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Key Features of COBIT 5

    Structure of the COBIT 5 framework
    Business needs and benefits provided by COBIT 5

Analysing the Five Principles
Meeting stakeholder needs

    Benefits realisation
    Risk and resource optimisation
    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

Covering the enterprise end-to-end

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

Applying a single integrated framework

    Implementing COBIT 5 as an integrator
    Aligning the practices into a single model

Enabling a holistic approach

    Evaluating the key components of the enabler dimension
    Reviewing measurement indicators for achieving goals

Separating governance from management

    Balancing enterprise direction and objectives
    Governance vs. management of IT

Investigating the Seven Enablers
Principles, policies and frameworks

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

Processes

    Reviewing the key characteristics of the process goal categories
    The Process Reference Model

Organisational structures

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

Culture, ethics and behaviour

    Creating, encouraging and maintaining desired behaviours
    Relating organisational and individual ethics with goals

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

Services, infrastructure and applications

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

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

The Foundations of COBIT 5 Implementation
Recalling the facts, terms & concepts of implementation

    Management of the program
    Change enablement
    Core continual improvement life cycle

Applying the continual improvement life cycle to enable change

    Reviewing enterprise-specific internal and external environments related to change management
    Addressing pain points and trigger events
    Phases and characteristics of the life cycle model
    Realising business benefits with a good business case

Integrating the COBIT 5 Process Capability Model
The core facts, terms and concepts based on ISO 15504

    The six capability levels
    The nine attributes
    The rating scale
    Defining key ISO 15504 terms

Scoping and the Process Assessment Model (PAM)

    Identifying the reasons to conduct a process assessment
    Differences between maturity and capability assessments
    Implementing a Process Reference Model with COBIT 5