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Foundation Level1

The TOGAF Foundation Level 1 exam validates understanding of core concepts, ADM, Enterprise Continuum, governance, and content framework, enabling candidates to apply the TOGAF Standard in enterprise architecture initiatives.

60
Minutes
40
Questions
55/100
Passing Score
$385
Exam Cost
5
Languages

Who Should Take This

Enterprise architects, IT managers, and senior analysts who are new to TOGAF or need a formal credential benefit from this exam. It is suited for professionals with basic project or technology experience seeking to grasp TOGAF terminology, process flow, and governance structures to support strategic architecture planning.

What's Covered

1 Enterprise architecture definitions, types of architecture, architecture framework, TOGAF structure, and key terminology.
2 ADM overview, Preliminary Phase, Phase A through Phase H, Requirements Management, ADM guidelines and techniques.
3 Enterprise continuum concept, architecture repository structure, and reference models (TRM, III-RM).
4 Governance framework, architecture board, compliance reviews, and architecture contracts.
5 Content metamodel, deliverables, artifacts, building blocks (ABBs and SBBs), and catalogs/matrices/diagrams.
6 Architecture capability establishment, architecture board, architecture compliance, architecture skills framework.
7 Stakeholder management, architecture views and viewpoints, business scenarios, gap analysis, and migration planning.

Exam Structure

Question Types

  • Multiple Choice (Single Correct Answer)

Scoring Method

Percentage-based, 22 of 40 questions correct to pass (55%)

Delivery Method

Pearson VUE testing center or online proctored

Recertification

Does not expire, but earning TOGAF Certified (Level 2) is recommended for career advancement.

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Practice Questions
Lesson Modules
Console Simulator Labs
Exam Tips & Strategy
20 Activity Formats

Course Outline

55 learning goals
1 Core Concepts
2 topics

Enterprise Architecture Fundamentals

  • Describe the definition of enterprise architecture and explain how it provides a holistic approach to aligning IT strategy with business goals across the organization
  • Identify the four architecture domains in TOGAF including business, data, application, and technology and describe the scope of each domain
  • Describe the structure of the TOGAF Standard including the Architecture Development Method, content framework, capability framework, and reference models
  • Describe the concept of architecture abstraction levels and explain how strategic, segment, and capability architectures relate to each other

Key Definitions and Terminology

  • Identify TOGAF key terms including architecture, stakeholder, concern, view, viewpoint, building block, deliverable, artifact, and gap and provide their standard definitions
  • Describe the concepts of baseline architecture and target architecture and explain how gap analysis identifies differences between current and desired states
  • Explain the difference between architecture building blocks (ABBs) and solution building blocks (SBBs) and describe how ABBs are refined into SBBs during development
  • Apply TOGAF terminology to correctly classify architecture work products as deliverables, artifacts, or building blocks in a given architecture engagement
2 Architecture Development Method (ADM)
5 topics

ADM Overview and Preliminary Phase

  • Describe the ADM as an iterative, cyclical method for developing enterprise architecture and explain how it supports multiple levels of architecture definition
  • Describe the Preliminary Phase objectives including establishing the architecture capability, defining architecture principles, and tailoring the TOGAF framework
  • Implement architecture principles that are understandable, robust, complete, and consistent to guide architecture decision-making across the enterprise

Phase A: Architecture Vision

  • Describe the objectives of Phase A including defining scope, identifying stakeholders, creating the Architecture Vision, and obtaining approval for the Statement of Architecture Work
  • Implement stakeholder identification and management using the stakeholder map matrix to classify stakeholders by power and interest for appropriate engagement
  • Apply the business scenario technique to identify and document business requirements, derive architecture requirements, and validate the Architecture Vision
  • Describe the Statement of Architecture Work and explain how it formalizes the scope, approach, schedule, and governance of the architecture engagement

Phases B, C, D: Business, IS, Technology Architecture

  • Describe the objectives of Phase B (Business Architecture) including developing baseline and target business architectures and performing gap analysis
  • Describe the objectives of Phase C (Information Systems Architectures) covering both data architecture and application architecture development
  • Describe the objectives of Phase D (Technology Architecture) including defining the technology infrastructure needed to support the application and data architectures
  • Apply gap analysis techniques across Phases B, C, and D to identify differences between baseline and target architectures and derive requirements for transition architectures
  • Analyze the dependencies between business, data, application, and technology architectures to determine the appropriate sequencing of architecture development work

Phases E, F: Opportunities, Solutions, and Migration Planning

  • Describe the objectives of Phase E (Opportunities and Solutions) including evaluating implementation options, identifying strategic parameters, and developing the implementation roadmap
  • Describe the objectives of Phase F (Migration Planning) including finalizing the architecture roadmap, creating the implementation and migration plan, and transition architectures
  • Apply transition architecture planning to define intermediate states between baseline and target that deliver incremental business value while managing risk

Phases G, H and Requirements Management

  • Describe the objectives of Phase G (Implementation Governance) including providing architectural oversight during solution implementation and managing architecture contracts
  • Describe the objectives of Phase H (Architecture Change Management) including establishing a change management process and assessing architecture change requests against the current architecture
  • Describe Requirements Management as the central hub of the ADM and explain how it manages architecture requirements throughout all phases of the cycle
  • Analyze architecture change requests to determine whether they require a simplification change, incremental change, or a complete re-architecting cycle through the ADM
  • Apply the ADM Requirements Management process to trace, prioritize, and manage architecture requirements as they evolve across multiple ADM iterations
3 Enterprise Continuum and Architecture Repository
2 topics

