A large government agency is modernizing its IT infrastructure and wants to ensure effective governance over its IT resources, including hardware, software, and human capital. The CIO has asked the governance committee to recommend practices that will optimize resource utilization and ensure alignment with strategic objectives. Which TWO of the following practices are MOST effective for governing IT resources? (Choose two.)
To optimize IT infrastructure resources, an organization adopts a software-defined infrastructure (SDI) approach. What is a key governance risk that must be addressed?
An organization is migrating to a hybrid cloud environment. Which IT resource allocation strategy best aligns with CGEIT principles for optimizing cloud expenditure?
A firm is experiencing 'IT resource starvation' in key strategic projects due to excessive operational support requirements. What is the appropriate governance response?
A global insurer's IT leadership team is reviewing its IT resource governance. Business units routinely hire contractors directly and procure SaaS tools with their own budgets, bypassing IT. The CIO wants to regain control without halting business innovation. Which action is MOST effective for the CIO to take first?
A global retail enterprise runs its e-commerce platform on a mix of on-premises servers and IaaS virtual machines. The CIO wants to ensure that IT resource capacity decisions are driven by business demand signals rather than by infrastructure team convenience. Which governance mechanism BEST supports this objective?
A global retailer's IT department has a high turnover rate among its enterprise architects. Exit interviews consistently cite a lack of clear career progression and insufficient investment in emerging technology skills. The CIO wants to address this through a formal IT resource governance mechanism. Which action should be the CIO's first step?
A financial services firm is reviewing its IT resource management practices. The board has asked for assurance that IT resources are being used efficiently and effectively. Which activity BEST provides this assurance?
A newly appointed CIO at a global manufacturing firm discovers that each of the five regional business units independently contracts its own cloud infrastructure, leading to duplicated data egress charges and inconsistent security controls. The CIO wants to establish a governance mechanism that optimizes these IT resources without halting regional agility. Which action should the CIO take FIRST?
A financial services company is evaluating its IT resource allocation for the upcoming fiscal year. The CIO presents a plan that allocates 85% of the IT budget to maintaining existing infrastructure and only 15% to new strategic initiatives. The board has mandated a digital transformation agenda. Which governance action should the IT steering committee take?
A multinational manufacturing company operates data centers in three regions. The CIO wants to implement a governance process to optimize IT resource utilization across these regions without compromising service levels. Which approach BEST balances utilization and service levels?
An enterprise is reviewing its IT resource capacity plan. The CIO notes that the current plan is based on historical averages and does not account for the retirement of a major legacy system next quarter, nor for a planned acquisition that will add 2,000 users. Which action should the CIO take to improve the reliability of the capacity plan?
A multinational corporation is standardizing its IT asset management practices. The CIO wants to ensure that all hardware and software assets are tracked, maintained, and disposed of in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements. Which governance mechanism should be established to achieve this?
A healthcare provider is evaluating its IT resource sourcing strategy. The CIO wants to ensure that the strategy supports both cost efficiency and compliance with patient data regulations. Which TWO of the following governance actions are MOST important to include in the sourcing strategy? (Choose two.)
A multinational enterprise's IT steering committee must decide how to govern the growing use of open source software components across development teams. Security incidents traced to unmaintained libraries have increased, yet developers argue that approval gates slow delivery. Which governance action BEST balances resource optimization with risk?
A financial services enterprise runs its core transaction processing on a mainframe that is now five years old. The CIO proposes migrating to a distributed x86 platform to reduce hardware maintenance costs by 30%. The IT governance committee is asked to approve the business case. Before making a decision, which action should the committee require FIRST to ensure effective governance of IT resources?
A financial services firm has a large portfolio of custom applications. The CIO wants to optimize the IT resource portfolio by identifying applications that consume disproportionate support resources relative to their business value. Which technique is MOST appropriate for this analysis?
An organization is adopting a hybrid cloud model. The IT governance committee is concerned that IT resources may be procured and used by different business units without central oversight, leading to duplication and inefficiency. Which action should the committee take to optimize IT resource utilization?
