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TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Foundation

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Course overview

This TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Foundation course helps you understand how architecture work supports business change and technology decision-making. You’ll explore core TOGAF concepts, alongside the Architecture Development Model phases and the content produced during enterprise architecture activity. 

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Connect architecture principles to business change

Speak a common language with TOGAF practitioners and contribute more confidently to architecture projects. This course supports your understanding of how enterprise architecture helps organisations deliver change. By building your awareness of the TOGAF approach, the course can help you contribute with greater clarity and make sense of architecture decisions.

Learning objectives
  • Understand enterprise architecture’s purpose and organisational value
  • Learn key TOGAF Standard concepts and terminology
  • Explore the Architecture Development Method (ADM) phases
  • Apply techniques that support the ADM
  • Understand architecture governance and its role
  • Recognise key architecture content and outputs
  • Build shared language with TOGAF practitioners

What you'll learn

Learn the core concepts behind enterprise architecture and how the TOGAF Standard, 10th Edition, helps organisation’s structure architecture work. You’ll explore the Architecture Development Method (ADM), understanding how it works in practice and the governance principles that shape activity. 

Introduction to the TOGAF Standard, 10th Edition

Learn how the TOGAF Standard provides a structured approach to enterprise architecture. This includes the key terminology and principles that help architecture teams work consistently and communicate clearly across an organisation. 

The Architecture Development Method

Explore the Architecture Development Method, often known as the ADM, and how it guides enterprise architecture work from initial planning through to implementation support. The course introduces the purpose of each phase, helping you understand how architecture activity is organised and adapted to different business needs. 

Enterprise architecture governance

Discover how governance supports effective architecture development by helping organisations manage decisions and outputs. This gives you a clearer view of how enterprise architecture stays aligned with business goals and agreed ways of working.

What’s included
  • Accredited TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Foundation training
  • TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Foundation delegate material
  • TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Part 1 exam

Key facts

Certification

TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Foundation

Who it’s for

This course is designed for professionals working, or aspiring to roles, as an enterprise architect, business architect, IT architect, business analyst, change manager, and others working alongside these teams. 

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Exam information

40 multiple-choice questions, 40 marks, 60 minutes duration, 60% pass mark

Optional extras

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Pre-course

There is no pre-course material required for this course.

FAQs

This Foundation course builds your knowledge of enterprise architecture activity, enabling you to work more effectively with architecture teams and preparing you for the TOGAF Part 1 exam. 

What is the TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Foundation course?

The TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Foundation course teaches you how enterprise architecture is used to support organisational change. It introduces the TOGAF Standard, 10th Edition, so you can understand the language, methods and architecture activity used by teams working with this framework.

Is TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Foundation a recognised certification?

Yes. TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Foundation is a recognised certification awarded through The Open Group. To achieve the certification, you need to pass the TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Part 1 Exam, also known as OGEA-101.

Do I need previous enterprise architecture experience to take this course?

No. There are no formal prerequisites for attending this course or taking the certification. Some prior awareness of enterprise architecture may be helpful, but it is not required.

Can this course help me progress to TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner?

Yes. TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Foundation is the prerequisite qualification for becoming a TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner. It gives you the foundation-level knowledge needed to continue your TOGAF learning journey.

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