Text Books
The purchase of the required text book is the responsibility of the student. Students will need to purchase the specified text book/s from one of the suppliers below:
- Amazon
- Uni Books
- Booktopia - Discounted link is http://www.booktopia.com.au/cXBTA1-p1.html
Textbooks for the Information Security subject can be purchased from ISACA bookstore. You can try buying from other sources.
Students should make sure they purchase their required text book/s at least four weeks prior to the commencement of the study period. It is essential that the text book is purchased as it forms part of the subject reading requirements and will also be discussed throughout the duration of the 13 week study period.
Required Textbooks
Risk Management: Professionalism and Compliance
No textbook is required for RMP
New Technology Alignment
No textbook is required for the NTA
Business, Strategy and IT
The New CIO Leader by Marianne Broadbent and Ellen S Kitzis, Harvard Business School Press, 2005.
ISBN 1591395771 or 9781591395775. This book is available as a kindle book through Amazon as an ebook.
What Management Is by Joan Magretta Paperback edition, Profile Books, 2013.
ISBN 978 1 78125 147 8. This book is available as an ebook via Amazon.
Project Management
Readings in Information Technology Project Management by Gary L Richardson and Charles W Butler, Thomson Course Technology, 2006.
ISBN 0-619-21750-2.
Adaptive Business Intelligence
Adaptive Business Intelligence by Zbigniew Michalewicz, Martin Schmidt, Matthew Michalewicz, & Constantin Chiriac, Thomson Course Technology, 2006.
ISBN 3540329285.
Note: This textbook is not available from Booktopia. Suggest you contact Unibooks, Thomson or any reputable bookshop.
IT Service Management
The Official Introduction to the ITIL Service Lifecycle, Office of Government Commerce (OGC), UK.
ISBN 978-0-11-331061-6.
Note: Visit www.itsmf.org.au and log in as a guest to purchase this book. Stock is currently available and delivery is within 7-10 days. The book is available through Amazon.
Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Architecture as a Strategy, Jeanne W Ross, Peter Weill and David C Robertson, Harvard Business School Press, 2006. ISBN 9781591398394
Organisational Change Management
From 2013 no textbook is required for OCM
Green ICT Strategies
There is no set text for this course. References are online.
Business, Process Improvement (using Lean Six Sigma)
Lean Six Sigma Secrets for the CIO, Bentley and Davis, CRC Press, 2010.
ISBN 9781439803790
Information Security
1. Certified Information Security Manager (CISM Review Manual), ISACA International, Please purchase latest version as it changes annually.
2. Business Model for Information Security, ISACA International. ISBN 9781604201543
Textbooks for the Information Security subject can be purchased from ISACA bookstore:
https://www.isaca.org/bookstore/Pages/default.aspx
Business Analysis
There is no set text for this subject. Links to relevant material will be provided.
Consultancy
1. Flawless Consulting, A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used,Third Edition by Peter Block, Jossey–Bass, 2011, ISBN9784762074-8
2. The Trusted Adviser by David H Maister,Simon and Schuster, ISBN074320414-X and paperback 0-7432-1234-7.
Important Information
You may be able to download some of the CPeP textbooks as ebooks via Kindle through Amazon. Check their website for Kindle books availability www.amazon.com
If you have any queries, are having difficulty purchasing your textbook or there is a delay in delivery, please email cpeprogram@acs.org.au
Loan books are available for each subject on a short term basis if books are unavailable.