Overview

This online instructor-led training course provides the fundamental skills of the TOGAF terminology, structure, and basic concepts, and understands the core principles of Enterprise Architecture and the TOGAF standard.

Exam: TOGAF 9 Part 1

Course Instructor: Bill Brinson

Course Outline

01. Course Introduction

  • About this course
  • TOGAF 9 Certification level
  • Foundation training
  • Certified training
  • Bridging the gap between TOGAF 8 and TOGAF 9
  • Paths to Level 2
  • Prerequisites to the course
  • Course objectives
  • TOGAF 9 Foundation course content

02. Management Overview

  • Management overview
  • The Open Group
  • The Open Group scorecard
  • Architecture Forum
  • Stakeholders and Value
  • What is an Enterprise
  • What is an Architecture
  • Pressure to develop Enterprise Architecture
  • Business benefits of Enterprise Architecture
  • The importance of governance
  • What governance means
  • What is an Architecture Framework
  • The value of a Framework
  • Enterprise Architecture Development Method
  • TOGAF origins
  • TOGAF capability framework
  • ADM – basic principles
  • Preliminary phase
  • TOGAF 9 certification
  • TOGAF Foundation target audience

03. TOGAF 9 Components

  • TOGAF 9 Components
  • Objectives
  • Roadmap
  • The Architecture Development Method
  • ADM guidelines and techniques
  • Applying iteration to the ADM
  • Applying the ADM across the Architecture landscape
  • Categories of Stakeholder
  • Architecture content framework
  • Deliverables, artifacts, and building blocks
  • Full content metamodel with relationships
  • The Enterprise continuum
  • Architecture repository
  • TOGAF reference models
  • High-level TRM
  • Detailed TRM
  • Boundaryless Information Flow™
  • Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model (III-RM)
  • Establishing the Architecture capability as an Operational Entity

04. Introduction to the Architecture Development Method

  • Introduction to the Architecture Development Method (ADM)
  • Objectives
  • What is the TOGAF ADM
  • Architecture Development Method – Process
  • Relationship of the ADM with other parts of TOGAF
  • ADM phases
  • ADM phase steps example
  • ADM inputs and outputs
  • Adapting the ADM
  • Governing the ADM
  • Governance repository
  • Reasons to constrain the scope of Architectural activity
  • Scoping the Architecture activity
  • Architecture integration

05. The Enterprise Continuum and Tools

  • The Enterprise Continuum and Tools
  • Roadmap
  • Objectives
  • TOGAF 9—Components
  • Overview of the Enterprise Continuum
  • Architecture Reuse
  • Enterprise Continuum: Constituents
  • The Architecture Continuum
  • The Solutions Continuum
  • Architecture and Solutions Continuum—Relationships
  • The Enterprise Continuum
  • Using the Continuum
  • Relationships between the Three Continua
  • The Need for tools
  • Tools can model the Enterprise Architecture
  • Issues in tool standardization

06. Architecture Repository

  • Architecture Repository
  • Roadmap
  • Objectives
  • Purpose of the Architecture Repository
  • Architecture Repository—Overview
  • Architecture Landscape
  • Reference Library
  • Standards Information Base
  • Standards Classification
  • Governance Log Contents
  • Relationship with other Parts of TOGAF

07. Architecture Governance

  • Architecture Governance
  • Objectives
  • Introduction to Architecture Governance
  • Governance and ADM
  • Nature of Governance
  • Governance–Basic Principles
  • Levels of Governance
  • COBIT—IT Governance Framework
  • TOGAF Architecture Governance Framework
  • Architecture Governance Framework–Conceptual Structure
  • Architecture Governance Framework– Processes
  • Organizational Structure
  • Benefits of Architecture Governance
  • Architecture Governance in Practice
  • Architecture Contracts
  • Architecture Compliance Review Process
  • Establishing an Architecture Capability

