ArchiMate 3 Foundation study guide
ArchiMate 3 Foundation · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
ArchiMate 3 Foundation is a knowledge-based certification offered by The Open Group, the consortium behind the ArchiMate modeling language standard. It sits within The Open Group's Modeling Language certification track and is aimed at professionals who need to demonstrate a working understanding of ArchiMate concepts, notation, and its use in describing enterprise architectures. Typical candidates include enterprise and solution architects, modelers, analysts, and consultants who document architectures or work alongside architecture teams. The exam is delivered in multiple-choice format and tests knowledge of the language itself: its concepts and relationships, its framework and metamodel structure, how models and views are built, and how the language is applied in practice. Topics on this exam: ArchiMate Language and Concepts, ArchiMate Framework and Metamodel, ArchiMate Modeling and Views, and ArchiMate Application and Use. The ArchiMate 3 Foundation study guide has 4 sections and about 1,223 words.
01ArchiMate Language and Concepts
ArchiMate is a modelling language for enterprise architecture. Its core idea is a small set of generic concept categories - active structure, behaviour, passive structure, and motivation - that recur across all layers.
345 words, about 2 min02ArchiMate Framework and Metamodel
ArchiMate organizes models into layers (Business, Application, Technology) plus motivation , implementation & migration , and strategy extensions. Each layer has the same aspect structure: active structure, behaviour, passive structure, and services.
288 words, about 1 min03ArchiMate Modeling and Views
A view is a selection of a model presented for a stakeholder's concern. ArchiMate does not prescribe a fixed view catalogue, but the exam expects you to know common viewpoints and what they show.
310 words, about 2 min04ArchiMate Application and Use
ArchiMate is used to describe, analyse, and communicate architecture. Typical applications include baseline and target architecture , gap analysis , impact analysis , and roadmapping .
280 words, about 1 min