The ITIL® v.3 Foundation Examination
ITIL® v.3 Foundation Examination:
Sample Paper
Multiple Choice
Instructions
1. All 40 questions should be attempted.
2. There are no trick questions.
3. All answers are to be marked on the original examination paper.
4. Please use a pen to mark your answers with either a or x .
5. You have 1 hour to complete this paper.
6. You must get 26 or more correct to pass.
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1 What does the 'Service V model' represent?
a) A strategy for the successful completion of all service management projects
b) The path to Service Delivery and Service Support for efficient and effective
utilisation of resources
c) Levels of testing required to deliver a Service Capability
d) The business perspective as perceived by the customer and the user of
services
2 Technical Management is NOT responsible for?
a) Maintenance of the technical infrastructure
b) Documenting and maintaining the technical skills required to manage and
support the IT Infrastructure
c) Defining the Operational Level Agreements for the technical teams
d) Diagnosis of, and recovery from technical failures
3 The priority of an Incident is BEST described as?
a) The relative importance of the Incident based on impact and urgency
b) The speed with which the Incident needs to be resolved
c) The number of staff that will be assigned to work on the Incident so that it is
resolved in time
d) The escalation path that will be followed to ensure resolution of the Incident
4 What is the role of the Emergency Change Advisory Board (ECAB)?
a) To assist the Change Manager in ensuring that no urgent Changes are made
during particularly volatile business periods
b) To assist the Change Manager in implementing Emergency Changes
c) To assist the Change Manager in evaluating Emergency Changes and to
decide whether the Change should be approved
d) To assist the Change Manager in speeding up the Emergency Change
Process so that no unacceptable delays occur
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5 A Service Owner is responsible for which of the following?
a) Continual Improvement of the service
b) Designing and documenting a service
c) Carrying out the Service Operations activities needed to support a service
d) Producing a Balanced Scorecard showing the overall status of all services
6 Operations Control refers to?
a) The managers of the Technical and Applications Management functions
b) Overseeing the execution and monitoring of IT operational events and activities
c) The tools used to monitor and display the status of the IT Infrastructure and
Applications
d) The situation where the Service Desk is required to monitor the status of the
infrastructure when Operators are not available
7 Which of the following statements is CORRECT about patterns of demand generated
by the customer's business?
a) They are driven by patterns of business activity
b) It is impossible to predict how they behave
c) It is impossible to influence demand patterns
d) They are driven by the delivery schedule generated by Capacity Management
8 What is the main reason for establishing a Baseline?
a) To standardise operation
b) For knowing the cost of services provided
c) For roles and responsibility to be clear
d) For later comparison
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9 Which of these is the CORRECT description of normal service operation?
a) The service is operating in the way it usually does when there hasn't been an
incident
b) The service is providing all functionality and performance that the business
wants
c) The service is operating within the limits defined in the Service Level
Agreement
d) All users are able to log in to the service and use it
10 Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of Event Management?
a) The ability to detect events, make sense of them and determine the
appropriate control action
b) The ability to implement monitoring tools
c) The ability to monitor and control the activities of technical staff
d) The ability to report on the successful delivery of services by checking the
uptime of infrastructure devices
11 The main objective of Availability Management is?
a) To monitor and report availability of services and components
b) To ensure that all targets in Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met
c) To guarantee availability levels for services and components
d) To ensure that service availability matches or exceeds the agreed needs of the
business
12 Defining the functional requirements for a new service is part of:
a) Service Operation: Application Management
b) Service Strategy: Service Portfolio Management
c) Service Design: Design the technology architecture
d) Service Design: Design the service solutions
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13 Which of the following are characteristics of every process?
1. It is measurable
2. It is timely
3. It delivers a specific result
4. It responds to a specific event
5. It delivers its primary results to a customer or stakeholder
a) 1, 2, 3 and 4 only
b) 1, 2, 4 and 5 only
c) 1, 3, 4 and 5 only
d) All of the above
14 Which of the following is NOT one of the ITIL core publications?
a) Service Optimisation
b) Service Transition
c) Service Design
d) Service Strategy
15 There are 7 different sourcing strategies that a company can use. What is the newest
form of outsourcing?
a) Knowledge Process Outsourcing
b) Partnership or multi-sourcing
c) Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
d) Application Service Provision
16 Which of the following identifies two Service Portfolio components within the Service
Lifecycle?
