COBIT®5 Foundation Certification

This COBIT 5 Foundation Certification online course delivers comprehensive training on COBIT 5’s globally-accepted principles, tools, practices and models.

The COBIT 5 framework supports organizations in realizing business benefits through the effective and innovative utilization of IT. The framework provides formal mechanisms for the reliable and efficient application of technology. In turn, this delivers optimized costs and keeps the maintenance of IT-related risks at an acceptable level.

The course trains individuals to use metrics and maturity models that measure the success of IT and its alignment with business goals. The course also builds awareness of essential compliance issues, including relevant laws, regulations, contractual agreements and policies.
Passing the COBIT 5 Foundation exam is a prerequisite for achieving the COBIT 5 Implementation certification. Certification training focuses on applying the framework in practice.

Module 1: Introduction
The first module offers an explanation of the context for COBIT 5, and its position as a single and integrated framework. It provides an overview of the COBIT 5 architecture and the ISACA material, as well as other frameworks that it encompasses.

Module 2: IT Governance and Control Frameworks
This module looks at what IT governance means in practice, as well as several common IT-related issues faced in organizations. It also provides an overview of three key viewpoints: Organization, Executive Board and Management, and IT Management.

Module 3: COBIT Principles Overview
This module takes a detailed look at the five principles underpinning COBIT 5, as well as the associated processes and methodologies.

Module 4: Meeting Stakeholder Needs
This module explores how to translate the needs of the stakeholder into specific, actionable and customized goals.

Module 5: Covering the Enterprise End-to-End
Module five examines the components of a governance system and how the components interact.

Module 6: Applying a Single Integrated Framework
This module explores the COBIT 5 architecture and its role as a single and integrated framework.

Module 7: Enabling a Holistic Approach
This module examines the enablers defined within COBIT 5 that underpin an effective IT governance and management system.

Module 8: Separating Governance from Management
This module provides a clear description of the differences between governance and management, which distinguish COBIT from all other frameworks.

Module 9: Enablers
‘Enablers’ provides a detailed description of COBIT’s seven categories of enablers, which determine whether something will work.

Module 10: Process Capability Model (the Process Assessment Model)
This penultimate module examines the facts, terms and concepts associated with the Process Capability Model.

Module 11: Introduction to COBIT® 5 Implementation
Module 11 provides an overview of the implementation and continual improvement life cycle, including how to recognize pain points and create appropriate environments.

The course includes a FREE exam voucher for the COBIT 5 Foundation examination. The exam is taken online, using a cloud-based service provided by APMG called ‘ProctorU’. On completing the training, students should contact the Orbus support team to request their COBIT 5 Foundation exam voucher.

Exam Format

• Multiple-choice
• 50 questions
• 40 minutes (additional time will be available if English is not your first language)
• Pass mark is 50% or 25/50
• Closed-book

Please ensure that your device meets the system requirements before booking your exam. You can do so via this https://test-it-out.proctoru.com/. Please visit the APMG International website for more information and guidance.

The COBIT 5 certification is highly-credible and well-established. The qualification also has a rigorous accreditation process, necessitating high-quality training. This course offers high value to individuals who wish to establish a career associated with the governance of enterprise IT.

This online training course is ideal for anyone associated with the governance of IT enterprises. This includes business managers, IT/IS auditors, Information Security practitioners and IT managers.

COBIT 5 is a comprehensive framework that helps organizations to maintain high-quality information in order to support business decisions. Training employees in COBIT 5 enables enterprises to:

• Connect IT and wider business operations through a common language
• Maximize the value generated by IT
• Align IT with strategic goals
• Achieve compliance with industry standards
• Improve the integration of information security