COBIT® Foundation

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Overview

2-day public or single organisation course

COBIT® (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies) is regarded as the world’s leading IT control and governance framework. This course covers COBIT v4.1.

The COBIT® governance framework, supporting toolset and documentation allows managers to bridge the gap between control requirements, technical issues and business risks.

COBIT® supports IT governance by providing a framework to ensure that:

• IT is aligned with the business
• IT enables the business and maximizes benefits
• IT resources are used responsibly
• IT risks are managed appropriately

In this two day course, participants will be equipped with the knowledge to enable them to use COBIT® for evaluating the effectiveness of IT-related controls and how the framework can assist them in implementing IT Governance and support IT Assurance.

Examination

The course includes ISACA’s COBIT® Foundation examination leading to the COBIT® Foundation Certificate, attained by passing a 1 hour, 40 question, multiple choice examination.

Objectives

The main goal of the course is to ensure that participants have a good overall knowledge of COBIT®. At the end of the course, participants should:

• Understand the principles and objectives of COBIT®
• Identify and know when to use the various components of COBIT®
• Understand the ITGI’s approach to IT Governance and how COBIT® supports this
• Scope and plan IT Management and Governance initiatives based on COBIT®
• Assess IT Management Capability using the COBIT® Maturity Models and Control Objectives.
• Plan control improvements using Control Objectives and Control Practices.
• Create a Performance Measurement framework using COBIT® Metrics and Scorecards.
• Understand how COBIT® aligns with other best practice frameworks and standards such as ITIL, ISO2000, ISO17799 and ISO27001.

Who should attend?

The course is aimed at a wide range of business managers, IT professionals and auditors who wish to gain a better understanding of COBIT® and what it can do for them within their organisations.

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Structure

The course comprises lectures, group discussion and syndicate work. The course content is based on COBIT®, including the framework, the toolsets and a wide range of supporting documentation.

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Content

Overview of IT Governance

COBIT® Origins and development

COBIT® Structure

• Board Briefing
• Framework
• Control Objectives
• IT Assurance Guidelines
• Implementation Tool Set
• IT Governance Implementation Guide
• Control Practices

Other COBIT® Components

• COBIT® Security Baseline
• IT Control Objectives for Sarbanes-Oxley
• COBIT® Online
• COBIT® Quickstart

Implementing COBIT®

• Objectives
• Focus areas
• Approaches
• Tools

Aligning COBIT® to other best practices frameworks and standards

Documentation

Comprehensive course documentation is provided.

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