During a TOGAF ADM cycle, an architecture is denoted as Version 10. What does this indicate?
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Your role is that of an Enterprise Architect in a multinational automotive and clean
energy company. The company designs and manufactures electric vehicles, battery
storage, and solar panels. The company has multiple manufacturing facilities, in North
America, Europe, and in Asia. Most of the facilities are wholly owned by the company,
but two in Asia are jointly owned with local partners.
The company has a mature Enterprise Architecture practice that is supported by a
cross-functional Architecture Board. The TOGAF standard is used for developing the
automated manufacturing process and systems used to design, manufacture and test
the new design. The Chief Information Officer and the Chief Operating Officer co-
sponsor the Enterprise Architecture program.
A challenge that the company is facing is to scale up the number of vehicles coming
off the production lines to meet customer demand. At the moment there are supply
chain shortages for key custom-designed electronic components used in the vehicles.
In response to this, the research arm of the company has pioneered the development
of a revised design using common off-the-shelf components that will allow for a
significant increase in overall vehicle production. This new design is ready to go into
production.
As part of putting the new design into production, adjustments to the automated
assembly processes need to be made. A pilot architecture project at a single location
has defined an updated approach for controlling the automated systems used to
perform final assembly and quality assurance. The Chief Engineer, sponsor of the
activity, and the Architecture Board have approved the plan for immediate
implementation at each plant.
Architecture Contracts have been developed that detail the work needed to implement
and deploy the new automated system controller for each location. The Chief
Engineer has expressed concern that a uniform process be employed at each location
to ensure consistency and quality.
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You have been asked to recommend the best approach to address the Chief
Engineer's concern.
Based on the TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2, which of the following is the best
answer?
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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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The ABC company 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.
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 company 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.
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You are serving as the Lead Enterprise Architect of the newly-formed Common ERP Deployment architecture project team.
As the Common ERP Deployment architecture project team assembles for its initial meeting, many of the participants have voiced concerns about the sweeping scope of the initiative. Others are confident that they know a solution that will work. During the meeting, 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?