ISEB Certificates in Enterprise and Solution Architecture

Prerequisites:

# ISEB recommend up to six years experience of IS/IT work including contact with architects and architecture descriptions. Delegates are permitted to sit both the Intermediate and Practitioner exam in two consecutive sessions. However a pass in the practitioner exam can only be recognised if the delegate has also passed the Intermediate exam.
# A reference model for this certificate has been published by BCS. This is available on-line at http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/reference-model-enterprise-solution-architecture.pdf, and it is beneficial for attendees to have read through this before attending. They should also familiarise themselves with the syllabus, available at http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/syllabus-enterprise-solution-architecture.pdf .

Course Description:

This single course combines the study needed to take both exams connected to the ISEB Intermediate and Practitioner Certificates for Enterprise and Solution Architecture. It reviews the important terms and concepts, and then shows how to put them into practice, particularly in areas such as governance, design of building blocks, modelling techniques to visualise architecture, and building architecture specifications.

This is an intensive and complete course with two main objectives:
To gain a solid understanding of Enterprise and Solution Architecture terms and practice, and to prepare for two exams.

Both lecture and practical case-study sessions are held, and mock question are reviewed throughout. Delegates are provided with a revision programme to help them study in their own time, followed up by a group review. Two exams are taken at the end of the course.

On completion of this course, delegates will have an understanding of:

• The main roles and goals of architecture
• An explanation of both Enterprise and Solution context and architecture
• Architecture governance
• Techniques for describing architecture
• An awareness of the most useful frameworks
• Architecture Processes
• The use of business, data, application and infrastructure components
• Planning the implementation of architecture

This course includes the following modules:

Day One

• Definitions of Architect and Architecture
• The Enterprise context and architecture
• Architecture Description basics

Day Two

• Architecture Description
• Business Architecture
• The Solution Context

Day Three

• Applications Architecture
• Software Architecture

Day Four

• Architecture Frameworks
• Data Architecture
• Architecture Processes

Day Five

• Infrastructure Architecture
• Architecture Implementation
• Exams