Assess your Capabilities as a Business Architect

Business architect competency survey assessing enterprise architecture skills

Discover your strengths and uncover your potential with the Business Architect Competency Survey (v2).

In less than 10 minutes, you can highlight areas where you shine as well as those where you can improve.

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The first version of the quiz was introduced in 2021, and was revised in 2025. Read more details here.

What the survey measures

The Business Architect Competency Survey benchmarks your skills across the full range of capabilities a business architect draws on — business understanding, contextual awareness, strategic thinking, modelling, stakeholder persuasion, architecture techniques, awareness of economic, social and technology trends, knowledge of reference models, and quality and maturity evaluation. It also weighs related disciplines such as risk, programme and portfolio management, alongside industry knowledge and continuous learning.

Who should take it

It’s built for practising business architects wanting to benchmark themselves, aspiring business architects moving across from business analysis, enterprise architecture or consulting, and team leads mapping capability gaps across a business architecture practice.

What you’ll get

In under 10 minutes you’ll see where you’re strong and where there’s room to grow across each competency area — a quick, practical snapshot to guide your development and training choices.

FAQs

  • It assesses your capabilities across the core skills of a business architect — business and contextual understanding, strategic thinking, modelling, persuasion, architecture techniques, reference models, and quality and maturity evaluation, plus related disciplines like risk and portfolio management.

  • A broad mix: understanding the business and its context, strategic thinking, modelling, stakeholder persuasion, architecture techniques, awareness of economic, social and technology trends, knowledge of reference models, and quality and maturity evaluation — underpinned by industry experience and continuous learning.

  • It’s free and takes under 10 minutes, with no commitment.

  • Practising and aspiring business architects, and anyone moving into business architecture from business analysis, enterprise architecture or consulting.

  • A snapshot of your strengths and development areas across each competency, to help guide your learning and training.