ArchiMate Foundation: reading models and dependencies

Objectives and progression

Independent ArchiMate 3 Foundation preparation, OGA-031, aligned to language 3.2 and the thirteen public factsheet areas. Eight lessons and 48 original decisions distinguish structure, behavior, information, relationships, motivation, strategy, layers, and migration. Fictional banking and APS cases address duplicated identity across views, separate files and events, capability versus project, international handover, service semantics, WebSphere and shared infrastructure, partial delivery, and validator limits. Optional examples use primary Archi 5.10.0 tool documentation; the tool is not an exam requirement. The internal assessment reuses 32 decisions in 60 minutes, including multiple response. It does not reproduce the official 40-question exam or award certification. Coverage maps to public areas without claiming full access to the authenticated standard or syllabus.

Audience: IT Project Managers, beginning architects, business analysts, and APS teams needing to interpret service and transformation models.

Prerequisites: Basic application, infrastructure, and business-process knowledge helps. The Foundation exam has no formal prerequisites. Installing Archi is not required to use this course.

380 estimated study minutes

• Read the model through element meaning.
• Distinguish responsibility, realization, usage, and sequence.
• Connect reasons, goals, needs, and capabilities.
• Represent business responsibilities and behavior.
• Distinguish the component from behavior and information.
• Connect execution and hosting without confusing abstractions.
• Trace dependencies and distinguish states from work.
• Choose representations by questions and understand validation limits.

Modules

1. Language, model, and aspects
2. Relationships, direction, and meaning
3. Motivation and strategy
4. Business: actors, roles, and services
5. Application: functions, services, and data
6. Technology, artifacts, and physical resources
7. Layers, implementation, and migration
8. Viewpoints, validation, and preparation

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Architecture

• TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Foundation
• TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner
• Technical Project Manager
• System Design
• Middleware

References and version

OGA-031; ArchiMate 3.2

• ArchiMate examinations summary · 2026-10-01
• ArchiMate 3 Foundation factsheet · 2026-10-01
• ArchiMate 3 Foundation overview · 2026-10-01
• Foundation competency-to-role mapping · 2026-10-01
• ArchiMate certification exam questions and answers · 2026-10-01
• ArchiMate and TOGAF complementarity · 2026-10-01
• ArchiMate 3 Conformance Requirements listing · 2026-10-01
• ArchiMate certification portfolio · 2026-10-01
• Archi User Guide · 2026-10-01
• Archi download and version · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: business actor · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: business role · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: business process · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: business service · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: application component · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: application service · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: application function · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: data object · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: artifact · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: node · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: device · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: system software · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: serving · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: realization · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: assignment · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: access · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: flow · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: triggering · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: composition · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: aggregation · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: driver · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: assessment · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: goal · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: requirement · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: capability · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: resource · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: course of action · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: plateau · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: gap · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: workpackage · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: deliverable · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: vp layered · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: vp implementation migration · 2026-10-01
• Archi hint: business object · 2026-10-01