Question 1

Describe governance and compliance and the associated frameworks an organization can implement.

Accepted Answer

Governance is a method or system of gove

Question 2

What is a method or system of government for management or control?

Accepted Answer

A) Geoeconomic 
B) Governance 
C) Compliance 
D) ISACA 
A) Geoeconomic 
B) Governance 
C) Compliance 
D) ISACA

Question 3

Identify why an organization would need to understand global enterprise architectures when expanding operations abroad.

Accepted Answer

An enterprise architecture includes the

Question 4

Capability Maturity Model Integration method (CMMI) is a process improvement approach that contains 22 process areas.It is divided into appraisal, evaluation, and structure.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

What is the purpose of PIPEDA?

Accepted Answer

A) To provide EU citizens with a right of privacy with respect to how their personal information is collected, used, or disclosed by an organization. 
B) To provide Canadian citizens with a right of privacy with respect to how their personal information is collected, used, or disclosed by an organization. 
C) To provide US citizens with a right of privacy with respect to how their personal information is collected, used, or disclosed by an organization. 
D) All of these. 
A) To provide EU citizens with a right of privacy with respect to how their personal information is collected, used, or disclosed by an organization. 
B) To provide Canadian citizens with a right of privacy with respect to how their personal information is collected, used, or disclosed by an organization. 
C) To provide US citizens with a right of privacy with respect to how their personal information is collected, used, or disclosed by an organization. 
D) All of these.

Question 6

Which company had an employee's spouse load file-sharing software onto a company laptop creating a security hole that appears to have compromised the names and Social Security numbers 17,000 current and former employees?

Accepted Answer

A) McDonalds 
B) Pfizer 
C) CloudNine Communications 
D) Apple 
A) McDonalds 
B) Pfizer 
C) CloudNine Communications 
D) Apple

Question 7

What is the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding?

Accepted Answer

A) Geoeconomic 
B) Governance 
C) Compliance 
D) ISACA 
A) Geoeconomic 
B) Governance 
C) Compliance 
D) ISACA

Question 8

Which of the following is one of the fundamental issues surrounding the struggle between Internet censorship and openness?

Accepted Answer

A) Controlling the conduits 
B) Filtering the flows 
C) Punishing the purveyors 
D) All of these 
A) Controlling the conduits 
B) Filtering the flows 
C) Punishing the purveyors 
D) All of these

Question 9

HIPPA is a federal law established in 1998 that applies to the collection of personal information from American children who are under 13 years of age.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Which of the following is not one of the issues with global business?

Accepted Answer

A) Flying IT specialists into remote sites is costly. 
B) Sheer physical distances covering the globe make it difficult to operate local businesses. 
C) Communicating in real-time across the globe's 24 time zones is challenging. 
D) Finding quality telecommunication services in every country is difficult. 
A) Flying IT specialists into remote sites is costly. 
B) Sheer physical distances covering the globe make it difficult to operate local businesses. 
C) Communicating in real-time across the globe's 24 time zones is challenging. 
D) Finding quality telecommunication services in every country is difficult.

Question 11

Which company began a pilot project that gives employees about $1,000 to spend on productivity-enhancing tools in addition to standard issue equipment?

Accepted Answer

A) CloudNine Communications 
B) BP 
C) McDonalds 
D) All of these 
A) CloudNine Communications 
B) BP 
C) McDonalds 
D) All of these

Question 12

What is an enterprise architecture?

Accepted Answer

A) A process improvement approach that contains 22 process areas created by a group from government, industry, and Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute. 
B) Key for evaluating internal controls such as human resources, logistics, information technology, risk, legal, marketing and sales, operations, financial functions, procurement, and reporting. 
C) The plans for how an organization will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and IT assets. 
D) None of these. 
A) A process improvement approach that contains 22 process areas created by a group from government, industry, and Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute. 
B) Key for evaluating internal controls such as human resources, logistics, information technology, risk, legal, marketing and sales, operations, financial functions, procurement, and reporting. 
C) The plans for how an organization will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and IT assets. 
D) None of these.

Question 13

Information privacy concerns the legal right or general expectation of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when and to what extent information about them is communicated to others.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Which of the following is not a cultural business challenge?

Accepted Answer

A) Differences in social attitudes 
B) Differences in political philosophies 
C) Differences in architectures 
D) Differences in customs 
A) Differences in social attitudes 
B) Differences in political philosophies 
C) Differences in architectures 
D) Differences in customs

Question 15

What IT governance focus area puts structure around measuring business performance, such as a balanced scorecard, which uses both qualitative and quantitative measures?

Accepted Answer

A) Strategic alignment 
B) Performance measures 
C) Resource management 
D) Value delivery 
A) Strategic alignment 
B) Performance measures 
C) Resource management 
D) Value delivery

Question 16

What is the name of the highly publicized survey administered by the Institute for Citizen-Centered Services and the Institute for Public Administration in Canada?

Accepted Answer

A) Security First 
B) IPCA 
C) Citizens First 
D) ICCS 
A) Security First 
B) IPCA 
C) Citizens First 
D) ICCS

Question 17

What are the factors included in the global collaboration category of global IT business drivers?

