COBIT 2019 Foundation Course

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.

This course provides the knowledge needed to pass the COBIT 2019 Foundation, 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 Foundation Learning Summary
Delegates will learn the context, benefits and key reasons COBIT is used as an information and technology governance framework. In detail, delegates will be able to:

Recognize the target audience of COBIT 2019
Recognize the context, benefits and key reasons COBIT is used as an information and technology governance framework
Recognize the descriptions and purposes of the COBIT product architecture
Recall the alignment of COBIT with other applicable frameworks, standards and bodies of knowledge
Understand and describe the governance “system” and governance “framework” principles
Describe the components of a governance system
Understand the overall structure and contents of the Goals Cascade
Recall the 40 Governance and Management Objectives and their purpose statements
Understand the relationship between Governance and Management Objectives and Governance Components
Differentiate COBIT based performance management using maturity and capability perspectives
Discover how to design a tailored governance system using COBIT
Explain the key points of the COBIT business case
Understand and recall the phases of the COBIT implementation approach
Describe the relationships between the COBIT Design and Implementation Guides

Course Outline

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: Analyzing the Six Governance Principles

Provide stakeholder value

Benefits realization
Risk and resource optimization
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 key 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

Module 3: Analyzing the Three Governance Framework Principles

Based on conceptual model

Identifying key components
Relationships between key components
Maximizing consistency and allowing automation

Open and flexible

Updating content
Addressing new issues
Maintaining integrity and consistency

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

Organizational structures

Implementing practices for operations, responsibility delegation and decision-making
The key responsibilities of key organizational roles

Culture, ethics and behavior

Creating, encouraging and maintaining desired behaviors
Relating organizational 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