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Business Technology Strategy

Introduction Business-Technology Strategy Fundamentals Business Strategy Development Industry Analysis Business Valuation Investment Prioritization and Planning Requirements Discovery and Constraints Analysis Compliance Business Architecture Methods & Tools Support Decision Knowledge Management

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IT Environment
IT Environment Introduction Technical Project Management Capabilities Asset Management Change Management Application Development Governance Testing Methods, Tools, and Techniques Platforms and Frameworks

Design Skills
Introduction to Design Requirements Modeling Architecture Description Decomposition and Reuse Design Methodologies and Processes Design Patterns and Styles Design Analysis and Testing Traceability Throughout the Lifecycle Views & Viewpoints Whole Systems Design

Human Dynamics
Introduction to Human Dynamics Managing the Culture Customer Relations Leadership and Management Peer Interaction

Collaboration and Negotiation Presentation Skills

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Quality Attributes
Introduction to Quality Attributes Balancing and Optimizing Quality Attributes Manageability, Maintainability, Supportability, Extensibility, and Monitoring and Management Performance, Reliability, Availability, Scalability Security Usability, Localization, Accessibility, Personalization/Customizability Packaging, Delivery, Post Deployment

Specialization Skills (Choose 1 Category) Software Architecture

Software Architecture Specialties Software Architecture Development Methodologies and Processes Software Architecture Tools Software Engineering for Architects Services, Workflow and Messaging Advanced Quality Attributes Advanced Stakeholder Management Software Architecture Patterns Technologies, Platforms & Frameworks Data/Information/Knowledge Management 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

Infrastructure Architecture

Infrastructure Architecture Introduction Access and Identity Management Capacity Planning Common Application Services Device Management Infrastructure RAS Network Design Operations System Management and Services Data Center Design Provisioning Disaster Recovery and Backup High Availability Computing Environment

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This introductory course lays out the foundation of the business-technology skill set. The student will learn how and why business-technology strategybroad and generic core competency ofand functions. The student will This course introduces the student to development is a business structures the architecture profession. understand details the partnership between the business architect and the technical architect relative to the This course basic business structures and functions and the basic nature of running a business. creation of a business model that defines the principles,and how organizations function within the integrated This course covers the foundations of business markets standards, structure, and dynamics of them. It will give the architect the understanding to combine a particular and when to invest in particulartrends in the technology This course assists the student with understanding how business vertical with common technology directions and how to manage thethe student to the managementinvestments. The types of portfolio lifecycles assets and This course introduces overall portfolio of technology of two different student will learn common techniques projects both of which are important tofor understanding business but which require very different investment This course defines tools and techniques be planned and managed, requirements with multiple strategic impacts. The student will learn howregulatory impacts to the organization and the design/solutionexternally and This course focuses the student on such requirements and constraints are formed internally and being deployed. Course materialsstudent to the strategic and tactical use of and general industry regulation and tools, This course introduces the will cover audits, certifications, licensing, business architecture methods types. The including but of architectural advancement isengineering, business process management, businessprovides the A major area not limited to business process in decision support and smart systems. This course process learner withassists the conceptsin understanding and designing a solution that supports how business information This course the basic student and components in decision and business intelligence systems and will is built, stored, managed, and made easily accessible. Course content will cover current issues around the This course overviews key elements of the IT environment and demonstrates how to ascertain the organization maturity and solution maturity with an organization. This course covers the role of project management specific to an IT project or program. Understanding the existing deployed solutions (and the limitations of those solutions) deploying a solution designed to manage the This course offers the student an understanding of developing and in developing the future state capabilities intellectual property a deep understanding of the vital nature ofwithin the and utilizing effective change This course provides of solutions and architectural components designing IT environment. management processes and the critical role varying approaches to application development and will include This course aims to define and describe the that change control plays in a quality operational design. COTS package implementation and infrastructure upgrades. an organization and the importance of having clearly This course details the decision-making environment within The functions of opportunity definition, preliminary defined roles and responsibilities in testing theory, techniques andprocesses, and products. Students will be This course details best practices relative to oversight of projects, tools. Students will be expected to demonstrate competence in the scientific method and important testing techniques. This course provides the architect with a working knowledge of primary platforms and frameworks used throughout the public and private sectors. Emphasis will be put on the architectural qualities and not on specific This course addresses basic design theory and the scope of design-related strategies and techniques that an architect requires and successful. This course detailsto bedemonstrates to the student multiple ways to model business and technical requirements, architectures, and designs and how to transform models of one type into another. DomainThis course lays out formal architecture documentation techniques and enables the student to demonstrate competence in detailed architecture communication. Design diagramming notation,design and will enable the This course details the major building blocks of modern software and infrastructure architecture views and student to demonstrate competence in their synthesis.competent designers, fluent in a number of methods and This course aims to equip students to become flexible, toolscourse assists the student with understanding metaphor and pattern concepts, styles versus pattern, and This by defining and describing the basic process of design, as distinct from the process as embodied in one of will enable the studentstudent with understanding architecture and communicating and related tools. This This course assists the to demonstrate competence in deriving analysis techniques pattern and style. course details how to the student to the concept of traceability from initial requirements through to describe This course introducesdescribe a design and its components, evaluate a design relative to alternatives,the sustained system and the vital role of traceability throughout the lifecycle of developed products. The student This course introduces the concepts of views, viewpoints, and perspectives and helps students come to grips withevolving discipline of IT architecturehow theyarchitects to understand the "whole system" of interconnected The the differences between them and requires work together to describe an architecture. In this course, elements that participate in, impact, and influence the design process. This course helps architects understand This course overviews important concepts of human and organizational psychology, associated leadership and management skills, fundamental communications in a technicalculture upon organizations and basic culture This course provides an understanding of the impact of human context, and their relevance to the architect. recognition overviews the psychological dynamics of customer management, and discusses business to the This course and management techniques. Course content addresses the organizational politics unique imperatives, modern techniquesto differentiate between leadership, management, industry engagement, This course enables the student and tools for customer relationship management, and administration. It enables the details the psychology of interpersonal personal leadership skillstheir evaluate thein the context of IT This course understanding of how to assess one's human interactions and and importance leadership products and services design and delivery.

