Scenario:
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Your role is that of Lead Enterprise Architect within a vacation property management firm that has been growing through acquisition. The firm manages over 200 resort properties across North America. Many of the resort properties use the same internal IT systems that they used before they were acquired. Until recently, the only requirement that has been placed on each property is that they use a standard financial reporting system to report their financial results to the headquarters on a weekly basis.
The CEO has stated his concerns about the inefficiencies of the current approach and identified the need to change. He has defined a new strategic vision that will enhance the business by standardizing its operations across the network to provide consolidated financial, human resources, logistics, sales and marketing, and yield management. He has also stated that he expects results by the end of the current fiscal year.
These changes will provide the company with improved utilization of its capacity and more efficient operations. The addition of a corporate-wide data warehouse will provide analytics that will enable the marketing group to improve its ability to target advertising into key markets to improve yields.
The firm has a mature enterprise architecture practice and uses TOGAF 9 as the method and guiding framework. The CIO is the sponsor of the activity.
In planning this change, the Chief Architect engaged the services of a well-known consulting firm that specializes in business strategy. An initial study has been conducted to identify the strategic changes needed to implement the CEO's vision. This recently completed with approval of a strategic architecture encompassing the entire firm, including detailed requirements and recommendations.
Based on the recommendations from the initial study, the firm has taken the decision to adopt a packaged suite of integrated applications that is tailored to the needs of the hospitality industry.
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You have been asked by the Chief Architect to justify the best approach for architecture development to realize the CEO's vision.
Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

1. A. You recommend that the target architecture is defined first, followed by transition plannin
2. B. This is because the vision is well understood and the strategic architecture agree
3. C. This will ensure that the current problems and inefficiencies of the baseline architecture are not carried forward, and that the proposed solution addresses the requirements identified in the initial study.
4. D. You recommend that the team focus on architecture definition, with a specific emphasis on understanding the strategic change parameters of the business strateg
5. E. Once understood, the team will be in the best position to identify the requirements, drivers, issues, and constraints for this engagemen
6. F. You would ensure that the target architecture addresses non-functional requirements so as to ensure the target architecture is robust and secure.
7. G. You recommend that the team focus on defining the target architecture by going through the architecture definition phases (B-D). This is because the initial study identified the need to chang
8. H. This will ensure that the change can be defined in a structured manner and address the requirements needed to realize the vision.
9. I. You recommend that this engagement define the baseline Technology Architecture first in order to assess the current infrastructure capacity and capabilit
10. J. Then the focus should be on transition planning and architecture deploymen
11. K. This will identify retirements to ensure that the projects are sequenced in an optimal fashion so as to realize the vision.

Correct Answer: D

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You are serving as the Chief Architect for a large, global commodities trading company which has been growing rapidly through a series of acquisitions.
Each 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, the company has made the decision to introduce a single enterprise-wide application to consolidate information from several applications that exist across the lines of business. The application will be used by all business units and accessed by suppliers through well defined interfaces.
The Corporate Board is concerned that the new application must be able to manage and safeguard confidential customer information in a secure 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 in cooperation with its 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 implementation team and the business unit personnel who will be involved in the migration process. The CIO has also formed a cross-functional Architecture Board to oversee and govern the architecture. The company
has an existing team of security architects.
TOGAF 9 has been selected for use for the Enterprise Architecture program. The CIO has endorsed this choice with the full support of top management.
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In the Preliminary Phase you need to define suitable policies and ensure that the company has the appropriate capability to address the concerns of the Corporate Board.
Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

1. A. You start by clarifying the intent that the Board has for raising these concern
2. B. This enables you to understand the implications of the concern in terms of regulatory requirements and the potential impact on current business goals and objective
3. C. You propose that a security architect or security architecture team be allocated to develop a comprehensive security architecture and that this be considered an additional domain architecture.
4. D. You evaluate the implications of the Board's concerns by examining the security and regulatory impacts on business goals, business drivers and objective
5. E. Based on your understanding, you then update the current security policy to include an emphasis on the concern
6. F. You define architecture principles to form constraints on the architecture work to be undertaken in the projec
7. G. You then allocate a security architect to ensure that security considerations are included in the architecture planning for all domains.
8. H. You identify and document the security and regulatory requirements for the application and the data being collecte
9. I. You ensure that written policies are put in place to address the requirements, and that they are communicated across the organization, together with appropriate training for key employee
10. J. You identify constraints on the architecture and communicate those to the architecture tea
11. K. You establish an agreement with the security architects defining their role within the ongoing architecture project.
12. L. You evaluate the implications of the concerns raised by the Corporate Board in terms of regulatory requirements and their impact on business goals and objective
13. M. Based on this understanding, you then issue a Request for Architecture Work to commence an architecture development project to develop a solution that will address the concern
14. N. You allocate a security architect to oversee the implementation of the new application that is being developed.

