The Open Group OG0 092.pdf
Q: 1
MightyGears produces components for the Car industry. Driven by the global financial downturn they
are looking to reduce IT costs. They believe there is a cost saving opportunity within IT but this is not
quantified in terms of potential savings nor is there an agreed target architecture. Final decisions on
the solutions are not yet fully agreed. They have completed the first pass architecture and now are
looking at the best opportunities and solutions to meet their financial goals.
You are the Chief Architect from a consulting organization brought into review the work to date by
MightyGears and to make recommendations to the CIO and the board on the opportunities and
solutions present.
Refer to the scenario above
Which of the following answers best describes how TOGAF recommends examining the opportunities
and solutions before presenting to the board?
Choose one of the following answers
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Q: 2
Scenario
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Your role is that of Lead Enterprise Architect within the staff headquarters of a large hotel chain. The
chain manages over 500 hotels across North America and Canada, with another 230 hotels
internationally in the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Unlike other hotel chains,
which are often a mix of company-owned and franchised units, each hotel in the chain is an
independently owned and operated franchise. Many of the hotels use the same internal IT systems
that they used before they joined the franchise. Until recently, the only requirement that has been
placed on each hotel is that they use a standard financial reporting system to report their financial
results to the headquarters on a weekly basis.
The CEO of the chain 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 providing its franchisees new support services including worldwide reservations, global, national
and regional marketing as well as consolidated financials, logistics, and yield management. This
strategy is part of the long-term commitment to enhance the brand image and drive superior
revenue for the chain. He has also stated that he expects improved financial results by the end of the
current fiscal year.
These changes will provide the chain 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 national and regional
markets to improve yields.
The chain has a mature enterprise architecture practice based in its headquarters 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 chain, including detailed requirements and recommendations.
Based on the recommendations from the initial study, the chain has taken the decision to adopt a
packaged suite of integrated applications that is tailored to the needs of the hospitality industry.
Refer to the scenario
You have been asked by the Chief Architect to propose the best approach for architecture
development to realize the CEO's vision.
Based on TOGAF, which of the following is the best answer?
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Q: 3
Scenario
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You have been assigned the role of Chief Enterprise Architect within a leading outsourcing services
company. The company has over 15,000 outsourcing professionals and works on some of the world's
largest outsourcing projects. Outsourcing services include business processes, infrastructure, and
service management. The company also provides business consulting services. Roughly half of its
turnover comes from the private sector and half from the public sector.
With numerous service areas and a large number of diverse engagements in progress at any given
time, overall engagement management within the company has become challenging. The company
has recently had a number of high profile projects that have overrun on budget and under delivered,
thereby damaging its reputation.
The company has an established an Enterprise Architecture program based on TOGAF 9, sponsored
jointly by the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Information Officer. An Architecture Board has been
formed comprised of IT staff executives and executives from the major service areas and consulting
practice.
The Enterprise Architecture (EA) team has been working with the Strategic Planning team to create a
strategic enterprise architecture to address these issues. The EA team has defined a framework and
held workshops with key stakeholders to define a set of architecture 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. This will include three distinct transformations.
The CIO has made it clear that prior to the approval of the detailed implementation and Migration
plan, the EA team will need to assess the risks associated with the proposed architecture. He has
received concerns from some of the vice presidents across the company 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 asked to recommend an approach to satisfy these concerns.
Based on TOGAF, which of the following is the best answer?
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Q: 4
Scenario:
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Your role is consultant to the Lead Architect within a company that manufactures a variety of small
electromechanical devices. The company is organized as independent operational divisions.
The company has a mature Enterprise Architecture practice and uses TOGAF standard for the basis of
its architecture framework. In addition to the EA program, the company has a number of
management frameworks in use, including business planning, portfolio/project management, and
operations management. The EA program is sponsored by the CIO.
Each division has completed the Architecture Definition documentation required to tailor and
configure the environment to meet its own specific manufacturing requirements.
The enterprise architects have analyzed the key corporate change attributes and implementation
constraints. A consolidated gap analysis has been completed which has identified the gaps across the
Business, Data, Application, and Technology domains. Based on the results of the gap analysis, the
architects have reviewed the requirements, dependencies and interoperability requirements needed
to integrate the new ERP environment into the existing environment. The architects have completed
the Business Transformation Readiness Assessment started in Phase
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Q: 5
Scenario: Armstrong Defense Industries
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Armstrong Defense Industries is the prime contractor for the Dreadnought Unmanned Aircraft
System program.
Over the course of this contract, the company has grown rapidly by acquisition and has inherited
numerous different procurement processes and related IT systems. Armstrong Defense is moving
aggressively to consolidate and reduce redundant procurement processes and systems. The CEO has
announced that the company will seek to leverage higher volume discounts and lower related IT
support costs by instituting a preferred supplier program.
To achieve this goal, Armstrong Defense needs to define Baseline and Target Architectures. These
architectures must address key stakeholders concerns such as:
1. What groups of people should be involved in procurement-related business processes?
2. What current applications do those groups use?
3. Which procurement-related business processes are supported by zero, one, or many existing
applications?
