ESA and other training course descriptions
This 5 day accredited course spans the breath of architecture concepts from business through
data and applications and software to infrastructure. It concludes with two BCS
professional certificate examinations.
After the course, attendees will
understand many terms, concepts, processes and products used by enterprise and
solution architects, understand what it means to apply
architecture frameworks such as TOGAF and Zachman, and understand the place of
modelling languages such as UML and ArchiMate. They will be able to fill the gap between
high-level management frameworks and low-level software development lifecycles.
The course includes class exercises and case study work.
The course concludes with two formal
examinations set and marked by the BCS, who later send the exam results
directly to delegates. The BCS Intermediate and Practitioner level Professional
Certificates in Enterprise and Solution Architecture are well-respected
qualifications that help people understand a variety of architecture
frameworks.
Target Audience: The course is designed primarily for people in or approaching a
career as a solution architect. It suits software architects, other technical
specialists, business analysts and technical team managers who want to broaden
their horizons. But
it also suits anybody interested in the terms, concepts and practice of
architecture; especially people wanting to act in an architect role, and their
stakeholders. It is recommended that attendees have seven years’ experience of
IS/IT work including contact with architects and architecture descriptions.
Approach: The course is intensive. It includes presentations, discussions,
class exercises and exam preparation. It concludes with two examinations for
the BCS professional certificates. Each is a formal 60 minute exam, comprising
40 multiple choice questions, run by a BCS representative. You may bring mobile
devices, but must switch them off during presentations. The examinable reference model will be given
to you in the course manual. Some pre-reading may be advised before the course.
This course is a subset of IPCESA
above, without the Practitioner case study, the Practitioner elements of the
syllabus and the Practitioner examination.
This
4 day accredited course spans the breath of architecture
concepts from business through data and applications and software to
infrastructure. It concludes with one BCS professional certificate examinations.
After
the course, attendees will understand many terms, concepts, processes and
products used by enterprise and solution architects, understand what it means to apply architecture frameworks such as TOGAF and
Zachman, and understand the place of modelling languages such as UML and
ArchiMate. They
will be able to fill the gap between high-level management frameworks and
low-level software development lifecycles. The course includes class exercises.
The
course concludes with a formal examination set and marked by the BCS, who later
send the exam result directly to delegates. The BCS Intermediate level
Professional Certificate in Enterprise and Solution Architecture is a
well-respected qualification that helps people understand a variety of
architecture frameworks.
Target Audience: The course is
designed primarily for people in or approaching a career as a solution
architect. It suits software architects, other technical specialists, business
analysts and technical team managers who want to broaden their horizons. But it also suits anybody interested in
the terms, concepts and practice of architecture; especially people wanting to
act in an architect role, and their stakeholders. It is recommended that
attendees have four years’ experience of IS/IT work including contact with
architects and architecture descriptions.
Approach: The course is intensive. It
includes presentations, discussions, class exercises and exam preparation. It
concludes with one examinations for the BCS
professional certificate. This is a formal 60 minute exam, comprising 40
multiple choice questions, run by a BCS representative. You may bring mobile
devices, but must switch them off during presentations. The examinable reference model will be given
to you in the course manual. Some pre-reading may be advised before the course.
This 2 day
course is focused on the Practitioner case study, with supplementary
Practitioner elements of the syllabus, and a little revision of the
Intermediate elements of the syllabus.
Introducing
TOGAF, ArchiMate and similar. Helping you to make informed choices about
further education and practical use.
Target Audience:
Anybody who wants to use ArchiMate in the context of an architecture framework, or
wants a heads up about training to ArchiMate or TOGAF certificates.
Approach: A mix of lectures, exercises and
discussions. You may bring mobile devices, but must switch them off during
presentations. Exercise specifications will be provided on paper. The tutor’s
slides will be posted on the Avancier web site.
Topics: Introduces the ArchiMate and other
modelling languages in the context of TOGAF and other architecture frameworks.
Includes exercises.
A
gentle introduction to data architecture terms, concepts and techniques, and
their role in modern EA frameworks. Helping you to
make informed choices about further education and practical use.
Target Audience: Any data architects who work in or alongside an EA function. People acting in data architect and data
analysis roles, their stakeholders and managers. Others who may benefit include
enterprise and solution architects
Approach: The course includes presentations,
discussions, and some simple exercises. You may bring mobile devices, but must
switch them off during presentations. Some paper materials may be provided, but
most of the tutor’s slides will be posted on the Avancier web site.
Topics: The
place of data architecture in architecture frameworks. Data at rest: logical
and conceptual data models. Data in motion: data flows and canonical data
models. Data dissemination and implications for application integration.
An introduction to the general
principles and patterns of modular software design (including some patterns
that can be seen in the human activity systems). No professional programming
experience is required for this tutorial.
Target Audience: Architects,
analysts and managers who are not developers, but are interested in principles
and patterns of software design, because they want to understand developers
concerns and/or the implications of software architecture for enterprise and
solution architecture. Also, and equally, developers wanting an introduction to
design patterns.
Approach: The course includes presentations,
discussions, and some simple exercises. There are no coding exercises and
almost no program code is shown. You may bring mobile devices, but must switch
them off during presentations.
Topics: Use Cases as requirements. A
history of programming to OOD, CBD, SOA, EAI, REST. Design concerns &
qualities. Design for NFRs. Flexibility v. performance. Layered software
architecture. Communication styles. Basic OO design patterns. Service-Oriented
Architecture, Event-Driven Architecture. Integrity challenges. Eventual
consistency. CAP theorem. ACID v. BASE. Integrity v. throughput. Design by
contract. Defensive design. Domain-Driven Design. Transaction script.
Command-query responsibility segregation. Event sourcing. Scoping transactions
and data stores. Microservices.