Assessment Guide for Silver
The Silver Level Assessment builds upon the foundational principles established at Bronze and introduces enhanced requirements for integration, optimisation, and measurable outcomes. This guide provides an overview of the assessment process, its structure, scoring rules, and evidence requirements specific to Silver.
Overview of the Silver Assessment
The Silver Assessment comprises 17 questions, distributed across five architecture areas. It evaluates an organisation’s maturity in leveraging digital initiatives to achieve efficiency, scalability, and compliance.
Business Architecture: 4 questions
Data Architecture: 3 questions
Application Architecture: 2 questions
Technology Architecture: 3 questions
Security Architecture: 5 questions
This level places increased emphasis on measurable outcomes and requires organisations to provide supporting evidence for specific questions, ensuring credibility and transparency in their digital maturity claims.
Scoring Rules for Silver
To achieve Silver certification, organisations must meet the following scoring thresholds:
Overall Minimum Score:
A minimum of 75% of the total achievable score is required. With a maximum score of 51 points across all questions, the minimum passing score is 38 points.
Minimum Score Per Architecture Area:
Organisations must achieve at least 50% of the maximum possible score in each architecture area. This ensures balanced performance across all domains.
Compliance Questions:
Compliance thresholds are set for 10 key questions. Organisations must meet the compliance score of 1 or 2, depending on the question’s importance. These questions are weighted heavily to reflect their significance.
Evidence Requirements for Silver
Unlike Bronze, the Silver Level requires 30% of questions to be supported by evidence. These evidence requirements are distributed across key areas to ensure an organisation’s claims are verifiable.
Evidence Categories Include:
Policy documents (e.g., incident response plans).
Uploaded documentation (e.g., audit reports).
Metrics or KPI dashboards (e.g., automation impact tracking).
Compliance certificates (e.g., GDPR audit outcomes).
Example:
For the question on Incident Response Plans, organisations must provide documentation demonstrating that plans are regularly reviewed, tested, and updated.
Evidence adds credibility to the assessment and helps organisations identify areas for improvement through structured feedback.
Assessment Process
Preparation:
Gather internal documentation, policies, and KPIs to support evidence requirements.
Identify key stakeholders who will contribute to the assessment process.
Self-Assessment:
Complete the online assessment tool, ensuring all responses are backed by relevant evidence where required.
Leverage the tool’s guidance to understand scoring and compliance thresholds for each question.
Submission and Feedback:
Submit responses and evidence through the assessment platform.
Receive a detailed report highlighting scores, gaps, and improvement recommendations.
Focus on Continuous Improvement
The Silver Assessment not only evaluates current capabilities but also provides actionable insights for continuous improvement.
Use the scoring feedback to prioritise areas requiring enhancement.
Leverage the pathway-to-improvement guidance provided in the report to set strategic goals.
By meeting the increased requirements of the Silver Level, organisations demonstrate their ability to not only achieve operational efficiency but also maintain compliance and scalability, paving the way for mastery at the Gold Level.
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