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Course Name and Accreditation:
"TOGAF^® 9 Prep Training (Levels 1 and 2)" from eLearning Launchpad is an Accredited TOGAF^® 9 Training Course and complies with the accreditation requirements for The Open Group^® TOGAF Certification for People program. The official accreditation record and status for this course can be viewed here.

TOGAF^® Version:
9.2

Course Language:
English

Countries:
Orders for this live instructor-led course are accepted from the U.S. and certain other countries -- see country availability. Course orders may be for a private group course (live online).

Delivery Format:
This course is available in a private, live-online, instructor-led format (via Zoom) for private groups of 5 or more.

Pricing and Available Dates:
Simple private course pricing: $6500 total for 5 attendees (minimum), plus $920 each for any additional attendees (includes exam vouchers for all attendees)
See price illustrations for all group sizes: Private Course Pricing Table
See available dates for private course bookings: Available Private Dates Calendar

Prerequisite Experience / Knowledge:
No specific prior knowledge or experience is required of attendees. However, some familiarity with enterprise architecture, architectural analysis, and general IT/business improvement methods is helpful. Attendees of this course should understand that TOGAF training is generally most useful to those who are, or will be, involved (directly or indirectly) in their company’s coordinated efforts to broadly improve business and IT in terms of goal and strategy enablement, cross-functional integration/standardization, interoperability, agility, and effective business/IT alignment at the enterprise level.

Course Summary:
The TOGAF^® 9 Prep Training (Levels 1 and 2) course provides 30 contact hours (typically 4 days) of instructor-led training and preparation for the “TOGAF 9 Certified” certification (TOGAF is the world’s leading framework for Enterprise Architecture). The course combines both the Level 1 (Foundation) and Level 2 (Certified) content of the TOGAF 9.2 standard. In addition to preparing attendees for the TOGAF 9 Certified exams, attendees of this course gain a thorough orientation and understanding of all the major parts of the TOGAF standard, the Architecture Development Method (ADM) at the heart of TOGAF, and the supporting guidelines, techniques, and concepts that help to maximize the effectiveness of the ADM. Additionally, the course provides guidance on how TOGAF and its ADM can be tailored and adapted to effectively meet the varying needs of any initiative or organization, large or small, including integration with an organization’s other existing/preferred frameworks and processes. A detailed course outline with description of course topics is provided further below.

This page focuses on course content details, delivery formats, and pricing. for other course-related information, please visit the following pages describing our instructor, available private course dates, private course advantages, ordering your private course, and how our approach is better for you.

Private Course Flexibility:
When delivered as a private course, this TOGAF training is dedicated to your organization, and the course can be flexibly scheduled. Class time may be scheduled during the booking process as 4 full days, or up to 8 partial/full days, either as consecutive days or spread as desired over a maximum span of 10 calendar days. Days of the week for the course (including weekends) and class start-stop times for each day (day, evening, or overnight) can be set as desired by your organization (contact hours in any given day should be no less that 4 hours, and no more than 7.5 hours (excluding meals and breaks) unless prior agreement is reached with us). In any case, the course requires approximately 30 hours of class contact time in total (again, excluding time for breaks and meals). As your private course attendance plan firms up beyond your initial order’s attendee count, you can easily add attendees for a very low $920 per-person price using our simple online ordering process, up to a maximum class size of 15 (larger class sizes may be permitted on a case-by-case basis).

NEW BONUS: VIDEO RECORDINGS OF COMPLETE 4-DAY LECTURE PRESENTATION INCLUDED – We now include a complementary month of access to video recordings of the complete lecture presentation from an entire live 4-day online course (same lecture you’ll receive in this live course). These videos provide a great additional way to review and refresh prior to your exams! See the Course Materials section below for more details.

Certification Exam Vouchers Included:
We include, at no extra cost, a “Combined Part 1 and Part 2” exam voucher for each attendee that can be used to schedule his/her combined exam at a Pearson VUE test center location, date, and time of their choosing after the course (to qualify for the voucher, attendance at all course sessions is required). The “combined” exam (OG0-093) that is covered by this voucher allows both the Level 1 and Level 2 exams (also referred to as “Part 1” and “Part 2”) to be taken back-to-back in a single session. Significant value is added by including these vouchers in our accredited course price, given that attendees would otherwise pay $495 per person if purchasing the same exam from the test center on their own. We also offer the option for “separate” Part 1 and Part 2 exam vouchers if clients prefer to be able to schedule the two exams on different dates.
In addition to exam vouchers, our accredited course includes a Second-Chance Exam Retake Guarantee -- if an attendee fails a TOGAF 9 certification exam on the first attempt, we will provide a free exam retake voucher (course must be ordered via our online system, and certain other restrictions apply -- see details).
For additional information on exam vouchers and related options, the guarantee, and the exam booking process, see the certification exam details at the bottom of this page.

