COBIT Model
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Which organization created the COBIT framework?
ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association)
Treadway Commission
FASB
US Government IT Commission
Explanation
The ISACA is the organization which created the COBIT framework.
Per ISACA, beneficiaries of an implemented COBIT framework would include all of the following except:
Risk committee
Process owners
Hourly employees
Audit committee members
Explanation
The beneficiaries of an implemented COBIT framework should be those with more of a stake in the operations of the company.
According to the ISACA when creating the COBIT framework, which of the following is not an attribute of the framework?
Effective IT governance
Easy integration
Guarantee of ethical compliance
Plethora of implementation resources
Explanation
For any implemented process, a guarantee is never an attribute as nothing can guarantee ethical compliance.
Which of the following is a person who enters data or uses the information processed by a system?
Hardware technician
Software developer
Network administrator
User
Explanation
Users are any workers who enter data into a system or who use the information processed by the system. Users could be secretaries, administrators, accountants, auditors, CEOs, and so on.
Which of the following is a person who designs and/or writes programs to collect, process, store, transform and distribute the data and information that are entered by the end users?
End user
Hardware technician
Network administrator
Software developer
Explanation
A software developer designs and/or writes the systems and/or programs to collect, process, store, transform and distribute the data and info that are entered by the end users.
A service that allows customers to rent virtual servers and related services that can be used to develop and test new software applications is ____.
Software as a service
Platform as a service
Infrastructure as a service
IT as a service
Explanation
IT as a service is not a term, software as a service relates to applications hosted by a vendor, and platform as a service allows customers to host their own applications.