(1) Which statement about value streams and practices is CORRECT?
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Each practice contributes to a single value stream
Each practice may include several value streams
Each value stream may be supported by multiple practices
Every value stream contributes to multiple practices
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(2) An organization is looking for a way to optimize decision-making in order to increase performance and keep risks under control.
Which solution would support these objectives?
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Delegate as much management decision-making as possible
Ensure a higher level of structure for low-risk decision-making
Ensure that all decisions are made by a small group of high-ranking authorities
Delegate governance decision-making to the operational teams
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(3) An organization has a vision to become the manufacturer which sells the most number of cars globally. The organization is considering many improvements and wants to prioritize the improvement outcomes.
Which improvement initiative should be given the HIGHEST priority?
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A medium-cost, high-effort investment to improve the training available to front-line staff, which will result in a 5% improvement in the number of cars sold
A high-cost, medium-effort investment to improve the data structure relating to sales patterns, which will result in a 5% reduction in the cost of sales
A low-cost, low-effort investment to upgrade an internal HR system, which will result in improved efficiency in the HR department
A medium-cost, low-effort investment to improve the user interface in the online sales service, which will result in a 5% improvement in the number of cars sold
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(4) What are the two costs that every service relationship must consider?
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The cost of providing the service and the cost of improving the service
The cost introduced by the service and the cost removed by the service
The cost of applications and the cost of infrastructure
The cost of creating the service and the cost charged for the service
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(5) An organization works in a highly regulated industry. A new regulation has been introduced that requires additional information to be recorded about users each time the service desk logs an incident in the service logging tool. They want to put controls in place to ensure that the regulation is followed.
Which is the BEST approach?
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Update the logging tool to ensure that the minimum data required by the regulation is always recorded and report on any deviations
Ensure that the service desk staff are aware of the new regulation and continue to use existing reports of service desk activity
Update the logging tool to ensure that all fields must be completed for every incident record and produce daily reports of all service desk activity
Ensure that the service desk staff are aware of the new regulation and let them decide what data to record and produce reports when requested
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(6) An organization’s leadership team is working hard to develop a culture of continual improvement. The leaders want to encourage behaviours that support and enable successful and timely improvement initiatives.
Which behaviour should NOT be encouraged by the leaders?
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Risk-taking
Celebrating successes
Fast feedback
Perfectionism
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(7) An organization has received many complaints from users and customers of poor service from the service desk. They are creating a business case for replacing the service desk tool. The new tool will address some of the issues, however there is resistance to the expense of replacing the existing tool.
What is MOST important for the business case should focus on?
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How the tool will improve customer and user outcomes and reasons why these might not be achieved
How the price of the tool might increase and exceed budget if a decision is not made quickly
How the system will be easier to use for service desk staff and therefore improve their morale
How the new system will require additional staff to maintain and therefore reduce the return on investment
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(8) An organizational change has resulted in many employees being unhappy with their changed roles. The project team had a party to celebrate the success of the change, and this caused the employees to be even more unhappy.
Which communication principle should have been followed to avoid this happening?
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Timing and frequency matter
We are all communicating all the time
There is no single method of communication that works for everyone
The message is in the medium
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(9) Six months ago a service provider developed and implemented a new value stream to resolve problems that were causing incidents. Initially metrics showed that problems were being resolved quickly. However, recently there have been complaints that problems have taken too long to resolve. The organization wants to evaluate and improve the value stream.
Which is the BEST approach to optimize the workflow through the value stream?
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Use throughput metrics to identify where bottlenecks cause delays in the value stream
Use metrics to measure 'work item age' to identify the steps in the value stream that are causing delays
Redesign the value stream by identifying the relevant steps, value chain activities and practices
Gather cycle time metrics to identify the steps in the value stream that use most resource
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(10) What helps people to understand the value of an initiative, and reduces their resistance?
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Continual improvement
Measurement cascades
Organizational change management
Change enablement
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(11) A support team handles user queries on a daily basis. One of the metrics agreed for this activity is ‘average number of queries processed by a team member per day’.
