this has not been fully achieved.

The central IT department runs a variety of legacy systems, which serve students, administrators, researchers and academics. It also runs some high performance computing systems and high bandwidth networks across the main campus area.

Some of the issues that the UoB needs to address include:

    Complete the centralization and consolidation of IT

    Manage growth and increasing IT demand

    Demonstrate value through competitive, responsive and transparent services

Global City Services (GCITS)

GCITS is a global service provider which has grown through acquisition and which offers a wide range of services, including IT support, infrastructure and consulting. GCITS has mature and efficient IT service management processes, and holds an ISO/IEC 20000 certification.

GCITS provides the entire infrastructure and some cloud services for DriveYou.com, as well as a range of services in different countries to CruiseAlong Cars.Some of the issues that GCITS needs to address include:

    Succeed in establishing a strategic partnership with CruiseAlong Cars

Nevagon State Department of Transportation (NSDoT)

NSDot is a government agency in the US state of Nevagon, where DriveYou.com is running their trials. It is responsible for managing transportation systems and safety. DriveYou.com must work with the agency to ensure that their trials comply with safety regulations, and the program includes bi0directional sharing of large amounts of data.

The NSDoT’s internal IT team writes and manages most of their agency-specific applications, however most other applications and infrastructure are provided by the Nevagon State central IT department.

The IT department at the UoB does not have a service catalogue or a service portfolio, and there is limited understanding of the structure and value of services in the organization. Many of the individual departments and faculties are resistant to the CIO’s vision for global services.

They have decided to appoint business relationship managers (BRMs) who will be expected to address many of the challenges, in order to support collaboration and help to define global services. Some business analysts are going to be transferred to these new positions.

Which is the BEST way for a new BRM at the UoB to understand their customers’ needs?

A.

Run a workshop to define the structure and value of IT services.

B.

Visit each customer in their normal place of work to see what they do.

C.

Issue a detailed questionnaire to all customers to discover their expectations.

D.

Establish current performance levels and match the new service to them.

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CruiseAlong Cars

CruiseAlong Cars is a car manufacturing and sales company with corporate headquarters in the United States of America. It has grown by acquisition over the last 20 years and has operations in over 50 countries.Each country has its own IT organization, with some central corporate IT services provided by the US parent company. In some countries CruiseAlong Cars has outsourced infrastructure and service desks. The largest IT supplier is Global City IT Services (GCITS). In two countries GCITS provides CruiseAlong Cars with full outsourced services. They also provide selected services in other countries.

Some of the issues that CruiseAlong Cars needs to address include:

    Inefficiencies caused by the current IT structure

    Inconsistency of IT services when employees are travelling

CruiseAlong Cars is working with a European university (the University of Bachstein) to research and develop driverless car technology. The venture operates as an independent company called DriveYou.com, and

CruiseAlong Cars owns a 51% share.

DriveYou.com

This is a small, innovative company, that is jointly owned by CruiseAlong Cars and the University of Bachstein (UoB). DriveYou.com develops custom applications using a highly collaborative, rapid and iterative development approach. Their employees are mostly research and development experts, working from multiple locations, with a significant number working from home. Initial driverless car testing is being conducted in the US at the Nevegon State Department of Transportation.

Infrastructure and cloud services are purchased from Global City IT Services and other providers, and these relationships are managed by a DriveYou.com supplier manager.

Some of the issues that DriveYou.com needs to address include:

Better structure and accountability around their work practices Compliance with safety and other regulatory requirements.

University of Bachstein (UoB)

The UoB is a university that is based Germany, with a satellite campus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In the past,

some IT services were funded and run centrally, and some were funded and run independently by each faculty. Centrally owned services include a ‘walk-in’ service desk, plus a separate service desk in the main library, run by library staff. Library services and IT are both part of the university’s administrative services division. Recently, under a new CIO, there has been a drive to centralize and consolidate IT as a corporate function, although this has not been fully achieved.

The central IT department runs a variety of legacy systems, which serve students, administrators, researchers and academics. It also runs some high performance computing systems and high bandwidth networks across the main campus area.

Some of the issues that the UoB needs to address include:

    Complete the centralization and consolidation of IT

    Manage growth and increasing IT demand

    Demonstrate value through competitive, responsive and transparent services

Global City Services (GCITS)

GCITS is a global service provider which has grown through acquisition and which offers a wide range of services, including IT support, infrastructure and consulting. GCITS has mature and efficient IT service management processes, and holds an ISO/IEC 20000 certification.

GCITS provides the entire infrastructure and some cloud services for DriveYou.com, as well as a range of services in different countries to CruiseAlong Cars.Some of the issues that GCITS needs to address include:

    Succeed in establishing a strategic partnership with CruiseAlong Cars

Nevagon State Department of Transportation (NSDoT)

NSDot is a government agency in the US state of Nevagon, where DriveYou.com is running their trials. It is

responsible for managing transportation systems and safety. DriveYou.com must work with the agency to

ensure that their trials comply with safety regulations, and the program includes bi0directional sharing of large

amounts of data.

The NSDoT’s internal IT team writes and manages most of their agency-specific applications, however most

other applications and infrastructure are provided by the Nevagon State central IT department.

