Business Architecture Foundation with the TOGAF Standard

Define enterprise and architecture under the togaf standard, and show how business architecture acts as the core bridge between business models, strategy, and value streams.

Understand four architecture domains—business, data, application, and technology—and how they interconnect to form a holistic enterprise architecture, with artifacts and architecture states from baseline to target, including transitions.

The TOGAF standard is an architecture framework guiding a cycle to plan, develop, implement, govern, change, and sustain architectures, enabling agile transformation with building blocks for baseline to target states.

Learn to develop an enterprise architecture with the ADM from the TOGAF 10 standard. Explore phases, artifacts, and deliverables, and how to scope and compare architecture options.

Aligns business and IT through enterprise architecture as a framework for continuous change, describing current and future states, governance, and value realization to enable digital transformation.

Examine the business model canvas and its nine blocks, and see how TOGAF aligns strategy with business architecture to create, deliver, and capture value.

Explain value streams as a core business architecture artifact, detailing value creation, stages, stakeholders, and the mapping to capabilities to deliver stakeholder value.

Define what a business does through a TOGAF 10 aligned business capability map, detailing elements: people, processes, information, and resources, and guiding naming, description, layering, heat maps, and value-stream mapping.

Understand organization maps as a system-oriented diagram of internal and external units, partners, and stakeholders, linking business capabilities and value streams for holistic planning and change management.

Explore information maps and information concepts, defining business terms, domains, and relationships. Learn to connect concepts to capabilities, value streams, and data models to improve governance, information lifecycle, and collaboration.

Develop, document, and analyze business scenarios using the TOGAF method to capture business needs, value streams, actors, and outcomes, guided by SMART principles for iterative refinement.

Explore architecture principles and their catalog, differentiate enterprise principles from architecture principles, and trace them to business objectives within governance across the preliminary phase and phases B, C, and D.

Explore TOGAF-guided business architecture through activity model, use case model, and data models; apply UML and the integrated computer aided manufacturing definition modeling technique to enrich artifacts.

Build the architecture capability of an enterprise in the preliminary phase by defining an organization-specific TOGAF-driven framework, governance, and architecture principles for enterprise architecture management.

Learn how phase a architecture vision kicks off the ADM cycle by defining the architecture project scope, stakeholders, baseline and target architectures across business, data, application, and technology domains.

Develop the baseline and target business architecture to align data, application, and technology architectures, perform gap analysis, and define candidate roadmaps while engaging stakeholders.

Master ADM iterations and governance in the TOGAF 10 standard, covering full ADM iterations, architecture capability, development, transition planning, and governance cycles, plus governing change with architecture contracts and requirements.

Explore TOGAF risk management, defining risk as uncertainty and distinguishing business and cyber risk. Apply a six-step process—from identification to mitigation and governance—to manage initial and residual risk.

Explore the TOGAF content framework and the enterprise meta model to structure architecture artifacts and models, and ensure completeness, consistency, and traceability across the ADM.

Discover how the architecture repository stores architectural work products from the adm, and integrates with the content framework, standards library, reference library, and building blocks.

Explore how the enterprise continuum classifies assets in enterprise repositories, including architecture continuum, generic to specific architectures, traceability, derivation, and redundancy elimination.

Develop and sustain an architecture capability as a governance-driven business capability with a skilled resource pool, architecture repository, and four purpose capabilities: strategy, portfolio, projects, and solution delivery.

Master the exam with practice tests under conditions, 40 questions in 60 minutes; skip difficult items, review, and align answers with TOGAF 10 ADM inputs and outputs, ruling out distractors.

Repeat the most important definitions to reinforce exam readiness and cover a lot of content quickly. Use the summarized key terms and definitions for efficient review.

Prepare for the TOGAF business architecture foundation exam with downloaded course material, practice questions, and a focus on the learning goals; repeat key definitions at your own pace.