See the platform as one system: business flow, dependencies, integration, resilience, and failure domains.
Private study lesson
Seeing core banking as a system
Objective: Move from component-level thinking to an end-to-end service and dependency view.
Core-banking leaders need to reason about the full service path, not only the component currently showing the symptom.
Approx. 10 minutes
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Mapping business flow to technology
Objective: Trace a business event through the technical components and operational controls that support it.
The useful architecture map starts with the business event and follows where state, responsibility, and evidence move next.
Approx. 12 minutes
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Integration and dependency architecture
Objective: Recognise synchronous, asynchronous, database, platform, and external dependencies and the risks they create.
A dependency map becomes valuable when it shows failure behaviour, ownership, and recovery implications rather than only connection lines.
Approx. 12 minutes
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Resilience and failure domains
Objective: Identify where apparently separate components share infrastructure, data, or operational failure modes.
Two components are not truly independent if they depend on the same database, network path, certificate, storage, operator, or recovery process.
Approx. 12 minutes
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Architecture decision exercise
Objective: Apply the module by reviewing a fictional core-banking service and making a management recommendation.
The senior skill is not drawing the most detailed diagram; it is making a defensible decision from incomplete but relevant evidence.
Approx. 15 minutes
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