Your result

The CPSA® Foundation Level conveys the ability in a team to design and document an appropriate software architecture, to assure and evaluate quality and to know the necessary tools, for properly described requirements and systems.

After this training, you:

• Understand the concept and meaning of software architecture
• Know the tasks and responsibilities of software architects and their role in projects
• Can work with state-of-the-art methods and techniques for the development of software architectures
• Will be able to successfully coordinate essential decisions for a software architecture with other project participants from the fields of requirements management, project management, testing, and development
• Have the ability to document and communicate software architectures based on architecture patterns and technical concepts
• Are able to understand essential steps in the design of software architectures and can carry them out independently for small and medium-sized systems

Audience

This training is a perfect fit for anyone looking to enhance their software architecture skills: from software developers to software architects, from those aspiring to be architects to those who are already experienced architects.

Approach

This is a 4-day intensive training that culminates with an exam for the Certified Professional for Software Architecture, foundation level.

Prior knowledge

Participants should have the following knowledge and/or experience:

• At least 18 months of practical experience in software development, acquired by programming various projects or systems outside of education
• Knowledge of and practical experience in at least one higher programming language
• Basics of modelling and abstraction
• Basics of UML (class, package, component, and sequence diagrams) and their relation to source code
• Practical experience in technical documentation, especially in the documentation of source code, system designs or technical concepts

Helpful for the understanding of some concepts are also:

• Knowledge of object orientation
• Practical experience in at least one object-oriented programming language
• Practical experience in the design and implementation of distributed applications, such as client/server systems or web applications

Certificate

When completing this course you will recieve the certificate of participation ‘iSAQB® Foundation Training in Software Architecture’. 

Content

• Basic concepts
• Definition(s), goals and benefits
• Key terms and concepts
• Roles, responsibilities, and activities of architects
• Expected output and results
• Role, tasks, responsibilities, skills
• Deriving quality goals and design constraints
• Requirements, constraints, influencing factors
• Design principles
• Patterns
• Additional design considerations
• Cross-cutting concerns, interfaces
• Achieving quality goals
• Design approaches and methods
• Architecture development approaches
• Architecture design methods
• Documentation and communication
• Software architecture evaluation
• Modelling and describing quality
• Architecture evaluation