A response to ever-growing TOGAF popularity:
We are offering this course in response to the accelerated growth in TOGAF 9 certifications and the associated demand for more affordable, high quality, and easily arranged private training. TOGAF^® has seen a strong and steady rise in popularity in recent years as more and more enterprises are deciding to learn and leverage this framework as a means to strengthen their Enterprise Architecture and general business/IT improvement capabilities. As a result, TOGAF 9 has become the world's most popular and defacto framework for developing enterprise architecture. In 2016, The Open Group^® indicated that 80% of Fortune Top 50 companies are using TOGAF in some capacity. As of 2022, over 118,000 individuals from over 130 countries have been certified in TOGAF 9 -- this represents 3X growth in the number of worldwide TOGAF 9 certifications in just 7 years, and the annual growth rate continues to be steady.

Course Materials

Pedigree of materials:
As a member company of The Open Group^® Architecture Forum (the industry consortium that manages the TOGAF^® standard) we are able to license an extensive amount of TOGAF^® 9 training materials directly from The Open Group^® - this modular content is intended for use in developing certification prep courses, such as ours. Our use of these materials as the foundational building blocks of our course design has greatly aided us in creating a high quality course that is authoritative, clear, and complete in its coverage - all important factors in helping attendees gain the solid understanding of TOGAF^® 9 they need to be prepared for the certification exams. Our accredited TOGAF^® 9 Prep Training (Levels 1 and 2) course has demonstrated, via the accreditation process and assessment by The Open Group, that the course materials cover all the Key Learning Points of the Level 1 and Level 2 certification conformance syllabi defined by The Open Group.

What’s provided:
TOGAF training materials, including all lecture slides, are provided to each attendee as a set of downloadable electonic documents (referred to as “e-materials”). As a supplement to the lecture and reference materials, we also provide a personal pdf of the complete TOGAF 9.2 Standard, supporting “Guide” documents from The TOGAF Library, and a “Study Pack” (published by The Open Group^®). The Study Pack aids greatly in studying TOGAF offline, reviewing for the exams, and finding information via “quick reference” resources; this Study Pack includes: 1) Study Guide documents (one for each of the two TOGAF certification exams) which are much more concise, built around learning objectives, and easier to digest than the full standard document itself, 2) Practice Exams for Level 1 and 2, with additional bonus practice questions, 3) reference cards for the TOGAF ADM phases and other concepts, and 4) the TOGAF “Pocket Guide” – a concise 100 page L1+L2 summary of TOGAF that’s suitable for quick reference. Also included are sample artifacts and templates to serve as simple example illustrations and possible starting points for certain types of work products.

NEW BONUS: VIDEO RECORDINGS OF COMPLETE 4-DAY LECTURE PRESENTATION INCLUDED – We now include a complementary month of access to video recordings of the complete lecture presentation from an entire live 4-day online course (same lecture you’ll receive in this live course). These videos provide a great additional way to review and refresh prior to your exams! See the Recorded E-Learning Course Description page for the complete details on this package. Access to these videos is provided after the live course is underway, and are available for viewing for 1 month from the end of the live course. Note that this package is also sold separately (with 6 months access) for those who might prefer the convenience and low cost of a self-paced approach instead of a scheduled live course.

Certification Exam Vouchers
As described in the Overview section above, we include a “Combined Part 1 and Part 2” exam voucher for each attendee that can be used to schedule his/her combined exam at a Pearson VUE test center location, date, and time of their choosing after the course (to qualify for the voucher, attendance at all course sessions is required). For additional information on exam vouchers and related options, the exam retake guarantee (and restrictions), and the exam booking process, see the certification exam details at the bottom of this page.

Pricing for TOGAF^® 9 Prep Training (Levels 1 and 2) Course

PRIVATE COURSES:
Pricing for Private Online delivery of this course is per the table below:
Note: The table illustrates this simple pricing model for the total course cost: $6500 total for 5 attendees (minimum), plus $920 each for any additional attendees.

Overview of Topics and Class Flow

Topic detail:
A detailed topics outline of the course is presented in the next section below, as a series of topics – the lecture follows a similar sequence. The topics in the detailed outline may be clicked/expanded for further details on the topic’s subject matter and main ideas. Each topic listed in the detailed outline is covered by one slide module unless otherwise noted, with an average lecture time of approximately 45 minutes per module.

Mapping of topics to certification level:
From a TOGAF certification standpoint, any given portion of a module’s content is either Level 1 (“Foundation”) or Level 2 (“Certified”, which builds on Level 1 as a superset). In the detailed outline in the next section, a module marked “L1” indicates Level 1 content, “L2” indicates Level 2 Content, and “L1+L2” indicates a mix of Level 1 and 2 content. In the combined certification exams, “Part 1” of the exam covers only L1 material, while “Part 2” covers L2 as well as L1 material. The course is structured to introduce topics in the most logical combined sequence for overall understanding, rather than to force a hard split between Level 1 and 2.

