What Is The TOGAF 9.1?

Launched in 2009, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF®) is a framework and development method for Enterprise Architecture that is used by enterprise architects to design, plan, implement, and govern an organization's enterprise architecture.

TOGAF® 9 Certification is regarded as the industry-standard framework and methodology for enterprise architecture practice.

5 Reasons to Become a TOGAF Certified Professional

Getting TOGAF certified proves you’re at the top of the enterprise architecture field. It helps you learn and demonstrate a full understanding of the reasons behind every element of its structure. It also gives you the ability to develop and re-organise your business architecture to fix its shortcomings.

As great as this is, there a many more benefits of TOGAF that exceed this, making you more valuable to your business and the rest of your team. Plus, there are industry-wide factors that are fantastic motivation to get TOGAF certified. Below is a breakdown of the five best reasons you should invest in your skills, aiming for the pinnacle of enterprise architecture, TOGAF certification.

• 1. TOGAF Demand is soaring
• 2. Learn a common language
• 3. Better meet your organisation’s demands
• 4. More trust from employers, clients and colleagues
• 5. Boost your salary and your career

What are the prerequisites for learning?

There are no prerequisites for taking this TOGAF training course.

Who should take TOGAF certification?

Thereotically, TOGAF is aimed at people who participate in the architecture process. This includes, CTO, business "owners", infrastructure architects, application architects. They form the architecture review board. Usually, these people drive the ADM process, which kicks off a whole slew of processes within their respective teams. The ARB doesn't need to expose its process to rest of the company. The people in the ARB are supposed to translate what the ARB needs into terms that rest of the organization can understand. However, it works better if the rest of the company known about how ADM works, so they have a better understanding of how things get planned.

Practically, what happens is organizations that follow TOGAF are usually looking for contractors. They reach out to recruiting companies to find talent. The recruiting companies don't really understand the differrence between TOGAF and AJAX. They just do acronym matching between resumes and what their client wants.

I'd say if TOGAF helps you beef up your résumé, it's worth doing it. Even if you don't use it, there are many things you will get to learn while doing TOGAF. Knowledge is never a waste.

TOGAF can be very confusing to someone who has never participated in architecture/design/planning before. If you are already an architect, everything in TOGAF makes perfect sense to you, and you might have even done parts of it without realizing you are doing TOGAF. TOGAF is really borrowing a lot from industry best practices, and putting everything in very generic terms. If you are a very junior developer, you can probably pass TOGAF by mugging up the study guide. You won't retain anything, and it won't help you in the long run.

How do I become a TOGAF certified?

You must pass both TOGAF 9 level 1 (Foundation) and level 2 (Certification) exams to become TOGAF 9 certified. An Exam Voucher will be provided to you with the course, and you may take the exam at your convenience from any of the nearest Open Group Pearson VUE test centers.