This presentation includes advice and tips for how to pass the ArchiMate practitioner exam (ArchiMate Certification part 2).

1. ArchiMate 3.1 Practitioner
Certification
Passing Tips
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2. Trademarks
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identification purposes only and may be trademarks that are the sole
property of their respective owners.
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3. Agenda
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Exam Info
General Advices
9 Tips
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4. Exam Info
• Quoted from ArchiMate® 3 Practitioner fact sheet:
• Examination Name: ArchiMate 3 Part 2
• Examination Type: Complex multiple-choice scenario-based examination, 8
questions/90 minutes
• Supervised: YES
• Open Book: YES
• Scoring is done based on the following:
• 5: Best answer
• 3: Second best
• 1: Third best
• 0: Incorrect / Distractor
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5. Similar to “Spot the differences” game
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Source from Disney clips (Link)

6. General Advices
• Skim (Read fast) the scenario, most probably you will need to focus on part of it
not all the scenario. So, you might need to re-read this portion only later.
• You have 11.25 mins (ESL: 15 mins) please pay close attention to time.
• If you are taking the exam from home  you can’t use white paper to write your
thoughts. You must have a way to document your thoughts for every question in
a notepad (Digitally: ). Example:
• Q1:
• A: Weak association relation between work package and deliverable.
• B: …
• C: …
• D: Wrong as diagram is missing motivation layer
• If the scenario is hard, just select any answer from what you have marked as
possible answer, and mark for review, then go to next question.
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7. Tip 1 : Question not answered
• Missing layer / components that the question was clearly asking to
include / describe (i.e. Missing deliverables).
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8. Tip 2 : Missing component from scenario
• Missing component(s) that the was described in scenario and found
in other diagrams.
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9. Tip 3 : Missing junction
• Junction (Or/And) doesn’t exists in the diagram while it was
mentioned in the scenario.
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10. Tip 4 : Wrong component usage
• Wrong component usage ==> Check the meaning in scenario.
• Pay close attention to “Business Object” vs “Contract”.
• Pay close attention to “Actor” vs “Role”.
• Pay close attention to “Application component” vs “System Software”.
• Pay close attention to “Requirement” vs “Constraint”.
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11. Tip 5 : Diamond direction in relation
• Pay close attention to diamond in composition / aggregation relation,
is it specified in the right direction?
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12. Tip 6: Relation not supported by meta-model
• Wrong relation usage. Having doubts? It is open book exam: Check in
Meta-model / examples if relationship is allowed or not.
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13. Tip 7: Undirected association is weak relation
• Association without directions are weak; normally this won't denote a best
answer as long as there is another model containing more specific
relationships.
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14. Tip 8: Composition is strong relation
• Pay close attention to composition / aggregation relation in all diagrams.
Composition is strong relation. Does the scenario really require/imply
composition? Look for words like “main”, “key”, “consists”, … etc to apply
composition or it is implicitly understood.
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15. Tip 9: Undirected access relation
• Pay close attention to unspecified arrows in access relation, it is weak,
is there other diagram have more specified relation?
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16. References & Credits
• Credits for free ArchiMate tool Archi.
• Some diagrams included in this presentation based on purchased
license from Infograpia.
• This presentation is intended for non-commercial use, credits goes to:
• Disney Clips for spot the difference game.
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17. Thanks
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