What does EGIT stand for? What is it's meaning? - ANSWEREnterprise Governance of Information and Technology. It a system composed of stakeholders, board of directors, department managers, and internal customers who provide input into the IT decision making process.
What are the three broad proce...
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What does EGIT stand for? What is it's meaning? - ANSWEREnterprise Governance
of Information and Technology. It a system composed of stakeholders, board of
directors, department managers, and internal customers who provide input into the
IT decision making process.
What are the three broad processes in the EGIT framework are: - ANSWER1. IT
Resource Management - Focuses on maintainng an updated inventory of all IT
resources and addresses the risk mgmt. process.
2. Performance Measurement - Ensure IT Processes bring value to the company.
3. Compliance Management
According to COBIT's perspective what is the difference between Governance and
Management? - ANSWERGovernance - Ensures stakeholders needs, conditions
and options are evaluated to determine enterprise objectives. Performance is
monitored based on enterprise objectives.
Management - Plans activities according to the governance body. (Basically a step
down, more hands on approach).
T/F EGIT is apart of Governance? - ANSWERTrue
What does CSF stand for? - ANSWERCritical Success Factor
What are the terms of reference when auditing EGIT? - ANSWER1. Scope of work to
be done.
2. IS Auditors right of information within the organization and TPSP.
3. Who to report EGIT issues to.
What is an Information Security Program? - ANSWER
What is the metadata repository layer? - ANSWERMetadata are data about data.
This includes the purpose of systems of business that data moving through the
architecture is involved in.
What is the Warehouse management layer? - ANSWERThis layer is concerned with
scheduling the transfer of data into the DW and Data marts. Also involved in security.
What is Strategic Planning from an IS standpoint? - ANSWERDefining long term
direction of IT an enterprise wants to take to improve business processes.
T/F: Strategic IS Planning involves considering, cost, benefit, and risk of
implementing new technology. - ANSWERTrue
What are some common uses of Business Intelligence? - ANSWERA) Legal
Requirements, for businesses to understand what's occurring in there own business.
B) Competitive advantage for Supply chain and other areas
, C) The increasing size and complexity of organizations.
What are the two components which allow BI to operate effectively? - ANSWERA)
The enterprise data flow architecture
B) A logical data architecture
What are the layers/components of EDFA? - ANSWEREnterprise Data Flow
Architecture is composed of the following layers:
1. Presentation/desktop access layer -
2. Data source layer -
3. Core data warehouse
4. Data mart layer
5. Data staging and quality layer
6. Data access layer
7. Data preparation layer
8. Metadata repository layer
9. Warehouse management layer
10. Application messaging layer
11. Internet/intranet layer
What is the Presentation/desktop access layer? - ANSWERWhere end users deal
with data, this includes spreadsheets, dashboards, and querying tools
What is the Data Source Layer? - ANSWEREnterprise infomration derived from
sources like operational data, external data, and nonoperational data.
What is a data warehouse? - ANSWERWhere the majority of data of interest is
captured for analysis. Typically a large relational database.
What is a data mart layer? - ANSWERA subset of information in the DW that relates
to a particular business system.
What is the data staging and quality layer? - ANSWERLayer responsible for data
copying into the DW. Ensuring data is formatted properly before loaded into the DW.
Needs to be flexible in case data changes like format of customer accounts for
example.
What is the data access layer? - ANSWERBetween the data source layer and the
data staging layer.
What is the data preparation layer? - ANSWERPrepares data to be loaded into data
marts.
What is the application messaging layer? - ANSWERLayer concerned with
transporting information between the various layers. Including business data, this
layer encompasses storage and targeted communication of control messages.
What is the internet/intranet layer? - ANSWERBasic Data Communications like
browser based user interfaces and TCP/IP protocol networking
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