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An ITIL Specialist module focused on designing, delivering, and supporting digital products and services. It is aimed at IT professionals working in IT service management and related delivery roles. Passing demonstrates knowledge of service design and development, support functions, service performance metrics, automation, and collaboration within the ITIL 4 framework.

Exam Topics

  • Plan and build service value streams0%
  • Manage service requests and incidents0%
  • Create, deliver and support services0%
  • Collaborate and improve across value streams0%

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QuestionQ1

Collaborate and improve across value streams

A popular social-media app forms part of a complex network of systems. Most service changes succeed, except those made by one development team, which has many failed changes.

Which approach is BEST for reducing the number of failures?

  • A Create a standard change model for development changes and initiate as a service request
  • B Increase the size of development changes to make them easier to handle and increase success
  • C Create a change model for development changes that includes the use of safe-to-fail testing
  • D Initiate development changes as emergency changes so that errors can be identified quickly
Explanation

A development change model that includes safe-to-fail testing enables controlled experimentation, limits the impact of unsuccessful changes, and provides feedback that improves subsequent changes. This is appropriate for complex systems where outcomes cannot always be predicted fully in advance.

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QuestionQ2

Plan and build service value streams

An organization is transitioning from a process-based approach to a value-stream-based approach for managing user issues.

Which of the following activities should the organization perform FIRST?

  • A Consider how the service desk teams can be involved at an earlier stage in the creation of a service.
  • B Identify the activities which could be improved by the use of automation
  • C Understand which steps contribute least to the support of the service
  • D Understand the situations in which incidents and service requests will be initiated
Explanation

Value-stream design starts with understanding the demand that initiates the work. Identifying the situations that trigger incidents and service requests establishes the starting point for managing user issues and enables the organization to evaluate subsequent activities and improvements.

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QuestionQ3

Plan and build service value streams

A service provider receives many complaints about the time required to fulfil predefined requests submitted by users. Value-stream analysis has shown that the average cycle time at every request-fulfilment step is short and meets the agreements, but the average lead time is unacceptably long and request fulfilment exceeds the agreed time.

What should the service provider investigate further to improve the situation?

  • A Investigate which tasks take too long to complete and why
  • B Investigate where queues appear in the workflow and what causes them
  • C Investigate whether delays are related to transfers and wait times
  • D Investigate the workflow metrics to understand what causes the delays
Explanation

Lead time includes elapsed time spent waiting in queues between workflow activities, whereas short cycle times show that the individual fulfillment activities are being completed quickly. Identifying where queues arise and their causes targets the source of the excessive end-to-end fulfillment time.

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QuestionQ4

Collaborate and improve across value streams

An organization wants to motivate its employees to propose improvements to its practices. However, employees are hesitant to make suggestions because their ideas have been ignored previously. The employees do not trust their managers to be open or transparent.

Which concept should be applied to address this challenge?

  • A Working with a customer-oriented mindset
  • B Shift-left
  • C A continual improvement culture
  • D Workforce planning and management
Explanation

A continual improvement culture encourages everyone to identify and suggest improvements, while ensuring that ideas receive visible consideration and feedback. Open, transparent management of suggestions helps rebuild trust and increases employee participation in improvement efforts.

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QuestionQ5

Create, deliver and support services

What should an organization take into account when deciding whether to retain or outsource particular IT services?

  • A Short-term cost optimization
  • B Cultural barriers and associated risks
  • C Immediate staff reduction
  • D Transfer of responsibility for highly tailored services
Explanation

Cultural barriers and their related risks can affect communication, governance, service quality, and the success of an outsourcing relationship, so they are essential considerations when deciding whether to outsource IT services.

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