Updated COBIT Certification Exam
Questions and Answers (Verified)
• Benefits of I&T governance / Main outcomes of successful EGIT (3) -✓✓Benefits
realization
Risk optimization
Resource optimization
• Internal Stakeholders of COBIT (6) -✓✓Boards (Insights how to get value from the use
of I&T)
Excutive Management (guidance organize and monitor performance of I&T across the
enterprise)
Business Managers (obtain I&T solutions, exploit new technologies)
IT Managers (build and structure IT department, performance, operation, align
IT&Business)
Assurance Providers
Risk Management (all IT related risk)
• External Stakeholders of COBIT (3) -✓✓Regulators (manage & sustain compliance)
Business Partners (secure, reliable and compliant)
IT Vendors (secure, reliable and compliant)
• What COBIT is (6) -✓✓1) Framework for EGIT
2) Aimed at whole enterprise
3) Distinction management/governance
4) components to build governance system
5) design dactors for best fit
6) grouping components into objectives
• What COBIT not is (4) -✓✓full description of the whole IT environment
organizing business processes
(IT-)technical framework to manage all technology
making IT-related decisions
• Governance System Principles (6) -✓✓Provide Stakeholder Value (Goals Cascade)
Holistic Approach (7 Components)
Dynamic Governance System (Able to adapt)
Governance distinct from Management (Domönen der Objectives)
Tailored to enterprise needs (Design Factors)
End-to-End Governance System (alle Bereiche, Implementation)
• Governance and Management Objectives > Domains (5) -✓✓Governance Objective
Domain:
EDM Evaluate Direct Monitor
, Management Objective Domain:
APO Align Plan Organize
BAI Build Aquire Implement
DSS Deliver Service Support
MEA Monitor Evaluate Assess
• Governance Framework Principles (3) -✓✓Conceptual model
Open and Flexible
Aligned to major standards
• Alignment & Enterprise Goals - BSC Dimensions of each (4) -✓✓Financial
Customer
Internal
Learning&Growth
• Components of a Governance System (7) -✓✓P Processes (Practices, Metrics,
Activities, Related Standards)
O Organizational Structures (RACI)
I Information (Input, Output)
P People, Skills, Competencies (Skills Matrix)
P Principles, Policies, Procedures
C Culture, Ethics, Behavior
S Services, Infrastructure, Applications
• Focus Areas (2) -✓✓Describes a governance topic that can be adressed by a
governence objective
Number is unlimited, that makes COBIT open end
(Security, Risk, DevOps, SME...)
• Design Factors (12) -✓✓Enterprise Strategy (Growth/Anquisition, Inno/Differ, Cost
Leadership, Service/ Stability)
Enterprise Goals
Risk Profile (Risikokathegorien/ Appetite for risk)
I&T related Issues (Risks that have materialized)
Threat Landscape (Normal/High)
Compliance Requirements (Low / Normal / High)
Role of IT (Support / Factory / Turnaround / Strategic)
Sourcing Model for IT (Outsourcing / Insourcing / Hybrid)
IT Implementation Methods (Agile /DevOps /Traditional /Hybrid)
Technology Adoption Strategy (First Mover/ Follower /Slow Adoption)
Enterprise Size (Large / Small and Medium)
Future Factors
• Goal Cascade (4) -✓✓Stakeholder Drivers and Needs
13 Enterprise Goals EG
13 Alignment Goals (IT Ziele) AG
Questions and Answers (Verified)
• Benefits of I&T governance / Main outcomes of successful EGIT (3) -✓✓Benefits
realization
Risk optimization
Resource optimization
• Internal Stakeholders of COBIT (6) -✓✓Boards (Insights how to get value from the use
of I&T)
Excutive Management (guidance organize and monitor performance of I&T across the
enterprise)
Business Managers (obtain I&T solutions, exploit new technologies)
IT Managers (build and structure IT department, performance, operation, align
IT&Business)
Assurance Providers
Risk Management (all IT related risk)
• External Stakeholders of COBIT (3) -✓✓Regulators (manage & sustain compliance)
Business Partners (secure, reliable and compliant)
IT Vendors (secure, reliable and compliant)
• What COBIT is (6) -✓✓1) Framework for EGIT
2) Aimed at whole enterprise
3) Distinction management/governance
4) components to build governance system
5) design dactors for best fit
6) grouping components into objectives
• What COBIT not is (4) -✓✓full description of the whole IT environment
organizing business processes
(IT-)technical framework to manage all technology
making IT-related decisions
• Governance System Principles (6) -✓✓Provide Stakeholder Value (Goals Cascade)
Holistic Approach (7 Components)
Dynamic Governance System (Able to adapt)
Governance distinct from Management (Domönen der Objectives)
Tailored to enterprise needs (Design Factors)
End-to-End Governance System (alle Bereiche, Implementation)
• Governance and Management Objectives > Domains (5) -✓✓Governance Objective
Domain:
EDM Evaluate Direct Monitor
, Management Objective Domain:
APO Align Plan Organize
BAI Build Aquire Implement
DSS Deliver Service Support
MEA Monitor Evaluate Assess
• Governance Framework Principles (3) -✓✓Conceptual model
Open and Flexible
Aligned to major standards
• Alignment & Enterprise Goals - BSC Dimensions of each (4) -✓✓Financial
Customer
Internal
Learning&Growth
• Components of a Governance System (7) -✓✓P Processes (Practices, Metrics,
Activities, Related Standards)
O Organizational Structures (RACI)
I Information (Input, Output)
P People, Skills, Competencies (Skills Matrix)
P Principles, Policies, Procedures
C Culture, Ethics, Behavior
S Services, Infrastructure, Applications
• Focus Areas (2) -✓✓Describes a governance topic that can be adressed by a
governence objective
Number is unlimited, that makes COBIT open end
(Security, Risk, DevOps, SME...)
• Design Factors (12) -✓✓Enterprise Strategy (Growth/Anquisition, Inno/Differ, Cost
Leadership, Service/ Stability)
Enterprise Goals
Risk Profile (Risikokathegorien/ Appetite for risk)
I&T related Issues (Risks that have materialized)
Threat Landscape (Normal/High)
Compliance Requirements (Low / Normal / High)
Role of IT (Support / Factory / Turnaround / Strategic)
Sourcing Model for IT (Outsourcing / Insourcing / Hybrid)
IT Implementation Methods (Agile /DevOps /Traditional /Hybrid)
Technology Adoption Strategy (First Mover/ Follower /Slow Adoption)
Enterprise Size (Large / Small and Medium)
Future Factors
• Goal Cascade (4) -✓✓Stakeholder Drivers and Needs
13 Enterprise Goals EG
13 Alignment Goals (IT Ziele) AG
