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Course Outline

About Course

The globally recognised COBIT Framework, which helps ensure effective enterprise governance of information and technology, has been updated with new information and guidance, facilitating easier, tailored implementation – strengthening COBIT’s continuing role as an important driver of innovation and business transformation.

The COBIT®2019 governance framework goes well beyond information technology and IT department functions. Good governance is a vital element to strategy formulation and business transformation success.

COBIT®2019 can help you chart that path to success for your enterprise as well as for your career and lifetime learning.

Audience

Internal Stakeholders:

Boards:

Provides insights on how to get value from the use of I&T and explains relevant board responsibilities.

Executive Management:

Provides guidance on how to organise and monitor performance of I&T across enterprise.

Business Managers:

Helps to understand how to obtain the I&T solutions enterprises require and how best to exploit new technology for new strategic opportunities.

IT Managers:

Provides guidance on how best to build and structure the IT department, manage performance of IT, run an efficient and effective IT operation, control IT costs, align IT strategy to business priorities, etc.

Assurance Providers:

Provides guidance on how best to build and structure the IT department, manage performance of IT, run an efficient and effective IT operation, control IT costs, align IT strategy to business priorities, etc.

Risk Management:

Helps to ensure the identification and management of all IT-related risk.

External Stakeholders:

Regulators:

Helps to ensure the enterprise is compliant with applicable rules and regulations ad has the right governance system in place to manage and sustain compliance.

Business Partners:

Helps to ensure that a business partner’s operations are secure, reliable and compliant with applicable rules and regulations.

IT Vendors:

Helps to ensure that an IT vendors operation are secure, reliable and compliant with applicable rules and regulations.

Course Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for the Foundation Exam.

At Course Completion

By the end of the course, you will have the understanding of:

• The target audience of COBIT 2019
• The context, benefits and key reasons COBIT is used as an information and technology governance framework.
• The COBIT product architecture.
• COBIT alignment with other applicable frameworks and standards.
• The different principles.
• The components of governance system.
• Structure and contents of the Goals Cascade.
• The 40 governance and management objectives and the relationship with governance components.
• COBIT based performance management using maturity and capability perspectives.
• How to design a tailored governance system using COBIT.
• The COBIT implementation approach.
• The relationship between the COBIT Design and Implementation Guides.