• Classroom
  • Online, Instructor-Led
Course Description

Our COBIT 2019 training class at Interface will prepare you for the ISACA COBIT® 2019 Foundation Certification Exam. Over the years, best-practice frameworks have been developed and promoted to assist in the process of understanding, designing and implementing enterprise governance of IT (EGIT). COBIT 2019 builds on and integrates more than 25 years of development in this field, not only incorporating new insights from science but also operationalizing these insights as practice. Students are issued an exam voucher to take the exam independently online following the course. The exam is not administered during class.

This COBIT 2019 training course  is taught by Interface instructor Mark Thomas. Mark brings over 25 years of professional experience, and his background spans leadership roles from Datacenter CIO to Management and IT Consulting. Mark has led large teams in outsourced IT arrangements, conducted PMO, Service Management and governance activities for major project teams, managed enterprise applications implementations and implemented governance processes across multiple industries.

Mark’s areas of expertise include:

  • Governance Solution Design, Implementation & Management
  • ITIL, CobiT, MOF, ISO20000 Consulting & Training
  • Executive, Team, & Client Coaching & Mentoring
  • Software Testing and QA
  • Project Portfolio Demand Management
  • Software Selection & Implementation
  • IT Strategy & Business Alignment
  • Team Leadership

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, attendees will understand:

  • Recognize the context, benefits and key reasons COBIT is used as an information and technology governance framework.
  • Explain the key attributes of the COBIT framework
  • Compare the COBIT principles for governance system framework.
  • Describe the components of a governance system:
  • Describe the elements of governance and management objectives.
  • Differentiate COBIT based performance management using maturity and capability perspectives.
  • Discover how to design a tailored governance system using COBIT.
  • Explain the key points of the COBIT business case.
  • Describe the relationships between the COBIT Design and Implementation Guides.
  • Prepare for the COBIT 2019 Foundation exam

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

Specialty Areas

  • Cyber Operational Planning
  • Knowledge Management
  • Program/Project Management and Acquisition
  • Risk Management
  • Vulnerability Assessment and Management

Specialty Areas have been removed from the NICE Framework. With the recent release of the new NICE Framework data, updates to courses are underway. Until this course can be updated, this historical information is provided to give better context as to how it can help you with your cybersecurity goals.