This course provides an overview of basic communications theory and the specific collaboration and negotiation skills essential to effective functioning as an architect. The student will understand the psychology The focus This course provides the student with fundamental techniques to improve their presentation skills.of human is on presentationsdemonstrate competence in writing skills necessary to function asdecisions andand to enhance Understand and made to key stakeholders clearly identifying technology strategy an architect opportunities. the growth potential of ones career. Techniques and methods for book writing, informal composition, memos This course introduces the student to basic approaches to providing optimal performance and user experience fromcourse details specific issues relative to balancingquality management imperatives, techniques, andThe This IT products and services. The course will discuss and optimizing in systems development projects. tools student will details specific issues relative to manageability, maintainability, supportability, extensibility, and This course understand basic strategies and tactics necessary to provide optimal performance, user experience flexibility and enable the student management imperatives, quality attributes. The student will be This course details specific qualityto understand each of thesetechniques and tools. The student will required to demonstrate competencyof performance, reliability, availability, and scalability Agreement (SLA) creationto This course details issues in problem analysis, capacity planning, Service Level and requires the student and demonstrate understandingprivacy, authenticity, access privileges, information protection and disaster recovery, This course details security, of these quality attributes such as portability and efficiency and competence in basic asset managementusability and threat modeling and recovery, and related issues. Student will demonstrate This course details techniques, human factors fundamentals, and describes related internationalization strategies and current issues. Students will demonstrate competence in basic following the completion of This course details the expectations, process and management of IT products implementation techniques. development and prior to normal day-to-day operating conditions. Covered topics will include data conversion This is an overview course that describes the major categories of knowledge/specialization within software architecture. Each specialization is introduced and each module defines commonalities between specializations The software architect participates in many phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC). This course will allow the student to understand common development cycles and their role of these to create working In addition to design and communication tools, software architects use a variety in tools processes. The course solutions and participate in the and work through advancedcourse willin softwarethe student to thea focus on the The student will be introduced development process. This concepts introduce engineering with significant architects role inArchitecture, messaging, workflow and other systems have become a major component of the Service Oriented working with developers and software engineers. architects toolset. This course will introduce commonfor constraints componentsattributessolutions with a focus Software solutions must provide appropriate support concepts and and quality of these across all IT systems. This software architect works with large numbers of stakeholders including developers, management and project The course will give an advanced view of the software architect's responsibilities and opportunities for ensuring leadership. This pattern expresses a fundamental structural organization schema for software system, which An architectural is an advanced course on making these interactions and relationshipsafruitful. Focus of this consists of subsystems, their responsibilities and interrelations. Examples of architectural patterns include the This advanced course describes, contrasts and compares key technologies important to the work of the software architect, for example: Mobile technologies, client modeling, managing, mining, transforming, converting, and This survey course describes the essentials of data technologies, integration technologies, remoting reporting; provides fundamental understanding of data structures, the importance and creation of taxonomies, Understanding of the role of the infrastructure architect. An introduction to the topics, skills and requirements of the IA role in an organization. Understanding the implementation and design of an identity and access solution within an enterprise. Understanding the parameters, constraints and design requirements for capacity within the environment (introduction) including storage, network and operationswithin the infrastructure deployed and how to convey Understanding the common application services offered capacity. this understanding to another architect. and solutions for patch management, application and OS deployment Understanding the common requirements and structured management of both. Understanding of an ability to design the remote access facilities for an organization. Understanding and design of networks and network components, configuration and management requirements for both solutions and design ofinfrastructure. and management requirements for an IT organization. Understanding of and existing the operations Understanding of a design of the management and services tools requirement for system, network and solution optimization. the design of physical data center facilities, including access controls and other security concerns. Understanding Understanding the processes and procedures required to efficiently and effectively build out a physical or virtual server or other the infrastructure required to support effective disaster recovery and backup/restore processes. Understanding device. Understanding the infrastructure and operational requirements to provide a highly available computing environment (covers two of the three subjects necessary to provide high availability).

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