Prakash C. Rao - Certified Enterprise Architect All-in-One Exam Guide

The only way we can stay on top of this worlds accelerating rates of change and complexity is via architecture. Building buildings, airplanes, gig economies, and enterprise-minded businesses require structured methods, proven techniques, and practical lessons learned from the trenches. All this is bound in this complete Certified Enterprise Architect All-in-One Exam Guide. Beryl Bellman, Prakash Rao, and Ann Reedy continue to extend their EA best practices to advance this comprehensive, must-read guide for all enterprise architects.

Patrick Bolton, CEA, TOGAF, Zachman
Practice Leader for Management | Business Consulting, Integrated Systems, Inc.
Founding faculty and instructor of the FEAC Institute and TOGAF

There is no better decision-making rubric than this modern approach to EA! Apply these principles to create and dramatically improve enterprise-grade evolution and optimization. Prakash Rao, Beryl Bellman, and Ann Reedy show you practical and implementable EA methods that capture your organizations most important and audacious ideasensuring adoption and full realization. Without an EA mindset, you cant deliver the goodsthe continuous and cross-cutting strategic pivots required by todays complex and evolving businesses and government organizations. Keep this book away from your competition! Especially if your organization is facing complex and difficult strategic and transformation decisions. Only EA can see you through!

Robert Moore, Vice President
NTT DATA Federal, Inc.

All-age students and learners of enterprise architecture and systems engineering will find state-of-the-art viewpoints and answers to most questions in this well-structured, up-to-date book. The foundations of enterprise innovation and learning for realization of future customizable digital solutions and active models and architectures are described by approaches, methods, and tools. Examples from government, defense, and commercial sectors improve comprehension.

Frank Lillehagen, Manager R&D
Commitment AS
Oslo, Norway

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As just compensation for the times I have been AWOL from my parental and husbandly duties because of the book, I want to dedicate this work to my loving wife of more than three decades, Malathi; our two lively and lovely children, Vikram and Rajni; and our new additions, daughter-in-law Lauren and son-in-law to-be Brian. No one can ask for a better family! My professional and personal friends and well-wishers are too many to name but you know who you areour debates and discussions, your advice and inputs helped shape this book! To John Zachman whom I have personally known for more than two decades, you have always been an inspiration with your energy, enthusiasm, and wisdom! Cort Coghill, your breadth and depth of knowledge has outstripped that of all your teachers and you make us proud!

Prakash Rao

I wish to express my thanks to my husband, Dr. Christopher L. Reedy, for his patience and support during the development of this book and to my co-authors for their continuing encouragement and support. I would like to thank the other FEAC instructors and staff for their insights and support as well as the FEAC DoDAF students from whom I have learned perhaps more than they have learned from me. Finally, I would like to thank my colleagues, past and present, especially Kathie Sowell, at the MITRE Corporation, with whom I have enjoyed stimulating conversations about architecture and related issues over the years.

Ann Reedy

I also thank those Prakash mentioned along with colleagues in the Association for Enterprise Architects and especially Ken Griesi of MITRE, with whom I have jointly published and presented on emergent enterprise architecture. I also thank my former business partners and co-founders of FEAC, Felix Rausch, and Barbara Charuhas Rausch, for their support and friendship. I am most grateful to colleagues in the EA and related professional associations with whom I am affiliated and am honored by being given leadership roles. I also thank John A. Zachman for his close personal friendship and support and his son, John P. Zachman. In addition, I thank my colleagues and students at California State University Los Angeles as well as those at California State University East Bay and National University for their support of our programs; and also I thank colleagues in Norway, including Frank Lillehagen, John Krogstie, and Soba Peterson, who work with Active Knowledge Models at the National Science and Technology University in Trondheim. Most importantly, I express my deepest gratitude to my wife, Dr. Suzanne Regan, who provides support and encouragement in all of my work and teaching, and to my children, Sarah and Che, who continually make me proud.