IPA IP 2023 Question 53
A question IPA Japan published in 令和5年度 ITパスポート試験 公開問題 問53, translated into English. ITPEC is based on the same exams.
When the activities that a company carries out so that IT is utilized appropriately are divided into activities that decide rules and activities that act in accordance with the rules, which of the following corresponds to an activity that decides rules?
Explanation
Establishing criteria for IT investment decisions — setting the criteria by which every IT investment is judged is a rule that the rest of the organization then follows.
The activities split into two layers, as in IT governance and IT management:
- •Deciding rules (governance): top management sets the direction and the yardsticks: IT strategy, policies, standards, and the criteria for deciding which IT investments to make.
- •Acting on the rules (management): the departments carry out the work within those rules and report on it: running the services, controlling project budgets, running projects by the company's standard method.
Answer (a)
Why not others:
- •(b) — operation management to meet the SLA carries out service levels that were already agreed; it follows the rule rather than making it
- •(c) — budget management of a project keeps the project within a budget set by the investment decision; it is execution
- •(d) — the standard development method is the rule; promoting individual projects that comply with it is acting on the rule
Key rule: Governance decides the direction, policies and criteria (evaluate, direct, monitor); management plans, builds, runs and monitors within them.
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