Module 6 Flashcards
(45 cards)
Define Availabiltiy and Availability Managment
- Availability is the ability of an IT service to perform its agreed function when required
- Availability mgmt. – ensure services deliver agreed level of availability
Purpose of Change Control practice. What category is this practice in?
- Purpose is to maximize the number of successful service/product changes by managing risks and changes
- Service Managment
How is Change Control different from Organization Change Management?
- OCM focused on people
- CC focused on products/services
Define Inicident
- unplanned interruption to a service or reduction in quality of service
Purpose of Incident Management practice.
What category?
- Purpose of Incident Management is to minimize negative impact of incidents by restoring normal services as quickly as possible
- Type of Services Mangement practice
Describe purpose of IT Asset Management practice.
What category?
- Plan and manage full life cycle of all IT assets
- Type of Services Mangement practice
Purpose of Monitoring and Event Mangement practices.
What category?
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
What are the 3 types of events?
- Informational - don’t require action
- Warning - action to be taken before negative impact occurs
- Exception - require action, even if business impact not experienced
What are the 2 types of monitoring?
- Active – tools poll components
- Passive – components generate alerts
Definition of Problem.
A cause, or potential cause, of an incident.
Definition of known error.
A problem that has been analyzed but not resolved.
Purpose of Problem Management practice.
Reduce liklihood and impact of incidents by identifying problems
Manage workarounds and known errors.
Definition of Release
A version of a service that’s made available for use.
Purpose of Release Management practice.
To make releases available for use.
Definition of Blue/green releases
- Two mirrored production environments,
- Users switched to newer environment at certain point
Definition of Feature flags
- Release specific features to individual users or groups in a controlled way.
- Deploy to prod without release
- Release to users through config change.
Definition of a CI (configuration item).
Any component that must be managed to deliver an IT service
Purpose of Service Continuity Management (not requirement)
- maintain services in case of a disaster
Definition of RTO
Recovery Time Objective
Max time allowed following service disrutption before org is severely impacted.
Definition of RPO
Recovery Point Objective
Point to which info used by an activity must be restored for the activity to operate upon resumption.
Definition of BIA
Business Impact Analysis
- Identify Vital Business Functions and their dependencies
- Defines recovery times (including RTO, RPO) and minimum service levels
Purpose of Service Desk practice.
- capture demand for incident resolution and service requests
Definition of Service Level
- one or many metrics that define levels of service
Purpose of Service Level Management practice
- To set targets for service levels
- Ensure service delivery is properly managed