Architecture: TOGAF 8 TRAINING
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Product Standard
Architecture: TOGAF 8 TRAINING
Document Number: X05TD


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TOGAF 8 TRAINING - Product Standard

Product Standard

NAME

TOGAF 8 TRAINING

LABEL FOR LOGO

TOGAF 8 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 Certification Agreement,1 which includes the TOGAF 8 TRAINING Product Standard name.

DESCRIPTION

The TOGAF 8 TRAINING Product Standard defines core requirements for training courses that enable IT Architecture practitioners to acquire the necessary knowledge and awareness of TOGAF, Version 82 to be able to use it effectively in IT Architecture work.

CONFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS

A TOGAF 8 TRAINING certified product (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. A course may be delivered by live instructor(s) or by distance learning.

A conforming course, if delivered by live instructor(s), shall have a minimum duration of four (4) days (assuming a 7-hour day). In the case of a course delivered by distance learning, the minimum period of study undertaken shall be equivalent to four (4) days (assuming a 7-hour day).

A conforming course shall enable its defined target audience to acquire the knowledge and awareness of TOGAF 8 necessary to meet the conformance requirements of the TOGAF 8 CERTIFIED Product Standard.

A conforming course may optionally cover the use of tools certified to the TOGAF 8 TOOL SUPPORT Product Standard,3 for the development of IT Architectures using TOGAF.

In the case of a course delivered by one or more live instructors, all instructors shall be listed on the Certification Register as TOGAF 8 CERTIFIED.

In the case of a course delivered through distance learning, a TOGAF 8 CERTIFIED instructor shall act as a mentor and assess the training candidate.

In order for an Applicant to submit a course for certification to the TOGAF 8 TRAINING Product Standard, the applicant must meet the following requirements:

OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

Not applicable.

PORTABILITY ENVIRONMENT

Not applicable.

OVERRIDING STANDARDS

ANSI/IEEE 1471:20004 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

Completion of the TOGAF 8 TRAINING Conformance Statement, which shows how the actual syllabus of the course(s) comprising the product being submitted for registration to the TOGAF 8 TRAINING Product Standard map to the conformance requirements listed above.

MIGRATION

This Product Standard has been revised to clarify requirements based on Corrigendum U060.

Issue

Issue 1.1.


Footnotes

1.
Available at: www.opengroup.org/togaf/cert/docs/TOGAF_Certification_Agreement.html.

2.
TOGAF Documentation, September 2006, TOGAF, Version 8.1.1, available at: www.opengroup.org/togaf/index811.htm.

3.
Brand Program Documentation, January 2004, Architecture: TOGAF 8 TOOL SUPPORT Product Standard (X04TB), published by The Open Group.

4.
ANSI/IEEE 1471:2000, IEEE Recommended Practice for Architectural Description for Software-Intensive Systems.


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