4. What are the overall lifetimes of the Request for Proposal and Purchase Order business objects?
5. What non-procurement applications will need to be integrated with any new procurement
applications?
6. What data will need to be shared?
At present, there are no particularly useful architectural assets related to this initiative. All assets
need to be acquired and customized or created from scratch. The company prefers to implement
existing package applications from systems vendors with little customization.
The architecture development project has just completed its Architecture Context iteration cycle and
is about to begin the Architecture Definition iteration cycle.
Armstrong Defense is using TOGAF for its internal Enterprise Architecture activities. It uses an
iterative approach for executing Architecture Development Method (ADM) projects.
Refer to the Armstrong Defense Industries Scenario
You are serving as the Lead Architect.
You have been asked to identify the most appropriate architecture viewpoints for this situation.
Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?
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Q: 6
You are working as a consultant to the Chief Architect at an intelligent 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 remove 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-preformcane, and secure communications are essential to be preserving national
security, the Executive Director has placed stringent requirements for the architecture of the
upgraded systems. It must be able to provide assurance 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 conduct a review of the E
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Q: 7
Scenario:
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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.
Refer to the Scenario
As part of the process for establishing the Enterprise Architecture department, you are developing a
set of architecture principles to guide the activities. You need to specify the best approach for this
work. Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?
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Q: 8
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.
You have been asked to recommend the approach to take in the Preliminary Phase to ensure that the
Corporate Board's concern is addressed.
Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?
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Q: 9
Scenario
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You have been assigned the role of Lead Enterprise Architect for a firm that is a major OEM parts
supplier to the auto industry. Europe has been the primary market for its products, with just 20% of
its output being exported to North Americ
a. The firm is planning to expand its exports to North America and also to establish sales in South
America and the Asia Pacific region. This will enable them to better ride out recessions in key
markets such as Europe. It will also enable the firm to exploit the auto industry move to global
platforms.
The firm is organized into business units with each addressing different auto industry sectors. Each
business unit has acquired other procedures to expand its manufacturing capacity. This has resulted
and manufacturing systems.
The Enterprise Architecture (EA) program within the firm has been functioning for several years. It
has made significant progress in consolidating the technology portfolio and establishing key
standards. The CIO and the COO are joint sponsors of the EA program. The EA program is mature,
with an Active Architecture Board and a well-defined architecture process and standard content
templates based on the TOGAF Architecture Content Framework. The EA program is well
coordinated with Project Management Office, Systems Development, and Operations functions.
The firm has completed a strategic plan to reorganize its Sales & Marketing organization according to
the target geographic markets. One of the goals of this reorganization is to improve the ability of
Marketing to collect more meaningful market analytics that will enable each sector to better address
market needs with effective marketing campaigns and global product presence.
A Request for Architecture Work to address the goals of the reorganization has been approved. As
the architecture team commences its work, the CIO has expressed concerns about whether the firm
will be able to adapt to the proposed change and how to manage the associated risks.
Refer to the Scenario
You have been asked how to address the concerns of the CIO.
Based on the TOGAF standard, which of the following is the best answer?
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Q: 10
Scenario: Zephyr Enterprises
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Zephyr Enterprises specializes in the development of wind turbine blades for use in large-scale
commercial wind energy production systems. Zephyr has manufacturing facilities located in Palm
Springs, California, Omaha, Nebraska, and Winnipeg, Ontario. Each of these plants supplies a
different manufacturer that builds and sells complete systems. The turbine blades are custom
engineered to meet each manufacturers design specifications.
Until recently, most turbine blades were fabricated manually using molded fiber-reinforced plastics.
However, recent improvements in composite materials, coupled with enhanced automated methods
for precision application of materials during the molding process, have led to significant reduction in
weight, increase in strength, and greatly improved blade longevity. Zephyr has pioneered the
development of a proprietary automated process for continuous extrusion of the turbine blades.
Patents have been filed to protect the process, but certain trade secrets must be closely guarded.
Zephyr has a mature Enterprise Architecture organization that is supported by a cross-functional
Architecture Review Board. The Chief Information Officer and the Chief Operating Officer co-sponsor
the Enterprise Architecture program.
Zephyr has used TOGAF and its Architecture Development Method (ADM) to develop its automated
manufacturing processes and systems that are used to design, manufacture, and test the blade
assemblies. They have recently updated to TOGAF 9 and have adapted the Zephyr Enterprise
Architecture to closely follow the TOGAF 9 framework. All of Zephyrs IT architects have been trained
and certified on TOGAF 9.Recently, an architecture project was completed that defined a standard
approach for controlling the Automated Test System that is used at each plant to perform final
quality assurance tests on each completed blade assembly. The Manufacturing Architecture Board
approved the plan for immediate implementation at each plant.
An Architecture Contract was developed that detailed the work needed to implement and deploy the
new Automated Test System controller. The Chief Engineer, sponsor of the activity, has expressed
concern that a uniform process be employed at each site to ensure consistency.
Refer to the Zephyr Enterprises Scenario
You are the Lead Architect for this activity.
You have been asked to recommend the best approach to adopt to address the Chief Engineer's
concern.
Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?
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