In many organizations, management tasks or parts of those tasks are performed t>y third parties. Agreements are made with these parties that are expressed in contracts. What are these contracts called

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Options

• AService Level Agreements (SLAs)
• BOperational Level Contracts
• CService Contracts
• DUnderpinning Contracts

• A
  16% (3)
• B
  5% (1)
• C
  79% (15)

Explanation

Service Contracts is the correct term for formal written agreements made with third parties who carry out management tasks or portions of management responsibilities on behalf of an organization - it is the standard, general-purpose name for this type of outsourcing arrangement.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (SLAs): SLAs are a specific type of agreement focused on defining measurable performance targets and service quality metrics - they describe the level of service, not the broader contractual relationship itself.
• B (Operational Level Contracts): These are internal agreements between departments or teams within the same organization, not with external third parties.
• D (Underpinning Contracts): This is ITIL-specific terminology for a narrower concept - supplier contracts that specifically underpin IT service delivery. It's a real term, but not the standard general answer for outsourced management agreements.

Memory tip: Think of "Service Contract" as the umbrella - it's what you sign when you hire an outside party to do a job. SLAs and Underpinning Contracts live under that umbrella as specialized variants. If the question asks broadly about "agreements with third parties who perform tasks," default to Service Contracts unless the question signals ITIL or performance-level specifics.

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