Course Summary
This 2-day instructor led course provides an excellent introduction to the latest version of COBIT
It is ideal for individuals and organisations that wish to have an overview COBIT, and for those who wish to gain a valuable formal qualification in COBIT.
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Key Info
Who the course is for and what you’ll get out of it.
Who Should Attend
This course will benefit anybody who wishes to attain an overview of the key elements of COBIT.
Although there are no formal course prerequisites it is envisaged that the delegates should have at least a basic awareness of the key components of COBIT.
What You Will Learn
Attendance on this course will allow delegates to understand what COBIT is, and how organisations might benefit from using it as part of a wider Governance strategy.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Certification
The examination board is ISACA.
The qualification gained is the internationally recognised ISACA Foundation Certificate in COBIT v4.1.
The examination is a one-hour 40 question multiple examination (70% required to pass).
How to book
Run this course in-house, or attend one of our public courses throughout the UK.
Public Courses
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In-house Training
This course is available at any location across UK and Europe.
In-house, corporate bookings carry significant discounts and are customisable to your requirements.
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Course Contents
2 days training workshops followed by the including the 60 minute exam.
Day One
Introduction to IT Governance
- Overview
- Triggers for the current focus on Governance
- Defining Corporate and IT Governance
- Placing IT Governance in an overall Governance framework
IT Governance Drivers
- Key drivers for improved IT Governance
- Industry responses
- The need for a unifying framework
Defining the CobiT Framework
- Overview of CobiT
- The purpose of CobiT
- CobiT’s target audience
- CobiT’s history
- Exploring CobiT’s four perspectives
- The Financial Perspective
- Focusing on the Customer Perspective
- Learning and Growth
- The Internal Perspective
- CobiT’s key concepts
- Linking business goals and IT goals
- Linking IT goals and information criteria
- Linking IT goals and processes
- Measuring IT Governance
- Using Balanced Scorecards
- Maturity Models and their application
- Using the RACI matrix
Navigating the CobiT Framework
- Writing process descriptions
- Evaluating control objectives
- Inputs and outputs
- Using RACI charts
- Defining goals and metrics
- Using maturity models
- Supporting CobiT information
Day Two
Examining CobiT’s Scope and Structure
- Defining the key business requirements for IT
- Ensuring effectiveness
- Delivering efficiency
- Maintaining confidentiality
- Integrity of the structure
- Availability of resource
- Achieving compliance
- Reliability of the system
- The four IT resource areas
- Planning and Organising
- Acquiring and Implementing
- Delivering and Supporting
- Monitoring and Evaluating
- The four process domains:
- Applications
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Information
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Infrastructure
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People
In-depth Examination of information
- Content and presentation of information
- CobiT’s use of RACI charts and information matrices
- Focus areas
CobiT’s Relationship with other Methodologies
- The relationship with ITIL®
- PRINCE2™
- Considering APM and PMI BOK
- ISO/IEC 17799
Practical Application of CobiT
- Effective implementation of IT Governance and the CobiT framework
- Additional ITGI information