a) Service Pipeline and Service Catalogue
b) Service Knowledge Management System and Service Catalogue
c) Service Knowledge Management System and Service Pipeline
d) Service Pipeline and Configuration Management System
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17 Consider the following statements:
1. Continual Service Improvement (CSI) provides guidance on how to improve
process efficiency and effectiveness
2. CSI provides guidance on how to improve services
3. CSI provides guidance on the improvement of all phases of the Service Lifecycle
4. CSI provides guidance on the measurement of processes and services
Which of the above statements is CORRECT?
a) 1 and 2 only
b) 2 only
c) 1, 2 and 3 only
d) All of the above
18 Which of the following BEST describes a Local Service Desk structure?
a) A Service Desk that also provides onsite technical support to its users
b) A Service Desk where analysts only speak one language
c) A Service Desk that is situated in the same location as the users it serves
d) A Service Desk that could be in any physical location but uses
telecommunications and IT systems to make it appear that they are in the
same location
19 Which of these is NOT a type of change?
a) Standard Change
b) Normal Change
c) Urgent Change
d) Emergency Change
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20 Which of the following are the three main types of metrics as defined in Continual
Service Improvement (CSI)?
1. Process Metrics
2. Supplier Metrics
3. Service Metrics
4. Technology Metrics
5. Business Metrics
a) 1, 2 and 3
b) 2, 4 and 5
c) 1, 3 and 4
d) 1, 2 and 4
21 Why should monitoring and measuring be used when trying to improve services?
a) To validate, direct, justify and intervene
b) To validate, measure, monitor and change
c) To validate, plan, act and improve
d) To validate, assign resources, purchase technology and train people
22 What is the RACI model used for?
a) Documenting the roles and relationships of stakeholders in a process or activity
b) Defining requirements for a new service or process
c) Analysing the business impact of an Incident
d) Creating a Balanced Scorecard showing the overall status of service
management
23 What is the CORRECT order of the first four activities in the 7 Step Improvement
Process?
a) Define what you should measure, define what you can measure, gather data
and process data
b) Gather data, process data, analyse data and present data
c) What is the vision, where are we now, what do we want to be, how do we get
there?
d) Gather data, process data, define what you should measure and define what
you can measure
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24 Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
1. Only one person can be responsible for an activity
2. Only one person can be accountable for an activity
a) Both of the above
b) 1 only
c) 2 only
d) Neither of the above
25 The goal of Service Asset and Configuration Management is to?
a) Account for all the financial assets of the organisation
b) Provide a logical model of the IT Infrastructure, correlating IT services and
different IT components needed to deliver the services
c) Build service models to justify ITIL implementations
d) Implement ITIL across the organisation
26 Which is the CORRECT sequence of events in choosing a technology tool?
a) Select; Requirements; Selection Criteria; Evaluate.
b) Selection Criteria; Requirements; Evaluate; Select.
c) Requirements; Selection Criteria; Select; Evaluate.
d) Requirements; Selection Criteria; Evaluate; Select.
27 The four stages of the Deming Cycle are?
a) Plan, Measure, Monitor, Report
b) Plan, Check, Re-Act, Implement
c) Plan, Do, Act, Audit
d) Plan, Do, Check, Act
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28 The BEST definition of an event is?
a) An occurrence where a performance threshold has been exceeded and an
agreed Service Level has already been impacted
b) An occurrence that is significant for the management of the IT Infrastructure or
delivery of services
c) A known system defect that generates multiple Incident reports
d) A planned meeting of customers and IT staff to announce a new service or
improvement programme
29 Incident Management has a value to the business by?
a) Helping to control infrastructure cost of adding new technology
b) Enabling users to resolve Problems
c) Helping to align people and process for the delivery of service
d) Contributing to the reduction of impact of service outages
30 The following options are considered within which process?
1. Big Bang vs Phased
2. Push and Pull
3. Automated vs Manual
a) Incident Management
b) Release and Deployment Management
c) Service Asset and Configuration Management
d) Service Catalogue Management
31 Which are the missing Service Operation processes from the following?
1. Incident Management
2. Problem Management
3. Access Management
4. ?
5. ?
a) Event Management and Request Fulfilment
b) Event Management and Service Desk
c) Facilities Management and Event Management
d) Change Management and Service Level Management
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32 Sources of 'good practice' include which of the following?
1. Public frameworks
2. Standards
3. Proprietary knowledge of Individuals and Organisations
a) 1 and 2 only
b) 2 and 3 only
c) All of the above
d) 1 and 3 only
33 Which of the following areas would technology help to support during the Service
Design phase of the Lifecycle?
