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Product Standard

NAME

TOGAF 7 TRAINING

LABEL FOR LOGO

TOGAF 7 TRAINING

When this logo is used on, or in relation to, a product registered as conformant to this Product Standard, it must be accompanied by an attribution, in the form defined in the TOGAF 7 Certification Terms and Conditions, which includes the TOGAF 7 TRAINING Product Standard name.

DESCRIPTION

The TOGAF 7 TRAINING Product Standard defines core requirements for Training Courses that enable IT Architecture practitioners to acquire the necessary knowledge and awareness of The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Version 7¹ to be able to use it effectively in IT Architecture work. Detailed conformance requirements are listed below.

Note:

This certification is intended for training courses that impart to their defined target audiences the necessary knowledge and awareness of TOGAF Version 7. Successful participants in such courses become eligible for TOGAF 7 CERTIFIED² certification. The effective practice of IT Architecture requires a special combination of skills, knowledge, experience, and personal qualities, only part of which can be communicated by a training course (of any kind). Accordingly, TOGAF 7 TRAINING certification is not intended to denote that the certified Course communicates the whole of this required combination, nor is TOGAF 7 CERTIFIED certification intended to denote that the certified Course participant possesses it.

MANDATORY CONFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS

A set of courseware conforming to this Product Standard (hereafter referred to simply as the "Course") may be a single course, or a defined configuration of courses from a single family of related courseware. The Course may be delivered by live instructor(s) or by remote learning. In the case of a Course delivered by one or more live instructors, all instructors must be certified as TOGAF 7 CERTIFIED.

In order to participate in the TOGAF 7 TRAINING certification program, the applicant must:

• Have a current commercial license for TOGAF Version 7

• Agree to register with The Open Group:

  • All TOGAF training courses (whether or not certified)

  • The number of course attendees who are eligible to receive TOGAF 7 CERTIFIED certification by virtue of successful completion of each running of a certified course, within two weeks of the completion of the course

  • The names and contact details of all course attendees successfully completing the course who do not indicate that they wish their names to be withheld for TOGAF 7 CERTIFIED certification

• Provide The Open Group with a signed declaration to the effect that:

  • No participant who has not demonstrated satisfactory participation and commitment to the course will be registered with The Open Group as eligible for TOGAF CERTIFIED certification.

A conforming Course shall enable its defined target audience to acquire the necessary knowledge and awareness of the following:

• The sequence and content of the Phases, Steps, and Activities comprising the TOGAF Architecture Development Method³

• The Information Sets and other deliverables generated and/or used in the TOGAF Architecture Development Method⁴

• The structure and content of the TOGAF Foundation Architecture, as defined in the TOGAF Version 7 Core Definition,⁵ including:

  • The model and taxonomy of the TOGAF Technical Reference Model

  • The Standards Information Base

• The structure and content of the TOGAF Enterprise Continuum, as defined in the TOGAF Version 7 Core Definition⁶

• The relationship of TOGAF to other architectures and architecture frameworks, as defined in the TOGAF Version 7 Core Definition⁷

OPTIONAL CONFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS

A conforming Course may cover the use of tools certified under the TOGAF 7 TOOL SUPPORT certification program,⁸ for the development of IT Architectures using TOGAF.

The Conformance Statement must state which of these optional features the Course supports.

OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

Not applicable.

PORTABILITY ENVIRONMENT

Not applicable.

OVERRIDING STANDARDS

ANSI/IEEE 1471:2000⁹ is an overriding standard for the optional conformance requirement relating to ANSI/IEEE 1471:2000.

There are no other overriding standards for this Product Standard.

INDICATORS OF COMPLIANCE

The Indicators of Compliance for this Product Standard shall be:

• A statement from the Training Provider showing how the actual syllabus of the course(s) comprising the Product map to the conformance requirements listed above

• In the case of training delivered by live instructor(s), a written undertaking that, when a presentation of a course is to be used as a basis for TOGAF 7 certification of the students, only identified TOGAF 7 CERTIFIED instructors will be used

  (These instructors together with their certification information will be identified on the TOGAF 7 CERTIFIED Conformance Statement Questionnaire (CSQ) for the students.)

MIGRATION

As this is the first version of this Product Standard, there are no migration issues.

Footnotes

1.

TOGAF Documentation, December 2000, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Version 7 (I911), published by The Open Group.

2.

Brand Program Documentation, December 2002, Architecture: TOGAF 7 CERTIFIED Product Standard (X02TA), published by The Open Group.

3.

TOGAF Documentation, December 2002, TOGAF Version 7 Core Definition (I914), published by The Open Group, Section 1: TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) - Process.

4.

TOGAF Version 7 Core Definition (I914), Section 2: TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) - Information Sets.

5.

TOGAF Version 7 Core Definition (I914), Section 3: TOGAF Foundation Architecture.

6.

TOGAF Version 7 Core Definition (I914), Section 4: The Enterprise Continuum.

7.

TOGAF Version 7 Core Definition (I914), Section 5: The Relationship of TOGAF to Other Architectures and Architecture Frameworks.

8.

Brand Program Documentation, December 2002, Architecture: TOGAF 7 TOOL SUPPORT Product Standard (X02TB), published by The Open Group.

9.

ANSI/IEEE 1471:2000, IEEE Recommended Practice for Architectural Description for Software-Intensive Systems.

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