Systems Architecture Certificate

With the growing complexity of today’s technological systems, it is more and more necessary to architect systems before design work begins. As a result, a systems perspective and architecting principles are required to successfully design, operate, and sustain many systems.

The 40-hour Systems Architecture Certificate Program will provide your team with an understanding of the fundamental organization of a system as embodied in its components, their relationships to each other, the environment, and the principles guiding its design and evolution.

This program introduces systems architecting concepts through lectures, case studies, and individual and team exercises. Teams will use modeling software to develop architectural views and models.

Custom Program Benefits

Your team will learn to:

• Recognize the fundamentals of systems architecting and the role of the systems architect
• Apply heuristics, processes, methods, languages, and systems architecture tools
• Explore various architectures used within the government and industry
• Apply the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DODAF) to documenting system architectures
• Use Systems Modeling Language (SysML) to construct visual models of the system design
• Recognize architectural factors to consider and evaluate architectural effectiveness
• Address architectural considerations, including complexity, affordability, technologies, software, design factors, Cost Off The Shelf (COTS), and Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA)

Topics

• Terminology
• Systems Engineering Methodologies
• Architectural Methods and Framework
• Department of Defense Architectural Framework (DoDAF)
• Systems and Software Architecting
• Architectural Effectiveness Considerations
• System Architecting Modeling Language
• Architecting Challenges and Next Steps

Who should attend

Component/subsystems engineers, software/hardware engineers, systems engineers, project managers, business analysts, and technical support personnel

Instructors

Jim Hines; Ken Preston, DBA; Dennis Schwarz; Michael Sturgeon; Steve Wall