COBIT Foundation

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.

The ISACA COBIT Foundation course addresses the benefits of a sound IT governance framework and explains how this can be realised using the COBIT best practice framework.

The course carefully explains all elements of the COBIT framework using a case study and interactive presentations. The course will help professionals understand how to use COBIT in a logical and understandable way. An exam preparation module is included to prepare delegates for the COBIT Foundation Exam held at the end of the course.

Successful delegates will:

• Understand the principles and objectives of COBIT
• Identify and know when to use the various components of COBIT
• Understand the IT Governance Institute's approach to IT Governance and how COBIT supports this
• Be able to scope and plan IT Management and Governance initiatives based on COBIT
• Be able to 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.

• Overview of IT Governance & COBIT
• Other COBIT Components (Security Baseline, control objectives for Sarbane-Oxley, Online, Quickstart)
• Implementing COBIT
• Aligning COBIT to other best practices frameworks and standards
• Candidate assessment - preparation and exam