IT governance And Management Flashcards
Best action to improve control effectiveness in a small business is
Engage owner in direct participation in the activities
Less strategic issue of management is worrying how
Costs will be cut
The process of identifying automated solutions falls under
Acquire and implement
The process of ensuring security and continuous service falls within
Deliver and support
Reviewing system response time logs falls within
Monitor and evaluate
The process of developing tactics to realize the strategic vision for It is
Plan and organize
On line analytical processing systems enables members to actively query a
Data warehouse and drill down into transaction and trend info via various network set ups
The advantage an enterprise resources planning system has over independent functional systems is
Increased responsiveness and flexibility while aiding in decision making process
Primary objective of the enterprise resource planning system is designed to
Integrate data From all aspects of an organizations activities into a centralized data repository
The use of the cloud to access software and programs
SaaS
Executive support system is designed for
Forecasting and making long range strategic decisions. Has a greater emphasis on external data
A software that provides info to mid and upper level managers to assist them in managing non routine problems and in long range planning
Decision support system
A system that facilitate work of clerical employees b providing info relevant to their day to day activities
Office automation system
The OLAP is an online analytical processing system that incorporates data warehouse and
Data mining capabilities. It also provides an integrated view of transactions in all parts of the system
The OLAP is the online transition processing system and it records
Day to day operational transactions and enhances visibility of the transactions to the system.
The use of the cloud to create software is
PaaS
Use of the cloud to access virtual hardware
IaaS
Global visibility is not a risk in
Cloud based computing
The primary goal of an enterprise wide system is to
Integrate all data maintained by the organization int a single database
In DRP the lowest priority is given to
Task critical activities
In DRP the top priority is
Mission critical
For continuous basis of an e-commerce environment more emphasis is placed on
Maintaining redundant systems for instant availability
To correct the lack of a disaster recovery plan management should
Prepare a statement d responsibility for tasks
A cold site is created and md intestines as a site fir disaster recovery but it is not
Stocked with equipment
The steps of the business continuity management (bcm) is
Determine business continuity strategies
Develop and implement a BCM response
Exercise maintain and review the plan
Embed the BCM in the culture
An application programmer can
Code approved changes to a pAyroll program
Data control clerk is responsible for
Controls the flow of all documents into and out of computer operations
It ppl controls are mostly
General and preventive
A person who designs systems prepares specifications from programmers and serves as a intermediary between systems and programmers is an
IT analyst
One important purpose of cOBIT is
Guide managers users and auditors to adopt best practices related to the management of IT
