So I just got my second failure notification and I'm honestly pretty demoralized. I've been studying on and off for about three months, mostly reading the official TOGAF 9.2 standard document and watching some YouTube videos. My score was 56% both times — I need 60% to pass Level 1. The ADM phases feel like I understand them conceptually, but then the questions twist the scenarios in ways that trip me up.
What finally clicked for people who passed? I'm wondering if I'm spending too much time on the actual standard document versus doing practice questions. A friend told me to focus heavily on the ADM cycle inputs/outputs and the Content Metamodel, but I'm not sure that's where I'm losing points. I've been working through the FREE TOGAF 9 MCQ Questions and Answers set and it's been eye-opening — some of those question styles are way closer to the real exam than anything I found elsewhere.
Anyone have a realistic TOGAF - The Open Group Architecture Framework study guide or timeline that actually worked for them? I'm a solutions architect with about 8 years of experience, so the concepts aren't foreign — it's the exam-specific framing that's killing me.