1. ITIL® 2011 FOUNDATION CERTIFICATION E-
LEARNING COURSE
ITIL® Foundation Training Offered by Simplilearn.com
“ITIL® is a Registered Trade Mark of The Cabinet Office in the United Kingdom and other countries”.
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2. ITIL® 2011 Foundation Course Objectives
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At the end of the course, you should be able to
 Discuss the ITIL 2011 qualification scheme
 Explain the practice of Service Management
 Describe Service Lifecycle
 Identify key principles and models of ITIL 2011
 Define generic concepts in ITIL 2011
 Discuss the processes, roles and functions in ITIL 2011
 Summarise the use of technology with ITIL 2011
 Successfully clear your ITIL 2011 foundation exam.
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3. ITIL® 2011 Foundation Course Agenda
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Module 1: Introduction to Service Management Lifecycle
Principles of Service Management, Processes, The ITIL Service Lifecycle
Module 2: Service Strategy
Concepts and Models, Processes
Module 3: Service Design
Concepts and Models, Key Principles, Processes
Module 4: Service Transition
Concepts and Models, Key Principles, Processes
Module 5: Service Operations
Concepts and Models, Key Principles, Processes and Functions
Module 6: Continual Service Improvement
Concepts and Models, Key Principles, Processes
Module 7 : Summary and Exam Preparation
Review of Key Concepts and Practice Exam
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4. Module 1
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Introduction
To Service
Management
Lifecycle
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5. Lesson 1.0: What is ITIL ?
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What is ITIL® ?
 A set of publications for good practices in IT service Management.
 Why ITIL ?
• Focuses on descriptive guidance on IT Service Management that’s
easily adapted.
• Emphasizes Quality Management approach, standards
 ITIL® goals
• Consistent, comprehensive, hygienic set of Best-Practice guidance
• Platform independent discussion of processes
• Common Language, Standardized vocabulary
• Flexible framework, adaptable to different IT environments.
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6. Lesson 1.1: ITIL 2011 Components
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7. Lesson 1.2: ITIL Core Publications
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Each lifecycle phase of ITIL 2011 Core
is represented by a Volume in the
Library
1. Service Strategy
2. Service Design
3. Service Transition
4. Service Operation
5. Continual Service Improvement
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8. Lesson 1.3: ITIL 2011 Qualification
Scheme: Credits System
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Lifecycle Modules
Service Strategy
Service Design
Service Transition
Service Operation
Continual Service Improvement
Capability Modules
Operational Support and Analysis (OSA)
Planning Protection & Optimization (PPO)
Release Control and Validation (RCV)
Service Offerings & Agreements (SOA)
http://www.itil-officialsite.com/Qualifications/ITILV3QualificationScheme.asp
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9. Lesson 1.4: ITIL 2011 Foundation Exam Format
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Type Online, Multiple choice, 40 questions. The questions are selected from
the full ITIL Foundation in IT Service Management examination
question bank.
Duration Maximum 60 minutes. Candidates sitting the examination in a language
other than their native language have a maximum of 75 minutes
Supervised Yes
Open Book No
Pass Score 65% (26 out of 40)
Where ? AEC Authorized Examination Centers
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10. Lesson 2.0: Principles of IT Service
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Management
Lesson objectives
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
• Explain the concept of good practice
• Define the concepts of service, Service
Management, Functions, Roles &Processes, and
RACI
• The role of IT Governance across the Service
Lifecycle
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11. Lesson 2.1: ITIL is presented as
Good Practice. What are good Practices?
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Good Practices are generally commoditized, generally accepted, proven effective ways of
doing things which were previously considered best practices of the pioneering
organizations.
Successful Innovations applied diligently become Best
Practices
Best practice accepted and adopted by others become
common, Good Practices
Good Practices are Commoditized, generally accepted
principles, or regulatory requirements
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12. Lesson 2.2: Why Choose Good
practices over Proprietary ones?
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Good Practices, Public Standards
Proprietary knowledge
and frameworks
Difficult to adopt
Wide Community Distribution
Difficult to replicate and transfer
Public Training and Certification
Hard to document
Valid in Different applications Highly customized
Peer Reviewed Specific to business needs
Used by different parties Hard to adapt or reuse
Free and publicly available
Owners expect compensation
Labor market skills easy to find
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13. Lesson 2.3: What is a Service?
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A means of delivering value to customers by facilitating outcomes customer want to
achieve, without the ownership of specific costs or risks.
Costs and Risks are transferred to service provider.
Customers focus on outcomes versus means.
Customer Service Provider
Transfer costs and Risks Takes on Costs and Risks
Retains focus and accountability for Responsible for the means of achieving
outcomes outcomes
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14. Lesson 2.4: What is a Service Management?
