ITIL-FOUNDATION · Question #259
To add value to the business, what are the four reasons to monitor and measure?
The correct answer is C. Validate; Direct; Justify; Intervene. ITIL defines four specific reasons to monitor and measure: Validate, Direct, Justify, and Intervene, ensuring measurement drives purposeful action.
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To add value to the business, what are the four reasons to monitor and measure?
Options
- AValidate; Direct; Justify; Improve
- BEvaluate; Diagnose; Justify; Intervene
- CValidate; Direct; Justify; Intervene
- DEvaluate; Direct; Justify; Improve
How the community answered
(51 responses)- B2% (1)
- C94% (48)
- D4% (2)
Why each option
ITIL defines four specific reasons to monitor and measure: Validate, Direct, Justify, and Intervene, ensuring measurement drives purposeful action.
Substitutes 'Improve' for 'Intervene' - 'Improve' is the outcome of the CSI lifecycle stage, not one of the four defined reasons to monitor and measure.
Uses 'Evaluate' and 'Diagnose' in place of 'Validate' and 'Direct', neither of which appears in the ITIL-defined list of four monitoring and measurement reasons.
The ITIL framework establishes four precise reasons to monitor and measure: Validate (confirm that decisions and strategy are correct), Direct (guide activities and resource allocation toward goals), Justify (provide factual evidence to support a proposed course of action), and Intervene (take corrective action when results deviate from expected outcomes). Together these four reasons ensure measurement is tied to decision-making and improvement rather than being a passive activity.
Replaces 'Validate' with 'Evaluate' and 'Intervene' with 'Improve', both of which are incorrect substitutions that do not match the ITIL-defined terminology.
Concept tested: ITIL four reasons to monitor and measure
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