Question 460
During a service review at a software company, a team responsible for customer-facing SaaS services reports: A new employee asks for an approved standard software package from the service catalog. Complete this ITIL 4 Foundation recommendation by selecting the appropriate ITIL practice: 'Apply [ ? ] to guide the response to this particular service-management issue.'
Explanation
Correct Answer
For customer-facing SaaS services at a software company, service request management is the directly relevant ITIL practice because A new employee asks for an approved standard software package from the service catalog. The appropriate response is to fulfil the predefined request using the agreed service request process, and success would be visible when the approved software is provided within the expected user-facing workflow.
Incorrect Answers
For customer-facing SaaS services at a software company, service level management relates more directly to cases like: An agreement remains unchanged after the consumer adopts a new working schedule. The present case requires the specific normal user request response, which is to fulfil the predefined request using the agreed service request process.
For customer-facing SaaS services at a software company, problem management relates more directly to cases like: A vendor supplies a patch for a known error but the same symptoms still appear after installation. The present case requires the specific normal user request response, which is to fulfil the predefined request using the agreed service request process.
For customer-facing SaaS services at a software company, incident management relates more directly to cases like: Monitoring records a routine scheduled backup success and the desk incorrectly opens a high-priority incident. The present case requires the specific normal user request response, which is to fulfil the predefined request using the agreed service request process.