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Business Outcomes
Value
Customer Assets
Performance
Service Management
Services
Capabilities Resources
Service Assets A5 Management Financial Capital
A4 Organization Infrastructure
A3 Processes Applications
Capabilities Resources
A2 Knowledge Information
A1 People
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15. Lesson 2.5: Process, Functions and Roles
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 Process
- A set of activities designed to accomplish a specific
objective. A process takes defined inputs and turns them
into defined outputs. A process may include roles,
responsibilities, tools and management controls required
to deliver the outputs
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16. Lesson 2.6: A Basic Process
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Data, Information
and Knowledge
Desired
Process Outcome
Suppliers
Activity 1
Activity 2 Customer
Activity 3
Service Control & Quality
Trigger
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17. Lesson 2.7: Process Characteristics
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• It is measurable
• It delivers specific result
• Primary result are delivered to customers or stakeholders
• It responds to specific events (triggers)
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18. Lesson 2.8: Functions
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 Function
- A team or group of people and the tools they use to carry
out one or more processes or activities
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19. Lesson 2.9: Processes across the organization
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CIO
Project
Operations Development Architecture
Management
Website Enterprise
Service desk Project 1
Architecture
HR
Mainframe Applications Project 2
Finance
Application Applications
Project 3
Networks
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20. Lesson 2.10: Service Management Roles :
Service Owner
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Service Owner :
The person who is accountable for the delivery of a specific IT Service. They are
responsible for continual improvement and management of change affecting Services
under their care. Example: The owner of the Payroll Service
Responsibilities:
To act as prime Customer contact for all Service related enquiries and issues
To ensure that the ongoing Service delivery and support meet agreed Customer
requirements
To identify opportunities for Service Improvements, discuss with the customer
and to initiate changes for improvements if appropriate.
To liaise with the appropriate Process Owners throughout the Service
Management lifecycle
To solicit required data, statistics and reports for analysis and to facilitate effective
Service monitoring and performance
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21. Lesson 2.11: Service Management Roles :
Process Owner
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Process Owner :
The person responsible for ensuring that the process is fit for the desired
purpose and is accountable for the outputs of that process. Example: The
owner for the Availability Management Process
Responsibilities:
 Assisting with process design
 Documenting the process
 Make sure the process is being performed as documented
 Making sure process meetings it aims
 Monitoring and improving the process over time
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22. Lesson 2.12: Connecting with
Processes and Functions: RACI
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RACI is an acronym for the four main roles of:
Responsible – the person or people responsible for getting the job done
Accountable – only one person can be accountable for each task
Consulted – the people who are consulted and whose opinions are sought
Informed – the people who are kept up-to-date on progress.
Activities Service Process Security IT Chief Process
owner Owner Manager Head Architect Manager
Create a framework for defining IT services C C C A/R C I
Build an IT service catalogue C A/R I C I I
Define SLA for critical IT services A R C R C I
Monitor and report SL performance I A/R I I I R
Review SLAs, OLAs and UCs A R C R I R
Review and Update IT service catalogue C A/R I C I C
Create service improvement Plan I A/R I C C R
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23. Lesson 2.13: Key Terminology: Service Provider
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Service Provider :
An Organization supplying Services to one or more Internal Customers or
External Customers. Service provider is often used as an short form for IT
Service provider.
There are three types of business models service providers:
Type I Type II Type III
Internal Service Provider Shared Services Provider External Service Provider
• An internal service provider that • An internal service provider that • Service provider that provides IT
is embedded within a business provides shared IT service to services to external customers
unit e.g. one IT organization more than one business unit i.e. outsourcing
within each of the business e.g. one IT organization to
units. The key factor is that the service all businesses in an
IT Services provide a source of umbrella organization. IT
competitive advantage in the Services typically don’t provide
market space the business a source of competitive
exists in. advantage, but instead support
effective and efficient business
processes.
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24. Lesson 2.14: Key Terminology: Supplier
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Supplier:
A Third party responsible for supplying goods or Services that are required
to deliver IT services. Examples of suppliers include commodity hardware
and software vendors, network and telecom providers, and outsourcing
Organizations.
Business
Contract:
A legally binding agreement between two or more Service Provider
parties to supply goods or services
Supplier
Fig: A Basic value Chain
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25. 25 Lesson 3.0: The Service Lifecycle
Lesson objectives
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
 Understand the value of the Service Lifecycle
 How the processes integrate with each other,
throughout the Lifecycle
 Explain the relationship between Governance
and IT Service Management
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26. Lesson 3.2: The Lifecycle Interactions
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The Business / Customers
Requirements
SLP’s from
Requirements
Service Knowledge Management Systems
Resources &
Service Strategy
(SKMS) Including the Service Portfolio &
Policies Constraints
Strategy
SDP’s
Service Design Standards
Service Catalog
Architectures
Solution
Design
SKMS Updated
Service Transition Tested Solutions
Transition plans
Operational
Service Operation Services
Operations Plan
Continual Service
Improvement Improvement
Plans & Actions
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27. Lesson 3.3: Relationship between
Governance and ITSM
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Relationship between Governance and ITSM
Corporate Governance
Ensures the provision strategy and business Establishes IT policy, Standards and Principles,
plans. Establishes the Corporate policies and Assures alignment of IT strategy to corporate
enables strategic direction, objectives, critical business strategy
success factors and key result areas.
IT Governance
Establishes, enables and executes the IT
Corporate Compliance strategy. Establishes Operations to assure
high-quality, compliant IT service
provisioning. Ensures effective key result
Assures adherence to Legal, Industrial and regulatory Areas.
requirements.
Assures the design and IT Compliance IT Service Management
operability of IT
policies , processes
and key controls
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28. End of Module 1
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Covered so far…
 What it ITIL
 Process, Function, Technology
 Life Cycle of Service i.e. SS,
SD, ST, SO and CSI
We are covering hereon…
 Lifecycle Phases
 Processes and Functions
 Tools used for ITSM
But before that a quiz !
