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ITIL 4 Found. practice questions: Service value chain
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1/5 · Service value chain
According to ITIL 4, what is the purpose of the 'plan' value chain activity?
ATo provide a good understanding of stakeholder needs, transparency, and continual engagement and good relationships with all stakeholders.
BTo ensure continual improvement of products, services, and practices across all value chain activities and the four dimensions of service management.
CTo ensure that services are delivered and supported according to agreed specifications and stakeholders' expectations.
DTo ensure a shared understanding of the vision, current status, and improvement direction for all four dimensions and all products and services across the organization.
2/5 · Service value chain
A software company is preparing to move a newly built customer portal into live use. Before release, leadership wants confidence that the portal will meet stakeholders' expectations for quality, cost, and time to market. Which value chain activity's purpose most directly addresses this concern?
ADeliver & support
BDesign & transition
CImprove
DObtain/build
3/5 · Service value chain · easy
An IT service provider wants one value chain activity to be responsible for ensuring that everyone across the organization shares the same understanding of its vision, current status, and improvement direction — spanning all four dimensions of service management and the full portfolio of products and services. Which value chain activity has this purpose?
ADesign & transition
BImprove
CEngage
DPlan
Answer: D. Per the ITIL 4 Foundation syllabus, each of the six value chain activities has a distinct purpose statement. 'Plan' is the activity whose purpose explicitly covers shared vision, current status, and improvement direction across all four dimensions and the entire product/service portfolio. The other activities address narrower, more operational concerns.
Source: the official PeopleCert ITIL 4 Foundation candidate syllabus — Service value chain
4/5 · Service value chain
Which statement most accurately describes the scope of the 'Engage' value chain activity?
AProducing the organization's strategic plans, portfolio decisions, and policies for approval by senior leadership.
BManaging only the commercial relationship between the service provider and the paying customer who funds the service.
CExecuting the technical build, testing, and deployment of new or changed service components.
DProviding a good understanding of stakeholder needs, transparency, and continual engagement and good relationships with all stakeholders, both internal and external.
Answer: D. The syllabus defines 'Engage' broadly: its purpose is to provide a good understanding of stakeholder needs, transparency, and continual engagement and good relationships with all stakeholders. This includes customers, users, suppliers, partners, and internal colleagues at both strategic and operational levels — a scope frequently underestimated by candidates who equate it with 'customer relationship management' alone.
Source: the official PeopleCert ITIL 4 Foundation candidate syllabus — Service value chain
5/5 · Service value chain
A user contacts the service desk to report that a critical application is unavailable. The service desk applies a workaround to restore access, then confirms full resolution with the user before closing the record. The initial contact channel used by the user is shaped by one value chain activity, but which activity's purpose is most directly fulfilled by the end-to-end restoration of service itself?
AObtain/build — restoring a failed application requires re-obtaining the affected service component from scratch.
BImprove — any service restoration automatically triggers a formal continual improvement initiative.
CDeliver & support — its purpose is to ensure services are delivered and supported in line with agreed specifications and stakeholder expectations.
DEngage — it is solely responsible for every interaction between users and the service provider, including resolving the incident itself.
Answer: C. The syllabus purpose of 'Deliver & support' is to ensure that services are delivered and supported according to agreed specifications and stakeholders' expectations, which covers exactly this kind of incident restoration. While 'Engage' does shape how users report issues and stay informed, it does not itself carry out the restoration — a distinction often missed because 'Engage' feels like the visible 'front door' for the user.
Source: the official PeopleCert ITIL 4 Foundation candidate syllabus — Service value chain
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