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Separate functional from non-functional requirements
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FinOps Academy · Enterprise Assessment Center
Enterprise Architecture Design Assessment
Assess requirements analysis, architecture patterns, trade-offs, resilience, security, cost and executive communication.
Objective: Validate architecture decisions that trace clearly to business needs, constraints, risks and measurable outcomes.
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Assessment scope and competencies
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Explain governance, integration, data, security and operating-model considerations
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Compare architecture options using explicit trade-offs
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Scenario and practical challenges
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Design a multi-region regulated service
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Create a hybrid-modernisation transition architecture
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Resolve tension between resilience, cost, security and delivery speed
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Scoring and evidence standards
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Score requirement traceability, trade-off quality and decision clarity
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Require diagrams, assumptions, risks and validation criteria
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Evaluate communication for executive and engineering audiences
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Improvement and readiness plan
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Practise architecture decision records
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Improve weak quality attributes through targeted case studies
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Repeat with a timed whiteboard challenge
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