Course Details, Dates and Fees

Module 1:Introduction / Orientation:

• Role of the Practitioner: what is expected from someone certified at this level..
• Course structure, learning outcomes, and exam format (Part 2: scenario-based, open book, number of questions, pass threshold)
• Review / recap of Foundation level: key concepts, terminology, ADM overview etc

Module 2:Context for Enterprise Architecture

• The organisational and environmental context in which EA operates: business drivers, digital transformation, agile/digital enterprise considerations.
• Architecture Governance, security, risk, regulatory, compliance concerns.

Module 3: Stakeholder Management & Views / Viewpoints

• Identifying stakeholders, their concerns and how to capture and address them.
• Views & viewpoints: how to use them to structure communication and documentation

Module 4:Phase A – Architecture Vision & Starting Point

• Phase A: scope, approach, and governance as the starting point.
• Defining Architecture Vision, business goals, drivers, constraints. Creating the Statement of Architecture Work

Module 5: ADM Phases B, C, D – Architecture Development

• Business Architecture (Phase B)
• Information/Data & Application Architecture (Phase C)
• Technology Architecture (Phase D)
• TInputs, outputs, key steps per phase.
• Considerations like security, integration, trade-offs, quality attributes

Module 6: ADM Phases E, F, G – Implementation Oriented

• Phase E: Opportunities & Solutions.
• Phase F: Migration Planning
• Phase G: Implementation Governance
• Work packages, transition architectures, migration planning, architecture contracts

Module 7: Phase H & Requirements Management (Change-Management)

• Phase H: Architecture Change Management: monitoring, controlling change, evolving architecture over time.
• Requirements Management: how requirements are managed across the ADM (gathering, prioritizing, traceability etc.)

Module 8: Supporting Techniques and Tools

• Business Scenarios technique
• Migration Planning techniques, Gap Analysis
• The Architecture Repository; the Enterprise Metamodel; Architecture Content Framework.
• Use of architecture levels to organise the architecture landscape

Modulev 9: Applying the Practitioner Role in Real Situations

• Working case studies / scenarios: applying the ADM, stakeholder management, trade-off decision making.
• Real-world considerations: adapting TOGAF to organisational scale, digital transformation, agile, evolving business/IT landscape.

Module 10: Exam Preparation

• Practice exams / scenario-based questions.
• Review of key techniques and deliverables.
• Tips & strategies for the Practitioner exam.
• Guidance on use of the TOGAF library during exam (since the exam is open-book)