CHAPTER 4

IT Life Cycle Management

This chapter covers CISA Domain 3, “Information Systems Acquisition, Development, and Implementation,” and includes questions from the following topics:

•   Program and project management

•   The systems development life cycle (SDLC)

•   Infrastructure development and implementation

•   Maintaining information systems

•   Business processes and business process reengineering

•   Managing third-party risk

•   Application controls

The topics in this chapter represent 12 percent of the CISA examination.

To provide effective audits of an organization’s information systems and related business processes, the IS auditor needs to understand how organizations develop and/or acquire information systems. The systems ...

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