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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 America. 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 producers to expand its
manufacturing capacity. This has resulted in a complex environment with a high diversity of business 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 templated based on the TOGAF Architecture Content Framework. The EA program is well
coordinated with the 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.
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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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Your role is that of the Lead Enterprise Architect at a multinational automotive corporation. The company is headquartered in Germany, and manufactures cars,
trucks and buses. It has manufacturing plants across North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Each of these plants has been operating its own planning
and production scheduling systems, as well as custom developed applications that drive the automated production equipment at each plant.
The company has an ongoing initiative to improve the efficiency of all of its production operations, and in particular to reduce its carbon footprint. During a recent
exercise held for internal quality improvement, it was determined that a significant reduction in energy usage could be achieved by replacing the current planning
and scheduling systems with a common Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system located in one central data center. This central system would provide support
to each of the plants replacing the functionality in the existing systems. It would also eliminate the need for full data centers at each of the plant facilities.
The Enterprise Architecture department has been operating for several years and has mature, well-developed architecture governance and development processes
that are strongly based on TOGAF standard.
At a recent meeting, the Architecture Board approved a Request for Architecture Work sponsored by the global CIO. The request covered the initial architectural
investigations and the development of a comprehensive architecture to plan the transformation.
The architecture project team has now been formed, and has been asked to develop an Architecture Vision that will achieve the desired outcomes and benefits.
Some of the plant managers have expressed concern about the security and reliability of driving their planning and production scheduling from a remote centralized
system. The CIO wants to know how these concerns can be addressed. During the initial project team meeting a number of alternative recommendation for how to
proceed have been put forward by members of the team.
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You have been asked to select the most appropriate recommendation to ensure that the team evaluates different approaches to the problem and clarifies the
requirements for the architecture.
Based on the TOGAF standard, which of the following is the best answer?
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Your role is that of Lead Enterprise Architect working at the headquarters of a fast food chain. The chain manages over 7500 restaurants across 33 countries. Each
restaurant in the chain is an independently owned and operated franchise.
Many of the restaurants still use the first generation IT systems deployed over 10 years ago. The Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the chain has stated his
concerns about the inefficiencies of the current systems and identified the need to change. He has defined a new strategic vision that will enhance the business
including providing its franchisees new support services to help them address the increasing competition from coffee shops. This is part of the long-term
commitment to enhance the brand image and increase revenue for the chain. He has also stated that he expects improved financial results by the end of the
current fiscal year.
The changes will help provide the chain with improved products, including healthier alternatives in the menu, 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 and new products to specific regions.
The chain has a mature Enterprise Architecture practice based in its headquarters and uses the TOGAF standard 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 COO's vision. This recently completed with approval of a strategic architecture encompassing
the entire chain, including detailed requirements and recommendations.
Based on the recommendation from the initial study, the decision has been taken for the chain to adopt a packaged suite of integrated application that is tailored to
the needs of the franchise.
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You have been asked by the Chief Architect to propose the best approach for architecture development to realize the COO's vision.
Based on the TOGAF standard, which of the following is the best answer?
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You are serving as the Lead Architect for a chain of convenience stores. The stores operate 24 hours a day and 7 days a week and use cloud-based point-of-sale(POS) technology to manage their sales and inventory. Cloud-based POS systems store all user data, including sales and inventory in a remote server.
The cloud-based systems collect real-time data to support ordering and product selection decisions including the tailoring of product assortment based on sales
history, customer demographics as well as the next day's weather forecast. In many cases, several stores are located in neighboring areas. This strategy makes
distribution to each store cheaper, as well as making multiple deliveries per day possible. The stores also act as self-service delivery locations for a large online
retailer which further increases the number of potential customers entering the stores.
An Enterprise Architecture practice exists within the company, with the CEO and CIO as joint sponsors. They have decided to adopt TOGAF standard within the
practice and the first project is to restructure the Enterprise Architecture so that it can better support the existing environment and accommodate future changes of
strategy within the company.
The CIO has stated that the following issues need to be addressed in the restructuring:
They need to address problems with data quality and inconsistent data in order to support better decision making and analysis.
The architecture should focus on the needs of the business, not technology
To remain competitive, new products and promotions must undergo market trials and if these are successful, deployed across the retail chain. Information
systems must be able to manage changes and updates without undue delays.
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[Note: You should assume that the company has adopted the example set of principles that are listed and defined in TOGAF, Section 23.6. You may need to refer
to Chapter 23 of the reference text in order to answer this question.]
You have been asked to identify the most relevant architecture principles for the current situation.
Based on TOGAF, which of the following is the best answer? [Note: The ordering of the principles listed in each answer is not significant.]
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You have been appointed as a consultant to the Chief Enterprise Architect of a multinational corporation. The corporation has over 100,000 employees and is
organized into 10 divisions with operation in over 60 countries and products sold in over 125 countries. It has major research sites at 8 locations worldwide.
The operations of the corporation are subject to legal and regulatory requirements for each country where they operate. The production of its products 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 conducting a trial for a new product.
The Enterprise Architecture group within the company has been engaged in an architecture development system that will allow researchers at its product
development laboratories worldwide to share information about their clinical trials. This system will also connect with external partners.
The Enterprise Architecture group is a mature organization. They use the TOGAF ADM with extensions required to support the manufacturing practices and
laboratory practices of their target markets. Due to the highly sensitive nature of the information that is managed, special care was taken to ensure that each
architecture domain included an examination of the security, regulatory and privacy issues that are relevant.
The Executive Vice President for Clinical Research is the sponsor of the Enterprise Architecture activity. She has stated that the changes to the Enterprise
Architecture for the new system will need to be rolled out on a geographic basis that will minimize disruptions to ongoing clinical trials. The work will need to be done
in stages and rolled out in geographical regions.
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You have been asked to recommend the approach to identify the work packages that will be included in the Transition Architecture (s)
Based on the TOGAF standard, which of the following is the best answer?
Complete the sentence. A good set of architecture principles that cover every situation perceived throughput the enterprise meet the recommended criteria of____