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 TB
  inet(["Internet"])
  dc["Corporate Data Centre<br/><i>10.0.0.0/8</i>"]

  subgraph hub["Hub — 10.100.0.0/16"]
    direction TB
    fw["Egress Firewall<br/><i>FQDN allow-list</i>"]
    vpn["VPN / Direct Link<br/><i>BGP</i>"]
    dns["Private DNS Resolver"]
  end

  subgraph spokeA["Spoke: Prod — 10.101.0.0/16"]
    direction TB
    pub["Public Subnet<br/><i>10.101.0.0/24 — ingress LB only</i>"]
    app["App Subnet<br/><i>10.101.10.0/23 — no public IPs</i>"]
    data["Data Subnet<br/><i>10.101.20.0/24 — private endpoints</i>"]
    pub --> app --> data
  end

  subgraph spokeB["Spoke: Non-Prod — 10.102.0.0/16"]
    appn["App Subnet<br/><i>10.102.10.0/23</i>"]
  end

  inet -->|"443 only"| pub
  app -->|"all egress"| fw --> inet
  appn --> fw
  dc <-->|"BGP"| vpn
  vpn --- spokeA
  vpn --- spokeB
  spokeA x--x spokeB

Deployment & Infrastructure View

Network Topology Diagram

Segments, address ranges, routes and the control points between them — the view that says what can reach what at layer three.

Networking Design