Theory 20 minutes + Workshop 60 minutes
Duration: 80 minutes. Artefact produced: EA competency assessment pack.
Module Overview
Explain the logic behind your architecture choices under questioning.
Refer to artefacts, trade-offs, and assumptions without hiding behind documentation.
Respond to objections from finance, security, delivery, operations, and executive stakeholders.
Assemble a portfolio that demonstrates applied enterprise architecture capability.
Theory
The final assessment is not a memory test. It tests whether you can explain architecture decisions, defend trade-offs, adapt language to stakeholders, and connect artefacts to executable outcomes. A good architect can show the work, but also explain why the work matters.
Workshop
Use the artefacts from the course to answer a mock enterprise architecture interview and final review panel.
Prepare a ten-minute architecture defence using the course artefact set.
Walk the panel through the architecture problem, the selected approach, the trade-offs, the roadmap, and the executive decision required.
Final artefact pack; ten-minute spoken defence; decision summary; lessons learned; next development plan.
Enterprise Architecture Foundations complete. Next step: practitioner review and advanced pathway selection.