An enterprise's data center lease expires in 18 months. The CIO must present a resource strategy to the board covering compute, storage and network capacity for a workload portfolio with stable legacy systems and highly variable digital channels. Which approach BEST aligns IT resource governance with business demand uncertainty?
A multinational manufacturer maintains data centers in three regions. The board has mandated a 20% reduction in IT infrastructure spend without reducing service levels. The CIO proposes consolidating to a single hyperscale cloud provider. The governance committee is concerned about concentration risk and regulatory data residency. Which approach BEST balances the board mandate with governance concerns?
A multinational corporation is standardizing its IT resource governance across 30 countries. The CIO must ensure that resource allocation decisions are aligned with enterprise strategy while respecting local regulatory requirements. Which TWO of the following are the MOST effective governance mechanisms to achieve this balance? (Choose two.)
An enterprise's audit finds that privileged administrator accounts for its core ERP platform are shared among several engineers, with no individual attribution. Which IT resource governance action should be prioritized FIRST?
A hospital's IT governance committee is reviewing its IT resource management practices. The committee wants to ensure that IT resources are effectively governed to support clinical and administrative needs. Which TWO of the following are key components of an effective IT resource governance framework? (Choose two.)
A retail enterprise's IT steering committee is reviewing how application portfolio resources should be governed. The portfolio has grown to over 400 applications, many with overlapping functionality and unclear ownership. The committee wants to establish a repeatable governance process for rationalizing the portfolio. Which TWO of the following actions are MOST effective for this purpose? (Choose two.)
An IT governance committee is reviewing the enterprise's resource management practices. The committee wants to ensure that IT human resources are deployed in a way that supports both current operations and strategic initiatives. Which action should the committee recommend to achieve this?
A global enterprise is consolidating its application portfolio and must govern the retirement of redundant systems. The CIO asks the governance committee to identify actions that directly optimize IT resource consumption during decommissioning. (Choose two.)
An energy company's IT department has accumulated significant technical debt in its custom billing systems. The CIO wants to establish a governance mechanism to ensure technical debt is managed as an IT resource concern. Which action should the governance committee take FIRST?
An enterprise's board is concerned that IT projects routinely exceed budgets while business units report that critical initiatives wait months for skilled staff. A review finds that resource demand is approved project by project with no enterprise view of supply. Which governance improvement BEST addresses this?
A healthcare provider's IT organization relies heavily on a small group of specialists who maintain a legacy clinical records interface. The specialists are approaching retirement, and documentation is sparse. The governance committee is asked to address this human resource risk. Which action BEST aligns with IT resource governance objectives?
A global logistics company maintains a critical customs-clearance application built on an unsupported database version. The governance committee must decide how to allocate limited IT budget and skilled staff across the application portfolio. Which action BEST aligns with IT resource governance principles?
A regional bank's IT department has grown its contractor headcount by 40 percent over two years to support regulatory projects. The board asks the CIO to demonstrate that human IT resources are governed effectively. Which action BEST provides this assurance?
A manufacturing enterprise is consolidating three data centers into one colocation facility. The IT governance committee must ensure that infrastructure resources remain aligned with business continuity and cost objectives throughout the migration. Which TWO governance actions are MOST appropriate? (Choose two.)
A multinational bank's IT leadership is concerned that its current IT workforce plan is not aligned with the strategic goal of expanding digital services in emerging markets. The CHRO and CIO jointly decide to implement a strategic workforce planning process. Which of the following is the MOST important initial step in this process?
A global insurance company is reviewing its IT resource portfolio. The CIO wants to optimize the portfolio by identifying redundant applications that consume significant infrastructure resources but provide overlapping functionality. Which of the following approaches is MOST effective for this purpose?
A technology startup has rapidly grown its IT infrastructure to support a new SaaS product. The CTO is concerned about the increasing cloud costs and wants to implement governance over cloud resource consumption. Which of the following should be the FIRST step to establish effective cloud resource governance?
A hospital's IT department is evaluating whether to renew a contract for a legacy on-premises data center or migrate to a colocation facility. The CIO asks the IT governance committee to assess the total cost of ownership (TCO) of both options. Which of the following costs should be included in the TCO analysis?