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29. Module 1: Quiz
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Sample question 1:
Which of the following is NOT one of the ITIL® 2011 core
publications?
a) Service Operation
b) Service Transition
c) Service Derivation
d) Service Strategy
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30. Module 1: Quiz
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Sample question 2:
What is the RACI model used for?
a) Documenting the roles and relationships of stakeholders in a
process or activity
b) Defining requirements for a new service or process
c) Analyzing the business impact of an incident
d) Creating a balanced scorecard showing the overall status of
Service Management
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31. Module 1: Quiz
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Sample question 3:
A service owner is responsible for which of the following?
a) Designing and documenting a Service
b) Carrying out the Service Operations activities needed to
support a Service
c) Producing a balanced scorecard showing the overall status of
all Services
d) Recommending improvements
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32. Module 1: Quiz
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Sample question 4:
Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
1. Only one person can be responsible for an activity
2. Only one person can be accountable for an activity
a) All of the above
b) 1 only
c) 2 only
d) None of the above
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33. Module 1: Quiz
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Sample question 5:
Which of the following statements are CORRECT about Functions?
1. They provide structure and stability to organizations
2. They are self-contained units with their own capabilities and resources
3. They rely on processes for cross-functional coordination and control
4. They are costlier to implement compared to processes
a) 1, 2 and 3 only
b) 1, 2 and 4 only
c) All of the above
d) None of the above
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34. Module 1: Quiz
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Sample question 6:
Which of the following is a characteristic of every process?
1. It is measurable
2. It is timely
3. It delivers a specific result
4. It responds to a specific event
5. It delivers its primary result to a customer or stakeholder
a) 1, 2, 3 and 4 only
b) 1, 2, 4 and 5 only
c) 1, 3, 4 and 5 only
d) All of the above
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35. 35 End of Module 1
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36. Module 2
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Service
Strategy
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37. 37 Lesson 1: Service Strategy
Lesson objectives
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
• Understand the Goals and Objectives of Service
Strategy
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38. Lesson 1.1: Service Strategy Objectives
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 Shows organization how to transform Service Management into a strategic
asset and then think and act in a strategic manner
Helps clarify the relationship between various services, systems or processes
and the business models, strategies or objectives they support
KEY ROLE: To stop and think about WHY something has to be done, before
thinking HOW.
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39. Lesson 1.2: Key Strategy Questions
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 The objectives of service Strategy are to answer questions such as :
• What services should we offer and to whom?
• How do we differentiate ourselves from competing alternatives?
• How do we truly create value for our customers?
• How do we capture value for our stakeholders?
 Process in Service Strategy:
• Demand management
• Service portfolio Management, and
• Financial management
• Business Relationship Management
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40. Lesson 2.0: Key concepts of service
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strategy
Lesson objectives
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
• Describe basics of Value Creation through
Services
• Explain Business Case
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41. Lesson 2.1 Key Principles and Models
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Service Value Creation : Utility & Warranty
Performance Supported ?
Fit for Purpose ?
OR
Constraints removed ?
Utility
Value
Available enough ?
Capacity enough ?
AND Fit for Use ?
Continuous enough ?
Secure Enough ?
Warranty
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42. Lesson 2.2: Service Value creation:
Utility & Warranty
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Utility Warranty
Functionality offered by Promise that the product/service will meet agreed requirements
product /service as the
customer views it
What the customer gets How it is delivered
Fitness for purpose Fitness for use
Three Characteristics of warranty
>Provided in terms of availability/capacity of services
>Ensures customer assets continue to receive utility, even if
degraded, through major disruptions
> Ensures Security for value-creating potential of customer
assets
Increases performance Reduces performance variation
average
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43. Lesson 2.3: Basics of Value Creation:
Service Assets
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Service Assets – Resources and capabilities available to an organization.
Resources – the IT infrastructure. People, money and others which
might help to deliver an IT service; the assets of an organization.
Capabilities – ability to co-ordinate, control, deploy resources; the
intangible assets of an organization.
Resources Capabilities
Financial Capital Management
Infrastructure Organization
Applications Processes
Information Knowledge
People
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44. Lesson 2.4: Service Packages
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Core Services Package Supporting Services
(Basic outcomes desired Package
by the customer.) (Enables or Enhances the
value proposition )
Service Level Packages
(Defines level of utility and warranty provided by Service Package)
Availability Levels Capacity Levels Security Levels
Continuity
Service Features
Service Support
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45. Lesson 2.5: Business Case
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45 A decision support and planning tool that projects the likely
consequences of a business action
 Justification for a significant item of expenditure.
 Includes Information about costs, benefits, options, issues, risks and
possible problems
Uses qualitative and quantitative terms
Type Business case structure
1. Introduction – business objectives addressed
2. Methods and assumptions- boundaries of the business case
3. Business Impacts – Financial and non financial
4. Risks and Contingencies
5. Recommendations – Specific Actions
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46. Lesson 2.6: Risk
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Risk
• Risk is defined as uncertainty of outcome, whether positive opportunity
or negative threat.
• There are two distinct phases. Risk Analysis and Risk Management.
• Risk analysis is concerned with gathering information about exposure to
risk so that the organization can make appropriate decisions and
manage risk appropriately.
• Risk management supports critical decision making process, in terms of
evaluating and selecting controls.
• Management of risk covers a wide range of topics, including business
continuity management (BCM), security, program/Project risk
management and operational service management.
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47. Lesson 2.9: Service Management
Technology & Automation
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 Automation (Tools) are extremely useful to improve utility and warranty of
services:
 Real time and historical data for analysis
 Correlation of data from multiple devices
 Service Impact analysis for prioritization
 Service Performance optimization
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48. Lesson 2.9: Service Management
Technology & Automation
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 Automation of service processes helps improve the quality of service,
reduce costs and reduce risks by reducing complexity and uncertainty, and
by efficiently resolving trade-offs.
