Scenario:
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You are the Lead Architect for a firm that manufactures ball bearings used in industrial equipment applications. They have manufacturing operations in several
cities in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
The firm has traditionally allowed each manufacturing plant to drive its own production planning systems. Each plant has its own custom Materials Requirements
Planning, Master Production Scheduling, Bill of Materials, and Shop Floor Control systems.
"Just In Time" manufacturing techniques are used to minimize wastes caused by excessive inventory and work in process. The increasingly competitive business
environment has compelled the firm to improve its business capability to be more responsive to the needs of industrial customers. To support this capability, the
firm has decided to implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution that will enable it to better coordinate its manufacturing capacity to match the
demands for its products across all plants. In addition, there are also new European regulations coming into force to which their manufacturing processes must
conform in the next six months.
As part of the implementation process, the Enterprise Architecture (EA) department has begun to implement an architecture process based on TOGAF 9. The CIO
is the sponsor of the activity. The Chief Architect has directed that the program should include formal modeling using the Architecture Content Framework and the
TOGAF Content Metamodel. This will enable support for the architecture tooling that the firm uses for its EA program.
The Chief Architect has stated that in order to model the complex manufacturing process it will be necessary to model processes that are event-driven. Also, in
order to consolidate applications across several data centers it will be necessary to model the location of IT assets. In particular, the end goal is to have the single
ERP application running in a single data center.
Currently the project is in the Preliminary Phase, and the architects are tailoring the Architecture Development Method (ADM) and Architecture Content Framework
to fit into the corporate environment.
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You have been asked to recommend a response to the Chief Architect's request to tailor the TOGAF Content Metamodel.
Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?
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You are serving as the Lead Enterprise Architect at a major supplier in the automotive industry. The company is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio with
manufacturing plants across the United States, Brazil, Germany, Japan and South Korea. 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 is implementing lean manufacturing principles to minimize waste and improve the efficiency of all of its production operations. During a recent
exercise held for internal quality improvement, it was determined that a significant reduction in process waste could be achieved by replacing the current planning
and scheduling systems with a common Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system located in the Cleveland 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. A
reduced number of IT staff could support the remaining applications. In some cases, a third-party contractor could provide those staff.
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 9.
At a recent meeting, the Architecture Board approved a Request for Architecture Work sponsored by the Chief Engineer of Global Manufacturing Operations. The
request covered the initial architectural investigations and the development of a comprehensive architecture to plan the transformation.
The Common ERP Deployment architecture project team has now been formed, and the project team 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 diving their planning and
production scheduling from a remote centralized system. The Chief Engineer wants to know how these concerns can be addressed.
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During the initial meeting of the Common ERP Deployment architecture project team, a number of alternative recommendations for how to proceed are put forward
by members of the team.
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 TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?
Scenario:
Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question 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?
Scenario: Sollace Manufacturing
Please read this scenario prior to answering the question Sollace Manufacturing is a major supplier in the automotive industry, headquartered In Cleveland, Ohio
with manufacturing plants in Chicago, Sao Paulo, Stuttgart, Yokohama, and Seoul. 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.
Sollace Manufacturing is implementing lean manufacturing principles to minimize waste and improve the efficiency of all of its production operations. During a
recent exercise held for internal quality improvement, it was determined that a significant reduction in process waste could be achieved by replacing the current
planning and scheduling systems with a common Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system located in the Cleveland 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. A reduced number of IT staff could support the remaining applications. In some cases, a third-party contractor could provide those staff. The Sollace
Manufacturing 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 9. At a recent meeting, the Architecture Review Board approved a Request for Architecture Work from the Chief
Engineer of Global Manufacturing Operations who is the project sponsor. The request covered the initial architectural investigations and the development of a
comprehensive architecture to plan the transformation. The Common ERP Deployment architecture project team has now been formed, and the project team 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 central system located in Cleveland. The Chief Engineer wants to know how these
concerns can be addressed.
Refer to the Sollace Manufacturing Scenario You are serving as the Lead Enterprise Architect for the Common ERP Deployment architecture project. One of the
earliest initiatives in the Enterprise Architecture program at Sollace Manufacturing was the definition of a set of IT principles and architecture principles that are well
aligned with the overall enterprise principles. These now need to be updated to address the concerns raised.
You have been asked to select a set of principles most appropriate for guiding the team to define a robust solution. [Note: You should assume that Sollace
Manufacturing has adopted the example set of principles that are listed and defined in TOGAF 9, Section 23.6.] Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the
best answer?
Scenario: MegaMart
Case Study Title (Case Study):
MegaMart is a Retail Chain which has expanded throughout India and the Far East.
The CEO and CIO decide that there is a crying need to put an Enterprise Architecture in place to realize MegaMart's strategy to expand its revenue and diversify.
The CIO has evaluated and decided to go in for TOGAF9 and adapt it to his enterprise requirements.
The Preliminary and Vision Phase have been completed.
As such very few architectural artifacts exist and the target architecture as of now is not very clear. As the Lead Architect how would you guide your team of
architects for the Business Architecture definition?
Scenario: AutoComp Corporation
AutoComp Corporation 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 agreed target architecture.
Final decisions on the solutions are not yet fully agreed. They have completed their Vision Phase and first pass of the three architecture definition phases and now
they want to finalize and plan their solutions. You are the Chief Architect from a consulting organization brought into review the work to date by AutoComp
Corporation and to make recommendations to the CIO and the board on this.
Which of the following answers best describes how TOGAF recommends in this context?
Scenario: Eight Twelve
Eight Twelve has retail outlets throughout North America. An Enterprise Architecture practice already exists in Eight Twelve. Now the CEO and CIO decide that they
want to use TOGAF9 to re-architect their Enterprise Architecture to cater to the changing strategies of Eight Twelve to better respond to the changes in the
economic and technology environments.
Some of the key issues which need to be addressed in this re-architecting work are:
1. Since Eight Twelve's retail chain operate 24 hours a day and are expanding to South America and Europe, the retail chain business ecosystem should be able to
withstand any unforeseen disruptions which might affect the chain's day to day operations. This is highly critical to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction and
thus maintaining and enhancing Eight Twelve's revenue chain.
2. Dependency between the application components, which are the nerve centers to Eight Twelve's sophisticated range of services both external and internal, and
the application platform and technology infrastructure should be minimal. This would facilitate scalability and ease of enhancement of the service offerings.
3. Eight Twelve uses the ARTS Data Model and the quality of data is of utmost importance for its operation.
4. Users of the Enterprise Information ecosystem should have an environment which is able to cater to their needs without any undue delays.
Which one of the following set of Architecture Principles do you feel is the most appropriate for these guidelines stated above for the TOGAF 9 architecting work
which Eight Twelve is embarking on?
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.
TotalComms is a telecommunications company formed from the merging of other 2 telecommunication companies. The business operating model has been
unified, the TOGAF 9 Architecture Board approved the outline Implementation and Migration Plan the detailed migration planning must know be approved. Your
help is needed to work on the migration planning with all the key stakeholders to achieve an agreement.
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You are the Lead Architect asked to describe accordingly to TOGAF 9 the best way to address the following activities:
The way the migration planning is conducted.
What is going to be implemented.
The stakeholders involved in the implementation.
The definition of the deliverables to use
Choose one of the following answers
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