The way to Certified Professional for Software Architecture (CPSA®)

-  Discuss definitions of software architecture
-  Goals and benefits of software architecture
-  Software architecture as part of the software lifecycle
-  Software architects' tasks and responsibilities and role of software architects to other stakeholders
-  Correlation between development approaches and software architecture
-  Differentiation between short- and long-term goals, explicit statements and implicit assumptions
-  Types of IT systems and challenges of distributed systems

-  Approaches and heuristics for architecture development
-  Design software architectures
-  Influencing factors of software architecture
-  Cross-cutting concepts
-  Design patterns and how to apply them appropriately
-  Design principles
-  Techniques and tactics to achieve quality requirements

- The tactics and techniques for software architecture communications
- What and when we should document software architecture
- Which notations/models are used to describe software architecture
- Document and communicate cross-cutting concepts
- How to Explain and document architectural decisions

- Quality models and quality characteristics
- Quality requirements for software architectures
- Qualitative analysis and assessment of software architectures
- Quantitative evaluation of software architectures

- Relation between requirements, constraints, and solutions.
- Examples from practical experience