Software Architecture Fundamentals

Preparing for your iSAQB CPSA—Foundation Level exam? Make the grade with this study guide! First, tackle essential topics and fundamentals, beginning with development approaches and design techniques for scalable software architectures. Then see how views, templates, and documents are used to communicate design decisions, and understand how to evaluate software architectures. Level up your exam prep with this handy resource!

• Prepare for the iSAQB Certified Professional for Software Architecture—Foundation Level (CPSA-F) exam
• Learn to design scalable system software architectures
• Walk through techniques for software architecture planning, documentation, and quality management
• 2nd edition, updated and revised

Fundamentals of Software Architecture
Reinforce your understanding of key concepts, including software architecture design principles, techniques to develop scalable architectures, tools needed to describe designs to stakeholders, and methods for quality evaluation.

Core Exam Concepts
Thoroughly review each topic in the exam: basic concepts, architecture design and development, architecture communication, and quality analysis. Expand your knowledge with a bonus chapter about software architecture tools.

Expert Guidance
Learn directly from iSAQB experts who helped develop the curriculum for the Certified Professional for Software Architecture—Foundation Level exam.

Mahbouba Gharbi is the managing director and chief architect of ITech Progress GmbH and a chairperson of the International Software Architecture Qualification Board (iSAQB). She's a dedicated software architecture enthusiast, the author of numerous technical articles, and a frequent speaker at international conferences.

Arne Koschel is a lecturer at the University of Hanover, who specializes in distributed data systems. He has many years of industry experience in the planning and development of distributed data systems. He also advises and lectures on topics like SOA, integration, middleware, EDA, and cloud computing. He serves as an active board member of the iSAQB.

Andreas Rausch leads the software systems engineering department at Technische Universität, Clausthal. He is a consultant and lead software architect for several large-scale distributed software systems.

Holger Tiemeyer is vice chairman of the iSAQB board. As a computer scientist who minored in psychology, he represents the financial interests of the association as well as the social aspects concerning the people who design software architectures.