Overview of daily flow:
Assuming a typical format of four full days, Day 1 provides a quick introduction to The Open Group^®, an orientation on Enterprise Architecture fundamentals and benefits, TOGAF’s evolution and importance as an Enterprise Architecture framework, and a broad overview of all the major parts of TOGAF and their interrelationships, including an overview of the all-important Architecture Development Method (ADM) cycle and its phases. Day 2 covers most major concepts in more detail (including Architecture Governance fundamentals, the Architecture Repository, the Architecture Content Framework and metamodel, and the Enterprise Continuum used for classifying architectural assets). Days 3 and 4 provide a deeper dive into each of the 10 phases of the ADM and other Level 2-specific topics (ie, details on techniques and adaptation guidelines that are important to people who will plan, lead, or otherwise directly participate in ADM cycle activity). Most of the Day 3-4 modules are “Phase” modules, each devoted to expanding on a particular ADM phase – each such module describes the specific inputs, steps, and outputs of a given ADM phase. Other topics are interwoven so that they are explained before or near the point in the ADM cycle where they first come into play – these include the “building block” concepts that guide the definition of abstracted architectural elements, “techniques” for approaching certain key ADM phase activities, sample artifacts from various phases, and the two TOGAF Reference Models. The final Level 2 modules at the end of Day 4’s lecture cover additional governance tools as well as “guidelines” for using the ADM in various ways/styles depending on project and scope characteristics (eg, iterating over the ADM, or portions of it, and using the ADM at different levels of abstraction for a hierarchical approach to broad/complex architectures).

Interactive activities:
Class discussion and questions/answers take place throughout the course, and attendees are encouraged to comment, discuss, or ask questions in real time to help the group internalize the TOGAF concepts and how they might apply in their work environment. Interactive knowledge-check questions and some short exercises are used during the course to reinforce learning and build confidence. Near the end of Day 4, time is allotted for attendees to take portions of practice exams with time to address any questions that arise about those exam questions.

Detailed Topics Outline

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For your reference: The complete TOGAF 9.2 standard itself is available online for free, in two ways:
1) The TOGAF 9.2 standard may be viewed on The Open Group website here (note the chapter navigation in the left-side pane).
2) Alternatively, a 90-day personal evaluation PDF of the complete TOGAF 9.2 standard may be downloaded from The Open Group website here (an account with The Open Group is required for the download - registration is quick and free). Other free licensing options for longer term internal use are available from The Open Group.

Certification Exam Details

We include, at no extra cost, a "Combined Part 1 and Part 2" exam voucher for each attendee that can be used to schedule his/her combined exam at a Pearson VUE test center location, date, and time of their choosing after the course (to qualify for the voucher, attendance at all course sessions is required). The "combined" exam, OG0-093, allows both the Level 1 and Level 2 exams to be taken back-to-back in a single session. Significant value is added by including these vouchers in our accredited course price, given that attendees would otherwise pay $550 per person if purchasing the same exam from the test center on their own. A key advantage of the combined exam approach, aside from the obvious scheduling efficiency, is that an attempt at both exams is allowed, and credit is given for either exam being passed such that if only one Part is not passed, only that Part needs to be retaken. A limitation of the Combined exam is that Foundation certification cannot be an outcome if only Part 1 is passed; "TOGAF 9 Certified" is the only possible certification outcome after both Part 1 and 2 exams are passed.
Separate Part 1 and Part 2 Vouchers Also Available: If separate Part 1 and Part 2 exam vouchers are desired (instead of the Combined exam voucher included in the course price by default), we can supply separate vouchers for some/all attendees provided you make this request at least 3 business days in advance of the course start date. While most attendees prefer the efficiency of, and do very well with the Combined exam (single-sitting) approach, the alternative of using separate vouchers allows an attendee to separately schedule the Level 1 and Level 2 exams on different dates, and also allows for "Foundation" certification to be awarded after passing just the Level 1 exam - an outcome that is not possible with the Combined exam (note that if no further certification beyond Foundation is desired, the attendee can simply not use the second provided voucher). Note however that, when using separate vouchers, eligibility for the Part 2 exam requires that the Part 1 exam has already been passed (if both Parts scheduled on same day) or Foundation certification has been granted by The Open Group after passing Part 1 (if Part 2 is on a different day).

