D.2 Information and system governance Flashcards
Ascertain the appropriateness, effectiveness and efficiency of information and information system governance.
What is IT governance?
The responsibility of the board of directors, ensuring stakeholder needs are evaluated, enterprise objectives are set, and performance and compliance are monitored.
How does IT governance differ from IT management?
IT governance sets the direction and priorities, while IT management plans and executes activities in alignment with that direction.
What are the seven components of the COBIT 2019 IT governance model?
- Organisational structures
- Culture, ethics and behaviours
- Principles, policies and procedures
- People, skills and competencies
- Processes
- Information
- Services, infrastructure and applications
What are focus areas in COBIT 2019?
Specific governance domains to which governance components are applied, such as digital transformation, cybersecurity, privacy, and cloud computing.
What does COBIT 2019 enable in terms of governance?
Creation, improvement, or assessment of an organisation’s information and information systems governance.
What is the first level of the Capability Maturity Model?
Initial: Unpredictable, poorly controlled, and reactive.
What is the fifth level of the Capability Maturity Model?
Optimising: Governance is stable and flexible, focusing on continued improvement.
What are some common priorities in IT governance?
- Explicit presence on executive oversight agendas
- Articulating IT governance responsibilities
- Aligning IT activities with organisational objectives
- Ensuring regulatory compliance
- Measuring and managing IT performance
What are the ethical principles commonly cited in health care?
- Autonomy
- Equality and justice
- Beneficence
- Non-malfeasance
- Impossibility
- Integrity
- Honesty
What ethical principle holds that all persons have a fundamental right to self-determination?
Autonomy
What does the principle of beneficence entail?
All persons have a duty to advance the good of others.
What does the principle of non-malfeasance require?
Preventing harm to others as much as possible.
What is the Seven-Step Method for Analysing Ethical Situations?
A framework involving questions about facts, ethical issues, alternatives, stakeholders, ethics of alternatives, practical constraints, and actions.
What is the utilitarian approach to ethics?
Actions are evaluated based on the greatest balance of good over harm.
What does the rights approach focus on?
The individual’s right to choose for themselves.
What is the fairness or justice approach based on?
Treating equals equally and unequals unequally.
What does the common-good approach assume?
The pursuit of shared values and goals benefits the entire community.
What does the virtue approach to ethics question?
What kind of people/community we strive to be.