 Some of the areas where service management can benefit from automation
 Design and modeling
 Service catalogue
 Pattern recognition and analysis
 Classification, prioritization and routing
 Detection and monitoring
 Optimization.
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49. Lesson 2.9: Service Management
Technology & Automation
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 Service Management Tools functionality include:
 Self Help: a web front-end offering a menu-driven range of Self-Help and
Service Requests – with a direct interface into the back-end process-
handling software.
 Workflow or Process Engine: should allow responsibilities, activities,
timescales, escalation paths and alerting to be pre-defined and then
automatically managed.
 Integrated CMS: CIs, Relationships, Records related to incidents,
problems, KE & Change
 Discovery/Deployment technology: populate or verify CMS data, assist
in license management, ability to deploy new software at target locations
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50. Lesson 2.9: Service Management
Technology & Automation
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 Service Management tools functionality include (contd.)
 Remote Control: allow relevant support groups to take control of the user
desktops
 Diagnostic scripts & utilities
 Reporting & Dashboards
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51. 51
Lesson 3.0: Service Strategy
Process
Lesson objectives
At the end of this lesson, you should be able Objectives
and basic concepts of the four processes in Service
Strategy:
 Demand Management,
 Service Portfolio Management
 Financial Management
 Business Relationship Management
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52. Lesson 3.1: Demand Management: Objectives
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The primary objective of Demand Management is to assist the IT
Service Provider in understanding and influencing Customer demand
for services and the provision of Capacity to meet these demands.
Other objectives include:
• Identification and analysis of Patterns of Business Activity (PBA) and
user profiles (UP) that generate demand.
• Utilizing techniques to influence and manage demand in such a way
that excess capacity is reduced but the business and customer
requirements are still satisfied.
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53. Lesson 3.2: Managing Demand for Services
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Demand Pattern
Service
Process Capacity
Management
Plan
Service Belt
Patterns of
Business Activity Delivery Schedule
Demand
Management
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54. Lesson 3.3: PBA and UP
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 Pattern of Business Activity (PBA)
 Workload profile of one or more business activities
 Varies over time
 Represents changing business demands
 User Profile
 Pattern of user demand for IT services
 Each user profile includes one or more PBAs
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55. Lesson 3.4: What is a Service Portfolio?
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Service Portfolio
Service
Improve
-ment
Customer Plan Market
The Service Portfolio 3 Space 1
represents the
commitments and
investments made by a
service provider across Customer Service Market
all customers and market 2 Portfolio Space 2
spaces.
It also includes the
ongoing service Market
Customer
improvement plans and Third Space 3
1
third party services. Party
Services
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56. Lesson 3.5: Components of Service Portfolio
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Service Portfolio
Components of
Service Service Catalog
Portfolio Service Pipeline
Continual service
Market Improvement Third
Spaces
Party
Catalog
Service Service Retired
Transition Operations Services
Customers Service
Design Return on Assets
earned during Service
Operations Resources
Resources Released
Engaged
Common Pool of resources
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57. Lesson 3.6: Financial Management:
Goals and Objectives
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Business
Opportunities
Business
Technology
Financial
Capabilities
Management
IT
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58. Lesson 3.7: Financial Management: Activities
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Activities
Predicting the expected future requirements for
Budgeting funds to deliver the agreed upon services and
monitoring adherence to the defined budgets.
Enables the IT organization to account fully for the
Accounting
way its money is spent.
Chargeback Charging customers for their use of IT Services.
Working with the process of Demand Management
Demand to anticipate usage of services by the business and
Modeling the associated financial implications of future
service demand.
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59. Lesson 3.8: Financial Management: Benefits
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Benefits
• Enhanced decision making.
• Increased speed of change.
• Improved Service Portfolio Management.
• Financial compliance and control.
• Improved operational control.
• Greater insight and communication of the value created by IT
services.
• Increased visibility of IT leading to increased perception of IT
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60. Lesson 3.9: Business Relationship
Management: Purpose
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The purpose of Business Relationship Management are
• To establish and maintain relationship between the service
provider and customer
• To identify customer needs and ensure that the service provider is
able to meet these needs
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61. Lesson 4.0: Business Relationship Activities
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Following are the two key activities
• Being the voice of the service provider to the customer
• Being the voice of the customer to the service provider
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62. Lesson 4.1:Business Relationship Mgmt:
Role – Business Relationship Manager
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• Responsible for the interaction and the communication with
customers
• Could easily combine with the Service level Manager to create
seamless conduit from customer to service provider capabilities
used to ensure value
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63. 63 End of Service Strategy Module
• Objectives and Key concepts of Service Strategy
• Service Strategy processes.
