EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Previously, there was no common set of performance targets and metrics used across all ZYX companies ZYXH Contract Governance is concerned about this. They would like to see metrics that drive improvement once the transition has been made to a SIAM model.
ZYXS provide a range of services to some ZYX companies The ZYX IT steering group meets every 4 months chaired by the ZYXS IT Director It is attended by representatives from each ZYX company SIAMRUS provided a report for ZYXUK. This included a set of metrics that SIAMRUS have used before with other organizations. ZYXS has been selected to be the internal service integrator in the new SIAM model The ZYXS IT director has provided a set of metrics from an organization that she previously worked for What is the best way for ZYX to ensure effective metrics are in place to improve services?

Question2: ZYXS has been appointed as the service integrator The CIO of ZYX would like to disband the IT Steering Group. She wants the former Product Development Forum to be expected to include representatives from every provider.
This new body will be known as the Services Steering Group (SSG). The responsibilities of the SSG will include approving the design and funding for new products and services and the supporting architectures, setting policies for related governance, and considering new technologies that can assist with achieving the goals of the ZYX corporate strategy. The SSG will be chaired by the ZYXS IT Director.
The representatives of the SSG must be empowered to take decisions on behalf of their organizations What type of structural element is this steering group*?

Question3: One year ago. OUTSCO was appointed as the service integrator for ZYX. ZYXH provides the retained capabilities.
After a year of operating the SIAM model, OUTSCO has noticed that the 99 5% availability service level target for NEWBNK has been consistently overachieved by 0.4% every month.
In order to provide better value to ZYX and to challenge the service providers in their delivery, ZYXH would like to increase the availability target to 99 9% as soon as possible.
What is the best way of doing this?

Question4: The SIAM model in ZYX has been successfully implemented and operational for 6 months All service providers have signed up to multi-party service level agreements and a detailed collaboration agreement. All providers are either using or interfacing with the common ITSM tool.
NETSCO is providing all LAN and WAN services across the group Although NETSCO is consistently achieving all of its service levels and attends all necessary meetings. NETSCO is not contributing to the overall relationship with the other service providers.
The service integrator wishes to address this problem with NETSCO
What action should the service integrator take?

Question5: The SIAM strategy for ZYX has been agreed:
-There will be a mix of new service providers and continuing existing service providers
-An external service integrator will be appointed
-ZYXS will provide the service desk.
-An agreement has been reached with OUTSCO to extend their contract to provide services to ZYXUK by two years As key activities for the critical path to implement the SIAM model for ZYX, three parties must be transitioned into the SIAM model (listed in random order):
-continuing service providers
-the service integrator
-new service providers
In this instance, which sequence of activities offers the least risk to continuity of service for all ZYX companies'?

Question6: Project NEWGEN was completed against demanding timescales Because of time pressures, ZYX reduced the scope for testing of the end-to-end processes.
-SIAMRUS is the service integrator and also provider of the service desk for the SIAM ecosystem
-ZYXS is the internal service provider for NEWBNK, which is hosted by OUTSCO
-NETSCO provides the wide area network connecting the OUTSCO data center to the banks using NEWBNK.
Since the transition to SIAM, users of NEWBNK have experienced a significant increase in the time taken to fix incidents The ZYX sales team is now experiencing resistance from customers who were expected to migrate to NEWBNK This is affecting the planned rollout of the new application The ZYX sales team has told the customers that the issues were caused by the providers to ZYX not working together, and not the NEWBNK application itself.
What is the best approach for SIAMRUS to improve the situation?

Question7: The CEO of ZYX is proposing a big bang approach for the SIAM implementation.
For what reason does the CEO propose this?

Question8: The CIO is about to establish a project to transition ZYX to a SIAM operating model.
Which are the most important governance requirements to initially focus on, given the situation of ZYX?

Question9: Project NEWGEN is in the Implementation stage. OUTSCO and ZYXD are service providers. ZYXD is still managed by ZYXS.
Services provided by OUTSCO and ZYXD are not performing as expected due to poor conformance with expected processes and behaviors.
What are the most important activities to resolve performance issues?

Question10: ZYX has now appointed SIAMRUS as the service integrator and has started to plan and build the new SIAM ecosystem Initially the new SIAM model will be supported by the existing service providers.
In a recent program progress meeting, it was highlighted that the planned Organizational Change Management (OCM) initiative has a high cost What approach should be taken to ensure that the OCM initiative for the service providers will cost effectively support the transition to SIAM?

Question11: ZYXS has been chosen as the service integrator. Immediately after implementation an issue has arisen with a high priority incident. OUTSCO and ZYXD are passing the incident between them and are blaming each other for not owning the solution. Meanwhile the incident is approaching its target resolution time and may breach its service level What should ZYXS do first?

Question12: The ZYXS IT Director has proposed to the CIO that ZYXS should be the service integrator in the new SIAM model. The CIO wants to validate if the necessary capabilities exist in ZYXS. The CIO has asked SIAMRUS to perform the assessment.
What is the first activity that SIAMRUS should carry out?

Question13: There are many factors that can influence the design of a SIAM model
Which factor will most influence the choice of the SIAM structure for ZYX?

