Beginner's COBIT Companion by T. Gilling

Of course, as an introductory text it is also suitable for anyone wishing to develop a basic understanding of COBIT, regardless of their role, inside or out of the enterprise. This publication is aimed at the following audience: Board, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Business Executive, Chief Information Officer (CIO), Business Senior Management, Business Process Owner, Head Operations, Chief Architect, Head Development, Head IT Administration, Project Management Office (PMO), Compliance, Audit, Risk, and Security (CARS), Deployment Team, Service Manager, Service Desk/Incident Manager, Configuration Manager, Problem Manager. It is your personal portal into the world of COBIT and no batteries are required! It might not be the only publication you will need in order to master COBIT but it is the very best place to start your learning journey. This book collates select material from a wide variety of ISACA/ITGI sources into a comprehensive single-point-of-reference.

A revision guide has been provided to help those preparing for the COBIT 4.1 Foundation Examination, and two challenging tests are included to help verify your newly developed understanding - whether you sit the exam or not. The inclusion of licensed materials, from ISACA/ITGI, ensures that the reader can start to familiarise themselves with the concepts, terminology, and phraseology found in the official COBIT literature. Extra details that will be needed once you have the basics under your belt are cunningly hidden away in the extensive appendices at the back of the publication. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Beginner's COBIT Companion has been created to give a reader, new to the subject, an easy to comprehend introduction to COBIT.

The inclusion of extensive extracts from the original COBIT 4.1 manual, licensed from ISACA/ITGI, ensures that the reader can start to familiarise themselves with the concepts, terminology, and phraseology fo A revision guide for the COBIT 4.1 Foundation Examination has also been included, along with two, forty-question, mock exams.

The appendices, which make up a large part of this book, contain the extra details that might be needed later, once the basics have been mastered, to progress to the next level. The principle chapters are short, and to-the-point, providing just enough information to quickly give the reader an understanding of the fundamentals of COBIT 4.1 in fact, most readers should be pleasantly surprised at just how quickly they can get up-to-speed on COBIT 4.1 using this book. Beginner's COBIT Companion provides a gentle introduction to COBIT 4.1, the IT Governance framework from ISACA it contains a wealth of useful information for any reader new to the subject.

Beginner's COBIT Companion by T. Gilling