In addition to exam vouchers, our accredited course includes a Second-Chance Exam Retake Guarantee -- if an attendee fails a TOGAF 9 certification exam on the first attempt, we will provide a free exam retake voucher (course must be ordered via our online system, and certain other restrictions apply -- see details). Retake exams must be taken at least one month after the failed attempt. If a retake is needed that is not covered by our guarantee, an attendee may contact The Open Group directly to receive a discount code that can be used to reduce the cost of scheduling their retake exam with Pearson VUE.

A lower cost alternative for those not needing vouchers: If most or all of your attendees are not planning to seek certification, or there is uncertainty about committing to certification, or if certification exams are expected to be paid for separately from other funding sources, or if you simply want to decouple exam expenses to get the lowest possible course acquistion cost, you may want to consider booking our non-accredited "EA Framework Cert Prep 200" course instead; this course is priced at $420 less per person and does not include vouchers (nor does it include our "Second-Chance Exam Retake Guarantee"), yet it still provides essentially the same TOGAF 9 instructional content, materials, and delivery approach as our accredited course.

Booking certification exams (for information only):
For attendees seeking certification, the provided vouchers are used to schedule the certification exams at a Pearson VUE test center after the course (test center location, exam date, and exam time are selected based on attendee preference). Pearson VUE is The Open Group^® Exam Provider for the TOGAF^® certification exams, and their test centers are located in or near most cities. Exams are booked by registering for a free web account on The Open Group website, and then using that account to access the Pearson VUE page for certification exams. At this point, the attendee can select the exam type (OG0-093: TOGAF 9 Combined Part 1 and Part 2 Exam), which allows both the Level 1 and Level 2 exams be taken in one sitting and results in "TOGAF^® 9 Certified" certification if both exams are passed. The attendee is then presented with a list of test centers near their location that offer the requested exam, and he/she then chooses the test center location, date, and time for their exam (different test centers have different dates and times available). On the Pearson VUE checkout page, the attendee's voucher code is entered and is accepted as payment. To explore or begin this exam booking process, we recommend starting at the guidance page for Pearson VUE certification exams on The Open Group^® website - this page provides instructions on getting started, getting an account, and entering the Pearson VUE site.
NOTE: For those who do not have vouchers to cover the cost of their exams (ie, attendees who did not qualify due to lack of attendance at all course sessions, attendees from our non-accredited course, or attendees who need a retake exam but do not qualify for our Second-Chance Exam Retake Guarantee), the same process described above can be used, except that a credit card would be used on the Pearson VUE checkout page to pay for the exam -- in this case, the retail cost of the combined OG0-093 exam would be $550 for the first attempt (The Open Group offers discount codes to reduce the cost for any exam retakes).

Mapping course content to certification levels:
The mapping of course lecture modules to the Level 1 and Level 2 (the two certification exam levels) is explained in the Overview of Topics… section (above), and is reflected in the topic headings of the Detailed Topics Outline (also above).

Comparison To Our Other Courses:
Aside from this accredited TOGAF^® 9 Prep Training (Levels 1 and 2) course, we also offer a non-accredited, lower cost EA Framework Cert Prep 200 Course that is essentially equivalent in terms of TOGAF instructional content/coverage, materials, instructor, delivery approach, and duration (this non-accredited course is described elsewhere on this site, and has an identical detailed topics outline). The key differences are that the accredited TOGAF^® 9 Prep Training (Levels 1 and 2) course described here includes exam vouchers for all attendees, and is, of course, accredited by The Open Group (meaning our company, trainer, processes, and materials used in this accredited course have been reviewed by The Open Group to ensure conformance to their course and provider accreditation requirements). While our non-accredited EA Framework Cert Prep 200 Course has not undergone such review by The Open Group, we endeavor, as an internal objective, to maintain essentially identical content and delivery approaches across both course types, and we use the same instructor for both course types, so our clients can benefit from this consistency regardless of the course type they choose. Our motivation for offering the non-accredited course (in parallel with the accredited course described here) is to provide clients who do not need exam vouchers with a lower cost, and somewhat more flexible alternative for TOGAF training and certification preparation; for example, the non-accredited course may be suitable for clients that 1) are not interested in full “TOGAF 9 Certified” certification for some or all attendees (perhaps some attendees do not need any certification or only need “Foundation” certification), or 2) want to decouple or defer the expenditures/decisions related to certification exams and simply want to acquire the training itself at the lowest possible cost.

Place an Order for Your Course: TOGAF^® 9 Prep Training (Levels 1 and 2)

If you are ready to place an order for this course, please begin on our Start Course Order/Registration page, which will lead you through our simple online booking and payment process for your private course order. You will select dates and have them automatically reserved, select your initial attendee count, and make your initial payment as part of placing the order. If your procurement process requires traditional quote/purchase order methods (and/or requires other special supplier onboarding processes), just contact us with the course type, private class size (if applicable), dates you are interested in, and any other information you need, and we’ll be happy to support your process.