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DIGANO - Mock Exam -2-

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) - Mock EXAM #2.04

This exam is not an existing APMG, ISEB or EXIN mock exam!

Feel free to take this test and contact me if you've got any questions. A score of 26 or more equals a pass, less equals a fail.

As a "non-training" organisation you have permission to use these questions in your own environment as long as you acknowledge the contents coming from DIGANO by using the following sentence in any printed or published reproduction of this mock exam:

"Reproduced with permission - (c) DIGANO 2007 - http://www.digano.com - Making a Difference"

Q1.

What type of skills should individuals optimally have to work in an ITIL Service Desk environment?
   
Technology skills
People skills
Technology skills with some people skills
People skills with some technology skills
   

Q2.

What does the acronym ITIL stand for?
   
Information Technology Infrastructure Library
Information Technology Infrastructure Lessons
Infrastructure Technology Information Library
Information Technology Individual Library
 

Q3.

What does MTTR represent?

   
Average uptime
Average downtime
Average time between two system Incidents
Average time between two service Incidents
 

Q4.

Which are two recognised modelling techniques?
   
Demand management and application sizing
Analytical modelling and application sizing
Simulation and trend analysis
Demand management and prototyping
 

Q5.

Organisation "Dump'A'Car" is specialised in recycling old-cars. They run a number of applications in-house on five Microsoft 2003 Servers. These applications are used by the internal Users and Customers. The support for the applications is provided from the internal Service Desk, known by all users as "Call 777 and you end-up in Heaven!". What type of document will exist between internal second levels support teams and the Service Desk?
   
A Service Level Agreement
An Operational Level Agreement
A Contract
An Underpinning Contract
 

Q6.

What type of Changes will the CAB normally assess?

   
Standard Changes
Significant Changes
Major Changes
Emergency Changes
 

Q7.

Organisation "We'll buy Everything" has just received 40 new desktops they had ordered 3 weeks earlier. What process has been responsible to approve the roll-out of these new desktops?

   
Change Management
Configuration Management
Problem Management
Release Management
 

Q8.

Organisation "Nuclear Planet" is a large provider of energy to businesses and households. They have become increasingly dependent on their IT Infrastructure. In the case of a disaster (other then a meltdown) systems will need to be online again within 24 hours. What processes have definitely been involved in assessing the risks?
   
Change Management and Configuration Management
Financial Management and Change Management
Availability Management and IT Service Continuity Management
Availability Management and Capacity Management
 

Q9.

Every time when Susan (the database administrator) checks the HR database, some records seem to be missing. After some further investigation it looks like someone has been accessing the data without proper authorisation.

We seem to have a/an _____ issue.

   
Availability
Integrity
Stability
Confidentiality
   

Q10.

The marketing business unit is running low in "Why-U-want-Us" licenses and ponders over the question whether or not to invest in additional licenses. For now there is a more immediate issue that needs to be resolved, as not everyone can use the application. What activity should kick in?

   
Application Sizing
Modelling
Demand Management
Risk Assessment
 

Q11.

What Problem Management activity will have RFCs as main output?

   
Problem Control
Error Control
ProActive Problem Management
Major Incident/Problem Review
 

Q12.

Levitt - a smart marketing guru has identified the following four service levels: Generic, Expected, Exceeded and Exceptional. What level will Service Level Management aim for?

   
Generic - as this is the cheapest option and will suit all Customers.
Expected - as this is the cheapest option and will suit all Customers.
Exceeded - as this is the cheapest option and will suit all Customers.
None of the above.
   

Q13.

What describes the relationship between the CMDB and the financial asset register most closely?
   
There is no relationship
The CMDB is a subset of the financial asset register
The CMDB and the financial asset register have overlap
They are the same
 

Q14.

The DHS and the DSL are used to
   
Store all logical software items
Store all physical software items
Create a managed environment of logical items
Create a managed environment of physical items
 

Q15.

An "uplift" factor is used to

   
Allocate direct absorbed costs
Allocate indirect unabsorbed costs
Allocate direct unabsorbed costs
Allocate indirect absorbed costs
 

Q16.

Often, releasing a new Standard Operating Environment will result in _____
   
A delta release
A full release
A package release
A standard release
 

Q17.

System 'Donald-Duck' one of the primary trading systems has just lost one of its hard disks. It automatically recovered from this fault, a hot-spare kicked in instantaneously. What terminology does ITIL use?
   
Availability
Reliability
Resilience
Maintainability
 

Q18.

What is according to ITIL the definition of a Root Cause?
 
The item identified being the underlying cause of the Problem identified
A fault identified within the Infrastructure
A known error identified as the root cause of one or more Incidents
The unknown (undiagnosed) underlying cause of one or more Incidents
  

Q19.

