COBIT® 4.1 Foundation and Exam

COBIT^® (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology), from ISACA, is the world's leading technology governance framework. Using COBIT^® to drive your organization's technology strategy and implementation addresses the range of governance issues from board accountability down to the floor.

This is an ISACA Certified Foundation Course and accredited preparation for the ISACA Foundation exam (voucher included in the course fee).

This course is aimed at organisations needing to stabilise or establish technology governance. It is equally applicable to organisations in the public and private sector.

** New **  COBIT^® 5 introduction, overview of main features and comparison with COBIT^® 4.1

PreterLex is a contributor to COBIT^®5.

Duration

2 days

Who Should Attend

It is suitable for heads of group function (IT, audit, security, procurement etc.), risk management, IT programme and project managers, design authorities, compliance officers and those responsible for implementing technology governance.

Course Content

This course includes the following:

• ISACA COBIT^® Foundation exam voucher
• Topics
• • IT issues and their related business impacts defining need for Governance
  • COBIT^® structure (domains, processes, management guidelines, maturity models, inputs and outputs, RACI charts, goals and metrics)
  • How governance identifies and resolves management issues
  • Introduction to Corporate Governance, Technology Governance and control frameworks
  • Introduction to COBIT^®, RISKIT^® and VALIT^® 
  • Management use of COBIT^®
  • Technology governance issues
  • COBIT^® review
• ** New ** COBIT^® 5           [PreterLex is a COBIT^® 5 contributor]
• • Introduction
  • Overview of main features
  • COBIT^® 4.1 to COBIT^® 5 comparison

Candidates who complete the COBIT^® 4.1 Foundation course and pass the COBIT^® Foundation exam receive a certificate from ISACA and 8 Continuous Professional Education (CPE/PDU) credits.

Learning Outcomes

This course provides an overview of corporate governance, how technology governance can be used for organisational advantage and introduces COBIT^® and how it can be used to support management.

The foundation course is ideal for those who want to gain an understanding of COBIT^® and Technology Governance.

Delegates who have completed this course will be able to use COBIT^® to understand, develop, implement and manage their organization's technology governance by:

• Understanding the principles of IT Governance and the integration of these into Enterprise Governance of IT
• Introduction to COBIT^®, RiskIT^® and VALIT^® frameworks
• Recognising the characteristics of a control framework and how COBIT^® fits and its relationship to other frameworks/standards and compliance to regulatory requirements
• Understanding COBIT^® components and structure including Control Practices, Assurance Guide,  RACI charts, input/output threads, maturity models and goals and metrics
• Understand the principles and objectives of COBIT^®  
• Identify and know when to use the various components of COBIT^®  
• Understand ISACA's approach to IT Governance and how you can use COBIT^®  to support 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

Course Dates

This course is available on demand as a public or private event
Please contact us to discuss availability

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