Exam 8: Governance of the Information Systems Organization

A steering committee is geared only towards the highest level of the organization and reports directly to the board of directors or the CEO.

IT plays a major role in ensuring the accuracy of financial dat a.

Review the description of 3 different IT organizations and map the organization's design to the IT governance model it best represents.

Explain how federalism is able to capture the benefits of centralized and decentralized IT governance while eliminating the drawbacks of each.

A steering committee works especially well with this particular IT governance archetype.

______________ organizations scatter IT components in different locations to address local business needs.

Match the allocation of decision rights below with the IT governance archetype it represents.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was primarily aimed at which functional unit of a corporation?

Security strategy is not a technical decision.

IT decisions have been categorized by Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross.These categories include all of the following EXCEPT:

Most companies would like to obtain the advantages derived from both centralized and decentralized organizational paradigms. What type of IT governance model would best help them to achieve this goal?

As a result of Sarbanes-Oxley,IT managers are now required to manage the level of controls needed to mitigate risk in business processes.