Cisa Exam Cram 2

Key concepts you will need to understand:

System-development methodologies and tools (prototyping, RAD, SDLC, object-oriented design techniques)

Documentation and charting methods

Application implementation practices (piloting, parallel run)

Software quality-assurance methods

Application architecture (client/server applications, object-oriented design, data warehousing, web-based applications, interfaces)

Testing principles, methods, and practices

Project-management principles, methods, and practices (PERT, CPM, estimation techniques)

Application system-acquisition processes (evaluation of vendors, preparation of contracts, vendor management, escrow)

Application-maintenance principles (versioning, packaging, change request)

System migration and data-conversion tools, techniques, and procedures

Application change-control and emergency change-management procedures

Post-implementation review techniques

Techniques you will need to master:

Evaluate the processes by which application systems are developed and implemented to ensure that they contribute to the organizations business objectives

Evaluate the processes by which application systems are acquired and implemented to ensure that they contribute to the organizations business objectives

Evaluate the processes by which application systems are maintained to ensure the continued support of the organizations business objectives