iSAQB® Certified Professional for Software Architecture - Foundation Level

Description

Licensed Certified Professional for Software Architecture – Foundation Level (CPSA-F) trainings will provide participants with the knowledge and skills required to design, specify and document a software architecture adequate to fulfil the respective requirements for small and medium-sized systems. Based upon their individual practical experience and existing skills participants will learn to derive architectural decisions from an existing system vision and adequately detailed requirements. CPSA-F trainings teach methods and principles for design, documentation and evaluation of software architectures, independent of specific development processes.

Focus is education and training of the following skills:

• Discuss and reconcile fundamental architectural decisions with stakeholders from requirements, management, development, operations and test
• Understand the essential activities of software architecture, and carry out those for small- to medium sized systems
• Document and communicate software architectures based upon architectural views, architecture patterns and technical concepts.

Chapter 1: Basic concepts of software architecture

• Discuss definitions of software architecture.
• Understand and identify the benefits of software architecture.
• Understand software architecture as part of the software life cycle.
• Understand software architects' tasks and responsibilities.
• Relate the role of software architects to other stakeholders.
• Can explain the correlation between development approaches and software architecture.
• Differentiate between short- and long-term goals.
• Distinguish explicit statements and implicit assumptions.
• Responsibilities of software architects within the greater architectural context.
• Differentiate types of IT systems

Chapter 2: Design and development of software architectures

• Select and use approaches and heuristics for architecture development.
• Design software architectures.
• Identify and consider factors influencing software architecture.
• Design and implement cross-cutting concerns.
• Describe, explain and appropriately apply important architectural patterns.
• Explain and use design principles.
• Planning dependencies between building blocks.
• Achieve quality requirements with appropriate approaches and techniques.
• Design and define interfaces.

Chapter 3: Specification and communication of software architectures

• Explain and consider the quality of technical documentation.
• Describe and communicate software architectures.
• Explain and apply notations/models to describe software architecture.
• Explain and use architectural views.
• Explain and apply context view of systems.
• Document and communicate cross-cutting concerns.
• Describe interfaces.
• Explain and document architectural decisions.
• Use documentation as written communication.
• Know additional resources and tools for documentation.

Chapter 4: Software architecture and quality

• Discuss quality models and quality characteristics.
• Clarify quality requirements for software architectures.
• Qualitative analysis and asessment of software architectures.
• Quantitative evaluation of software architectures.

Chapter 5: Examples of Software architectures

• Know the relation between requirements, constraints, and solutions.
• Know the rationale of a solution’s technical implementation.