Deliverables

The curriculum covers what an architect should know. This covers what an architect actually hands over: 55 artifacts, each with a worked example, a note on when it is worth producing, who reads it, and the ways it usually goes wrong. Filter by the artifact's type, the kind of engagement that calls for it, the stack or industry it is drawn against, or the audience it is written for.

Identify the deliverable → 42 diagrams, shown one at a time with the answer withheld. Nothing to submit.

2 of 55 deliverables shown.

flowchart LR
  crm["CRM"]
  oms["Order Mgmt"]
  erp["ERP"]
  wms["WMS"]
  bill["Billing<br/><i>mainframe</i>"]
  dw[("Warehouse")]
  ptnr["Partner"]

  crm -->|"I-01 · REST · on demand"| oms
  oms -->|"I-02 · SFTP CSV · nightly"| erp
  oms -->|"I-03 · MQ · near real time"| wms
  wms -->|"I-04 · REST · on demand"| oms
  erp -->|"I-05 · flat file · nightly"| bill
  bill -->|"I-06 · DB link · nightly"| dw
  oms -->|"I-07 · CDC · continuous"| dw
  ptnr -->|"I-08 · AS2 EDI · hourly"| oms
  oms -->|"I-09 · AS2 EDI · hourly"| ptnr

Structural View

Integration Landscape Diagram

Every interface between systems, with its mechanism, direction, frequency and owner — the artifact that tells you what a migration will actually break.

Enterprise Integration Discovery

flowchart LR
  u1(["Employee<br/><i>managed laptop</i>"])
  u2(["Contractor<br/><i>unmanaged device</i>"])
  u3["Workload<br/><i>service identity</i>"]

  subgraph pep["Policy Enforcement"]
    direction TB
    px["Proxy / Gateway<br/><i>terminates every session</i>"]
  end

  subgraph pdp["Policy Decision"]
    direction TB
    eng{"Policy engine"}
    sig1["Identity + MFA"]
    sig2["Device posture"]
    sig3["Risk + location"]
    sig4["Resource sensitivity"]
    sig1 --> eng
    sig2 --> eng
    sig3 --> eng
    sig4 --> eng
  end

  subgraph res["Resources"]
    direction TB
    r1["Internal app"]
    r2[("Database")]
    r3["SaaS"]
  end

  u1 --> px
  u2 --> px
  u3 --> px
  px <-->|"authorise this request"| eng
  px -->|"allow · scoped · time-bound"| r1
  px -->|"allow · read-only"| r2
  px -->|"deny · posture fail"| r3
  log[("Decision log<br/><i>every allow and deny</i>")]
  eng --> log

Security View

Zero Trust Architecture Diagram

Access decided per request from identity, device and context rather than from network position, with the policy decision point drawn explicitly.

Network Security Design