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iSAQB Certified Professional for Software Architecture - Foundation
Software architecture as iSAQB teaches it: the role and its responsibilities, design principles and patterns chosen for trade-offs, documenting with arc42, making quality concrete as scenarios, evaluating with ATAM, and deciding the cross-cutting concepts once.
What you get
Papers are cut from the bank and weighted like the real exam, and no question appears in two of them. Every wrong answer comes back on later days until you have it right.
What the exam covers
| The role of the architect, basic concepts and designing architectures | Not published |
| Documenting, evaluating and cross-cutting concepts | Not published |
Two sample questions
1. Why does the architect consider the organisation structure when designing a system?
- The organisation decides which of the technologies the architecture is permitted to use
- The size of the organisation determines how many components the system should have
- The organisation's reporting lines have to be reflected in the deployment structure
- A system tends to mirror the communication structure of the organisation that builds it — correct
Why: Because teams design the parts they own and communicate along organisational lines, the system structure tends to reflect the organisation, so the two should be considered together.
2. What does the quality attribute of maintainability encompass?
- The extent to which the system continues to serve requests despite failure
- The degree to which the system can grow with load without being redesigned
- The ease with which the system can be understood, corrected and enhanced — correct
- The effectiveness with which users are able to achieve their goals with it
Why: Maintainability covers how readily the system can be worked on over its life, which structure, clarity and modularity strongly influence.
The real CPSA-F exam
| Length | 75 minutes |
|---|---|
| Questions | 43 |
| Pass mark | Around 60% of the available points |
| Price | Set by the accredited training provider or examination body, typically 200 to 400 EUR |
| Recommended before you sit it | None for the exam itself, though iSAQB assumes practical software development experience. |
| Valid for | No expiry |
Exam facts as published by iSAQB; always check the vendor’s page before you book.
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