08. The Architecture Content Framework

  • Architecture Content Framework
  • Part IV: Architecture Content Framework
  • Objectives
  • Architecture Content Framework—Introduction
  • Benefits of the Architecture Content Framework
  • Deliverables, Artifacts, and Building Blocks
  • Relationships between Deliverables, Artifacts, and Building blocks
  • Architectural Artifacts and Example
  • Content Metamodel
  • Mapping the Framework and the ADM
  • Relationship Between the Content Framework and TOGAF ADM

09. The Architecture Content Metamodel

  • TOGAF Content Metamodel
  • Roadmap
  • Objectives
  • What Is a Metamodel?
  • Formal and Informal Modeling
  • Core Content Metamodel Concepts
  • TOGAF Content Metamodel and its Extensions
  • Core Metamodel Entities
  • Core Entities and their Relationships
  • Stakeholder Needs
  • The Content Metamodel
  • Core Content Metamodel
  • Core TOGAF 9 Artifacts
  • Full Content Metamodel
  • Metamodel Extensions
  • Infrastructure Consolidation Extension
  • Motivation Extension

10. Views and View points

  • Views and Viewpoints
  • Objectives
  • Stakeholders, Concerns, Views, and Viewpoints—Relationship
  • What is an Architecture View?
  • A Simple Example of a Viewpoint
  • A Simple Example of a View
  • Developing Views in the ADM
  • Exercise—Views and Viewpoints for a Simple Airport System
  • The View Creation Process
  • Benefits of the View Creation Process
  • Using TOGAF Artifacts
  • Catalogs
  • Matrices
  • Stakeholder Map Matrix
  • Diagrams
  • Business Footprint Diagram—Example
  • TOGAF 9 Artifacts
  • Recommended Architecture Views

11. Building Blocks

  • Building Blocks
  • Roadmap
  • Objectives
  • Building Block Characteristics
  • A Good Building Block
  • Building Blocks—Benefit
  • Building Blocks—Types
  • Architecture Building Blocks (ABBs)
  • ABB Specifications
  • Solution Building Blocks (SBBs)
  • Solution Building Blocks—Specifications
  • Principles of Using Building Blocks in the ADM Phases
  • Building Block Design
  • Building Blocks and the ADM
  • Architecture Patterns

12. The Preliminary Phase

  • Preliminary Phase: Objectives in Detail
  • Approach
  • Preliminary Phase: Main inputs
  • Steps in the Preliminary Phase
  • Scope the Enterprise Organizations Impacted
  • Confirm Governance And Support Frameworks
  • Define and Establish the Enterprise Architecture Team
  • Identify Architecture Principles
  • Defining Architecture Principles
  • TOGAF Template for Principles
  • Five Qualities of Principles
  • Modeling Architecture Principles
  • Tailor TOGAF and Other Selected Architecture Frameworks, If Any
  • Terminology Tailoring
  • Process Tailoring
  • Content Tailoring
  • Architecture Principles, Requirements, and Roadmap
  • Implement Architecture Tools
  • Preliminary Phase: Outputs
  • TOGAF 9 Artifacts
  • Catalogs

Skills Learned

After completing this online training course, students will be able to:

  • Describe the basic concepts of Enterprise Architecture and the TOGAF standard
  • Describe the core concepts of the TOGAF 9 standard
  • Describe key terminology of the TOGAF 9 standard
  • Describe the ADM cycle and the objectives of each phase, and how to adapt and scope the ADM
  • Describe the concept of the Enterprise Continuum; its purpose and constituent parts
  • Describe how each of the ADM phases contributes to the success of Enterprise Architecture
  • Describe the ADM guidelines and techniques
  • Describe how Architecture Governance contributes to the Architecture Development Cycle
  • Describe the concepts of views and viewpoints and their role in communicating with stakeholders
  • Describe the concept of building blocks
  • Describe the key deliverables of the ADM cycle
  • Describe the TOGAF reference models