IPA IP 2024 Question 53
A question IPA Japan published in 令和6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.
Which of the following is the most appropriate phrase to be inserted into blank A in the following description concerning IT governance?
From the viewpoint of supporting the A objectives of the business, management evaluates the effective, efficient, and acceptable A use of IT.
Explanation
Present and future — in IT governance, management evaluates both the current and the future use of IT.
The description follows the international standard for the governance of IT, ISO/IEC 38500. It gives management three tasks:
- •Evaluate the present and future use of IT: whether it is effective, efficient and acceptable, and whether it supports the organisation's present and future business objectives
- •Direct the preparation and implementation of plans and policies so that IT meets those objectives
- •Monitor whether the IT in use conforms to the policies and achieves the plans
Looking only at today misses where the business is going, and looking only ahead ignores the systems the business runs on now, so the standard asks for both.
Answer (c)
Why not others:
- •(a) — governance is about using IT to reach the business objectives, which lie ahead; past use is something to learn from, not the thing management evaluates
- •(b) — evaluating only the present use cannot tell whether IT will support the objectives the business is moving towards
- •(d) — evaluating only the future leaves out the IT the business depends on now and its risks
Key rule: ISO/IEC 38500 sums up IT governance as Evaluate, Direct, Monitor, carried out by management, with evaluation covering the present and future use of IT.
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