1. Hardware and Software design
2. Environmental design
3. Process design
4. Data design
a) 1, 3 and 4 only
b) 1, 2 and 3 only
c) All of the above
d) 2, 3 and 4 only
34 Setting policies and objectives is the primary concern of which of the following
elements of the Service Lifecycle?
a) Service Strategy
b) Service Strategy and Continual Service Improvement
c) Service Strategy, Service Transition and Service Operation
d) Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operation and
Continual Service Improvement
35 The Service Level Manager has responsibility for ensuring that the aims of Service
Level Management are met. The Service Level Manager is NOT responsible for?
a) Negotiating and agreeing Operational Level Agreements
b) Ensuring that all non-operational service are recorded within the Service
Catalogue
c) Negotiating and agreeing Service Level Agreement
d) Assisting with the production and maintenance of an accurate Service
Catalogue
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36 Which of the following is NOT an objective of Service Operation?
a) Thorough testing to ensure that services are designed to meet business needs
b) To deliver and support IT services
c) To manage the technology used to deliver services
d) To monitor the performance of technology and processes
37 Which of the following is NOT an example of a Service Request?
a) A user calls the Service Desk to order a toner cartridge
b) A user calls the Service Desk because they would like to change the
functionality of an application
c) A Manager submits a request for a new employee to be given access to an
application
d) A user logs onto an internal web site to download a licensed copy of software
from a list of approved options
38 Which of the following statements is CORRECT for ALL processes?
a) They define activities, roles, responsibilities, functions and metrics
b) They create value for stakeholders
c) They are carried out by a Service Provider in support of a Customer
d) They are units of organisations responsible for specific outcomes
39 Which of the following is NOT a step in the Continual Service Improvement (CSI)
model?
a) What is the vision?
b) Did we get there?
c) Is there a budget?
d) Where are we now?
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40 Which of the following statements about Supplier Management is INCORRECT?
a) Supplier Management negotiates internal and external agreements to support
the delivery of services
b) Supplier Management ensures that suppliers meet business expectations
c) Supplier Management maintains information in a Supplier and Contract
Database
d) Supplier Management should be involved in all stages of the Service Lifecycle,
from Strategy through Design and Transition to Operations and Improvement
ITIL® v.3 Foundation Examination: Sample Paper
ANSWER SHEET
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Answer Key for Exam Paper: ITILv3FoundationSample_ANSWERS_v3.0.doc
Q A Syllabus Ref Q A Syllabus Ref
1 C 04-06 21 A 04-10
2 C 06-02 22 A 07-02
3 A 03-27 23 A 05-09
4 C 05-05 24 C 07-02
5 A 07-01 25 B 05-06
6 B 06-02 26 D 08-01
7 A 05-02 27 D 04-08
8 D 04-10 28 B 03-24
9 C 05-07 29 D 05-07
10 A 05-08 30 B 05-06
11 D 05-04 31 A 02-08
12 D 04-04 32 C 01-01
13 C 01-06 33 C 08-02
14 A 02-02 34 A 02-01
15 A 04-05 35 B 05-03
16 A 04-04 36 A 02-08
17 D 02-10 37 B 03-28
18 C 06-01 38 B 01-04
19 C 05-05 39 C 04-09
20 C 04-10 40 A 05-04
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ANSWER RATIONALES
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Q A Syllabus Page ref Rationale
1 C 04-06 ST 92 “Figure 4.21 Service V-model to represent configuration levels and
testing”
2 C 06-02 SO 121-
122
a) and d) are from the bulleted list in SO 6.3.2
b) is a summary of the central paragraphs of 6.3.1
c) is the responsibility of Service Level Management
3 A 03-27 SO 50 “Prioritization can normally be determined by taking into account
both the urgency of the incident (how quickly the business needs
a resolution) and the level of impact it is causing”
4 C 05-05 ST 60 “Emergency change authorization… Where CAB approval is
required, this will be provided by the Emergency CAB (ECAB)”
5 A 07-01 CSI 134 “The Service Owner is responsible for continual
Improvement…”
6 B 06-02 SO 126 “Operations Control, which oversees the execution and monitoring
of the operational activities…”
7 A 05-02 SS 131 This relationship is described in SS 5.5.3, “Business activities
drive demand for services…”
8 D 04-10 CSI 30 “…establish baselines as markers or
starting points for later comparison…”
9 C 05-07 SO 46 Under the heading “4.2.1 Purpose/goal/objective” it says “‘Normal
Service Operation’ is defined here as service operation within SLA
limits.”
