QUESTION 24
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)?

QUESTION 25
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’?

QUESTION 26
ZYX has used a phased approach for implementing the SIAM model
-ZYXS is the service integrator and provides the service desk for the SIAM ecosystem
-NETSCO had all network services transitioned to them
-OUTSCO has been selected to provide hosting services
The next phase is to transition all services currently hosted by ZYXS and ZYXD to OUTSCO Due to time pressures, it has not been possible to test how the services will perform after transition.
The ZYX CEO is concerned about the risks to the services and the ability of ZYX to be able to carry out its business activities She wishes that an early life support (ELS) function is implemented What approach should be taken to resolve incidents and problems caused by the transition of services?

QUESTION 27
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?

QUESTION 28
ZYXS service management currently operates a Change Approval Forum (CAF): which is chaired by the ZYXS Service Management and Service Desk Lead, and is meant to be attended by user representatives from each ZYX company.
-In the new SIAM model ZYX is considering using SIAMRUS as the service integrator
-ZYX plans to keep all current service providers, renegotiating and extending contracts where necessary.
-OUTSCO will continue to provide the services for users in ZYXUK
-ZYXS, ZYXD, and the application development team from ZYXUK will become internal service providers The SIAMRUS SIAM model includes a process model for change management. In this model. SIAMRUS will hold an Integrated Change Advisory Board (ICAB) meeting every two weeks, where proposed changes to the services and systems will be reviewed before approval SIAMRUS will mandate the use of their change management toolset by all service providers The CIO is concerned that some of the current service providers may not comply with the SIAMRUS process model for change management Which organizations are most likely to not comply and why?

QUESTION 29
The corporate strategy of ZYX contains these objectives:
– Ensure delivery against contracts
– Invest in and tram 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, and that service levels and high-quality services should be achieved at all times. The CEO wants the new SIAM model to be in place as soon as possible OUTSCO is a global provider of a range of services, including service integration They have a good reputation as a flexible and reliable service integrator who is willing to amend their SIAM model. They are in the last year of a 10-year contract to provide outsourced services to ZYXUK. Over the last two years the performance and quality of their services has decreased SIAMRUS is a global provider of service integration services in the manufacturing sector They use a standardized SIAM model with limited flexibility SIAMRUS recently created an outline SIAM strategy for ZYXUK: proposing that they should be the service integrator.
ZYXS is experienced in the service management of corporate services including managing the delivery of service providers The ZYXS IT Director used to be a senior service manager in a small service integration company The ZYXS office location is almost at capacity with no possibility of expansion ZYXS are the developers of NEWBNK, which is strategic to the future of ZYX The CEO wants to retain as many of the existing service providers as possible Which is the most appropriate structure and sourcing approach for choosing the service integrator for ZYX?

QUESTION 30
– ZYX has selected OUTSCO to be the service integrator, provide hosting for the mainframes and servers, and the wide area network for ZYX – ZYXS will provide the service desk for the SIAM ecosystem.
– All other service providers with rolling contracts will continue to provide their services
– The CIO has asked for the development of a tooling strategy for the SIAM ecosystem.
– The CEO wants to achieve an optimum balance between cost and data integrity.
What tooling strategy should ZYX use?

QUESTION 31
The CEO has asked the IT Director to create a SIAM strategy for ZYX that aligns with the mandate for change and the corporate strategy The CEO wants it as soon as possible.
What should the IT Director do?

QUESTION 32
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?

QUESTION 33
SIAMRUS has created a report that suggests moving to several contracted service providers and an external service integrator ZYX has decided to separate the services into providers for.
– hosting
– networks
– application development and support
– desktop and laptop support
In order to avoid reliance on single providers, the CEO wants to use two different providers for each of these types of services. The CEO also wants to ensure that the costs for the service integrator are as low as possible It is clear that there is a single structure needed for the service integrator contract.
Which contract structure is the most appropriate for ZYX?

QUESTION 34
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*?

