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ITIL 4 Foundation Revision Guide PDF

112 Pages·2019·2.749 MB·English
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IT IL ® 4 F o u n d a tio n R e v is io n G u id e ITIL® 4 Foundation Revision Guide ITIL® OFFICIAL PUBLISHER ITIL® 4 Foundation Revision Guide Published by TSO (The Stationery Office), part of Williams Lea, and available from: Online www.tsoshop.co.uk Mail, Telephone, Fax & E-mail TSO PO Box 29, Norwich, NR3 1GN Telephone orders/General enquiries: 0333 202 5070 Fax orders: 0333 202 5080 E-mail: [email protected] Textphone 0333 202 5077 TSO@Blackwell and other Accredited Agents Copyright © AXELOS Limited 2019 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from AXELOS Limited. Applications to reuse, reproduce or republish material in this publication should be sent to the licensing team at: [email protected] Registered office address: 30 Berners Street, London, England, W1T 3LR AXELOS, the AXELOS logo, the AXELOS swirl logo, ITIL®, MoP®, M_o_R®, MoV®, MSP®, P3M3®, P3O®, PRINCE2®, PRINCE2 Agile®, and RESILIA® are registered trade marks of AXELOS Limited. AgileSHIFT™ is a trade mark of AXELOS Limited. ISBN 9780113316526 Printed in the United Kingdom for The Stationery Office Material is FSC certified and produced using ECF pulp, sourced from fully sustainable forests. P002986735 c5 11/19 Contents Foreword v Acknowledgements vi About this guide vii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 IT service management in the modern world 1 1.2 ITIL 4 1 1.3 Structure and benefits of ITIL 4 2 2 Key concepts of service management 4 2.1 Key definitions 4 2.2 Creating value with services 4 2.3 Service relationships 6 3 The ITIL guiding principles 8 3.1 The nature of the guiding principles 8 3.2 Use of guiding principles 9 4 The four dimensions of service management 21 4.1 Organizations and people 21 4.2 Information and technology 23 4.3 Partners and suppliers 24 4.4 Value streams and processes 25 4.5 External factors 26 5 The ITIL service value system 27 5.1 Purpose 27 5.2 Overview of the SVS 27 iii ITIL 4 Foundation Revision Guide 6 Service value chain 31 6.1 Purpose 31 6.2 Overview of the service value chain 32 7 ITIL management practices 42 7.1 Purpose statements 42 7.2 Definition of terms 45 7.3 Understanding the ITIL management practices 46 8 Taking the Foundation examination 72 8.1 Purpose of the ITIL 4 Foundation examination 72 8.2 Examination overview 72 8.3 Question types 73 8.4 Examination modalities 78 9 The ITIL 4 certification scheme 80 9.1 ITIL Foundation 80 9.2 ITIL Managing Professional stream 81 9.3 ITIL Strategic Leader stream 84 9.4 ITIL Master 86 9.5 ITIL and the T-shaped individual 86 10 ITIL 4 Foundation syllabus 88 Further information 94 Index 97 iv Foreword ITIL has always been about common sense and practical stuff that works. For many in IT service management, ITIL has provided indispensable guidance in delivering great IT and customer services. The world and our industry keep changing, and ITIL 4 offers a new, updated approach to building and running technology-enabled services, using elements of Lean, DevOps, and Agile, along with other ITSM practices and processes. For many experienced practitioners, there is always a need to check and use trusted reference sources when re-training, and also when delivering services. In addition, there are a number of new concepts and areas of content to study in ITIL 4. For those new to service management, it is helpful to have a simple, easy-to-use source of reference information to support the learning process. This revision guide has two functions: as a handy, quick reference, and as an aide-memoire: ●● to support your learning and training process – for quick revision ●● to support your work and practice of service management – for ongoing reference. For many years I carried the original itSMF ITIL Foundation Handbook (Little ITIL) in my laptop bag and used it regularly to jog my memory. This revision guide follows in the same tradition: a ready companion for those studying the ITIL 4 guidance. I hope it will similarly serve you well for many years to come. Barclay Rae ITIL 4 architect team v Acknowledgements Authors Alison Cartlidge Sopra Steria Barry Corless Global Knowledge Mark Lillycrop itSMF UK Vernon Lloyd Somerset CC Ltd Nargis Mirza UK Home Office Editors Alison Cartlidge Sopra Steria Mark Lillycrop itSMF UK Reviewers Karen Brusch Nationwide Building Society Rosemary Gurney Global Knowledge Richard Horton National Institute for Health Research Barclay Rae Independent consultant Stuart Rance Optimal Service Management Takashi Yagi Hitachi vi About this guide This guide is a revision aid for candidates taking the ITIL 4 Foundation qualification. It has been specifically designed to support focused revision immediately before the examination. ITIL 4 Foundation Revision Guide is not intended to replace the more detailed ITIL Foundation: ITIL 4 Edition (AXELOS, 2019) or to be a substitute for a course provider’s training materials. The contents are aligned with the learning requirements in the ITIL 4 Foundation candidate syllabus (January 2019). ITIL Foundation introduces the ITIL 4 framework for the management of modern IT-enabled services, an end-to-end operating model for the creation, delivery, and continual improvement of IT-enabled products and services. It also provides an understanding of how ITIL has evolved to adopt modern technologies and ways of working. The guidance in this publication is not exhaustive, but is a précis of the essential learning required for the ITIL 4 Foundation examination, following and complementary to the ITIL 4 Foundation training course. It also includes some useful information that, while not required by the examination syllabus, is helpful to know. This is indicated by the  following symbol. vii 1 Introduction 1.1 IT service management in the modern world Services create and provide value for organizations and their customers. Most services today are IT-enabled, which means that improving and developing IT service management capabilities can deliver enormous benefit for an organization. Technology advancements mean that IT has become a significant business driver and often delivers competitive advantage, raising the profile of IT service management to a strategic capability. To remain successful, many organizations are undertaking major transformational programmes to exploit these opportunities, often referred to as ‘digital transformations’. Through this, information and technology are becoming fully integrated across the organization, breaking down silos. It is also driving an increasing need for operational agility and velocity within the organization. However, this must be carefully balanced with the need for stability and predictability. Service management is changing to address and support this organizational shift, to ensure opportunities from new technologies and new ways of working are maximized. As service management is evolving, so is ITIL, the most widely adopted guidance on IT service management (ITSM) in the world. 1.2 ITIL 4 ITIL 4 is the latest evolution of ITSM best practice. ITIL 4 reshapes the established ITIL framework in the wider context of customer experience, value streams, and digital transformation, embracing new ways of working, such as Lean, Agile, and DevOps. 1

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