Correct Answer: C

Scenario: Marona Inc.
Marona Inc is a Fortune 500 Enterprise in the retail industry with retail store components manufacturing units and marketing outlets spanning the globe and having an annual turnover of 20 billion$ with more than 100, 000 employees world wide.
The CEO, CIO and the stakeholders of the ongoing EA projects are concerned about rising costs and as one measure want to do an investigation into the operational aspects of the realized Enterprise Architecture using TOGAF9.
The CIO approaches you as the Lead Enterprise Architect to carry out this exercise the
stakeholder had voiced to him the following concerns:
They want to analyze the roles of the top management for each revenue earning service. Moreover, many of the HR related critical Search application component have become extremely slow. This needs to be diagnosed and rectified. Moreover there is no proper tracking of revenue from retail store component products over time. There has also been a lot of unauthorized or unwanted access to many of the critical information.
Hence the mode of access needs to be strengthened and made much more secure. Another additional concern is the new launches and the progress of each of the launches over time.
Determine which of the following set of viewpoints are most appropriate to analyze and view in order to address this concern of the stakeholders.

1. A. (i) System/Functions Matrix(ii) Actor/Role Matrix(iii) Data Entity/Business Function Matrix(iv) Technology Portfolio Catalog(v) Data Security Diagram
2. B. (i) Goal/Objective/Service Diagram(ii) Contract Measure Catalog(iii) Data Dissemination Diagram(iv) Application Communication Diagram(v) Data Life Cycle Diagram
3. C. (i) Location Catalog(ii) Service/Function Catalog(iii) Data Entity/Business Function Matrix(iv) Application Communication Diagram
4. D. (i) System/Functions Catalog(ii) System/Technology Matrix(iii) Goal/Objective/Service Diagram(iv) Product Life Cycle Diagram(v) Data Security Diagram

Correct Answer: D

TP Banking is a strong financial institute with a well-known acquisition history with an internal IT department managing over 100 projects related to infrastructure and services.
The CIO has decided to create an Enterprise Architecture based on TOGAF 9 as reaction to the difficult market conditions. An Architecture Vision and a set of domain architectures were approved. The CIO is asking you (the Lead Architect) to define an Implementation and Migration Plan that realizes the vision already agreed with the stakeholders involved.
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You are leading a group of domain architects and you are working with the corporate PMO, the business strategy team and service operations. You are meeting the stakeholders to clarify how you want to proceed with the Implementation and Migration Plan.
Choose one of the following answers

1. A. You propose to start collecting the existing deliverables describing the different domains in order to enable the Enterprise Architecture tram to integrate them with the support of the operation managemen
2. B. Every domain architect will then evaluate the impact on the projects already planned for the domai
3. C. The single revised plans will be integrated together and consolidated into a strategic implementation and migration strategy defining an IT roadmap.
4. D. You communicate the need for urgenc
5. E. The projects already planned will be cancelled and the implementation of the new architecture vision will be set as first priorit
6. F. A set of new projects will be defined to implement the new strateg
7. G. You will use the requirements from Phases B through D and define new projects for each one of the requirement
8. H. The use of defined interoperability architecture guidelines will then enable the project teams to work together and define a set of new point-to-point interfaces.
9. I. You describe the concept of Transition Architectures and clarify that the business value can be achieved by all the projects delivering their increments in a coordinated approac
10. J. Capability gaps and project dependencies are analyzed for each domain this will then enable the projects to be organized in work package
11. K. You will then agree on the roadmap for the implementation and migration strategy meeting with all the key stakeholders.
12. L. You communicate the CIO's will to transform the corporation and then that he's seeking help from the domain architects to do tha
13. M. The requirements are managed in order to enable every Architect to participate to the planning that will result in a detailed list of work activities with impact on the IT portfolio of project
14. N. A five year Target Architecture will then be defined and a report will keep track of dependencies and factors assessment.

Correct Answer: C

ARTI Dimensioning is a multinational that operates production facilities in 29 countries and sells its products in over 120 countries.
A consultancy firm has recommended a realignment that will enhance sharing of product information across business units. The implementation of this strategic realignment will require the development of integrated customer information systems and product information systems.
ARTI has a mature enterprise architecture practice and uses TOGAF 9 for the basis of the ARTI Architecture Framework (method and deliverables). The CIO is sponsoring an architecture development program that is going to start. The CIO is concerned about a potential disruptive result to the business of this activity and before proceeding with the architecture development he asked to evaluate the impacts on the company business.
Refer to the scenario above You are the Lead Architect and you have been asked to recommend an approach to address the concerns raised. Based on TOGAF 9 recommend which of the following is the best answer.
Choose one of the following answers.

1. A. Risk Aversion Assessment should be conducted during the Implementation Governance phase to determine the degree of risk aversion of the proposed business transformatio
2. B. After sharing the residual level of risk with the company chairman and the residual risk is not accepted, a set of parallel systems will be implemented to mitigate the risks.
3. C. Your recommendation is to use risk management techniques to assess the risks associated with the proposed business transformation and ensure the existence of business continuity plan
4. D. During the Implementation Governance phase you conduct a residual risk assessment to manage risks that cannot be mitigated.
5. E. During the Architecture Vision phase a risk assessment is conducted to mitigate initial risks and address those in the Architecture Contract signed in the Implementation Governance phase.
6. F. Your proposal is to utilize a risk management framework during the Implementation Governance phase to verify the risks associated with the proposed transformation of the busines
7. G. You then share with the concerned stakeholders the residual level on risk beforethe Architecture Contracts are released.

Correct Answer: B