Question14: ZYXH is the head office of the ZYX corporation, with responsibility for corporate strategy, global investments, procurement, contract governance and financial reporting of the performance of ZYX Corporation The corporate strategy of ZYX contains these objectives
-Ensure delivery against contracts
-Invest in and train all ZYX staff
-Reduce operating costs
-Be ready to adapt to change
The ZYX strategy requires that the costs of the service integrator should be as low as possible The ZYX Board of Directors has introduced additional policies that supplement the corporate strategy The policies immediately apply to all new services, providers, and contracts and include the following guidelines
-No contract can be longer than 2 years duration
Service levels in contracts must be continually updated to reflect increasing customer requirements
-Service providers who fail service levels for more than 3 consecutive months must be replaced The service integrator must also be replaced if the end to end service levels fail for 3 consecutive months
-The number and variety of service providers must be increased
-There must be more small providers and commodity providers
-Additional staff can be recruited within ZYX where there are clear business benefits In this scenario, who would be most likely to be proposed as the service integrator?

Question15: ZYX is initiating their NEWGEN SIAM transition project As part of the early planning, ZYX identifies key activities and milestones that must be included in the project plan.
What would be the best approach for ZYX to take in designing their SIAM governance framework?

Question16: OUTSCO is in the final 12 months of their contract with ZYXUK, but they would like to be part of the new SIAM model. However, the quality and performance of services ZYXUK receives from OUTSCO is decreasing In the new SIAM model, service credits will apply to all service providers ZYXUK has never applied service credits to OUTSCO before What is the best way to increase the performance of OUTSCO?

Question17: ZYX has decided on their SIAM strategy and appointed SIAMRUS as the service integrator.
The decision has been made to consolidate services into four service groups (in order of proportion of the services)
-OUTSCO: service desk, desktop and laptop support services, networking, infrastructure support
-ZYXS bespoke application support and development
-ZYXD data centers and hosting
-BANKSCO: BCT and BNK application support
Services from all other current service providers will be transitioned into these service groups as their contracts expire After the service integrator has been onboarded, which of the providers should be onboarded as the first priority?

Question18: ZYX has decided to use an external service integrator SIAMRUS has recommended that the SIAM transition project board has senior user representatives from both the ZYX retained capabilities and the service provider organizations. ZYXS will be an internal service provider.
What activity should ZYXS be responsible for in the senior user role?

Question19: ZYXS has been appointed as the service integrator ZYXH will provide the retained capabilities The CEO has asked the ZYXS IT Director to prepare a governance approach for monitoring and measuring service performance that will support the achievement of the strategic objective to ensure delivery against contracts.
What is the best approach?

Question20: ZYX has started the SIAM transition project The project team has recognized that a major factor to success will be managing people through the transition from the current operational model to the future SIAM model.
It has been decided to create a dedicated consultation group to formulate the best approach to supporting the staff Who should best be included in the consultation group?

Question21: ZYX decided to use a phased approach for implementation SIAMRUS was appointed as the service integrator and is now live The next phase is to replace the services currently provided by OUTSCO with services provided by ZYXS, ZYXD, FIELDSCO and NETSCO. This is expected to be completed in 2 months OUTSCO has established a small transition team to assist with the service transfer Over the past 4 months the performance of the OUTSCO service desk has deteriorated, with 50% of calls to the service desk exceeding the call answer time service level OUTSCO has admitted that this is due to reduced numbers of staff on their service desk What is the best approach to address the service level failures?

Question22: ZYX decides to go with SIAMRUS as the service integrator.
The SIAM Project Board has recognized there will be challenges to making the changes required to the attitude and behavior of individuals and the culture of the ZYX companies that are necessary for a successful transition to a SIAM model What is the best approach that should be taken to ensure success with organizational change management (OCM)?

Question23: The CEO has asked SIAMRUS to assist in the Discovery and Strategy stage. Given this stage, SIAMRUS is not appointed as the service integrator yet. The first task assigned to SIAMRUS is to analyze the current ZYX services and service providers.
OUTSCO has refused to provide any information to SIAMRUS because they are a competitor SIAMRUS still needs information to create a baseline assessment What is the best approach for SIAMRUS to get the necessary information about OUTSCO and its services'?

Question24: The outline SIAM model has been determined.
-ZYXS will be the service integrator
-The development teams from ZYXS and ZYXUK will merge to provide application development and support services
-OUTSCO will provide a centralized service desk the wide area network and local area networks
-ZYXD will provide hosting services
-MAILSCO will provide e-mail services
-MOBSCO will provide desktop support for all users
The strategy is to transfer the current services to these named service providers as the legacy contracts expire The CIO wants to ensure that the tooling strategy supports the corporate strategy What would be the most appropriate tooling strategy*?

Question25: ZYX completed the Discovery and Strategy stage one week ago. The Plan and Build stage is expected to take six months to complete. ZYX would like to put a service integrator in place before they complete the design of the detailed SIAM model The outline SIAM model proposed that ZYXS would be an internal service integrator because of their service integration capabilities Additional staff would be recruited to provide additional capacity. The development and support staff from ZYXS would be transferred to ZYXD to become an internal service provider.
The CEO does not want to use a hybrid or lead supplier structure Because of the internal capabilities of ZYXS, no evaluation has been done for using an external service integrator The ZYXS IT Director has just announced that she. and all ten staff identified to work as the service integrator, are leaving ZYXS in four weeks They intend to form their own company ZSSIAM, specializing in providing service integration services OUTSCO is a global provider of a range of outsourced services They are in the last year of a 10-year contract to provide services to ZYXUK Over the last 2 years their performance has decreased OUTSCO can also provide service integration services They have a good reputation as a flexible and reliable service integrator who are willing to amend their SIAM model.
SIAMRUS is a global provider of service integration services in the manufacturing sector Their SIAM model includes a standardized process model, with every provider using the same process, a shared toolset owned by SIAMRUS, and 5 contracted service providers They recently provided an outline SIAM strategy for ZYXUK What is the best approach for ZYX to appoint a service integrator?