Your Options For Enterprise Architect TOGAF Training

By Deana Norton


In order to enhance productivity, not to mention efficiency, many companies look to an existing methodology or architecture framework. One that is popular and well known is The Open Group Architecture Forum, and can be learned through Enterprise Architect TOGAF Training. Useful sessions can be undertaken whatever the level of participant knowledge. These may be optional or required by any given company. After passing certain exams, and achieving certification, practitioners can apply what they have learned. It certainly enhances credibility with an organization. Apply TOGAF information advances software development to a high degree.

The program dates back to 1995 and was formulated on principles of the US Department of Defense Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management. TAFIM has seen several revisions since that time and today it is known as version 9.1.

What the software essentially does is to support Enterprise Architecture that is used for business modelling. It is a great resource that can only benefit from specific training and is thus offered worldwide. Users do not have to be Open Group members, but there are licensing requirements to which one must adhere.

Speaking of accredited training courses, there are some companies that offer full on courses on the whole TOGAF 9 framework. These courses are handled by highly experienced senior architecture practitioners who have deep knowledge of The Open Group Architecture Forum. At the end of the courses, the students should have adequate knowledge on the concepts needed to implement the program within their organization.

The version 9.1 Level 1 and Level 2 course lasts for 4 days and is done in a classroom setting. It's very hands-on and covers the entire framework, even if you have no previous knowledge. In this sense, it's very suitable for beginners. Throughout the course, the students will be given real-life and practical situations to work around, thus helping them to learn the application procedures of the framework. After the course, there is an examination which will earn the student's the certification once passed.

There is also a Level 1 and Level 2 course that is a hybrid of a classroom and e-learning setting. With this course, the student is free to learn the course content of the first level (just the basics) with the freedom of time and place. When advancing to Level 2, it is done in a classroom environment in order to prepare them for sitting the Level 1 and Level 2 exam.

You can do a bit of mixing and matching when training for TOGAF 9 as long as you get both the basics and the advanced applications. Studies can often study on their own time before the classroom situation. They can progress as rapidly as they like.

Software users can take only one level, if that is all that is needed. It would be the fundamentals as described above, done on the Internet. It may not be required to pass level two. On the other hand, someone might have basic knowledge and is ready to jump to the next phase. This can help enlarge one's strategies as well as the acquisition of more terminology. It is time for the classroom in this case. If certification is desired, it will be attained upon course completion.




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