QUESTION 35
The corporate strategy of ZYX contains these objectives:
-Ensure delivery against contracts
-Invest in and tram 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, and that service levels and high-quality services should be achieved at all times. The CEO wants the new SIAM model to be in place as soon as possible OUTSCO is a global provider of a range of services, including service integration They have a good reputation as a flexible and reliable service integrator who is willing to amend their SIAM model. They are in the last year of a 10-year contract to provide outsourced services to ZYXUK. Over the last two years the performance and quality of their services has decreased SIAMRUS is a global provider of service integration services in the manufacturing sector They use a standardized SIAM model with limited flexibility SIAMRUS recently created an outline SIAM strategy for ZYXUK: proposing that they should be the service integrator.
ZYXS is experienced in the service management of corporate services including managing the delivery of service providers The ZYXS IT Director used to be a senior service manager in a small service integration company The ZYXS office location is almost at capacity with no possibility of expansion ZYXS are the developers of NEWBNK, which is strategic to the future of ZYX The CEO wants to retain as many of the existing service providers as possible Which is the most appropriate structure and sourcing approach for choosing the service integrator for ZYX?

QUESTION 36
A consequence of ZYX’s SIAM transition is that the small IT team of 5 staff within ZYXUK, who currently develop and support small stand-alone applications, are being displaced, with their roles outsourced to a new external service provider. This external service provider will provide a standardized approach to the development and B support of bespoke applications across all of the ZYX organizations It is hoped that this will allow similar requirements from different ZYX organizations to be identified a more manner The impacted staff is expected to be reluctant to transfer to the new service provider, who is based outside of the UK and has a very different organizational culture B I he project team is concerned that these staff members may either be reluctant to pass on their knowledge of the existing applications, or may leave before knowledge transfer can take place What would be the most effective strategy for handling this risk?

QUESTION 37
ZYX has used a phased approach for implementing the SIAM model
– ZYXS is the service integrator and provides the service desk for the SIAM ecosystem
– NETSCO had all network services transitioned to them
– OUTSCO has been selected to provide hosting services
The next phase is to transition all services currently hosted by ZYXS and ZYXD to OUTSCO Due to time pressures, it has not been possible to test how the services will perform after transition.
The ZYX CEO is concerned about the risks to the services and the ability of ZYX to be able to carry out its business activities She wishes that an early life support (ELS) function is implemented What approach should be taken to resolve incidents and problems caused by the transition of services?

QUESTION 38
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?

QUESTION 39
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’?

QUESTION 40
The outline SIAM model has been determined.
-SIAMRUS will be the service integrator.
-The development teams from ZYXS and ZYXUK will merge to provide global application development and support services
-ZYXS will also provide a centralized service desk, desktop support, and field engineer support.
-OUTSCO will provide hosting e-mail services, the wide area network, and local area networks under new contracts
-All services currently hosted by ZYXS or ZYXD will transfer to OUTSCO
The strategy is to transfer the current services to these named service providers as the legacy contracts expire The merger with the Tokyo-based competitor has started and is expected to complete in 3 months’ time. As part of the merger the services currently provided by the Tokyo-based internal functions will transfer to ZYXS and ZYXUK. The planning for this has only just started, there is insufficient time to create and test a detailed plan What is the most appropriate implementation approach for the ZYX SIAM model?
What is the most appropriate implementation approach for the ZYX SIAM model?

QUESTION 41
The CEO has asked the IT Director to create a SIAM strategy for ZYX that aligns with the mandate for change and the corporate strategy The CEO wants it as soon as possible.
What should the IT Director do?

QUESTION 42
ZYXS has been selected as the service integrator. The ZYXS Service Management and Service Desk Lead is the process owner of the change management process. Service providers are allowed to develop their own procedures. The IT Director has asked for a metric for the change management process that aligns with the SIAM principles of measurement Which is the best metric?

QUESTION 43
The SIAM Project Board has decided that a big bang implementation approach is unsuitable for ZYX What is the most likely reason for this decision?

QUESTION 44
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?