COBIT Model

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1

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.

2

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.

3

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.

4

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.

5

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.

6

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.

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