CPA Business Environment and Concepts (BEC) : COBIT Model
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Example Question #1 : Cobit Model
Which organization created the COBIT framework?
FASB
ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association)
US Government IT Commission
Treadway Commission
ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association)
The ISACA is the organization which created the COBIT framework.
Example Question #2 : Cobit Model
Per ISACA, beneficiaries of an implemented COBIT framework would include all of the following except:
Audit committee members
Process owners
Risk committee
Hourly employees
Hourly employees
The beneficiaries of an implemented COBIT framework should be those with more of a stake in the operations of the company.
Example Question #3 : Cobit Model
According to the ISACA when creating the COBIT framework, which of the following is not an attribute of the framework?
Effective IT governance
Plethora of implementation resources
Guarantee of ethical compliance
Easy integration
Guarantee of ethical compliance
For any implemented process, a guarantee is never an attribute as nothing can guarantee ethical compliance.
Example Question #4 : Cobit Model
Which of the following is a person who enters data or uses the information processed by a system?
Hardware technician
User
Network administrator
Software developer
User
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.
Example Question #1 : Cobit Model
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?
Software developer
End user
Hardware technician
Network administrator
Software developer
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.
Example Question #6 : Cobit Model
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
Infrastructure as a service
Platform as a service
IT as a service
Platform as a service
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.
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