1: Definition of Professional
Professional means a person who has some specific set of work to do. Professional is involved into a specific profession. The professionals earn their living from specific domain of tasks. In addition to this, the term also describes that standard of education that helps them to prepare structure of working in different way in comparison with other people involved within that particular functionality (Moon 2013). Professional generally follows specific codes of conduct that offers them set of instructions for doing a particular work with respect to a specific pattern and technique. Professionals are concerned about various ethical and moral codes of conduct that offers them processes and strategies to protect their occupation from wrong doings.
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According to the concept of preparing the CV for any post concerned with any job application, there are various aspects that can be considered to be changed for making the CV impactful to the recruiters (Leather 2017). In addition to this, my CV can be changed with the help of 5 level of guidance provided by the SFIA framework for preparing CV. These are given as follows:
Level 1: I have to show technical feasibility analysis of mu courses and experiences.
Level 2: Capability of resolving technical and other kinds of issues involved in project. I have to show the presence of mind and intelligence skills in this section.
Level 3: I have to show the application of technical knowledge in the domain of the business applications for making the recruiters impresses with my CV.
Level 4: I have to highlight leadership activities that I have attempted in my career.
Level 5: I have to highlight the capability of using the technical experiences in my CV.
According to the critical evaluation of my CV I have found that I have to change my CV accordingly with the Level 4 and 5 measures found in the SFIA framework (Shankararaman and Gottipati 2016).
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I have chosen IBM as the effective host organization to analyze the IT control framework with respect to the governance framework. In addition to this, IBM utilizes COBIT IT governance and control framework for utilizing incorporating effective solutions within the IT infrastructure of the organization (Kam, Katerattanakul and Hong 2016). COBIT framework uses planning, implementation, management and assessment phase within the system architecture of IBM. Development Organization Transformation are three important stages that IBM follows for maintaining their IT control and governance framework within their organization.
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Figure 1: IT governance framework for IBM
(Source: Ibm.com 2017)
The second part of this question cannot be done as there are no sample answers of other students for comparing those.
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I would like to consider record keeping process that I have experienced during my internship. This ICT task incorporated the utilization of Australian Standards. These standards are given as follows: establishment of the responsibility of the ICT professional, planning for ICT support, acquiring the validity of ICT roles, ethical obligations for implementing new technical system architectures (Al-Saggaf, Burmeister and Weckert 2015). All of these aspects are taken into account for managing the effectiveness of the network system designed for the organization. In addition to this, these standards provided the directors in analyzing their responsibilities and roles in implementing new system within organization. ISO standards were taken into account within the concerned organization and these standards were responsible for managing security, service and quality management aspect within the organization. In addition to this, the information systems are also taken into consideration in this case (Schlagwein, Thorogood and Willcocks 2014). As I manage all operations related to organizational data, high level of confidentiality must be maintained. Therefore, Public Act 2002 is involved in this case. This standard provides the legislation for managing the confidentiality of documents and information.
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I have done my internship in a famous Australian ICT company. In contrast with the Australian legislation format, I used operate various databases that were extremely confidential and has to be managed by me. In addition to this, I used to check the user access with respect to various authentication formats and regulations. These were introduced from the Australian code of conducts related to Legislation or Compliances (Handford, Elliott and Campbell 2015). I had to follows ISO 27000 for security management concerns within the database management process. This standard incorporates security perspectives related to any information system or technical operations. The company documents as well as organizational and financial data were managed by me. These documents were extremely confidential, therefore, I used to involve ISO 27000 standards in this operational measure. Integrity of information was maintained with the help of these standards by me. In addition to this, not only I had to manage the confidentiality of the document with the help of these standards but also provide information at the right time for using that specific document to the right person.
References
Al-Saggaf, Y., Burmeister, O. and Weckert, J., 2015. Reasons behind unethical behaviour in the Australian ICT workplace. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 13(3-4), pp.235-255.
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Kam, H.J., Katerattanakul, P. and Hong, S., 2016. IT governance framework. In 22nd Americas Conference on Information Systems: Surfing the IT Innovation Wave, AMCIS 2016. Association for Information Systems.
Leather, P. (2017). Using SFIA to help you craft a high impact CV - IT Workforce. [online] IT Workforce. Available at: https://it-workforce.com/curated-articles/using-sfia-to-craft-your-cv/ [Accessed 7 Feb. 2017].
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Shankararaman, V. and Gottipati, S., 2016, April. Mapping information systems student skills to industry skills framework. In Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2016 IEEE (pp. 248-253). IEEE.
