Management of IT Exam Questions and Answers
What does EGIT stand for? What is it's meaning? - Ans Enterprise Governance of Infor-
mation and Technology. It a system composed of stakeholders, board of directors, depart-
ment managers, and internal customers who provide input into the IT decision making pro-
cess.
What are the three broad processes in the EGIT framework are: - Ans 1. IT Resource
Management - Focuses on maintaining an updated inventory of all IT resources and ad-
dresses the risk mgmt. process.
2. Performance Measurement - Ensure IT Processes bring value to the company.
3. Compliance Management
According to COBIT's perspective what is the difference between Governance and Man-
agement? - Ans Governance - Ensures stakeholders needs, conditions and options are
evaluated to determine enterprise objectives. Performance is monitored based on enter-
prise objectives.
Management - Plans activities according to the governance body. (Basically a step down,
more hands on approach).
T/F EGIT is apart of Governance? - Ans True
What does CSF stand for? - Ans Critical Success Factor
What are the terms of reference when auditing EGIT? - Ans 1. Scope of work to be done.
2. IS Auditors right of information within the organization and TPSP.
3. Who to report EGIT issues to.
What is an Information Security Program? - Ans
What is Strategic Planning from an IS standpoint? - Ans Defining long term direction of IT
an enterprise wants to take to improve business processes.
T/F: Strategic IS Planning involves considering, cost, benefit, and risk of implementing new
technology. - Ans True
What are some common uses of Business Intelligence? - Ans A) Legal Requirements, for
businesses to understand what's occurring in there own business.
B) Competitive advantage for Supply chain and other areas
C) The increasing size and complexity of organizations.
What are the two components which allow BI to operate effectively? - Ans A) The enter-
prise data flow architecture
B) A logical data architecture
What are the layers/components of EDFA? - Ans Enterprise Data Flow Architecture is
composed of the following layers:
1. Presentation/desktop access layer -
2. Data source layer -
3. Core data warehouse