ISEB Intermediate Certificate in Enterprise and Solutions Architecture

Prerequisites:

# 3 years experience of IS/IT work, including some contact with architecture descriptions.
# A broad experience of IS and IT projects is helpful.

Course Description:

This course is suitable for those seeking a career as an enterprise, solutions, applications or data architect and also for others wishing to better understand these concepts. It provides participants with a consistent and comprehensive platform of knowledge about architecture terms and concepts and explains the ISEB reference model with illustrative exercises.

This is an intensive course. The Examination for the ISEB Intermediate certificate in Enterprise and Solution Architecture tests knowledge and awareness of the items in sections 1 to 9 of the syllabus and reference model (please see link below). Students with little experience of architecture may find it helpful to read the reference model (on ISEB web site) before the course.

While explaining the ISEB reference model, the course includes as much interaction as the timetable allows. During the 9 core presentations sessions, the tutor sets about 15 short Group discussion and exercise tasks. At the end of each session the delegates will undertake sets four or five mock exam questions The answers are then reviewed in discussion with the class. At the end of the course, the tutor sets a 40 question mock exam, and again reviews the answers with the whole class.

Please note: This course does not contain the ISEB certificate in Enterprise and Solution Architecture exam. Delegates wishing to sit the exam should apply directly to the ISEB.

On completion delegates will learn how to:

• Have formed a coherent picture of architects' roles in practice.
• Understand enterprise and solution architecture frameworks
• Understand the ways architects build architecture descriptions.
• Know ways to model the principal deliverables of architecture frameworks like TOGAF & Zachman.
• Take away useful distillations of architecture practices and deliverables.

We recommend that, a few days before the course, you download the Reference model for ISEB certificates in Enterprise and Solution Architecture and spend up to an hour looking through it. (You need not bring a paper copy to the course, since same reference model will be contained in the course manual)

This course includes the following modules:

Architecture and Architects

• Foundation concepts
• Architecture granularity
• Architecture domains
• Hierarchical or layered architecture
• Architect roles, skills and goals

Architecture Precursors

• Stakeholders
• Drivers, aims and directives
• Solution descriptions and plans
• Standards
• Scope of architecture work
• Requirements
• Regulatory requirements
• Business case

Architecture Frameworks

• Architecture process frameworks
• Architecture descriptions
• Architecture models and abstractions
• Architecture description frameworks

Business Architecture

• Foundation concepts
• Knowledge and/or content management
• Data architecture structure
• Data qualities and integration
• Design for data security

Data Architecture

• Foundation concepts
• Knowledge and/or content management
• Data architecture structure
• Data qualities and integration
• Design for data security

Software Architecture

• Foundation concepts
• Component structures and patterns
• Component interfaces
• Component interoperation styles
• Component communication styles
• Publish and subscribe distribution

Applications Architecture

• Foundation concepts
• Applications structure and behaviour
• Design for applications security
• Application platform

Design for non-functional requirements

• Performance
• Availability
• Reliability
• Recoverability
• Integrity
• Scalability
• Security

Infrastructure Architecture

• Foundation concepts
• Infrastructure structure and behaviour
• Design for infrastructure security
• Migration planning and architecture management Outline of these concepts

Migration planning and architecture management

• Outline of these concepts