COBIT® 5 Foundation

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

Meeting stakeholder needs

• Benefits realisation
• 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 practices 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

Principles, policies and frameworks

• Meeting good practice 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 practices 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

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

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