What provides value to an organization by ensuring that there is end-to-end management for the organization's suppliers through a single entity?
Answer
Workforce planning and management
Shift-left
Service integration and management
Integration and data sharing
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Under which circumstances should an organization build, instead of buy, software?
Answer
When the solution is not commercially available and the organization has internal resources which can be applied to provide a quantifiable competitive advantage
When the organization needs the software to be ready to use quickly
When the software isn't necessary to execute the organization's strategy or to maintain the organization's competitive advantage
When commercially available software applications are highly commodified
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What is a challenge when applying a 'shift-left' approach?
Answer
Persuading service desk staff to escalate incidents to 2nd-line support teams
Increasing the variety of tasks and projects for all team members
Ensuring that staff have the necessary skills to perform the new activities given to them
Moving testing activities to later stages in the pipeline
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Which competency profile is required by an individual who has been asked to motivate others to adopt the new ways of working required to support the organization's goals?
Answer
Administrator
Coordinator/communicator
Leader
Technical expert
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An organization is struggling to respond to and resolve incidents in accordance with business needs and expectations. High-priority incidents are often ignored because lowpriority incidents can be easier and quicker to solve.
What would MOST improve this situation?
Answer
A triage system
Deep learning
A CI/CD pipeline
Service Integration and management
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Which concept helps organizations to understand the structure of, and relationships between, their business and technology services?
Answer
An information model
Integration and data sharing
Shift-left
Swarming
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Which step in building a 'shift-left' approach involves the activities of communicating the benefits to stakeholders, and sharing the approach with them?
Answer
Clarify the costs and benefits of improvement
Set up the improvement initiative
Identify shift-left opportunities and goals
Set targets
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An organization has released a major upgrade to one of its applications and is experiencing large volumes of incidents as a result.
Which is an example of how the 'service desk' practice could contribute to the value stream for supporting the incidents?
Answer
Communicating with users to update them on the status of incidents which they have raised
Developing solutions to incidents that relate to this upgrade and might occur again
Creating an early life support team to focus on the issues caused by the upgrade
Performing trend analysis on the incidents to understand which type occurs most frequently
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An organization has decided to move some of its testing activities to earlier phases in the software development lifecycle.
Which concept has the organization applied?
Answer
Service integration and management
Robotic process automation
Shift-left
Integration and data sharing
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An organization that has a hierarchical structure is reviewing its project management practice and is considering the various ways to introduce a new or changed service.
Which is an advantage of an agile approach in this situation?
Answer
The focus on a clear release date which the various work streams can be aligned to
The option of using industry-standard models for project management to deliver a phased, predictable project
The focus on increasing speed to market and making changes that align to business objectives
The ability to maintain its current structure which would speed up decision-making
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What does the performance of a supervised machine-learning system depend on?
Answer
The quality of output data
The quality of training
Dynamic baselining
Neural networks
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Which statement about employee surveys is CORRECT?
Answer
They are conducted at several levels formally and informally
They are typically conducted annually
They are intended to be conducted across an entire organization
They can only be conducted electronically so have limited application
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A start-up organization has introduced new ways of working in its projects. Project team members are now encouraged to give feedback on actions rather than people to establish a ‘no-blame’ culture, and to ensure that communication is honest and respectful.
Which concept has been applied by the start-up?
Answer
Workforce talent and management
Employee satisfaction management
Shift-left
Collaboration
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An organization has development teams which respond to requests for change to their applications. The requests have a range of urgency levels. The development teams have realized that low-priority requests take a very long time to be resolved because there are always higher-priority requests.
Which concept would BEST help to address this situation?
Answer
Prioritizing work
Team culture and differences
Advanced analytics
'Build vs buy' considerations
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An organization wants to ensure that the introduction of new services is as smooth as possible. Some of the key activities it has identified are: educating support teams with lessons from development and testing; preparing self-service knowledge articles for users; and making development team members available in case there are any issues immediately after go-live.
Which practice is the MOST important for these activities?
Answer
Release management
Service design
Deployment management
Software development and management
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An organization would like to apply the 'focus on value' guiding principle to the 'service level management' practice.
Which is the BEST way to do this?
Answer
Create awareness of expected service levels with the users, including the reasons behind them
Create concise SLAs which can be easily measured and reported
Understand how users interact with the service and how this contributes to achieving their goals
Use the current measurements as a baseline which SLAs can be developed from
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An organization uses internal and external development teams that collaborate effectively to produce new and upgraded services. When the changes are released, users complain that the service desk staff are often not aware of the changes, and that any support issues relating to the changes take a long time to resolve.
What would prevent this situation from occurring in the future?
Answer
Introduce a self-service system for users so that they do not have to rely on the support teams
Outsource the organization's internal support provision to the external development organization
Allow users direct access to second-line support teams by bypassing the service desk
During the development phase, engage the support staff who are involved in the value stream for the service
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An organization is reviewing the way it handles its requirements for new projects.
Which is an example of an 'outside in' approach?
Answer
Understanding how suppliers will be used to deliver new or changed services, and ensure that their services are the foundation for the project
Understanding the customer's view of the new or changed services, and tracking project deliverables against customer requirements
Understanding the functional structures and work according to the organization’s capability to deliver to the new requirements
Understanding the impact of the new or changed service on the internal technical teams, to ensure they are able to deliver against the new requirements
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An organization releases service upgrades in response to changing market demand. The market demand needs to be fulfilled quickly to capture market value. Some members of the product team believe that some tests can be skipped because of the need to release quickly. Other team members believe that everything should be tested carefully, therefore they have proposed increasing the number and scope of tests.
Which is the BEST approach to resolve this situation?
Answer
Increase the frequency and strength of testing, and delay releases if necessary for tests to be completed
Limit testing to the minimum required for compliance, and allocate resources for solving incidents that might follow releases
Review the release plans to ensure there is enough time for detailed testing, especially for complex systems
Review the testing strategy, considering the probability and impact of failures to define what should be tested
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An organization has automated most of its activities to create and change its products and services, but it still has a final manual check before releasing software to the live environment.
Which approach is this an example of?
Answer
Continuous delivery
Continuous integration
Service validation and testing
Continuous deployment
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