CEA-C01 case studies
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The Certified Enterprise Architect (CEA) Black Belt is the top tier in the Zachman International and FEAC Institute certification ladder, positioned above the Associate Certified Enterprise Architect (ACEA) Green Belt and the Certified Enterprise Architect Practitioner (CEAP) Yellow Belt. The FEAC Institute describes its programs as competency-based enterprise architecture education delivered through hands-on practice and active mentorship, with each certification representing a different level of mastery. The Black Belt is aimed at experienced architects who need to tailor an EA program to their organization or build an entire EA practice, rather than simply get started. Candidates work through four domains: EA Concepts and Framework Basics; Framework Models, Views and Implementation; Planning for Architecture Development and Use; and Architecture Modeling, Analysis and Integration. The CEA-C01 case studies are 5 cases and about 2,626 words.
1Choosing a Framework for a Regulated Payments Modernization
A regional payments processor with 340 staff must replace a 14-year-old settlement platform. The board has mandated compliance with a national real-time payments standard within 18 months.
594 words, about 3 min2Stakeholder Conflict Over a Shared Data View
A hospital network is building an enterprise data platform spanning 6 hospitals. The clinical operations director wants a real-time bed-capacity dashboard.
537 words, about 3 min3Integration Risk in an Incremental Migration
A logistics firm is migrating a monolithic order system to services over 24 months. The monolith handles 4,000 orders/hour at peak and shares a single database with a legacy billing system maintained by a different vendor.
507 words, about 3 min4Modeling Fidelity Versus Deadline
A city transit authority must publish a target-state architecture for a fare-collection overhaul before a funding submission in 10 weeks. The current-state documentation is 3 years old and known to be incomplete: two bus depots changed ticketing vendors and one rail line was added.
484 words, about 2 min5Analysis of a Quality-Attribute Trade-off Under Cost Pressure
A SaaS provider runs a multi-tenant reporting product. Customers complain about slow report generation at month-end.
504 words, about 3 min