Question 15
UnclassifiedWhich of the following would be the GREATEST governance challenge to an organization where production is hosted in a public cloud and backups are held on the premises?
Correct answer: A
Explanation
Governance focuses on ensuring IT supports business objectives, so the greatest challenge is aligning cloud service delivery with the organization’s objective. In a public cloud with on-premises backups, the organization must coordinate service levels, risk, and recovery expectations across two environments to meet business goals.
Why each option is right or wrong
A. Aligning the cloud service delivery with the organization’s objective
Under COBIT governance principles, the board’s primary responsibility is to ensure IT-enabled services support enterprise objectives, so the hardest issue here is not the backup location but whether the public-cloud production service is being directed to meet the organization’s required outcomes. In a split environment like this, governance must set and monitor service levels, risk appetite, and recovery expectations across the cloud provider and the on-premises backup arrangement; that alignment problem is the core challenge, whereas operational details are subordinate to business-objective fit.
B. Aligning the cloud provider’s SLA with the organization’s policy
C. Aligning shared responsibilities between provider and customer
D. Aligning the organization’s activity with the cloud provider’s policy