COBIT® 5 Foundation

COBIT Certification Course Outline

• Key Features of COBIT 5

  • Structure of the COBIT 5 framework
  • Business needs and benefits provided by COBIT 5

• Analysing the Five Principles

  Meeting stakeholder needs

  • Benefits realization
  • Risk and resource optimisation
  • Supporting the creation of business value through IT
  • Transforming stakeholder needs into an enterprise's actionable strategy
  • Clarifying the purpose of the goals cascade
  • Translating high-level enterprise goals into specific IT-related goals

  Covering the enterprise end-to-end

  • A framework for business and IT leaders
  • Interrelating key roles and activities

  Applying a single integrated framework

  • Implementing COBIT 5 as an integrator
  • Aligning the practises into a single model

  Enabling a holistic approach

  • Evaluating the key components of the enabler dimension
  • Reviewing measurement indicators for achieving goals

  Separating governance from management

  • Balancing enterprise direction and objectives
  • Governance vs. management of IT

• Investigating the Seven Enablers

  Principles, policies and frameworks

  • Meeting good practise requirements for the scope, compliance, exceptions and monitoring
  • Differentiating policies and principles

  Processes

  • Reviewing the key characteristics of the process goal categories
  • The Process Reference Model

  Organisational structures

  • Implementing practises for operations, responsibility delegation and decision-making
  • The key responsibilities of key organisational roles

  Culture, ethics and behaviour

  • Creating, encouraging and maintaining desired behaviours
  • Relating organisational and individual ethics with goals

  Information

  • Reviewing the information quality categories
  • Interrelating the five steps of the information cycle with the information enablers
  • Applying information attributes to layers
  • Assessing context and quality of information to the user with key attributes

  Services, infrastructure and applications

  • Analysing the five architecture principles that govern the use of IT-related resources
  • Relationship with the other enablers

  People, skills and competencies

  • Defining skill requirements for each role
  • Mapping the skill categories to the process domains
  • Skill categories in relation to the process domains

• The Foundations of COBIT 5 Implementation

  Recalling the facts, terms & concepts of implementation

  • Management of the program
  • Change enablement
  • Core continual improvement life cycle

  Applying the continual improvement life cycle to enable change

  • Reviewing enterprise-specific internal and external environments related to change management
  • Addressing pain points and trigger events
  • Phases and characteristics of the life cycle model
  • Realising business benefits with a good business case

• Integrating the COBIT 5 Process Capability Model

  The core facts, terms and concepts based on ISO 15504

  • The six capability levels
  • The nine attributes
  • The rating scale
  • Defining key ISO 15504 terms

  Scoping and the Process Assessment Model (PAM)

  • Identifying the reasons to conduct a process assessment
  • Differences between maturity and capability assessments
  • Implementing a Process Reference Model with COBIT 5