Enterprise Continuum

  • Describe the Enterprise Continuum and explain how it classifies architecture assets on a spectrum from foundation (generic) to organization-specific solutions
  • Describe the Architecture Continuum and Solutions Continuum and explain how they guide the reuse of architecture and solution assets at different levels of abstraction
  • Describe the TOGAF Technical Reference Model (TRM) and explain how it provides a generic technology architecture foundation for platform-independent design
  • Describe the Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model (III-RM) and explain how it addresses the need for integrated information flow in boundaryless information systems

Architecture Repository

  • Describe the structure of the Architecture Repository including architecture metamodel, architecture landscape, reference library, standards information base, and governance log
  • Apply the architecture repository to classify and store reusable architecture assets, standards, and governance decisions for retrieval across multiple architecture projects
4 Architecture Governance
1 topic

Governance Framework

  • Describe the architecture governance framework and explain how it ensures that architecture standards, guidelines, and principles are consistently applied across the enterprise
  • Describe the role of the Architecture Board and explain its responsibilities including dispute resolution, compliance reviews, and architecture change control
  • Describe architecture compliance reviews and explain how they verify that implementation projects conform to the approved architecture through checklists and assessment criteria
  • Implement architecture contracts to define the formal agreements between architecture development and implementation teams specifying deliverables, quality measures, and acceptance criteria
  • Analyze architecture compliance assessment results to recommend corrective actions for projects that deviate from the target architecture
5 Architecture Content Framework
2 topics

Content Metamodel

  • Describe the architecture content metamodel and explain how it defines the types of architecture entities, their attributes, and relationships in a structured content model
  • Identify the core content metamodel entities including actors, roles, functions, services, data entities, application components, and technology components
  • Apply the content metamodel to map architecture entities to their relationships across business, data, application, and technology layers

Deliverables, Artifacts, and Building Blocks

  • Describe the three categories of architecture artifacts including catalogs (lists), matrices (relationships), and diagrams (visual representations) and provide examples of each
  • Identify key deliverables produced by each ADM phase including Architecture Vision document, Architecture Definition Document, Architecture Requirements Specification, and Transition Architectures
  • Describe the lifecycle of building blocks from Architecture Building Blocks specified during architecture development to Solution Building Blocks realized during implementation
  • Apply the deliverable and artifact framework to determine which work products should be produced for a given ADM phase based on project scope and stakeholder needs
6 Architecture Capability Framework
1 topic

Capability Establishment

  • Describe the architecture capability framework and explain how it provides guidance for establishing and operating an enterprise architecture practice within an organization
  • Describe the architecture skills framework including the skill categories, proficiency levels, and role definitions needed to staff an enterprise architecture team
  • Describe how the architecture capability framework addresses organizational structures, processes, roles, responsibilities, and skills needed for effective architecture governance
  • Analyze organizational readiness for architecture practice establishment and recommend maturity-appropriate governance structures and team compositions
7 ADM Guidelines and Techniques
1 topic

Stakeholder Management and Views

  • Describe the concepts of architecture views and viewpoints and explain how viewpoints define the perspective from which architecture is presented to specific stakeholder concerns
  • Apply viewpoint selection to create architecture views tailored to specific stakeholder concerns and communication needs
  • Describe ADM iteration approaches including architecture landscape, architecture capability, and architecture governance iterations and explain when each is appropriate
  • Describe the role of architecture maturity models and explain how they assess organizational readiness to adopt and benefit from enterprise architecture practices
  • Analyze a complex stakeholder environment to recommend the appropriate combination of ADM tailoring, viewpoint selection, and governance mechanisms for a specific architecture engagement

Certification Benefits

Salary Impact

$140,000
Average Salary

Related Job Roles

Enterprise Architect Solution Architect IT Strategy Director Architecture Manager Digital Transformation Lead

Industry Recognition

TOGAF is the world's most widely adopted enterprise architecture framework, used by over 80% of the Global 50 companies. The Foundation certification demonstrates understanding of the framework structure and core concepts.

Scope

Included Topics

  • TOGAF Standard Foundation (Level 1) exam content: core concepts of enterprise architecture, the Architecture Development Method (ADM) phases (Preliminary through Architecture Change Management), enterprise continuum and architecture repository, architecture governance framework, architecture content framework including deliverables, artifacts, and building blocks, architecture capability framework, TOGAF reference models including TRM and III-RM, stakeholder management, architecture views and viewpoints, business scenarios technique, and key terminology.

Not Covered

  • TOGAF Certified (Level 2) practitioner-level application scenarios
  • ArchiMate modeling language and notation
  • Detailed TOGAF tool implementation (Sparx EA, BiZZdesign)
  • Zachman Framework, FEAF, or DoDAF comparisons
  • ITIL, COBIT, or PMBOK integration details
  • SOA and microservice architecture patterns beyond TOGAF references
  • Cloud architecture frameworks (AWS Well-Architected, Azure CAF)

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