令和3年度 ITパスポート試験 問49

※ Our check while writing this explanation could not fully confirm the published answer; scoring follows IPA's official key.

• ×Incorrectア

  Shareholders are the owners and investors of the company and, while they are in a position to oversee management, they do not take on the role of directly evaluating the use of IT and ensuring its alignment with business objectives (the entity that carries out IT governance).

• ×Incorrectイ

  An auditor plays the role of evaluating and verifying, from the standpoint of an independent third party, how IT governance and controls are established and operated; the auditor is not the party that drives governance and ensures alignment.

• ○ウ

  正解 IT governance is a framework and set of practices in which management takes the lead in evaluating the current and future use of IT, directing (giving instructions on) it, and monitoring it, so as to ensure that the use of IT aligns with business objectives (JIS Q 38500). The definition given for blank a in the question — the role of evaluating the current and future use of IT and ensuring that its use aligns with business objectives — describes exactly this responsibility of management, so ウ (Management) is correct.

• ×Incorrectエ

  The information systems manager is responsible for IT management (management at the operational level) such as IT planning, development, and operation, which differs from the entity behind IT governance that controls the overall use of IT at the management level.