COBIT® 2019 Foundation Certification Training

COBIT Certificate: Elevate Your Expertise

This course provides the preparation and 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.

A greater grasp of IT governance and management is the goal of this COBIT 2019 Foundation course. COBIT is a comprehensive library of information, tools, models, and resources that enable business executives to achieve their goals for effective governance. COBIT 2019 FOUNDATION, the most recent version of the industry-leading framework for these activities, best practices for corporate information and technology governance and management.

Through this COBIT 2019 Foundation training, participants will learn:

• Integrating IT goals with strategic business objectives, utilizing technologies meant to give governance a wider view and practitioners greater flexibility in implementing the strategy.
• The value of IT, the resources required, and the dangers involved in creating a mature partnership between the business and IT.
• How each of the several IT governance frameworks, such as ITIL and NIST, operates and their advantages and disadvantages.

Students, including the following, will explore the COBIT framework's core elements and structure:

• The introduction of a new framework
• Terms and concepts that are essential
• Principles of Governance and the Framework
• Components and the governance system
• Management and governance goals
• Management of performance
• Creating a bespoke governance structure

Who This Course is for

Individuals who can take up COBIT 2019 Foundation online training include, but are not limited to:

• IT Administrators
• IT Governance Professionals
• Compliance Professionals
• Regulatory Staff
• IT Auditors
• Risk Management Professionals
• Technical Officers
• GRC Team Members
• Risk Managers
• Cybersecurity Professionals
• IT Enterprise Architects
• Directors
• CIOs
• Senior Stakeholders
• Professionals who are part of the COBIT implementation team
• Aspiring GRC Professionals
• Professionals who want to learn everything about the latest COBIT 2019 Framework
• Professionals who are looking to sit for ISACA's COBIT 2019 Foundation certification exam

Curriculum

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

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 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 purpose or context

End-to-end governance system

• A framework for business and IT leaders
• Interrelating key roles and activities

Analyzing the Three Governance Framework Principles

Based on a 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

Aligned to major standards

• Alignment between COBIT and related standards, frameworks, and regulations

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 organizations 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

• Analyzing the five architectural 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 about the process domains

Performance Management with COBIT 2019
Performance Management Principles

• Simple to understand and use
• Consistent with the conceptual model
• Providing reliable, repeatable, relevant results
• Flexible to suit different organizations
• Supporting multiple assessment types

Managing the performance of processes

• CMMI-based process capability scheme
• The six process capability levels
• Focus area maturity levels

Managing the performance of other components

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

The COBIT 2019 seven-phase implementation approach

• What are the drivers?
• Where are we now?
• Where do we want to be?
• What needs to be done?
• How do we get there?
• Did we get there?
• How do we keep the momentum going?