A senior manager starts to complain that the Incidents are not resolved within agreed times. The Service Desk analyst contacts the Service Desk supervisor so the issue can be resolved appropriately.

What form of escalation is involved here?
   
formal escalation
functional escalation
hierarchical escalation
operational escalation
 

Q20.

Deming - one of the people behind the philosophy of TQM (Total Quality Management) uses a cyclic model with four recognised stages. What is the right sequence of these stages?

   
Plan - Do - Review - Check
Do - Check - Plan - Act
Plan - Do - Check - Act
Do - Check - Act - Plan
  

Q21.

Which of the following concepts is not part of Availability Management?
   
Serviceability
Maintainability
Security
Application Sizing
 

Q22.

A service desk analyst just received the following call:

"My business unit is interested in some training for the new project management application that was installed last month. Would you be able to organise a training course for us?"

What type of event(s) do we seem to have here?

   
An Incident
An Incident leading into a Service Request
A Request for Change
A standard Report event
  

Q23.

What document will list the Services currently provided to the Customers?
   
Service Level Agreement
Service Level Requirements
Services Catalogue
Services Contract
    

Q24.

Which sequence is a likely sequence to be found when following ITIL?
   
Incident - Problem - Known Error - Root Cause - Release - RFC
Problem - Root Cause - Incident - RFC - Release - Known Error
RFC - Incident - Root Cause - Known Error - Problem - Release
Incident - Problem - Root Cause - Known Error - RFC - Release
     

Q25.

Tom, one of the network engineers, has just created a document that visually represents the type of Changes and the date and time of when these Changes will be implemented.

What type of document has Tom created according to ITIL?

   
An RFC document
An FSC document
An SFC document
A PSA document
 

Q26.

Which is not normally considered a Configuration Item?

   
A purchase order form
A centralised data-centre
A Local Area Network
A Service Level Agreement
 

Q27.

The underlying reason of a Problem has been successfully diagnosed and a faulty router has been pinpointed as the source of all trouble.

What do we have here according to ITIL?

   
An Incident
A Problem
A Release
A Root Cause
   

Q28.

What technology is not likely to be used within a Service Desk environment?

   
IVR
ACD
VRU
KPI
  

Q29.

The CMDB is a logical database that contains the information relating to CIs. The DHS is another database used within ITIL. How do we link these two databases with each other?
   
Via pointers and attributes
Via pointers and location
Via the status field
Via the status field and attributes
   

Q30.

What will be the optimal availability that we can provide to a Customer based upon the following results?

workstation (98%) - link (97%) - router (99%) - WAN (99.95%) - router (98%) - link (97.8%) - server (99.2%)

   
97%
98%
The product of all percentages
99.95%
 

Q31.

A virus has been detected on one of the workstations. The site where this has happened is immediately disconnected from the outside world to prevent further contamination.

The action taken is referred to as:

   
Detection
Prevention
Repression
Correction
  

Q32.

Company "Brick-a-Brack" has decided to charge back for its Services that it delivers to its internal business units. The new charges will be based upon a negotiated price per business unit.

We're talking _____ here.

   
Cost price
Going rate price
Fixed price
Market price
    

Q33.

Some of the hard disks of company "Brick-a-Brack" are running low in available hard disk space. Compression of all files has been identified as a possible short-term solution.

What activity has been responsible to provide this information?

   
Modelling
Demand Management
Application Sizing
Iterative Activities
     

Q34.

Security Management has a close relationship with:
   
Availability Management
Service Support processes
Service Delivery processes
Service Management processes
    

Q35.

All Service Delivery processes have "plans" as one of their key outputs. These plans typically provide the current status of the ICT Infrastructure, but also predict the future status of the ICT Infrastructure. What timescale do these plans typically use to look and predict into the future.
   
3 months  
6 months
1 year
2 years
   

Q36.

Where is a "Post Implementation Review" typically performed?
   
Incident Management
Problem Management
Change Management
Release Management
 

Q37.

The Change Manager typically approves minor Changes him or herself. The Change Manager is referred to as the _____:
   
Change Model
Change Authority
Change Category
Change Approver
 

Q38.

Charging is a sensitive topic in an environment with _____:
   
tied Customers
untied Customers
fixed Customers
unfixed Customers
   

Q39.

When the Service Desk records an Incident they will typically have to check whether or not a workaround or Known-Error or Problem Record already exists. This activity is referred to as:

   
Incident Checking
Incident Classification
Incident Prioritisation
Incident Matching
  

Q40.

One of the issues with ITSCM is:

   
It increases the threats to an organisation
It is vulnerable to oversubscription to DR sites
It reduces the risks to an organisation
It is cheap to implement and maintain

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