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Enterprise
Architects Certification
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Architecture
Toolkit
The
number and variety of certification initiatives and schemes is
increasing all the time, especially because
Enterprise
Architecture is a hot issue today.
A lot of
organizations are coming up with certification initiatives. However,
clear descriptions of the
certification criteria are almost
always missing. So the value and status of certification is directly
related to
the terms and conditions of certification. Today
there are initiatives from regular education institutes like
universities and institutes and initiatives from consulting and
service organisations with their own internal
certification
program and initiatives from commercial organisations.
The
scope of the different certification programs is totally
incomparable.
There
are programs from an 8 - 10 hour course till a 3-year
university-based study. Sometimes, you can get
a certificate
when you pay a lot of money to a certification organisation without
clear criteria of your
certification.
Some consulting and service organisations have a very
clear and regulated certification process, where
candidates are
tested on their knowledge, skills, capabilities and experiences in
dealing with Enterprise
Architecture. These people will be
certified for a specific time period and after that period they have
to
make clear that they are still EA practitioners.
Some
examples of Enterprise Architects Certification initiatives:
Federal Enterprise
Architecture Certification Institute,
USA
Certificate
Program for Enterprise
Architects
The
FEAC Institute provides training and education leading to
certification in the Federal Enterprise
Architecture, the
Department of Defense Architecture Frameworks, and Integrated
security Framework.
www.feacinstitute.org
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