COBIT 2019 Foundation

Our two-day COBIT® 2019 Foundation training course provides the knowledge needed to pass the COBIT® 2019 Foundation certification exam, including a comprehensive understanding of the COBIT 2019 framework, the six key governance principles, and the components of a comprehensive governance system.

You will learn about COBIT® 2019’s forty governance and management objectives, how performance is managed, and how to design and implement a tailored governance system for your enterprise.

COBIT® 2019 is the latest iteration of the industry-leading framework for governance and management of enterprise IT, and provides best practices for the governance and management of enterprise information and technology.

Learning Outcomes:

• Our COBIT® 2019 Foundation training course will tach you to become proficient in the following:
• Manage performance using COBIT® 2019.
• Design a tailored governance system.
• Understand and use COBIT® 2019’s goals cascade.
• Implement COBIT® 2019 using a seven-stage model.

Course Syllabus:

• Module 1: Key Concepts and Terminology of COBIT® 2019
• Structure and format of the COBIT® 2019 framework
• Key stakeholders of COBIT® 2019
• Business benefits provided by COBIT® 2019
• Module 2: Analysing the Six Governance Principles
• Provide stakeholder value
• 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
• Holistic approach
• Evaluating the critical components of a governance system
• Dynamic governance system
• Creating a dynamic governance system
• Governance distinct from management
• Distinguishing between governance and management in an enterprise
• Relationships between governance and management
• Tailored to enterprise needs
• Using design factors to produce an enterprise-specific governance system
• Using COBIT® variants to tailor for a specific purpose or context
• End-to-end governance system
• A framework for business and IT leaders
• Interrelating key roles and activities
• Module 3: Analysing the Three Governance Framework Principles
• Based on conceptual model
• Identifying key components
• Relationships between key components
• Maximising consistency and allowing automation
• Open and flexible
• Updating content
• Addressing new issues
• Maintaining integrity and consistency
• Aligned to major standards
• Alignment between COBIT® and related standards, frameworks and regulations
• Module 4: The Governance System and Components
• COBIT® 2019 Core Model
• The forty governance and management objectives
• The five-domain structure
• Principles, policies, procedures
• Meeting good practice requirements for the scope, compliance, exceptions and monitoring
• Differentiating policies, principles and procedures
• Processes
• Reviewing the key characteristics of the process goal categories
• 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
• Module 5: Performance Management with COBIT® 2019
• Performance Management Principles
• Simple to understand and use
• Consistent with conceptual model
• Providing reliable, repeatable, relevant results
• Flexible to suit different organisations
• Supporting multiple assessment types
• Managing performance of processes
• CMMI-based process capability scheme
• The six process capability levels
• Focus area maturity levels
• Managing performance of other components
• Module 6: Designing and implementing a tailored governance system
• The design process
• Understanding the need for tailoring
• Using design factors and variants
• Stages and steps in the design process
• The relationship between design and implementation
• and more