Training, exams and certification
Training, exams and certification
The portfolio is bigger than the two exams most people know about, and the routes through it depend entirely on what you already hold. This is the whole map: every certification, its exam code, what it needs first, and what it costs.
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The spine of the portfolio is the Enterprise Architecture pair. Everything else sits beside it rather than in front of it.
| TOGAF EA Foundation | OGEA-101 · no prerequisite · USD 435 40 multiple-choice questions, 60 minutes, closed book. How that exam is built |
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| TOGAF EA Practitioner | OGEA-102 · requires Foundation · USD 435 8 scenarios, 90 minutes, open book, gradient scored. How that exam is built |
| Both in one sitting | OGEA-103 · no prerequisite · USD 640 Part 1 and Part 2 together. Whether that is the right choice |
| From TOGAF 9 Certified | OGEA-10B · requires TOGAF 9 Certified · USD 415 The bridge. Lands you at Practitioner. |
All four are delivered by Pearson VUE, at a test centre or online with a remote proctor, in English, French and Simplified Chinese.
TOGAF Business Architecture Foundation — exam OGBA-101, no prerequisite, USD 435, 40 questions.
It is not a step on the Enterprise Architecture ladder and it is not a lesser version of it. It covers the business-side methods of the same Standard — business modelling, capabilities, value streams — and it exists for people whose work sits on that side of the line. You can hold it without ever touching OGEA-101, and plenty of people should.
Alongside the exam-based certifications, The Open Group offers a set of shorter qualifications built around a few hours of study rather than a Pearson VUE sitting:
They are narrower by design and they are not substitutes for Foundation or Practitioner. Treated as what they are — a way to add a specific competence to a certification you already hold — they are useful. Treated as a shortcut, they disappoint.
Two things are true at once, and they are easy to get wrong.
Your TOGAF 9 certification does not expire. The Open Group has said so plainly about TOGAF 9 Foundation and TOGAF 9 Certified, and has committed to supporting that learning path indefinitely. Nothing lapses, and TOGAF 9 is still named in job adverts.
And: if you want the 10th Edition credential, the route depends on which TOGAF 9 qualification you hold.
| TOGAF 9 Certified | Take the bridge, OGEA-10B, USD 415. You arrive at TOGAF EA Practitioner. |
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| TOGAF 9 Foundation only | The bridge is not open to you. The ordinary route applies: OGEA-101, then OGEA-102, or the combined OGEA-103. |
| Nothing yet, new to the field | OGEA-101. Get the vocabulary, then decide about Practitioner. |
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| Nothing yet, already an architect | OGEA-103 combined, or the two separately if scenarios worry you. |
| TOGAF 9 Certified | OGEA-10B. Cheapest route, and it ends at Practitioner. |
| TOGAF 9 Foundation | OGEA-101 then OGEA-102, or OGEA-103. |
| Working on the business side | OGBA-101, on its own terms. |
The Open Group states plainly that TOGAF 9 Foundation and TOGAF 9 Certified do not expire. It publishes no renewal requirement or expiry date for the TOGAF Enterprise Architecture certifications either — but if you need that in writing for an employer, ask The Open Group rather than relying on a page like this one.
Yes. “TOGAF 10” is how everyone refers to it; the 10th Edition of the Standard is what the current certifications are built on.
Only if the business-architecture side is your work. It is a parallel certification, not a further step, and holding both says something specific about the range of what you do.
As an addition to a certification, yes — they are built around a few hours of study and they name a competence precisely. As a replacement for Foundation or Practitioner, no; they are not recognised as one.
In most adverts, the two-part qualification — today TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner, and still frequently TOGAF 9 Certified, which is why the bridge exists.
Sources. Every figure on this page comes from The Open Group’s own published material, checked in September 2026.
Whichever door you come through, the last step is a timed exam in a format you either know or do not. Our simulators run both halves the way The Open Group runs them — same questions style, same clock, same pass mark.
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