EA Modelling for Practitioners, based on ArchiMate®

About this course

EA Modelling for Practitioners is based on ArchiMate®, the open standard modelling language for enterprise architecture.

After the course you will be able to model a uniform representation of an organisation's architecture: diagrams that describe, analyse and visualise the different domains, their relationships and their dependencies unambiguously, so that stakeholders share one language for talking about architectural change.

ArchiMate® introduces a distinctive idea, the architectural viewpoint, which lets an architect describe one stakeholder's interests and concerns without drowning them in everyone else's. From migrating legacy applications to consolidating infrastructure, it supports cross-domain analysis and shows the direct and indirect impact of a change from each point of view.

It is designed to sit alongside other modelling languages, UML for systems and BPMN for business processes among them, rather than to replace them.

Curriculum

• Language structure: layers, aspects and the generic metamodel
• Business, application and technology layer elements and relationships
• Motivation, strategy, implementation and migration extensions
• Viewpoints: choosing, composing and defending one
• Cross-domain analysis and impact of change
• Working with UML and BPMN alongside ArchiMate®
• Practical modelling exercises and quizzes throughout

Who it is for

• Architects who already have the framework and now need the notation
• Modelling teams standardising how they draw and review

Assessment

Practitioner examination

Where you are certifying, the examination is sat through the examination provider after the course.

What is included

• Course materials
• Practical exercises and quizzes
• Examination voucher where the course is taken with certification

Next dates

Published dates as at 1 October 2026. Dates come from the 4dskills course records, so this list is the live one.