COBIT 5 Certified-Foundation Program

PT9334
Training Summary
The COBIT 5 Foundation program provides the basic knowledge and understanding to understand the techniques around governance and management of Enterprise IT. This knowledge helps to create governance awareness with business executives and senior IT Management and introduces the approach to assess Enterprise IT’s current state in your organization to plan the most appropriate implementation strategies. This certification is useful for Business Management, Chief Executives, IT/IS Auditors, Internal Auditors, Information Security and IT Practitioners, IT Consultants, and IT/IS Management looking to gain an insight into the Enterprise governance of IT or looking to be certified as a COBIT Implementer or Assessor. This course introduces topics such as: COBIT 5 Key Features and Product Architecture, COBIT 5 and Other Frameworks, COBIT 5 Principles, (such as Meeting Stakeholder Needs and Separating Governance from Management), COBIT 5 Enablers, (such as Organizational Structures, Culture, Ethics and Behaviours and People, Skills and Competencies), Change Enablement Relationships to the Life Cycle and Continual Improvement, Key Success Factors for Implementation, Making the Business Case, Process Capability Assessment Model, COBIT Assessment Program and the Process Reference Model (PRM).
Prerequisites
Although no pre-requisites are needed for Foundation level; It is highly recommended for course participants to obtain the following publication as it is critical to their success in the foundation course:
  • COBIT 5 – A Business Framework for the Governance and Management of Enterprise IT
  • The Process Capability Supplementary Guide (it supplements chapter 8 of the framework. This utilizes extracts from the Process Assessment Model (PAM using COBIT1 and COBIT5).
Duration
3 Days/Lecture & Lab
Audience
The target group for this program is:
  • Business Management
  • Chief Executives, IT /IS Auditors, Internal Auditors
  • Information Security and IT Practitioners; Consultants
  • IT/IS Management looking to gain an insight into the Enterprise Governance of IT and looking to be certified as a COBIT Implementer or Assessor.
Course Topics
  • General Introduction
  • Purpose of the training
  • High level learning outcomes
  • Structure of the material
  • Exam requirements and preparation
  • Overview & Key Features of COBIT 5
  • The Reasons for the Development of COBIT 5
  • The Evolution of COBIT
  • The Drivers for developing a Framework
  • The benefits of using COBIT® 5
  • The COBIT 5 Format & product Architecture
  • COBIT 5 and Other Frameworks
  • The COBIT 5 Principles
  • Principles model
  • Principle 1 – Meeting Stakeholder Needs
  • Principle 2 – Covering the Enterprise End-to-End
  • Principle 3 – Applying a Single Integrated Framework
  • Principle 4 – Enabling a Holistic Approach
  • Principle 5 – Separating Governance from Management
  • The COBIT 5 Enablers
  • Enabler 1 – Principles, Policies and Frameworks
  • Enabler 2 – Processes
  • Enabler 3 – Organizational Structures
  • Enabler 4 – Culture, Ethics and Behaviour
  • Enabler 5 – Information
  • Enabler 6 – Services, Infrastructure and Applications
  • Enabler 7 – People, Skills and Competencies
  • Introduction to COBIT 5 Implementation
  • The Life cycle Approach
  • Inter related components of the life cycle
  • Understanding the enterprise internal and external factors
  • Key success factors for implementation
  • The seven phases of the Life Cycle model explained
  • he seven Change Enablement characteristics used in the life cycle
  • Change Enablement relationships to the Continual Improvement Life Cycle
  • Making the Business case
  • Process Capability Assessment Model
  • What is a process assessment
  • What is the COBIT Assessment Program
  • The differences between a capability and maturity assessment
  • Differences to the COBIT 4.1 CMM
  • Differences between the COBIT® 1 and COBIT 5 PAMs’
  • Overview of the COBIT Capability Model & Assessments
  • The Process Reference Model (PRM)
  • Important definitions

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