Scenario:
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You have been appointed as a consultant to the Lead Enterprise Architect of an international agricultural company that exports bulbs, flowers and seeds worldwide. The company has its headquarters in the Netherlands, and has sales and distribution centers in over 30 countries worldwide. Several of these centers include administrative, manufacturing, and research facilities.
To achieve full integration of their research capabilities with their development centers located in various climate zones, the company wants to develop strong self-directed teams in each location. It also wants to define new business models that are profitable while reducing their impact on the environment. The management team is deeply committed to ensuring that the company is a world leader in socially responsible seed development with a business strategy that focuses on profitability through environmentally friendly operating processes.
The international operations of the company are subject to legal and regulatory requirements for each country where they operate. The production of genetically modified seeds has governmental controls that are strictly enforced and compliance is critical. Recently a competitor was heavily fined for violating the regulations in a country where it was developing pest-resistant seeds.
The Governing Board is concerned about the risks posed in this complex global environment, and as a result has approved the expenditure of resources to establish an Enterprise Architecture program. They have requested to be informed about the status of projects that could impact regulatory compliance. They also want to enable the corporate legal staff and auditors to analyze proposed architectures to ensure that they are within the legal guidelines for a given location. In addition, the research organization should be able to see that the architecture is appropriate for its needs.
TOGAF 9 has been mandated as the framework for the development and evolution of the Enterprise Architecture practice. The Preliminary Phase has been completed to establish the enterprise architecture capability for this project.
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You have been asked to recommend an approach that would enable the development of an architecture that addresses the needs of the Governing Board, legal staff, auditors and the research organization.
Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

1. A. You recommend that each project architecture activity is developed using a consistent modeling approach that is uniform across all architecture project
2. B. Each architecture should be defined based on this fixed set of models so that all concerned parties can examine the models to ensure that their issues and concerns have been addressed.
3. C. You recommend that a special report be created for those groups that have sufficient power and level of interes
4. D. This report should summarize the key features of the architecture with respect to the particular locatio
5. E. Each of these reports should reflect the stakeholders1 requirements.
6. F. You recommend that a set of models be created for each project architecture that can be used to ensure that the system will be compliant with the local regulation
7. G. Stakeholders should then view the models to verify that their concerns have been properly addressed.
8. H. You recommend that a stakeholder map be develope
9. I. This will allow the architects to define groups of stakeholders that share common concern
10. J. A set of views should be defined to address the concerns for each group of stakeholder
11. K. Architecture models should then be created for each view to address the stakeholders' concerns.

Correct Answer: D

Scenario: St. Croix Consulting
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St. Croix Consulting started as an accounting and financial services company. It has expanded over the years and is now a leading North American IT and Business Services provider.
With numerous practice areas and a multitude of diverse engagements underway at any given time, overall engagement management has become challenging. The company does not want to risk its outstanding reputation or its international certifications and CMM ratings. Senior partners must become team players, working to support the broader needs of the company and its shareholders.
The Enterprise Architecture team has been working to create St. Croixs Enterprise Architecture framework to address these issues. The team has defined a preliminary framework and held workshops with key stakeholders to define a set of principles to govern the architecture work. They have completed an Architecture Vision at a strategic level and laid out Architecture Definitions for the four domains. They have set out an ambitious vision of the future of the company over a five-year period.
An Architecture Review Board has been formed comprised of IT staff executives and executives from the major practice areas.
The Enterprise Architecture framework is based on TOGAF 9.
The Chief Executive Officer and Chief Information Officer have co-sponsored the creation of the Enterprise Architecture program.
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You have been assigned to the role of Chief Enterprise Architect.
As the EA team prepares to formulate an Implementation plan, they have been asked by the CIO to assess the risks associated with the proposed architecture. He has received concerns from senior management that the proposed architecture may be too ambitious and they are not sure it can produce sufficient value to warrant the attendant risks.
You have been asked to recommend an approach to satisfy these concerns. Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