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64. Module 2: Quiz
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Question 1:
Which ITIL® process is responsible for drawing up a charging
system ?
a) Availability Management
b) Capacity Management
c) Financial Management for IT Services
d) Service Level Management
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65. Module 2: Quiz
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Question 2:
A Service Level Package is best described as?
a) A description of customer requirements used to negotiate a
Service Level Agreement
b) A defined level of utility and warranty associated with a core
service package
c) A description of the value that the customer wants and for
which they are willing to pay
d) A document showing the Service Levels achieved during an
agreed reporting period
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66. Module 2: Quiz
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Question 3:
The utility of a service is best described as:
a) Fit for design
b) Fit for purpose
c) Fit for function
d) Fit for use
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67. Module 2: Quiz
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Question 4:
The contents of a service package include:
a) Base Service Package, Supporting Service Package, Service
Level Package
b) Core Service Package, Supporting Process Package, Service
Level Package
c) Core Service Package, Base Service Package, Service
Support Package
d) Core Service Package, Supporting Services Package, Service
Level Packages
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68. Module 2: Quiz
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Question 5:
Setting policies and objectives is the primary concern of which of
the following elements of the Service Lifecycle?
a) Service Strategy
b) Service Strategy and Continual Service Improvement
c) Service Strategy, Service Transition and Service Operation
d) Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service
Operation and Continual Service Improvement
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69. Module 2: Quiz
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Question 6:
Which of the following questions does guidance in Service Strategy
help answer?
1: What services should we offer and to whom?
2: How do we differentiate ourselves from competing alternatives?
3: How do we truly create value for our customers?
a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) 3 only
d) All of the above
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70. Module 3
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Service
Design
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71. 71 Lesson 1.0 Service Design
Lesson objectives
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
• Understand the Goals and Objectives of
Service Design
• Understand the Value Service Design
provides to the Business.
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72. Lesson 1.1: Service Design Objectives
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 To convert the strategic objectives defined during Service Strategy
into Services and Service Portfolios.
 To use a holistic approach for design to ensure integrated end-to-
end business related functionality and quality.
 To ensure consistent design standards and conventions are
followed in all services and processes being designed.
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73. Lesson 1.2: Value to Business
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 Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
 Improved quality of service
 Improved consistency of service
 Easier implementation of new or changed services
 Improved service alignment
 More effective service performance
 Improved IT governance
 More effective Service Management and IT processes
 Improved information and decision-making
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74. 74
Lesson 2.0: Service Design Key
Concepts
Lesson objectives
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
• Understand the importance of People, Processes,
Products and Partners for Service Management.
• Understand the five major aspects of Service
Design.
• Explain Service Design Package
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75. Lesson 2.1: 4 P’s in Service Management
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• Skills • Services
• Organisation • Technology
• Experience People Products • Tools
IT Service Management
• Suppliers • Activities
• Manufacturers • RACI
• Vendor
Partners Processes • Dependencies
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76. Lesson 2.2: Major Aspects of Service Design
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 New or Changed Service Solutions Design
 Service Management systems and tools design
 Technology and Management architectures design
 Processes design
 Measurement systems design
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77. Lesson 2.3: Service Design Package
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Defines all aspects of an IT Service and its requirements through each
stage of its lifecycle. A service Design package is produced for every
new IT service, a major change or for retiring a service.
Business requirements Service Acceptance
Criteria
Service Operational
Service Applicability Contents of a Acceptance Plan
Service Design Service Transition
Service Contacts
Package Plan
Service Functional
Requirements Service Program
Service Level Service Design & Organisational
Requirements Topology Readiness
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78. 78
Lesson 3.0: Service Design
Processes
Lesson objectives
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
• State the Objectives and basic concepts of the following processes
• Service Catalog Management
• Service Level Management
• Supplier Management
• Capacity Management
• Availability Management
• IT Service Continuity Management
• Information Security Management
• Design Coordination
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79. Lesson 3.1: Service Catalogue
Management: Objectives
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Objectives • To provide a single source of consistent
information on all of the agreed services, and
ensure that it is widely available to those who
are approved to access it.
• To ensure that a Service Catalog is produced,
maintained, and kept current, containing accurate
information on all operational services and those
being prepared to be run operationally.
Key terms • Business Service Catalog
• Technical Service Catalog
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80. Lesson 3.2: Service Catalogue
Management: Key Terms
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Business Service Catalog Details of all the IT services delivered to the customer,
together with relationships to the business units and the
business process that rely on the IT services. This is the
customer view of the Service Catalogue.
Technical Service Catalog Contains the details of all the IT services delivered to
the customer, together with relationships to the
supporting services, shared services, components and
CIs necessary to support the provision of the service to
the business.
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81. Lesson 3.3: Service Level Management:
Objectives
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Objectives • To ensure an agreed level of IT service is
provided for all current IT services, and future
services have an achievable target.
• To define , document, agree on, monitor
measure, report and review the level of IT
services provided.
• To provide and improve the relationship and
communication with the business and customers.
• Proactive measures to improve the levels of
service delivered are implemented in a cost-
justified manner.
Key terms • Service Level requirements (SLR’s), Service
Catalog, Service Level Agreement (SLA),
Operational Level Agreement (OLA),
Underpinning contract (UPC)
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82. Lesson 3.4: Service Level Management:
Process Activities
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Design and Monitor
Plan SLA’s Service
Performance
Determine Negotiate & Continual Service Produce
Service Design Negotiate &
and Document
Agree Service
Requirements Improvement Reports
Conduct Service
SLA review and
Improvement Instigate Service
Improvement
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83. Lesson 3.5: Service Level Management:
Terminology
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Service Level • Detailed recording of the Customer’s needs, forming the
requirements (SLR) basis for design criteria for a new or modified service.
• A written statement of available IT services, default
Service Catalog levels, options, prices and identification of which
business processes or customers use them.
• An Agreement between an IT Service Provider and a
Service Level Customer. The SLA describes the IT Service, documents
Agreement (SLA) Service Level targets, and specifies the responsibilities
of the IT Service Provider and the Customer.
