CPA Business Environment and Concepts (BEC) : Technology Process Management
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Example Question #11 : Technology Process Management
Which of the following statements is correct regarding IT governance?
A primary goal of IT governance is to balance risk versus return over IT and its processes.
IT governance is an appropriate issues for organizations at the level of the board of directors only.
IT governance requires that the Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) framework be adopted and implemented
IT goals should be independent of strategic goals
A primary goal of IT governance is to balance risk versus return over IT and its processes.
Risk management is one of the primary goals of IT governance, as the inevitable risks inherent in IT must always be balanced against the potential returns associated with an IT infrastructure.
Example Question #5 : It Governance
An IT governance framework should answer all of the following questions except:
What does IT return to the business
Will the IT system be asthetically pleasing
How the IT department functions
What key metrics does management need
Will the IT system be asthetically pleasing
IT governance is more focused on the operations and implementation of IT, rather than cosmetic approaches to systems.
Example Question #12 : Technology Process Management
Which of the following methods would be most effective for a company that wants to reduce its rate of defective products?
Variable costing
Sensitivity analysis
Break-even analysis
Six Sigma
Six Sigma
Six Sigma is a quality improvement program that uses metrics to evaluate the achievement of goals. Improving current processes for reducing defective products is a big component.
Example Question #218 : Cpa Business Environment And Concepts (Bec)
Unlike business process reengineering, business process management:
Increases the financial risk associated with change
Seeks incremental change
Seeks radical change
Has a longer implementation time
Seeks incremental change
Business process management seeks incremental change by tweaking the existing process and design.
Example Question #1 : Process Management
Which of the following is not a disadvantage of outsourcing?
Quality of service
Security issues
Risk mitigation
Language barriers
Risk mitigation
Non core functions to one business become critical for companies providing outsourcing services thereby reducing risk exposure in the event an issue arises.
Example Question #2 : Process Management
Performance of quality assurance occurs in which of the following processes?
Authorization
Planning
Implementation
Close
Implementation
Quality assurance takes place in the implementation process after the standard of quality has been defined.
Example Question #13 : Technology Process Management
Organizations with one-piece flow manufacturing environments that are experiencing bottlenecks in production are most likely to develop strategies associated with:
Lean manufacturing
Theory of constraints
Demand flow manufacturing
Just in time management
Theory of constraints
The theory of constraints says that organizations are impeded from achieving objectives by the existence of one or more constraints.
Example Question #3 : Process Management
Of the following, which is not a key component of IT used in modern business?
Accounting information systems
Management information systems
All of these are key components
Decision support systems
All of these are key components
Among other systems, the following are critical for modern IT infrastructure.
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