COBIT-Design-and-Implementation Exam Results

The COBIT 2019 Implementation Guide states:

"A key pitfall in EGIT implementation is focusing too much on enabling IT-specific improvements and failing to tie governance outcomes directly to business value realization."

Effective EGIT must prioritize how IT contributes to achieving enterprise goals, not just technical or operational improvements.

In the COBIT 2019 Design Guide, it is clearly stated that:

"The more quantitative approach involves numeric mapping tables created for each design factor. The mapping tables quantify the descriptive values associated with each design factor, in order to indicate their correlation with governance and management objectives."

These mapping tables typically contain values ranging from zero (0) to four (4), where four indicates maximum relevance of a governance or management objective with that particular design factor value, and zero indicates no relevance.

The COBIT 2019 Design Guide explains:

"The governance system design workflow enables the customization of a governance system by considering all relevant design factors. These factors influence the prioritization of governance and management objectives."

Discarding inconsistent priorities is not a valid approach, and enterprise goals are only one of many design factors.