• Workarounds: Sometimes before permanent fixes can be found, workarounds are identified. This often takes place during the problem investigation and
diagnosis phase. Workarounds are ways of restoring service that can be used without understanding the root cause. An obvious and frequently used
example is the user who finds that their screen has ‘frozen’. There could be
any number of causes, but the first step, which quite often resolves the issue, is usually to turn off the PC and then turn it back on again.