COBIT 5 Foundation

• Structure and format of the COBIT framework
• Key stakeholders of COBIT
• Business benefits provided by COBIT

2.1 Provide stakeholder value:

• Benefits realization
• Risk and resource optimization
• Supporting the creation of business value through IT
• Transforming stakeholder needs into an enterprise's actionable strategy
• Clarifying the purpose of the goals cascade
• Translating high-level enterprise goals into specific IT-related goals

2.2 Holistic approach:

• Evaluating the key components of a governance system

2.3 Dynamic governance system:

• Creating a dynamic governance system

2.4 Governance distinct from management:

• Distinguishing between governance and management in an enterprise
• Relationships between governance and management

2.5 Tailored to enterprise needs:

• Using design factors to produce an enterprise-specific governance system
• Using COBIT variants to tailor for a specific purpose or context

2.6 End-to-end governance system:

• A framework for business and IT leaders
• Interrelating key roles and activities

3.1 Based on conceptual model:

• Identifying key components
• Relationships between key components
• Maximizing consistency and allowing automation

3.2 Open and flexible:

• Updating content
• Addressing new issues
• Maintaining integrity and consistency

3.3 Aligned to major standards:

• Alignment between COBIT and related standards, frameworks and regulations

4.1 COBIT Core Model

• The forty governance and management objectives
• The five-domain structure

4.2 Principles, policies, procedures:

• Meeting good practice requirements for the scope, compliance, exceptions and monitoring
• Differentiating policies, principles and procedures

4.3 Processes:

• Reviewing the key characteristics of the process goal categories

4.4 Organizational structures:

• Implementing practices for operations, responsibility delegation and decision-making
• The key responsibilities of key organizational roles

4.5 Culture, ethics and behavior:

• Creating, encouraging and maintaining desired behaviors
• Relating organizational and individual ethics with goals

4.6 Information:

• Reviewing the information quality categories
• Interrelating the five steps of the information cycle with the information enablers
• Applying information attributes to layers
• Assessing context and quality of information to the user with key attributes

4.7 Services, infrastructure and applications:

• Analyzing the five architecture principles that govern the use of IT-related resources
• Relationship with the other enablers

4.8 People, skills and competencies:

• Defining skill requirements for each role
• Mapping the skill categories to the process domains
• Skill categories in relation to the process domains

5.1 Performance Management Principles:

• Simple to understand and use
• Consistent with conceptual model
• Providing reliable, repeatable, relevant results
• Flexible to suit different organizations
• Supporting multiple assessment types

5.2 Managing performance of processes:

• CMMI-based process capability scheme
• The six process capability levels
• Focus area maturity levels
• Managing performance of other components

The design process:

• Understanding the need for tailoring
• Using design factors and variants
• Stages and steps in the design process