The IT department at the UoB does not have a service catalogue or a service portfolio, and there is limited

understanding of the structure and value of services in the organization. Many of the individual departments

and faculties are resistant to the CIO’s vision for global services.

They have decided to appoint business relationship managers (BRMs) who will be expected to address many

of the challenges, in order to support collaboration and help to define global services. Some business analysts

are going to be transferred to these new positions.

One of the BRMs has had an improvement idea for implementing a de-centralized support model that can be actioned quickly. The BRM proposed implementing the improvement in the next three months. The improvement was rejected by the CIO who has suggested that the idea should never have been proposed.

Which tool should the BRM have used to predict the CIO’s response at this early stage?

A.

The CSI register, to properly define the timescale for implementation.

B.

The CSI register, to define who the improvement would be actioned by.

C.

The orientation worksheet, to understand the organizational vision.

D.

The orientation worksheet, to measure the success of the improvement.

The project manager is writing a business case for the improvement. This business case explains how following the CSI approach will contribute to the improvement work.

Which is a correct description of the purpose of a CSI step in this improvement work?

A.

“Where are we now?” will document process issues that need to be resolved.

B.

‘How do we get there?’ will specify the objectives and business case for the project.

C.

‘What is the vision?’ will identify the best ITSM software tool to use.

D.

‘Did we get there?’ will define measurable steps for the project.

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CruiseAlong Cars

CruiseAlong Cars is a car manufacturing and sales company with corporate headquarters in the United States

of America. It has grown by acquisition over the last 20 years and has operations in over 50 countries.Each country has its own IT organization, with some central corporate IT services provided by the US parent company. In some countries CruiseAlong Cars has outsourced infrastructure and service desks. The largest IT supplier is Global City IT Services (GCITS). In two countries GCITS provides CruiseAlong Cars with full outsourced services. They also provide selected services in other countries.

Some of the issues that CruiseAlong Cars needs to address include:

    Inefficiencies caused by the current IT structure

    Inconsistency of IT services when employees are travelling

CruiseAlong Cars is working with a European university (the University of Bachstein) to research and develop driverless car technology. The venture operates as an independent company called DriveYou.com, and

CruiseAlong Cars owns a 51% share.

DriveYou.com

This is a small, innovative company, that is jointly owned by CruiseAlong Cars and the University of Bachstein

(UoB). DriveYou.com develops custom applications using a highly collaborative, rapid and iterative development approach. Their employees are mostly research and development experts, working from multiple locations, with a significant number working from home. Initial driverless car testing is being conducted in the

US at the Nevegon State Department of Transportation.

Infrastructure and cloud services are purchased from Global City IT Services and other providers, and these relationships are managed by a DriveYou.com supplier manager.

Some of the issues that DriveYou.com needs to address include:

    Better structure and accountability around their work practices

    Compliance with safety and other regulatory requirements.

University of Bachstein (UoB)

The UoB is a university that is based Germany, with a satellite campus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In the past, some IT services were funded and run centrally, and some were funded and run independently by each faculty. Centrally owned services include a ‘walk-in’ service desk, plus a separate service desk in the main library, run by library staff. Library services and IT are both part of the university’s administrative services division. Recently, under a new CIO, there has been a drive to centralize and consolidate IT as a corporate function, although this has not been fully achieved.

The central IT department runs a variety of legacy systems, which serve students, administrators, researchers and academics. It also runs some high performance computing systems and high bandwidth networks across the main campus area.

Some of the issues that the UoB needs to address include:

    Complete the centralization and consolidation of IT

    Manage growth and increasing IT demand

    Demonstrate value through competitive, responsive and transparent services

Global City Services (GCITS)

GCITS is a global service provider which has grown through acquisition and which offers a wide range of services, including IT support, infrastructure and consulting. GCITS has mature and efficient IT service management processes, and holds an ISO/IEC 20000 certification.

GCITS provides the entire infrastructure and some cloud services for DriveYou.com, as well as a range of services in different countries to CruiseAlong Cars.Some of the issues that GCITS needs to address include:

    Succeed in establishing a strategic partnership with CruiseAlong Cars

Nevagon State Department of Transportation (NSDoT)

NSDot is a government agency in the US state of Nevagon, where DriveYou.com is running their trials. It is responsible for managing transportation systems and safety. DriveYou.com must work with the agency to ensure that their trials comply with safety regulations, and the program includes bi0directional sharing of large amounts of data.

The NSDoT’s internal IT team writes and manages most of their agency-specific applications, however most other applications and infrastructure are provided by the Nevagon State central IT department.

CruiseAlong Cars is planning to improve the provision and support of IT services for senior executives who travel. They will deploy new mobile technology to enhance the user experience. They will also improve the incident management and request fulfilment processes and standardize these across service desks.

They are taking an iterative approach and have released the first iteration of improvements. A project manager has been appointed for this improvement initiative.

The project manager is trying to understand the current level of service provided to senior executives.

Which is an example of a CSF for the ‘customer’ quadrant of the balanced scorecard?

A.

Customer satisfaction with operational services.

B.

Ability to respond rapidly to customer demand for change.

C.

Stability and availability of services delivered to customers.

D.

Ability to resolve customer incidents quickly and effectively.