10 A 05-08 SO 36 SO 4.1.1 states the Purpose/goal/objective of Event Management
as “The ability to detect events, make sense of them and
determine the appropriate control action”
11 D 05-04 SD 97 The primary goal of the Availability Management process “… is to
ensure that the level of service availability delivered in all services
is matched to or exceeds the current and future agreed needs of
the business”
12 D 04-04 SD 30 The first entry in the bulleted list under “3.6 Design Aspects” says
“Service solutions, including all of the functional
Requirements…”
13 C 01-06 SS 26 This is the bulleted list from SS 2.6.2 “Processes have the
following characteristics:”
14 A 02-02 Titles of the core books can be found in many places, and do not
include Service Optimization (should be Continual Service
Improvement)
15 A 04-05 SD 51 Table 3-1, last row “Knowledge Outsourcing (KPO) – The newest
form of outsourcing”
16 A 04-04 SD 34 This is illustrated in “Figure 3.7 The Service Portfolio and its
contents”
17 D 02-10 CSI 14 This is a summary of the first paragraph of CSI 2.4.1
18 C 06-01 SO 111 “This is where a desk is co-located within or physically
close to the user community it serves”
19 C 05-05 ST 48
ST 50
ST 60
“4.2.4.5 Standard changes (pre-authorized)”
“4.2.6.1 Normal Change Procedure”, and many other references
to “normal changes”
“4.2.6.9 Emergency Changes”
The term urgent change does not appear in the book
20 C 04-10 CSI 45 “The three types of metric are…” is followed by three bullets,
starting “Technology Metrics –”, “Process Metrics –”, “Service
Metrics –”
21 A 04-10 CSI 30 This is the bulleted list under heading “3.7.1 Value to business”
22 A 07-02 CSI 137 “…often used within organizations indicating roles and
responsibilities in relation to processes and activities”
ITIL® v.3 Foundation Examination: Sample Paper
ANSWER RATIONALES
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Q A Syllabus Page ref Rationale
23 A 05-09 CSI 32 The correct sequence is shown in “Figure 3.4 The 7-Step
Improvement Process”
24 C 07-02 CSI 137 “…there is only one person accountable for an activity, although
several people may be responsible for executing parts of the
activity”
25 B 05-06 ST 66 “Configuration Management delivers a model of the services,
assets and the infrastructure by recording the relationships
between configuration items as shown in Figure 4.7”
26 D 08-01 SD 205 The correct order is shown in “Figure 7.1 Service Management
tool evaluation process”
27 D 04-08 CSI 29 “The four key stages of the cycle are Plan, Do, Check and Act,”
28 B 03-24 SO 35 “An event can be defined as any … occurrence that has
significance for the management of the IT Infrastructure or the
delivery of IT service”
29 D 05-07 SO 46 The primary goal of the Incident Management process includes
“… and minimize the adverse impact on business operations”
30 B 05-06 ST 86-87 The list is the sub-headings of ST 4.4.4.2
31 A 05-08 SO 45 Each of these processes is clearly called out in the syllabus, in
sections 05-07 and 05-08
32 C 01-01 SS 7 First paragraph on the page says “There are several sources for
good practices including public frameworks, standards, and the
proprietary knowledge of organizations and individuals”
33 C 08-02 SD 201 This is the bulleted list just under heading 7.1
34 A 05-05 SS 8 “Guidance is provided on …developing service management
policies” and “Organizations use the guidance to set objectives”
35 B 05-03 SD 194 A, C and D are in the bulleted list under the heading “6.4.6 Service
Level Manager”. The Service Catalogue Manager is responsible
for ensuring that “all operational services … are recorded within
the service catalogue”. There is no requirement to record nonoperational
services in the service catalogue.
36 A 02-08 SO 13 b) c) and d) are a summary of the two paragraphs in SO 2.4.1
a) is part of Service Transition
37 B 03-28 SO 55 -
56
“…their scale and frequent, low-risk nature means that they are
better handled by a separate process”. A change to an application
is not normally frequent, small scale, and low risk. All the other
examples are common types of Service Request. Answer D may
look correct, but SO section 4.3.5.1 specifically says that Service
Requests can use automatic fulfilment from web based menus.
38 B 01-04 SS 19 “A process … creates value for an external customer or
stakeholder”
39 C 04-09 CSI 15 The correct steps are shown in “Figure 2.3 Continual Service
Improvement model”
40 A 05-04 SD 312 Definition of a Supplier is “…A Third Party responsible for
supplying goods or Services…”. An internal organisation is not a
Third Party