About the papers
How these papers were written
I sat the TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Practitioner exam myself. While preparing for it, I could not find practice papers that came close to the real exam's questions and responses, so afterwards I wrote the set I had wanted.
Match the exam
What I was trying to match
Part 2 has a particular shape. Eight scenario questions in ninety minutes, each one several hundred words of situation followed by four answers that are all defensible. It scores on a gradient: 5 for the best answer, 3 for a sound second, 1 for a weak third, 0 for the one that misreads the situation. You pass at 24 out of 40.
You can know the method well and still not pass if you keep choosing the answer that recites it correctly over the answer that fits the situation in front of you.
So the papers reproduce that shape as closely as I could get it: the same question count, the same time limit, the same gradient, scenarios of comparable length and density, and a delivery screen that behaves like the test centre. One question at a time, mark for review, a clock, and a final submission you cannot undo.
Build the set
How they were built
Eighty questions across ten papers, all written from the published source material.
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Map the coverage
The questions were written against a coverage map, so together they exercise the whole examinable surface instead of clustering around the easiest topics to write.
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Explain every option
The second-best answers get the longest explanations, because understanding why a good answer is not the best answer is the part that moves your score.
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Make it checkable
Every explanation ends with the sections it rests on, so you can open your own copy of the standard and check the reasoning for yourself.
Original work
Every scenario, option and rationale is original prose. These are practice questions written to match the real exam's format—not real exam questions, and not material drawn from a question bank.
See the work, not a sample
Start with a complete paper
Paper 1 is free and complete. No email address, no account. Sit it, read the rationales, and follow two or three references into your own copy of the standard.
Questions or corrections Contact
Questions about the papers, or a rationale you think is wrong: [email protected]. I answer these myself, usually within a few days.
If you think a question is wrong, tell me why and I will look at it again.