ArchiMate 3 Practitioner study guide
ArchiMate 3 Practitioner · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
ArchiMate 3 Practitioner is the second tier in The Open Group's ArchiMate certification path, following ArchiMate 3 Foundation. The ArchiMate Specification, a standard of The Open Group, defines an open and independent modeling language for Enterprise Architecture, and the certification program exists to show that individuals are knowledgeable about that visual modeling language. The program's latest version covers the 3.2 release of the specification. Practitioner-level study assumes you can already read the language and instead tests whether you can apply it: choosing correct element types and relationship types across the Business, Application, and Technology layers, modeling cross-layer dependencies, deriving views from a base model, and communicating architecture to different stakeholder groups. The ArchiMate 3 Practitioner study guide has 4 sections and about 1,262 words.
01ArchiMate Language Fundamentals and Core Concepts
ArchiMate separates concerns into layers: Business , Application , and Technology , bracketed by Strategy (above) and Physical and Implementation & Migration (below/beside). Each layer has active structure elements (who/what acts), behavior elements (what is done), and passive structure elements (what is acted upon).
331 words, about 2 min02ArchiMate Modeling Techniques and Cross-Layer Relationships
Most practitioner questions test how layers connect. Key cross-layer relationships: serving (a lower-layer service serves a higher-layer behavior), realization (application service realizes business service), assignment (application component assigned to application function), and access (behavior reads/writes a data or business object).
329 words, about 2 min03ArchiMate Model Derivation and Transformation
Derivation produces a new model or view from an existing one by applying rules - filtering, abstraction, or relationship inference. Practitioners must distinguish model transformation (structural change, e.g., specialization to generalization) from view derivation (same model, different projection).
315 words, about 2 min04ArchiMate Stakeholder Communication and Model Application
ArchiMate is a communication language. Start from the stakeholder and their concern, then pick the viewpoint, then the elements.
287 words, about 1 min