TOGAF 10 Foundation — is 2 weeks of prep realistic with an EA background?
I'm an enterprise architect with 6 years of experience and just signed up for the TOGAF 10 Foundation exam. My company wants it done within a month, which gives me maybe 2–3 weeks of realistic prep time working evenings and weekends. Trying to figure out if that's actually enough or if I'm setting myself up to fail.
From what I've read, Foundation is the Level 1 exam — 60 multiple choice questions, 60 minutes, passing score is 55%. That sounds low but I've heard the question wording is tricky and 55% is harder than it looks if you're not specifically prepared for TOGAF terminology.
My plan is to read through the TOGAF Standard condensed version first rather than the full 700-page document, then spend most of my prep time on practice questions. Has anyone found the official Open Group study materials worth the money, or is there enough free material to pass Foundation without buying anything extra?
I've got real-world experience with ADM cycles but TOGAF has specific terminology that doesn't always match how practitioners actually talk. That gap between how I work and how TOGAF defines things is where I'm most worried.
Passed Foundation in 10 days, about 1.5 hours a night. The 55% threshold is achievable but don't treat it as an easy pass — know the terminology exactly as TOGAF defines it, not how you'd use it in real projects.
The official Open Group materials are decent but the free resources online got me through Foundation fine. Don't overthink it — it's a knowledge test, not application, and the free question banks cover the real exam topics well.
What tripped me up was the distinction between Architecture Building Blocks versus Solution Building Blocks. Sounds simple but the exam tests it in ways that require real precision about what each one represents.
2 weeks is enough for Foundation with your background. The terminology is specific but not deep — ADM phases, Architecture Repository structure, building blocks. Know those cold and you're 80% of the way there.