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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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Question

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)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    94% (48)
  • D
    4% (2)

Why each option

ITIL defines four specific reasons to monitor and measure: Validate, Direct, Justify, and Intervene, ensuring measurement drives purposeful action.

AValidate; Direct; Justify; Improve

Substitutes 'Improve' for 'Intervene' - 'Improve' is the outcome of the CSI lifecycle stage, not one of the four defined reasons to monitor and measure.

BEvaluate; Diagnose; Justify; Intervene

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.

CValidate; Direct; Justify; InterveneCorrect

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.

DEvaluate; Direct; Justify; Improve

Replaces 'Validate' with 'Evaluate' and 'Intervene' with 'Improve', both of which are incorrect substitutions that do not match the ITIL-defined terminology.

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