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CGEIT – Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT

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Question 4

A recent benchmarking analysis has indicated an IT organization is retaining more data and spending significantly more on data retention than its competitors. Which of the following would BEST ensure the optimization of retention costs?

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    Requiring that all business cases contain data deletion and retention plans
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    Revalidating the organization's risk tolerance and re-aligning the retention policy
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    Redefining the retention policy to align with industry best practices
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    Moving all high-risk and medium-risk data backups to cloud storage
Question 5

From a governance perspective, which of the following is MOST important to enhance in an enterprise undergoing rapid development of a cloud technology?

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    Change management processes to capture organizational and project changes.
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    Data restructuring plan to ensure the architecture supports future changes.
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    IT project dashboard reporting to capture new risk, threats, and scenarios.
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    Configuration management processes to ensure availability goals are maintained.
Question 6

Facing financial struggles, a CEO mandated severe budget cuts. A decision was also made to immediately change the enterprise strategic focus to put more reliance on mobile, cloud, and wireless services in an effort to boost revenue. The IT steering committee has asked the CIO to suggest adjustments to the current IT project portfolio to allow support for the new direction despite fewer funds. What should the CIO advise the committee to do FIRST?

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    Start re-allocating budget to projects involving mobile or cloud
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    Cancel projects with a net present value (NPV) below a defined threshold
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    Conduct a risk assessment against the potential new services
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    Ask business stakeholders to discuss their vision for the new strategy