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Define Availabiltiy and Availability Managment

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  • Availability is the ability of an IT service to perform its agreed function when required
  • Availability mgmt. – ensure services deliver agreed level of availability
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Purpose of Change Control practice. What category is this practice in?

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  • Purpose is to maximize the number of successful service/product changes by managing risks and changes
  • Service Managment
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How is Change Control different from Organization Change Management?

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  • OCM focused on people
  • CC focused on products/services
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Define Inicident

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  • unplanned interruption to a service or reduction in quality of service
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Purpose of Incident Management practice.

What category?

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  • Purpose of Incident Management is to minimize negative impact of incidents by restoring normal services as quickly as possible
  • Type of Services Mangement practice
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Describe purpose of IT Asset Management practice.

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  • Plan and manage full life cycle of all IT assets
  • Type of Services Mangement practice
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Purpose of Monitoring and Event Mangement practices.

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Purpose of Event Management is to

  • observe services and components
  • record and report selected changes,
  • identify and prioritize infrastructure, services, business processes and information security events,
  • establish appropriate reponses to events.

Type of Services Mangement practice

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What are the 3 types of events?

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  • Informational - don’t require action
  • Warning - action to be taken before negative impact occurs
  • Exception - require action, even if business impact not experienced
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What are the 2 types of monitoring?

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  • Active – tools poll components
  • Passive – components generate alerts
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Definition of Problem.

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A cause, or potential cause, of an incident.

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Definition of known error.

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A problem that has been analyzed but not resolved.

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Purpose of Problem Management practice.

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Reduce liklihood and impact of incidents by identifying problems

Manage workarounds and known errors.

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Definition of Release

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A version of a service that’s made available for use.

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Purpose of Release Management practice.

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To make releases available for use.

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Definition of Blue/green releases

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  • Two mirrored production environments,
  • Users switched to newer environment at certain point
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Definition of Feature flags

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  • Release specific features to individual users or groups in a controlled way.
  • Deploy to prod without release
  • Release to users through config change.
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Definition of a CI (configuration item).

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Any component that must be managed to deliver an IT service

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Purpose of Service Continuity Management (not requirement)

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  • maintain services in case of a disaster
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Definition of RTO

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Recovery Time Objective

Max time allowed following service disrutption before org is severely impacted.

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Definition of RPO

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Recovery Point Objective

Point to which info used by an activity must be restored for the activity to operate upon resumption.

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Definition of BIA

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Business Impact Analysis

  • Identify Vital Business Functions and their dependencies
  • Defines recovery times (including RTO, RPO) and minimum service levels
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Purpose of Service Desk practice.

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  • capture demand for incident resolution and service requests
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Definition of Service Level

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  • one or many metrics that define levels of service
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Purpose of Service Level Management practice

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  • To set targets for service levels
  • Ensure service delivery is properly managed
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Key requirements for successful SLA
* Relate to defined service * Relate to defined outcomes * Reflect an agreement * Written simply
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Definition of Service request
Request from user that initiates a normal service action
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Purpose of service request management practice.
Support agreed quality of service by handling predefined, user initiated service requests
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Purpose of deployment management practice.
To move components to live environments, or other environments for testing or staging
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4 deployment approaches
* Phased: deployed to only part of production, repeated until copmlete * Continuous delivery: components deployed as needed * Big Bang: deployed to all targets at same time, needed when dependencies prevent phased approach * Pull: components available in repository that users access when they want
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What is CIR?
Continual Improvement Register Track and manage improvement ideas
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Purpose of Continual Improvement practice.
Align the organizations practices and services with changing business needs through ongoing improvement.
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Purpose of Information Security Management practice.
To protect the organization's information by understanding/managing risks to confidentiality, integrity and availability of info (CIA) Understand other aspects of info security, i.e. authentication, and non-repudiation.
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Three main info security practice activities.
* Prevention: security incidents don't occur * Detection: detect security incidents that can't be prevented * Correction: recovering from security incidents after detection
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Purpose of Relationship Management practice.
Establish and nuture links between organization and its stakeholders at strategic and tactical levels.
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Purpose of Supplier Management practice.
* Ensure suppliers are managed appropriately to support provision of quality products and services * Create closer relationships with key suppliers, realize new value, reduce risk of failure.
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4 types of Supplier relationships.
* Insourcing – internal suppliers * Outsourcing – external suppliers * Single source – procurement from one supplier * Multisourcing – procurement from multiple suppliers
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3 types of changes in Change Control practice.
* Standard – low risk, preauthorized, well understood, fully documented * Normal – must be assessed, scheduled and authorized following a process. Triggered by creation of change request. * Emergency – needs to be carried out ASAP, not included in change schedule, assessment and authorization are expedited.
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Definition of IT Asset.
Any financially valuable component that can contribute to the delivery of an IT product or service.
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Definition of Event.
A change in state that affects management of a service, typically created by a notification.
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3 phases of Problem Management practice
1. Problem Identification - trend analysis, detect duplicate issues 2. Problem Control - problem analysis, document workarounds and known errors. Prioritize problems by risk. 3. Error Control - fix an error (part of error control process), manage known errors, regularly reassess status of known errors
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Definition of Workaround
A solution that reduces or eliminates the impact of an incident or problem when a full resolution is not available.
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Purpose of Service Configuration Management.
* Ensure accurate/reliable information about configuration of services, and supporting CIs, is available when and where it's needed. * Manage information about how CIs are configured and interrelationships between CIs.
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DRP
Disaster Recovery Plans * how to recover from disaster and return to pre-disaster condition
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Sources of information for Service Level Managment practice.
* Customer Engagement – proactively ask questions of customers * Customer Feedback – gathered form surveys, business related measures * Operational Metrics – low level indicators such as system availability, incident response, etc. * Business Metrics – business activity deemed useful by customer
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Guidelines for Service Request Management practice.
* Steps to fulfill a service request should be well known and proven * Some serivce requests may require authorization, other may not. * Should be standardized and automated as much as possible * expectations for fulfillment times should be clearly set
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