- (Exam Topic 1)
Which of the following is an interest important to a stakeholder in a system?

1. A. A concern
2. B. A principle
3. C. An architecture viewpoint
4. D. A requirement
5. E. An architecture view

Correct Answer: A
Concerns are the key interests that are crucially important to the stakeholders in the system, and determine the acceptability of the system. Concerns may pertain to any aspect of the system's functioning, development, or operation, including considerations such as performance, reliability, security, distribution, and evolvability.
Reference
http://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf8-doc/arch/chap31.html

- (Exam Topic 2)
Scenario:
Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
The ABC company 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 the company's 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 Chief Executive Officer and Chief Information Officer have co-sponsored the creation of the Enterprise Architecture program. The Enterprise Architecture framework is based on TOGAF 9.
As the EA team prepare 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.
Refer to the Scenario
You have been assigned to the role of Chief Enterprise Architect.
You have been asked to recommend an approach to satisfy the concerns raised. 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 should finalize 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. 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: D

- (Exam Topic 2)
Which of the following is an objective of Phase G, Implementation Governance?

1. A. Establish the resources for architecture governance
2. B. Develop the Target Technology Architecture
3. C. Ensure conformance for the target architecture
4. D. Operate the governance framework
5. E. Finalize the Implementation and Migration Plan

Correct Answer: C
Reference
http://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf8-doc/arch/chap13.html

- (Exam Topic 1)
Which of the following statements best describes the Requirements Management process?

1. A. It is used to develop requirements for Transition Architectures that deliver business value
2. B. It is used to dispose of, address and prioritize architecture requirements
3. C. It is used to establish requirements for Phase A
4. D. It is used to manage architecture requirements throughout the ADM cycle
5. E. It is used to review business requirements

Correct Answer: D

- (Exam Topic 2)
Scenario
Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question
You are working as a consultant to the Chief Architect at an intelligence and security organization responsible for securing government communications and information systems. These provide real-time, highly secure communication of voice, video, and message data to remote locations around the world. The agency has recently received information from intelligence sources that the current encryption protocols may no longer be secure. In response, a program is underway to upgrade the systems.
The agency has an established Enterprise Architecture (EA) capability based on the TOGAF standard. The Executive Director of the agency is the sponsor of the EA capability.
Since reliable, high-performance, and secure communications are essential to preserving national security, the Executive Director has placed more stringent requirements for the architecture of the upgraded systems. It must be able to provide assurance and verification of specific performance measures on the key services that are most crucial for system operation. Focusing on these service-level details and specific measurements, will allow stricter requirements to be enforced in service contracts. It will also provide a high degree of assurance that necessary performance is being delivered and that notifications will occur if any critical service fails to perform as required.
A portion of the program budget has been allocated to context a review of the EA. The scope of the review is to evaluate the processes, content and governance of the EA capability to ensure that the higher target performance and service levels required by the upgraded system can be achieved.
The Chief Architect has noted that the core EA artifacts that have been in use are not able to describe these new capabilities. The artifacts do not have explicit provisions for defining the in-depth measurement
requirements regarding specific services required for the system. She has learned that certain services within the current system have service measurement implementations that match some of the new requirements, but they are only used in a few areas.
Recent EA efforts at another national agency have produced generalized high-performance communication system models to realize similar requirements in a critical defense system involving secure communications. It is possible that these models may be useful for the upgrade program.
Refer to the Scenario
[Note: You may need to refer to the Content Metamodel chapter, section 30.4 (located in Part IV) of the reference text in order to answer this question.]
You have been asked to make recommendations for tailoring the Architecture Content Metamodel to accommodate the requirements of the upgraded system.
Based on the TOGAF standard, which of the following is the best answer?

1. A. You recommend that a Communications Engineering view is created using the infrastructure consolidation extension from the Architecture Content Metamode
2. B. This view will allow architects to align the needed performance measurement communications across the syste
3. C. This will support the stringent performance measurements needed for the more detailed governance views required for the upgraded system, making the interfaces to the communication and network layer of the architecture highly visible at the application level.
4. D. You recommend that the services extension be incorporated into the Architecture Content Metamodel.By using this extension, the service model is no longer constrained by what is expected in typical business service definitions, allowing more flexibility for adding customized models to support the more stringent measurement requirement
5. E. The services extension can also be used to map terminology between the business services and the application components.
6. F. You recommend that the motivation and governance extension are incorporated into the Architecture Content Metamode
7. G. Using these extensions will allow modeling the goals, objectives and drivers for the architecture, linking them to service levels and more detailed governance model
8. H. This will also enable the ability to re-use existing profiles, customizing them for the various service contracts involved.
9. I. You recommend all of the extensions be incorporated into the Architecture Content Metamode
10. J. The full Content Metamodel will enable the EA team to capture and categorize all the important additional data needed to support the performance and measurement objectives linked to these artifact
11. K. Once the new repository content has been implemented, on- demand queries can be used to generate a customized governance stakeholder view that isolates the artifacts and data needed to assess measurement for any particular servic
12. L. If this view is found to be inadequate for the governance concerns, the service models within those artifacts can be expanded.

Correct Answer: B