• Internal agreement with another function of the same
Operational Level
organization which supports the IT service provider in
Agreement (OLA)
their delivery of services.
Underpinning • Contract with an external supplier that supports the IT
Contract (UPC) organization in their delivery of services.
• A Service Level Agreement Monitoring(SLAM) Chart is
SLAM Chart used to help monitor and report achievements against
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84. Lesson 3.6: Service Level Management:
Key Terms Illustrated
84
Business Business Business Process
Payroll
Process Process
S
L
A
Network Email Storage Storage
Services Services Services Services
OLA OLA OLA OLA
Service Desk Hardware Software Applications Storage
IT Infrastructure U U U
P P P
C C C
External Supplier
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85. Lesson 3.7: Service Level Management:
Designing SLA Structures
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Customer Based vs. Service Based SLA’s Multi Level SLA’s
Customer A Customer B Customer C Corporate
Service Based Corporate Level SLA
Customer Based Customer A Customer B
Service X Service Y Service Z
(Tea) (Coffee) (Juice) Customer Level SLA
Service X Service Y Service Z
(Tea) (Coffee) (Juice)
Service Level SLA
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86. Lesson 3.8: Service Level Management:
SLA Content
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Service Level Agreement
for Service XYZ
• Introduction to the SLA.
• Service description
• Mutual Responsibilities
• Scope of SLA
• Applicable Service Hours
• Service Availability
• Reliability
• Customer Support Agreements
• Relationship and Escalation contacts
• Service Performance Metrics
• Security
• Costs and Charging Mechanisms.
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87. Lesson 3.9: Supplier Management: Objectives
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Objectives • To manage suppliers and the services they supply, to
provide seamless quality of IT service to the
business and ensure that value for money is
obtained.
• Ensure that underpinning contracts and agreements
with suppliers are aligned to business needs.
• Manage relationships with suppliers.
• Negotiate and agree contracts with suppliers.
• Manage supplier performance.
• Maintain a supplier policy and a supporting
Supplier and Contract Database (SCD).
Key terms • Supplier and Contract Database (SCD)
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88. Lesson 3.10: Supplier Management:
Supplier and Contract Database
88
Supplier Supplier and
Strategy Contracts
Evaluation
& Policy
Establish new
suppliers and
Supplier Contracts
&
Supplier categorization and Contract
Maintenance of the SCD
Database
(SCD)
Supplier & Contract
Management &
performance
Contract
Renewal And/or
termination
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89. Lesson 3.11: Supplier Management:
Relationship with Service Level Management
89
Supplier Management
To ensure the UC’s are aligned with
SLR’s and SLA’s by managing
relationships with Supplier.
Service Level Supplier
Management Management
Service Level Underpinning External
Agreements (SLA) Contracts (UC’s) Suppliers
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90. Lesson 3.12: Capacity Management:
Objectives
90
Objectives • To ensure that cost-justifiable IT capacity in all
areas of IT always exists and is matched to the
current and future agreed needs of the business, in
a timely manner.
• Produce and maintain an appropriate and up-to-
date Capacity Plan.
• Provide advice and guidance to the business and IT
on all capacity and performance-related issues
• Ensure that service performance achievements meet
or exceed all of their agreed performance targets.
Key terms • Capacity plan/ CMIS
• Business capacity management
• Service capacity management
• Resource/Component capacity management
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91. Lesson 3.13: Capacity Management:
A Balancing Act
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Supply
• Resources
Capacity • Components
Demand
• Performance
Cost
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92. Lesson 3.14: Capacity Management:
Process Activities
92
Review Current Capacity
and Performance
Capacity Management
Information System (CMIS)
Capacity
performance reports Improve Current service
& data and component capacity
Forecasts
Plan new Capacity Assess, Agree &
Capacity Plans Document new
Requirements & Capacity
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93. Lesson 3.15: Capacity Management:
Sub Process
93
• Translates business needs and plans into
Business requirements for service and IT infrastructure,
Capacity ensuring that the future business requirements for IT
Management services are quantified, designed, planned and
implemented in a timely fashion.
• Management, control and prediction of the end-to-
end performance and capacity of the live,
Service Capacity operational IT services usage and workloads.
Management • Ensure that the performance of all services, as
detailed in service targets within SLAs and SLRs, is
monitored and measured, and that the collected
data is recorded, analyzed and reported.
Component • Management, control and prediction of the
Capacity performance, utilization and capacity of individual
Management IT technology components.
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94. Lesson 3.16: Availability Management
Process: Objectives
94
Objectives • To ensure that the level of Service Availability
delivered in all services is matched to or exceeds
the current and future business requirements, in a
cost-effective manner.
• To provide a point of focus and management for all
availability-related issues.
• Produce and maintain an appropriate and up-to-
date Availability Plan.
• Ensure that proactive measures to improve the
availability of services are implemented wherever it
is cost-justifiable to do so.
Key terms • Availability, Reliability, Maintainability,
Serviceability
• Vital business Functions (VBF)
• Expanded Incident Lifecycle & MTRS, MTBF, MTBSI
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95. Lesson 3.17: Availability Management:
Key Terms explained
95
Availability • The percent time of agreed service hours the
component or service is available.
• A measure of how long a component or IT
Reliability Service can perform its agreed operation
without interruption.
• A measure of how quickly and effectively a
Maintainability component or IT Service can be restored to
normal working after a Failure.
• The ability of a Third-Party Supplier to meet
the terms of its Contract. This Contract will
Serviceability include agreed levels of Reliability,
Maintainability or Availability for an IT service
or component.
