Comprehensive and Detailed Explanation:
The CGEIT Review Manual 8th Edition, in its Strategic Management domain, emphasizes aligning IT projects with business objectives through structured frameworks. Enterprise architecture (EA) provides a blueprint that maps IT projects to long-term business strategies, ensuring alignment with goals like digital transformation or market expansion. For example, EA ensures a new IT system supports strategic objectives by defining standards and roadmaps. The manual likely references COBIT 2019’s APO03-Managed Enterprise Architecture, which focuses on strategic alignment.
Option A: SLAs focus on operational performance, not strategic alignment.
Option B: Portfolio management prioritizes projects but doesn’t inherently demonstrate alignment.
Option D: BIA assesses impacts, not strategic alignment.
Double Verification: The answer aligns with COBIT’s APO03 and the CGEIT domain’s focus on strategic alignment. EA is the primary ISACA tool for demonstrating alignment.
ISACA CGEIT Review Manual 8th Edition, Domain 1: Governance of Enterprise IT (focus on enterprise architecture).
COBIT 2019, APO03-Managed Enterprise Architecture.
ISACA Glossary (for definitions of EA), available at https://www.isaca.org/resources/glossary.
