COBIT® 5 Certified-Foundation Program – 3 Days

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).

• The course will provide the participants with the understanding of the key principles and terminology within COBIT® Specifically, the candidate shall know and understand:
• The major drivers for the development of COBIT® 5.
• The business benefits of using COBIT® 5.
• The COBIT® 5 Product Architecture.
• The IT management issues and challenges that affect enterprises.
• The 5 Key Principles of COBIT® 5 for the governance and management of Enterprise IT.
• How COBIT® 5 enables IT to be governed and managed in a holistic manner for the entire enterprise.
• How the COBIT® 5 processes and the Process Reference Model (PRM) help guide the creation of the 5 Principles and the 7 Governance and Management Enablers.
• The basic concepts for the Implementation of COBIT® 5.
• The basic concepts of the new Process Assessment Model.
• The COBIT® 5 guides and how they interrelate.
• The COBIT® 5 Business Framework for the Governance and Management of Enterprise IT course introduces the candidate to the five basic principles covered in detail and includes extensive guidance on enablers for governance and management of enterprise IT. Also included is a supplementary guide outlining the foundation concepts of a process assessment model (PAM) based on the ISO 15504 approach which replaces the previous CMM (Capability Maturity Model).

• 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
• The 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

We provide the students with real life experiences; for the purpose of discussion and to show the value of using best practice, we could use the client organization as “Case study” example (where private course is delivered).

Any facility access, class or exam or material or other special requirements should be communicated ahead of time so that we can accommodate you.