According to the TOGAF standard, what term describes an individual with an interest in a system?
Which of the following does the TOGAF standard classify as catalogs, matrices and diagrams?
Which part of the TOGAF standard provides a full description of each architecture phase?
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 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.
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?
You are an Enterprise Architect working at a vehicle manufacturing company. The company specializes in buses and coaches. You are part of an Enterprise Architecture (EA) team that has responsibilities across multiple divisions of the company.
The company has a corporate strategy that focuses on switching to electric power for its vehicles. It has invested heavily in a new standardized design, production efforts, and major components to use across all its product range. The company has multiple manufacturing plants in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Customer demand has caused a backlog of orders because many customers want to have more environmentally friendly public transportation. There are not enough electronic components available, which is making it hard to produce products and meet customer demand. To address this issue, the company has started making the battery packs themselves and has hired new suppliers.
The company has a well-established EA practice. It uses the TOGAF Standard as the foundation for its work, including the internal EA framework. Additionally, the company uses various management frameworks such as business planning, project management, and operations management. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Chief Operating Officer (COO) jointly sponsor the Enterprise Architecture program.
The EA team is working on a project to improve the process and systems to design, produce, and test the battery pack. As part of putting the new battery pack into production, changes to the assembly processes need to be made. A trial has been completed at a single location. The Chief Engineer, sponsor of the activity, and the Architecture Board have approved the plan to roll out these changes to all plants.
Preliminary Architecture Contracts have been developed that detail the work needed to put in place the new processes for each location. The company mixes internal teams with a few third-party contractors at the locations. The Chief Engineer is worried that the deployment will not be consistent and of satisfactory quality.
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The EA team leader has asked you to review the preliminary Architecture Contracts and recommend the best approach to address the Chief Engineer's concern.
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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 financial, 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.
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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?
In Phase D of the ADM cycle, if you are following the order of the steps defined and the current step is to perform gap analysis, what is the next step?
In which phase of the ADM cycle do building blocks become implementation-specific?
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You are serving as the Lead Architect for an Enterprise Architecture project team
within a multinational energy company. The company is organized into two major
business operations:
· Upstream operations which include exploration for crude oil and natural gas and
operating the infrastructure necessary to deliver oil and gas to the market
· Downstream operations which include the manufacturing, distribution and marketing
activities for oil products and chemicals
The downstream business includes oil refining, a retail filling station network,
lubricants manufacture and marketing, industrial fuel and lubricants sales. The
practice for the downstream business has been to operate locally, managed by local
"operating companies".
There is an established Enterprise Architecture program within the company, and the
TOGAF standard has been adopted as the framework.
Safety is a priority for the company, with the aim to ensure it causes zero harm to
people and the environment. The company has to satisfy the regulatory requirements
of each of the countries it operates in.
The Governing Board is concerned about the risk posed by operating in this complex
global environment with a large part of the downstream business represented by local
operating companies.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has requested to be informed about the status of
downstream operations that could impact regulatory compliance. He also wants the
corporate legal staff and auditors to analyze all proposed new downstream operations
to ensure that they are within the legal guidelines for each country. In addition, the
local operating companies should be able to see that the architecture is appropriate
for their needs.
The architecture project team has completed a detailed Request for Architecture Work
providing the high level project description. As the project commences the next phase,
the necessary approvals from management have been received.
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You have been asked to recommend an approach that would enable the development
of an architecture that addresses the needs of the Chief Compliance Officer, legal
staff, auditors and the local operating companies.
Based on the TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2, which of the following is the best
answer?
TESTED 22 Feb 2025