1. A. An interoperability analysis should be applied to evaluate any potential issues across the Solution Architectur
2. B. Once all of the concerns have been resolved, the EA team shouldfinalize the Architecture Implementation Roadmap and the Migration Plan.
3. C. The EA team should gather information about potential solutions from the appropriate source
4. D. Once the Solution Architecture has been assembled, it should be analyzed using a state evolution table to determine the Transition Architectures.
5. E. Prior to preparing the Implementation plan, the EA team should create a consolidated gap analysis to understand the transformations that are required to achieve the proposed Target Architectur
6. F. The EA team should gather information about potential solutions from the appropriate source
7. G. Once the Solution Architecture has been assembled, it should be analyzed using a state evolution table to determine the Transition Architecture
8. H. An interoperability analysis should be applied to evaluate any potential issues across the Solution Architecture.
9. I. Prior to preparing the Implementation plan, there are several techniques that should be applied to assess the risks and value of the proposed transformatio
10. J. In particular, the EA team should pay attention to the Business Transformation Readiness Assessment and the Business Value Assessment.

Correct Answer: C

FreshFruit Int. is an online American grocer. The Executive Board decided to implement a new strategy to expand the business to other markets.
The CIO is sponsoring an enterprise activity to support the expanded operations.
A new solution is rolled-out to replace the legacy online sales platform. A compliance review was performed to assess the solution implementation.
The result of the review highlighted a complaint from the development team stating that the new system is difficult to integrate with the existing warehouse automation systems. The Chief Architect is concerned that the complaint is not related to a real problem of the solution but is based on personal preferences of the development teams. Another interview with the project team is scheduled.
Refer to the scenario above You are the Lead Architect and an architect from your team leads the review team. You have to answer how, based on TOGAF 9, you should enable the review team to conduct the reviews successfully.
Choose one of the following answers

1. A. Meeting with the project architect you clarify the purpose of the revie
2. B. You ask to perform an objective and fair review using the checklists to frame the review and clarify that you want them to identify the issues behind the implementation team complaints.
3. C. You organize a meeting with the review team and state the importance to identify any non-compliancy that may have come from the implemented solution.
4. D. You organize a meeting with the review team and stress the importance of a high degree of compliance without any exceptio
5. E. The review should cover every aspect of the implementation and should criticize the implementation techniques.
6. F. You verify that criteria for the program and the business objectives are mapped in the checklists that the project team prepared for the interview
7. G. You confirm the checklist content to the project architect and stress the need to be objective and fair during the review process.

Correct Answer: D

Scenario: AGEX Inc.
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AGEX is a large, global commodities trading company which has been growing rapidly through a series of acquisitions.
Each new business is performing well in its markets. However, the lack of integration between headquarters and the business units has increasingly caused problems in the handling of customer and financial information. The inability to share information across businesses has resulted in lost opportunities to "leverage the synergies" that had been intended when the businesses were acquired. At present, each business unit maintains its own applications. Despite an earlier initiative to install a common application to manage customer, products, supplier, and inventory information, each business unit has different ways of defining each of these core elements and has customized the common application to the point where the ability to exchange information is difficult, costly, and error-prone.
As a result, AGEX has begun implementing a single Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to consolidate information from several applications that exist across the lines of
business. The Corporate Board is concerned that the new ERP system must be able to manage and safeguard customer information in a manner that meets or exceeds the legal requirements of the countries in which the company operates. This will be an increasingly important capability as the company expands its online services offered to clients and trading partners.
The CIO has formed an Enterprise Architecture department, and one of the primary goals in its charter is to coordinate efforts between the ERP implementation team and the business unit personnel who will be involved in the migration process. The CIO has also formed a cross-functional Architecture Review Board to oversee and govern the architecture.
After reviewing the available alternatives, and based on recommendations from the ERP vendor, AGEX has selected TOGAF 9 as the basis for its Enterprise Architecture program.
The CIO has endorsed this choice with the full support of top management. Refer to the AGEX Inc. Scenario
You are serving as the Chief Architect.
As part of the process for establishing the Enterprise Architecture department, you have decided to create a set of principles to guide the activities.
You have been asked to recommend the best approach for this work. Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

