iSAQB Foundation
iSAQB Certified Professional for Software Architecture (CPSA) Foundation
Highly interactive, hands-on course
The accredited iSAQB Certified Professional for Software Architecture Foundation (CPSA Foundation) course is an internationally recognized and standardized training for software architecture that prepares you for the iSAQB CPSA Foundation certification exam. The success rate of all course participants who have attended a Foundation course conducted by Albion trainers is exceptionally high.
The CPSA Foundation training course provides the knowledge and skills to design a suitable software architecture based on customer requirements and constraints. The acquired knowledge enables you to design, communicate, evaluate, maintain and enhance a software architecture. Participants broaden and deepen existing skills in software development with relevant approaches, methods and principles for software architecture development.
Albion Academy conducts this training exclusively as a four-day course to ensure a workshop-like environment with several group exercises and an end-to-end, practice-based case-study. Thanks to this approach, attendees gain a deeper understanding of the course material, which directly impacts their ability to pass the iSAQB CPSA certification exam and help them succeed in their day-to-day work.
Course content overview
After completing this course, participants will have attained the following knowledge.
- Definitions, benefits and goals of software architecture
- The tasks and responsibilities of software architects
- Stakeholder concerns and interaction
- Functional and quality requirements as well as other factors influencing software architecture design
- Tactics and heuristics for architectural development, e.g., architectural and design patterns, design principles, cross-cutting concerns
- Documentation of software architectures on the basis of views
- Evaluation of software architectures
Certification
Upon successful completion of the certification exam, participants receive the iSAQB® Foundation Level certification.
Target audience
Software developers, software architects and other IT professionals who seek to successfully pass the iSAQB CPSA-Foundation certification exam.
Prerequisites
- 3+ years of experience in IT development and practical programming experience is beneficial
- A basic knowledge of UML is advantageous.
Detailed course content
- Software architecture terms and concepts
- Software architecture definitions
- Software architecture objectives and benefits
- Software architect roles and responsibilities
- Stakeholders and constraints
- Business, project, and architecture goals
- Stakeholder concerns
- Constraints
- Conway’s law
- Clarification of requirements
- Functional and quality requirements
- Quality requirement trade-offs
- Quality tree and scenarios
- Documentation and communication
- Assumptions and risks
- Documentation objectives and quality
- Blackbox / whitebox
- Architecture views
- Document templates, notations and frameworks
- Architecture guidelines
- Architecture approach
- Tools
- Architecture principles, e.g. S.O.L.I.D.
- Solution strategy and design
- Architecture patterns
- Architecture structure and decomposition
- Tactics to achieve quality requirements
- Interfaces & Postel’s law
- Cross-cutting concerns
- Architecture decisions
- Architecture assessment
- Quantitative and qualitative assessment
- Architecture reviews
- Static and dynamic code analysis
| Course | iSAQB Foundation |
| Number | |
| Date | 2026-12-08 – 2026-12-10 |
| Price | EUR 2.331,00 – 2.590,00 VAT excl. |
| Location | Hotel NH Collection Köln Mediapark Im Mediapark 8B 50670 Köln |
| Contact | Albion Academy GmbH Tiroler Straße 1 83435 Bad Reichenhall Tel. 015253443355 albion.eu |
| Registration deadline | 2026-12-04 10:14 |
| Status | Open for registrations |
| No. | Date | Time | Trainer | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-12-08 | 09:00 – 17:00 | Mr Alexander Lorz | Hotel NH Collection Köln Mediapark | iSAQB Foundation |