ARCITURA Certified Blockchain Architect The essential business drivers and the technology of blockchain as well as the mechanisms and inner workings

Course details

Day 1

Module 1: Fundamental Blockchain

This course module provides end-to-end coverage of essential technology and business topics pertaining to Blockchain. The industry drivers and impacts of Blockchain are explained, followed by coverage of basic Blockchain components and artifacts. Various Blockchain technologies are discussed, along with security considerations and common applications and usage scenarios. The following primary topics are covered:

• Drivers, Benefits and Challenges of Blockchain
• Blockchain Value Propositions
• Industrial Impacts of Blockchain on Different Industry Verticals
• Fundamental Components of a Blockchain Architecture
• Blocks, Nodes, Verifiers/Verification and Chaining
• Consensus and Group Consensus
• Public vs. Private / Permissionless vs. Permissioned Blockchains
• Coins, Tokens, Smart Contracts
• Basics of Cryptography Algorithms (Crypto Hashing)
• Centralized Ledger vs Decentralized Ledger
• Decentralized Applications and Impacts of Decentralization
• Fundamental Blockchain Security Considerations
• Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
• DevOps for Blockchain Development
• Blockchain Value-Adds for IoT
• Blockchain Availability, Scalability and Anonymity
• On-Chain and Off-Chain Transactions

Day 2

Module 2: Blockchain Technology and Architecture

This course delves into the technologies, artifacts and inner workings of blockchains and related solutions by exploring a series of key mechanisms, associated technologies and common architectural considerations. Also covered are common security concerns and mechanisms. The following primary topics are covered:

• Public and Private Blockchain Types
• Architectural and Security Blockchain Mechanisms
• Smart Contract, Distributed Ledgers and Consensus
• Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS)
• Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) and Leased Proof of Stake (LPoS)
• Proof of Importance (PoI) and Proof of Elapsed Time (PoET)
• Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT)
• Decentralized Blockchain Solution Architectures
• Event Chaining and Event Sourcing in Block Chain
• Ethereum, Hyperledger and Enterprise Integration
• Smart Contracts Drill-Down and Data Sovereignty
• Blockchain Security Threats and Controls
• Transaction Signing, Cryptography and Digital Signatures with Blockchain
• Blockchain Integrity
• Cloud Computing and Blockchain, Blockchain-as-a-Service
• Blockchain Security and IoT

Day 3

Module 3: Blockchain Technology Lab

This course module presents participants with a series of exercises and problems that are designed to test their ability to apply their knowledge of topics covered in previous courses. Completing this lab will help highlight areas that require further attention and will further prove hands-on proficiency in blockchain technologies, mechanisms and security controls as they are applied and combined to solve real-world problems.