1. A. You define a set of principles that support the preferred best practices embodied in the Enterprise Architecture department charte
2. B. You publish the principles on the corporate intranet to ensure widespread acceptance and compliance.You then schedule regular periodic Compliance Assessments with individual business units to check that they have made satisfactory progress toward meeting the objectives and conditions embodied in the principles.
3. C. You gather information from credible industry sources in the commodities busines
4. D. Based on that, you assess current trends and apply that to defining a set of principles that embody best practices.You select architecture principles that do not conflict with each other and that should be stabl
5. E. You ensure that all the principles are realistic and avoid including principles that are obvious.
6. F. You examine the mission statements for AGEX and each of its businesses, togetherwith the corporate value statement
7. G. Based on that, you define a set of principles and review with the CIO.When developing the principles you ensure that they actively promote the alignment of IT with the business strategies and initiatives of AGE
8. H. You then seek the endorsement of the CIO and senior management.
9. I. You examine the mission statements for AGEX and each of its businesses, together with the corporate value statement
10. J. Based on that, you work with the Architecture Review Board to define the principles.When developing the principles you ensure that they actively promote the alignment of IT with the AGEX business strategie
11. K. You then run a series of reviews with all the relevant stakeholders, including senior management, ensuring their support.

Correct Answer: D

McKinley Rockets is an enterprise that employs 20,000 men and women in five countries: UK, Italy, France, Spain and the Netherlands and its mission is to guarantee access to space offering space transportation, launch and management of satellite systems at low cost.
A TOGAF 9 mature Enterprise Architecture program is already established within the enterprise. McKinley Rockets strategy is to leverage in the USA shortage of satellite launches availability - that NASA created because of the Shuttle program shutdown - by acquiring an important merican space agency. This will ultimately allow McKinley Rockets to offer its services to the US market. The new acquired company NovaSpace is very successful but with outdated satellite monitoring systems. The
CIO is sponsoring an activity to extend the McKinley Rockets' satellite monitoring applications to include the NovaSpace's satellites flock.
A task force of enterprise architects prepared an Architecture Vision and secured the approval. The
Architecture Board decided to approve the vision, provided that the Design Definition Document is presented
for review at phase D conclusion. Refer to the scenario above
The Chief Architect asked you as Lead Integration Architect to use TOGAF 9 to recommend the best approach to design the Full Architecture and present it to the Architecture Board.
Identify the best answer accordingly to the TOGAF 9 guidelines. Choose one of the following answers

1. A. You start with the Business Architecture and then address Technology, Application and Data domain
2. B. For every domain you select the relevant reference models, viewpoints, and tool
3. C. You develop a Target and Baseline Architecture Description
4. D. Then perform Gap Analysis, resolve impacts across the Architecture Landscape and update the roadma
5. E. Finally update the Architecture Definition Document.
6. F. You start with the Business Architecture and then address Data, Application and Technology domain
7. G. You then Confirm management framework interactions for the Implementation and Migration Plan, Prioritize the migration projects through the conduct of a cost/benefit assessment and risk validatio
8. H. Then perform GapAnalysis and update the Architecture Definition Document.
9. I. You start with the Business Architecture and then address Data, Application and Technology domain
10. J. For every domain you select the relevant reference models, viewpoints, and tool
11. K. You develop a Baseline and Target Architectur
12. L. Then perform Gap Analysis, assess the roadmap impacts and finally update the Architecture Definition Document.
13. M. You start with the Business Architecture and then address Data, Application and Technology domain
14. N. For every domain you develop a Baseline and Target Architectur
15. O. Then perform Gap Analysis and update the Architecture Definition Document.

Correct Answer: C