Accepted Answer

A) Common equipment, facilities, assembly processes, and people are shared by a global company and IT can track shared resources 
B) The knowledge and expertise of colleagues in a global company can only be accessed, shared, and organized by global IT systems 
C) Customers who travel anywhere or companies with global operations and global IT systems help provide fast, convenient, homogeneous service 
D) Products are the same worldwide and global IT can help manage worldwide marketing, sales, and quality control 
A) Common equipment, facilities, assembly processes, and people are shared by a global company and IT can track shared resources 
B) The knowledge and expertise of colleagues in a global company can only be accessed, shared, and organized by global IT systems 
C) Customers who travel anywhere or companies with global operations and global IT systems help provide fast, convenient, homogeneous service 
D) Products are the same worldwide and global IT can help manage worldwide marketing, sales, and quality control

Question 18

What is key for evaluating internal controls such as human resources, logistics, information technology, risk, legal, marketing and sales, operations, financial functions, procurement, and reporting?

Accepted Answer

A) CoBIT Information Systems Audit and Control Association 
B) Information Technology Infrastructure Library 
C) Committee of Sponsoring Organizations 
D) Capability Maturity Model Integration Method 
A) CoBIT Information Systems Audit and Control Association 
B) Information Technology Infrastructure Library 
C) Committee of Sponsoring Organizations 
D) Capability Maturity Model Integration Method

Question 19

Transborder data flows occur when an organization moves employees outside its firewall, a growing movement to change the way corporations address technology security.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

What are the four global IT business management areas critical to running multinational companies?

Accepted Answer

A) Business strategies, enterprise architectures, information issues, systems development. 
B) Business strategies, information architectures, economic issues, telecommunication issues. 
C) Business politics, enterprise architectures, telecommunication issues, systems development. 
D) Business economics, enterprise architectures, information issues, telecommunication issues. 
A) Business strategies, enterprise architectures, information issues, systems development. 
B) Business strategies, information architectures, economic issues, telecommunication issues. 
C) Business politics, enterprise architectures, telecommunication issues, systems development. 
D) Business economics, enterprise architectures, information issues, telecommunication issues.

Exam 31: B: Extension: A Global Information Systems

Describe governance and compliance and the associated frameworks an organization can implement.

What is a method or system of government for management or control?

Identify why an organization would need to understand global enterprise architectures when expanding operations abroad.

Capability Maturity Model Integration method (CMMI) is a process improvement approach that contains 22 process areas.It is divided into appraisal, evaluation, and structure.

What is the purpose of PIPEDA?

Which company had an employee's spouse load file-sharing software onto a company laptop creating a security hole that appears to have compromised the names and Social Security numbers 17,000 current and former employees?

What is the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding?

Which of the following is one of the fundamental issues surrounding the struggle between Internet censorship and openness?

HIPPA is a federal law established in 1998 that applies to the collection of personal information from American children who are under 13 years of age.

Which of the following is not one of the issues with global business?

Which company began a pilot project that gives employees about $1,000 to spend on productivity-enhancing tools in addition to standard issue equipment?

What is an enterprise architecture?

Information privacy concerns the legal right or general expectation of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when and to what extent information about them is communicated to others.

Which of the following is not a cultural business challenge?

What IT governance focus area puts structure around measuring business performance, such as a balanced scorecard, which uses both qualitative and quantitative measures?

What is the name of the highly publicized survey administered by the Institute for Citizen-Centered Services and the Institute for Public Administration in Canada?

What are the factors included in the global collaboration category of global IT business drivers?

What is key for evaluating internal controls such as human resources, logistics, information technology, risk, legal, marketing and sales, operations, financial functions, procurement, and reporting?

Transborder data flows occur when an organization moves employees outside its firewall, a growing movement to change the way corporations address technology security.

What are the four global IT business management areas critical to running multinational companies?

Business Driven Technology

Identifying Competitive Advantages

Strategic Initiatives for Implementing Competitive Advantages

Measuring the Success of Strategic Initiatives

Organizational Structures That Support Strategic Initiatives

Valuing and Storing Organizational Information Databases

Accessing Organizational Information Data Warehouses

Understanding Big Data and Its Impact on Business

Enabling the Organization Decision Making

Extending the Organization Supply Chain Management

Building a Customer-Centric Organization Customer Relationship Management

Integrating the Organization From End to End Enterprise Resource Planning

Creating Innovative Organizations

E-business

Creating Collaborative Partnerships

Integrating Wireless Technology in Business

Developing Software to Streamline Operations

Methodologies for Supporting Agile Organizations

Managing Organizational Projects

B: Extension: A Business Basics

B: Extension: A Business Process

B: Extension: A Hardware and Software Basics

B: Extension: A Mis Infrastructures

B: Extension: A Networks and Telecommunications

B: Extension: A Information Security

B: Extension: A Ethics

B: Extension: A Operations Management

B: Extension: A Sustainable Mis Infrastructures

B: Extension: A Business Intelligence

B: Extension: A Global Trends

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