ITPEC IP October 2023 Question 64

The organizational ability to control the creation and execution of IT strategy and lead it in the ideal direction — that is IT governance, which steers IT toward the company's competitive advantage.

IT governance is exercised by top management: it sets an IT strategy in line with the business strategy, decides who makes IT decisions, and monitors that IT investment and use deliver value while risk stays under control. It concerns the direction and control of IT across the whole organization, not the running of one service, one audit or one project.

Answer (a)

Why not others:

• •(b) — implementing and managing good-quality IT services that meet business needs is IT service management
• •(c) — verification by an independent third party that risk controls over information systems are appropriate is a system audit
• •(d) — applying knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project's requirements is the PMBOK definition of project management

Key rule: Governance directs and controls IT (top management's role), management executes (service and project management), and audit independently checks both.

System Audit · AI-written, may contain errors