Which type of measurement is this an example of?
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Progress
Effectiveness
Compliance
Productivity
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(12) An organization is going through a major crisis. The crisis has created significant challenges for the organization and to cope it has introduced major changes to its operations. Marketing and promotional communications that were scheduled before the crisis are still being sent to internal and external recipients. These communications are now irrelevant because of the crisis.
Which communications principle is MOST LIKELY being ignored by the organization?
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Communication is a two-way process
Timing and frequency matter
We are all communicating all the time
The message is in the medium
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(13) An organization offers telephone support to users. It has recently introduced a selfservice system for user support. At the same time, the organization introduced a policy which states that any incidents logged using the telephone will not be given a high priority. Some groups of users, such as business developers who travel, cannot access the self-service system, and have complained that they are not receiving good service.
What is the BEST way to resolve this situation?
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Ensure that that groups of users such as business developers are given extra training on how to use the new system
Introduce policy exceptions for users who have roles which lead to difficulty in accessing systems
Assign a high priority to all incidents logged by business developers, to ensure that they are not disadvantaged
Establish a governance, risk and compliance function to align the work of the service desk function with the organization's governing body
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(14) Which concept includes ensuring everyone knows what should be done and why?
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Direction
Methods
Improvement
Planning
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(15) An organization is creating a policy for logging and managing a wide variety of incidents. The organization operates in a highly regulated environment; it is essential that the policy is adhered to and that deviations are considered unacceptable.
Which TWO are the BEST guidance to follow when creating the policy?
Ensure that the policy is as flexible as possible to allow staff to make decisions freely.
Ensure that the policy is as clear and concise as possible stating why it is necessary.
Ensure that the consequences of non-compliance are clearly stated.
Ensure that the process is automated in order to minimize the controls included in the policy.
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1 and 2
2 and 3
3 and 4
1 and 4
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(16) An organization’s leadership team is enthusiastic about a series of recent improvements and the many additional improvement initiatives currently underway. The employees are less enthusiastic and the leaders have noticed signs of stress and increased absence. Even workers who are known to be high-performers are being less productive.
What is the MOST LIKELY reason for the changes in the employees’ behaviour?
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Too many initiatives one after the other
Failure to thoroughly plan each improvement
The lack of a continual improvement culture
Failing to check progress using metrics
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(17) An organization is planning to introduce a major change to how incidents are reported and resolved. Users will be encouraged to log incidents on a self-service portal where possible and IT staff will be required to adopt new ways of logging and resolving incidents. Success of the initiative is critical to the organization, but resistance to change is anticipated.
Which is the BEST approach to ensure success?
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Train support staff in the new procedures and use the service desk to inform users of the change so that they can ask questions where necessary
Use a mixture of email, social media, posters and meetings to communicate the changes to ensure as greatest coverage as possible
Create a new social media page to communicate the change and encourage all staff to post comments about the new ways of working
Select communication methods that are familiar to each stakeholder group and provide feedback channels that allow anonymity if preferred
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(18) An IT manager is planning improvements. They have identified four stakeholders and how they will be affected by the improvement.
Which TWO stakeholder groups have high impact and high involvement?
Customers: will see improved value from the services.
IT director: will provide funding and will see significant efficiency improvements.
Team members: will change how they work and contribute to design of updated processes.
Other IT teams: may need to work with updated processes.
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1 and 4
1 and 2
2 and 3
3 and 4
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(19) A service provider has a good reputation for delivering services to a fast changing market in which consumers find it easy to switch providers in response to social trends. The service provider wants to perform an assessment to identify how to improve its services and maintain their competitive position in the market.
Which is the BEST assessment method for the service provider to use?
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SLA achievement analysis
Customer and user satisfaction analysis
SWOT analysis
Maturity assessment
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(20) Which BEST describes the primary role of a governing body?
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To establish and regularly review the goals cascade throughout the organization
To develop and regularly review IT measurements and metrics
To establish and regularly review the effectiveness of risk management and internal controls
To annually review and approve IT projects to maximize business value
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