Self-Assessment Guide Using COBIT 5

COBIT Self-Assessment Guide: Using COBIT 5 is a "stand-alone" publication, which can be used by organisations to perform a less rigorous assessment of the capability of their IT processes. This may be a precursor to undertaking more rigorous, evidenced-based assessment. The approach is based on the COBIT Process Assessment Model (PAM): Using COBIT 5 in the COBIT assessment programme, but does not require evidentiary requirements in support of the self-assessment, nor does it require use of the COBIT PAM. Sufficient information from the COBIT PAM and a full self-assessment template have been provided to simplify the process, eliminating the

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ANSI TIA-942 (Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers)

The Telecommunications Industry Association's TIA-942 Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers is an American National Standard that specifies the minimum requirements for telecommunications infrastructure of data centers and computer rooms including single tenant enterprise data centers and multi-tenant Internet hosting data centers. The topology proposed in the standard was intended to be applicable to any size data center. The standard was first published in 2005, following on the structured cabling work defined in TIA/EIA-568, and is often cited by companies such as ADC Telecommunications and Cisco Systems. The standard

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