Validate your ITIL-4-CDS Exam Preparation with ITIL-4-CDS Practice Test (Online & Offline) [Q39-Q60]

QUESTION 39
During the Design and Transition activity, the testing team uncovers that non-production environments have been manually patched and reconfigured ad hoc over time. As a result, integration tests succeed in tests but fail in production due to undocumented drift. Which ONE practice should be engaged to enforce environment consistency through standardized change models and configuration baselines?

QUESTION 40
An organization plans to launch a global, cloud-native analytics service that integrates data from multiple regions, adheres to diverse compliance mandates, and scales dynamically with usage.
During the value-stream’s Design and Transition phase, which practice is chiefly responsible for creating the service design package detailing service architectures, policies, metrics, and operational models and ensuring it aligns with stakeholder requirements across all four dimensions of service management?

QUESTION 41
In ITIL 4, which practice is primarily responsible for defining, assessing and developing the roles, competencies and capabilities needed for effective service value streams?

QUESTION 42
An organization experiences delays when creating and changing products and services. This is largely because software developers store code in their individual repositories.

QUESTION 43
In ITIL 4, which practice is accountable for defining the mandatory financial and contractual metadata-such as cost centers, chargeable service rates, SLA targets and contract references- that must accompany every ticket to support accurate chargeback, cost transparency and SLA reporting across the service value streams?

QUESTION 44
A service provider is struggling to ensure timely incident resolution. The reports show that the majority of incidents that can be resolved without implementing a change are resolved on time.
However, if an incident resolution requires a change, it is almost never implemented within the agreed incident resolution time. What is the BEST approach for the service provider to improve the situation?

QUESTION 45
A software development company wants to improve its service delivery by implementing a value stream for a new service creation. The company aims to balance speed and quality of service delivery. How should the company structure its value stream to meet this objective?

QUESTION 46
An international e-commerce company is planning to launch a new mobile shopping application.
During the initial design, the project team has encountered challenges in ensuring the app aligns with regional customer preferences, while maintaining a consistent user experience. The team also needs to address scalability and security concerns. What approach should the company take to improve this situation?

QUESTION 47
An organization has received complaints from customers regarding incident resolution times. The organization is using value stream mapping to visualize the activities involved in restoring service following an outage. The team has designed an optimized flow that begins with the incident being generated by a monitoring tool and ends when service is restored. Leadership is concerned that this approach has failed to provide the insight needed to reduce delays. Which is the BEST action the team can take to address leadership’s concern?

QUESTION 48
Which statement about collaboration is CORRECT?

QUESTION 49
An enterprise delivers a new multi-region, container-based service every two weeks.
Deployments span private data centers and multiple public clouds, require database schema changes, feature-flag updates, and real-time rollback capabilities. Failures in any stage risk data loss, security gaps or customer outages. Which ONE practice should own the end-to-end orchestration, automation and governance of these deployments to ensure consistency, traceability and rapid recovery?

QUESTION 50
A global IT service provider is migrating several mission-critical legacy applications to a cloud- native platform while its support team struggles with a growing backlog of incident and service requests. Development, operations, and support each maintain separate work queues, resulting in duplicated effort, handover delays, and unclear task priorities. As the Service Delivery Lead, which ONE of the following actions would MOST effectively coordinate and prioritize work across all teams to ensure smooth migration and timely support?

QUESTION 51
An organization wants to encourage its employees to suggest improvements to its practices.
However, employees are reluctant to suggest improvements because their suggestions have been ignored in the past. The employees do not trust their managers to be open and transparent.
Which concept should be applied to overcome this challenge?

QUESTION 52
An organization is moving from a process-based approach to a value-stream based approach for managing user issues.
Which of these activities should the organization do FIRST?

QUESTION 53
An organization experiences delays when creating and changing products and services. This is largely because software developers store code in their individual repositories.
Which approach would help to resolve this situation?

QUESTION 54
An organization with established processes for managing incidents, changes, and problems, receives a high volume of calls from users complaining that their issues are not being resolved efficiently. What should the organization do FIRST to start to improve the situation?

QUESTION 55
A mobile app development company has implemented a new strategy in its software development process. Instead of large, infrequent updates, it now releases smaller updates every two weeks. These updates are shaped by regular user reviews and suggestions, which the company actively seeks and incorporates into each new version. Which guiding principle is this approach MOST closely aligned with?

QUESTION 56
A technology firm has implemented a new ticketing system for managing customer support requests. However, the firm is facing challenges in effectively prioritizing and managing these tickets due to varying levels of urgency and complexity. Some high-priority issues are being delayed, while less critical requests are being addressed too soon, leading to customer dissatisfaction and inefficiencies in the workflow. How should the firm improve this situation?

QUESTION 57
Which of the following involves consideration of the skills and availability of both internal and external resources?

QUESTION 58
To ensure work is balanced across value streams, ITIL 4 recommends combining demand forecasting with strategic alignment of initiatives. Which TWO of the following provide the strongest governance for forecasting, sequencing and aligning incoming work with organizational objectives? (Select TWO)

QUESTION 59
A small food retail chain was created twenty years ago. At that time, stock management and point of sale (POS) software was developed and maintained by an internal IT team. Today the chain is using commercial software available off-the-shelf for stock management and POS. What is this situation an example of?

QUESTION 60
An organization is writing its test strategy in order to define the test levels and test types that are in scope for testing. In the past, the organization has experienced service disruptions after some releases of a particular application. These disruptions were happening because the application caused other applications to generate errors.
Which test level should the organization focus on to address this weakness?