You Will Learn How To
- Prepare for and take the ISACA COBIT Foundation Exam
- Position IT governance in an enterprise governance framework
- Navigate and apply ISACA's COBIT Framework
- Apply COBIT and IT governance to identify and resolve management issues
- Relate COBIT to other frameworks and methodologies
Course Benefits
Managing IT as an organisational resource is essential for good business value and risk management. Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT) provides best practises in IT governance for IT professionals and managers. COBIT provides a comprehensive set of measures, indicators, processes and control objectives across a broad spectrum of IT processes. This course prepares you for the COBIT Foundation Exam given on the final day of class.
Who Should Attend
Those who want to achieve the COBIT Foundation Certificate and are interested in implementing the COBIT framework.
Workshop Course
Workshops provide knowledge of the COBIT framework and prepare you for the Foundation Certification exam. Workshops include:
- Bringing IT costs under control
- Promoting the adoption of corporate IT processes
- Improving the management of outsourced operations using COBIT guidance and DS2
- Planning improvements to project and programme management using P010
Important Course Information
- The COBIT Foundation Exam is included in this class.
- Course fee includes the Foundation Exam.
Course Content
Introduction to IT Governance
Need for IT governance
- Triggers for the current focus on governance
- Defining corporate and IT governance
- Placing IT governance in an overall governance framework
- How governance identifies and resolves management issues
- Integrating enterprise governance
IT governance drivers
- Key drivers for improved IT governance
- The need for a unifying framework
COBIT Fundamentals
Overview of COBIT
- The purpose of COBIT
- COBIT's target audience and benefits
- COBIT's history
- COBIT's dimensions
Exploring COBIT's four perspectives
- The financial perspective
- Focusing on the customer perspective
- Learning and growth
- The internal perspective
COBIT's key concepts
- Linking business goals and IT goals
- IT governance focus areas
- Connecting IT goals and information criteria
- Linking IT goals, processes and control objectives
- COBIT's four resources
Measuring IT governance
- COBIT Framework Techniques
- Using balanced scorecards
- Maturity models and their applications
- Employing the RACI matrix
Examining COBIT's Scope
Defining the key business requirements for IT
- Ensuring effectiveness
- Delivering information efficiently
- Maintaining confidentiality
- Integrity of information
- Availability of information
- Achieving compliance
- Reliability
The four IT resource areas
- Planning and organising
- Acquiring and implementing
- Delivering and supporting
- Monitoring and evaluating
The four process domains:
- Applications
- Information
- Infrastructure
- People
Navigating the COBIT Framework
Characteristics of a control framework
- Process descriptions
- Control objectives
- Inputs and outputs
- Using RACI charts
- Defining goals and metrics
- Using maturity models
- Supporting COBIT information
COBIT and the VAL IT framework
- Linking business goals to process
- VAL IT as a supporting framework within enterprise governance
In-Depth Examination of Information
- Content and presentation of information
- COBIT's use of RACI charts and information matrices
- Focus areas
Relationship with Other Methodologies
- The relationship with ITIL®
- PRINCE2®
- Considering APM and PMBOK® Guide
- The ISO/IEC standard
- COSO
- VAL IT
Practical Application of COBIT
- Additional ITGI information
- IT assurance using COBIT
- COBIT's guidance for implementation of a governance framework
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