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96. Lesson 3.18: Availability Management:
Key Terms explained..contd.
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• The business critical elements of the business
Vital business process supported by an IT Service.
Functions • Typically this will be where more effort and
(VBF’s) investments will be spent to protect these vital
business functions.
• All aspects of service availability and
Service unavailability and the impact of component
Availability availability, or the potential impact of
component unavailability on service
availability.
Component • All aspects of component availability and
Availability unavailability.
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97. Lesson 3.19: Availability Management:
Expanded Incident Lifecycle
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Uptime
Uptime
Downtime
Incident 2
Recovered
Incident 1
Diagnose
Repaired
Restored
Record
Detect
Mean Time
Time to Time to Time to Time to Time to Time to Between
detect Record Diagnose Repair Recover Restore Failures
(MTBF)
Mean Time to Restore Service (MTRS)
Mean Time to between system incidents (MTBSI)
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98. Lesson 3.20: IT Service Continuity
Management: Objectives
98
Objectives • To support the overall Business Continuity
Management (BCM) process by ensuring that the
required IT technical and service facilities (including
computer systems, networks, applications, data
repositories, telecommunications, environment,
technical support and Service Desk) can be resumed
within required, and agreed, business timescales.
• Maintain a set of IT Service Continuity Plans and IT
recovery plans that support the overall Business
Continuity Plans (BCPs) of the organization.
Key terms • Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
• Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
• Business Continuity Management (BCM)
• Risk Analysis
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99. Lesson 3.21: IT Service Continuity
Management: Key Terms Explained
99
• Strategies and actions to take place to continue
Business Business Processes in the case of a disaster.
Continuity
Management • It is essential that the ITSCM strategy is
(BCM) integrated into and a subset of the BCM
strategy.
• Quantifies the impact loss of IT service would
have on the business.
Business Impact
Analysis (BIA) • Identifies the most important services to the
organisation and is therefore critical input to
Strategy
• The business critical elements of the business
process supported by an IT Service.
Vital Business
Functions (VBF’s) • Typically this will be where more effort and
investments will be spent to protect these vital
business functions.
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100. Lesson 3.22: IT Service Continuity
Management: Key Terms Explained..contd
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• Possibility of an event occurring that could cause
harm or loss, or affect the ability to achieve
Objectives.
Risk • A Risk is measured by the probability of a
Threat, the Vulnerability of the Asset to that
Threat, and the Impact it would have if it
occurred.
• Identification & Evaluation of Assets, Threats
Risk and Vulnerabilities that exist to business
Assessment processes, IT services, IT infrastructure and other
assets.
Risk • Identifying appropriate risk responses or cost-
justifiable countermeasures to combating
Management identified risks.
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101. Lesson 3.23: IT Service Continuity
Management: Lifecycle Activities
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Initiation
Business Continuity
Strategy
Requirements
On Going & Strategy
Invocation Operations
Implementation
Business Continuity
Plans
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102. Lesson 3.24: Information Security
Management: Objectives
102
Objectives • To align IT security with business security and ensure
that information security is effectively managed in
all service and IT Service Management activities.
• To protect the interests of those relying on
information, and the systems and communications
that deliver the information, from harm resulting
from failures of availability, confidentiality and
integrity.
Key terms • Availability, Confidentiality, Integrity
• Information Security policy
• Information Security Management System (ISMS)
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103. Lesson 3.25: Information Security
Management: Key Terminology
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• Protecting information against unauthorized
Confidentiality access and use.
• Examples: Passwords, swipe cards, firewalls
• Accuracy, completeness and timeliness of services,
data information, systems and physical locations.
Integrity
• Examples: Rollback mechanisms, test procedures,
audits.
• The information should be accessible at any
agreed time. This depends on the continuity
Availability provided by the information processing systems.
• Examples: UPS, resilient systems, Service desk
hours
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104. Lesson 3.26: Information Security
Management: Security Framework
104
Information Security Framework
Information
Information Security Management System
Security
Strategy
Information
Security Policy Information Security Processes
Information > Communications Strategy
Security Information Management of Security Risks > Training & Awareness
Organisation Security Controls Strategy
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105. Lesson 3.27: Information Security
Management: Security Policy
105
Audience for Security Policy Contains….
Security Policy  An overall Information Security Policy
• These policies  Use and misuse of IT assets policy
should be widely  Access control policy
available to all  Password control policy
customers and  E-mail policy
users, and their  internet policy
compliance should  Anti-virus policy
be referred to in  Information classification policy
all SLRs, SLAs,  Document classification policy
contracts and  Remote access policy
agreements.  Policy for supplier access of IT service, information
and components
 Asset disposal policy.
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106. Lesson 3.28: Information Security Mgmt:
Information Security Management System (ISMS)
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Interested • Service level • Awareness, Interested
Agreements (SLA’s) Classification
Parties • Underpinning • Personnel Security Parties
Contracts (UC’s) • Physical Security
(Customers, • Operational level • Systems Security (Customers,
Suppliers agreements (OLA’s) Plan Implement • Security Incident Suppliers
• Policy Statements Procedures
etc.) etc.)
