Distinguished Certified IT Architect

Skill Level: Advanced                            Status: Active                           

Certification Summary:
For individuals with significant breadth and depth of impact on the business via one of three advanced career paths: Chief/Lead Architect, Enterprise Architect or IT Architect Profession Leader. This is level 3 of the Certified IT Arcitect program.

Initial requirements:
You must be certified at Level 2, or have met the Level 2 Conformance requirements at some time in the past. There are three tracks to choose from: Chief/Lead Architect, Enterprise Architect or Profession Leader. You must meet the experience requirements for your track and complete an application documenting your core foundation skills, including people skills, project management skills, business skills and architecture skills ($1250). If you are not certified at level 2, you must submit a Level 2 package in addition to the Level 3 package. You must then pass an interview by a board of Certified IT Architects. There is an annual fee of $175.
Experience requirements are as follows:

For the Chief/Lead Architect track, you must have established architectural vision for significantly complex enterprise (-wide) solution architectures.

For the Enterprise Architect track, you must have established architectural vision for significantly complex Enterprise Architectures.

For the Profession Leader track, you must have experience in developing and/or maintaining and deploying an organization’s IT Architect Profession Model.

Continuing requirements:
You must recertify every three years ($625).

Low Cost: $1250   High Cost: $0

Online resources:
Not Available

Offline resources:
Not Available

All certifications from Open Group, The

Vendor's page for this certification