Wizard Wisdom: answers from the ITIL® Wizard

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I used to make the questions up, but now, sadly, I find plenty of material online for the questions as well as the answers.

How long will ITIL take?

Dear Wiz

We are looking to adopt ITIL. How long will it take us?

Enthused of Slough

How to choose the best Service Desk tool?

Dear Wizard

We have decided ITIL is the way to go so we are in the market for a good Service Desk tool. What do you recommend?

Thanks
Zeus43B

What do we need for CMDB besides a data model?

Hi Wiz

Within the server team we had a brainstorming session and came up with a smokin' data model for our CMDB. It caters for virtualization and everything else important.

Is there anything else we need to consider before we build it? We're thinking MySQL, right?

ITIL Boy

Who sets the ITIL exams?

Dear Wiz,
I just sat my ITIL exam and it was really hard and confusing. Is it Prometric who writes these exams because I want to complain?

Jerry

What is the optimal team size for Level 2 support?

Dear Wiz,
Our level 2 support people seem to manage more than one problem at a time. What is the optimum number of staff?

PuzzledManager

When does an Incident become a Problem?

Dear Wiz,
When does an Incident become a Problem?

Hope you can help me
Prob