Information
Control Managed
Security • Organize Information
Requirements & • Establish framework Security
Expectations • Allocate responsibilities
Maintain Evaluate
• Learn • Internal audit
• Improve • External audit
• Plan • Self assessments
• Implement • Security Incidents
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107. Lesson 3.29: Design Coordination - Objectives
107
Design Coordination main objectives are
• Ensuring consistent design of services
• Coordination of all design activities across projects
• Maintaining Governance
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108. Lesson 3.30: Design Coordination - Governance
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Some aspects of the governance that Design Coordination can bring
includes
• Assisting and supporting each project through all the activities and
processes
• Maintaining policies and guidelines for service design activities
• Planning and forecasting of the resources for future demand
• Ensuring that all the requirements are appropriately addressed in
service designs
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109. Lesson 3.31: Design Coordination - Keywords
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• Service Design Package
• Service Design Policy
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110. 110 End of Module 3
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111. 111 Service Design :Quiz
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112. Module 3 : Quiz
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Question 1:
Which of the following is NOT one of the five individual aspects of
Service Design?
A. The design of the Service Portfolio, including the Service
Catalogue
B. The design of new or changed services
C. The design of Market Spaces
D. The design of the technology architecture and management
systems
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113. Module 3 : Quiz
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Question 2:
Which of the following is MOST concerned with the design of new
or changed services?
A. Change Management
B. Service Transition
C. Service Strategy
D. Service Design
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114. Module 3 : Quiz
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Question 3:
Implementation of ITIL Service Management requires preparing
and planning the effective and efficient use of:
A. People, Process, Partners, Suppliers
B. People, Process, Products, Technology
C. People, Process, Products, Partners
D. People, Products, Technology, Partners
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115. Module 3 : Quiz
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Question 4:
What is the MAIN goal of Availability Management?
A. To monitor and report availability of components
B. To ensure that all targets in the Service Level Agreements
(SLAs) are met
C. To guarantee availability levels for services and components
D. To ensure that service availability matches or exceeds the
agreed needs of the business
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116. Module 3 : Quiz
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Question 5 :
The Information Security Policy should be available to which
groups of people?
A. Senior business managers and all IT staff only
B. Senior business managers, IT executives and the Information
Security Manager only
C. All customers, users and IT staff
D. Information Security Management staff only
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117. Module 3 : Quiz
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Question 6 :
Which of the following are activities that would be carried out by
Supplier Management?
1: Management and review of Organisational Level Agreements (OLAs)
2: Evaluation and selection of suppliers
3: Ongoing management of suppliers
A. 1 and 2 only
B. 1 and 3 only
C. 2 and 3 only
D. All of the above
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118. Module 4
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Service
Transition
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119. 2 Lesson 1.0: Service Transition
Lesson objectives
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
• Understand the Goals and Objectives of
Service Transition
• Explain What value Service Transition
provides to the Business
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120. Lesson 1.1: Service Transition Goals
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 Assure proposed changes in the Service Design package are realized.
 Plan for and Implement the Deployment of Releases for New or Changed
Services.
 Test Releases so as to minimize the possibility of undesirable impact to
the Production environment.
 Retire or Archive Services.
KEY ROLE: To move Services from Design to Operations, without impacting
the ongoing Services
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121. Lesson 1.2: Service Transition Objectives
121
•Plan and manage the resources to establish successfully a new or
changed service into production within the predicted cost, quality and time
estimates.
•Ensure there is minimal unpredicted impact on the production services,
operations and support organization.
•Increase the customer, user and Service Management staff satisfaction
with the Service Transition practices including deployment of the new or
changed service, communications, release documentation, training and
knowledge transfer.
•Increase proper use of the services and underlying applications and
technology solutions.
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122. Lesson 1.3: Value to Business
122
• The capacity of the business to respond quickly and adequately
to changes in the market improves.
• Changes in the business as a result of takeovers, contracting,
etc. are well managed.
• More successful changes and releases for the business.
• Better compliance of business and governing rules.
• Less deviation between planned budgets and the actual costs
• Better insight into the possible risks during and after the input of
a service into production.
• Higher productivity of customer staff
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123. Lesson 2.0: Service Transition: Key
5
Principles and Models
Lesson objectives
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
• Understand Configuration Item
• Understand Configuration Management System
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124. Lesson 2.2: Configuration Item (CI)
124
124
Anything that needs to be managed in order to deliver an IT Service.
CI information is recorded in the Configuration Management System.
CI information is maintained throughout its lifecycle by Configuration
Management.
All CIs are subject to Change Management control.
CIs typically include
IT Services, hardware, software, buildings, people, and formal
documentation such as Process documentation and SLAs
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125. Lesson 2.3: Configuration Management
System (CMS)
125
• Information about all Configuration Items
125
CI may be entire service, or any component
Stored in 1 or more databases (CMDBs)
• CMS stores attributes
Any information about the CI that might be needed
• CMS stores relationships
Between CIs
With incident, problem, change records etc.
• CMS has multiple layers
Data sources and tools, information integration, knowledge processing
(scorecards, dashboards etc.), presentation
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126. Lesson 3.0: Service Transition
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Processes
Lesson objectives
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to understand
Objectives and basic concepts of the four processes in
Service Transition:
• Transition, Planning and Support
• Change Management
• Service Asset and Configuration Management
• Release and Deployment management, And
• Knowledge Management
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127. Lesson 3.0.1: Transition, Planning and
127
Support
Lesson objectives
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
• State the Goals, Objectives and basic
concepts of Transition, Planning and Support
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128. Lesson 3.0.2:Transition, Planning and
Support- Goals and Objectives
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The Objectives of Transition, Planning and Support are
• Successful Planning and coordination of resources
• Ensuring common framework
• Proper planning f