Training, exams and certification
Training, exams and certification
Eight scenarios, ninety minutes, open book — and a scoring system that is unlike almost every other certification exam. Understanding it changes what you should practise, because on this paper there is no such thing as simply right or wrong.
OGEA-102 is the second of the two exams in the TOGAF Enterprise Architecture certification. Passing it — on top of the Foundation qualification — earns TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner.
| Exam code | OGEA-102 |
|---|---|
| Qualification earned | TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner |
| Questions | 8 scenario-based case study questions |
| Scoring | Gradient: 5, 3, 1 or 0 points per question. 40 points available |
| Time limit | 90 minutes, plus 30 minutes under the ESL allowance |
| Pass mark | 60% — 24 points out of 40 |
| Materials | Open book. The TOGAF Standard is inside the exam, behind a REFERENCE button |
| Prerequisite | TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Foundation, or a Part 1 pass the same day |
| Where you sit it | A Pearson VUE test centre, or OnVUE online with a remote proctor |
| Languages | English, French, Simplified Chinese |
| Retakes | At least one month must pass between attempts |
| Exam fee | USD 435 for a retail voucher, from 1 February 2026. Local taxes may apply |
Each of the eight questions gives you four options and asks for one. But they are not one right answer and three wrong ones. They are ranked:
| The best answer | 5 points |
|---|---|
| The second-best answer | 3 points |
| The third-best answer | 1 point |
| The distractor | 0 points |
Eight questions at five points each is forty available, and the pass mark is twenty-four. Put those two facts together and the exam looks very different:
| Best answer, all eight times | 40 · pass | |
| Seven best, one distractor | 35 · pass | |
| Second-best, all eight times | 24 · pass | |
| Four best, four third-best | 24 · pass | |
| Three best, five third-best | 20 · fail | |
| Third-best, all eight times | 8 · fail |
The second-best answer, eight times out of eight, is exactly a pass. Not comfortably — exactly. Twenty-four points, the pass mark to the point. It is the most useful single fact about this exam: you do not have to be right eight times. You have to be close every time, and you cannot afford to be badly wrong.
The other side of the same coin is that a distractor is expensive. Picking the worst option once costs you five points against the ceiling — the difference between a comfortable pass and a marginal one. Two of them, on a paper where you are otherwise picking second-best, and you are below the line.
So the skill being tested is not recall. It is judgement under a clock: reading a situation, discarding the option that is plainly wrong, and then choosing between two or three that are all defensible. The exam is built to reward the architect who would have done the sensible thing, not the one who memorised the chapter.
The Open Group publishes the syllabus areas for Part 2, but — unlike Part 1 — not a number of questions per area. A single scenario can draw on more than one. The eight areas are:
Eight areas and eight questions is a tempting arithmetic, and The Open Group does not confirm it. Treat the list as the map of what can come up, not as a promise of one question each.
The TOGAF Standard is inside the exam, reachable from a REFERENCE button. You do not have to memorise the framework, and that is genuinely different from Part 1.
What it does not do is give you time. Ninety minutes across eight scenarios is eleven minutes each — and a scenario is several paragraphs of situation before you reach the question, followed by four long options that differ from one another in a sentence or two. Reading the scenario, reading the options and choosing between them will use most of the eleven minutes on its own.
Candidates who go into Part 2 planning to look things up tend to run out of time somewhere around question five. The reference is there for the detail you half-remember — the order of steps in a phase, which artefact belongs where — not for learning the material during the exam.
The practical consequence: know the ADM well enough that you only open the Standard to confirm, and decide in advance how many times you are willing to do it.
Not on its own. You need TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Foundation first, or a pass on Part 1 the same day. The combined exam, OGEA-103, covers both parts in one sitting.
There is no deduction, but the gradient makes the point differently: the worst option scores zero where the best scores five, so a bad choice costs you five points of headroom. That is a penalty in everything but name.
The relevant body of knowledge from the TOGAF Standard, through the REFERENCE button in the exam software. Not your own notes, not the internet, not a printed copy.
Twenty-four points across eight questions is an average of three — the value of the second-best answer. That is the bar, expressed the useful way round.
At least one month before a retake, and a retake needs its own voucher.
Sources. Every figure on this page comes from The Open Group’s own published material, checked in September 2026.
Our Exam Simulator for TOGAF EA Practitioner runs scenario questions the way the exam runs them — graded answers, the same clock, the same pass mark — and spells out why the better answer was better, which is the only way the distinction becomes instinct.
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