Scenario Please read this scenario prior to answering the question 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. Refer to the Scenario [Note: You
should assume that the company has adopted the example set of principles that are listed
and defined in TOGAF 9, Section 23.6.] One of the earliest initiatives in the Enterprise
Architecture program was the definition of a set of architecture 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. Based on
TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

Scenario Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question You have been
assigned the role of Lead Enterprise Architect for a manufacturing firm that specializes in
musical instruments. The firm has been established for over 100 years, operating in North
America for most of that time. In the last ten years, the firm has expanded into European
markets and will soon establish a market in Latin America . A future expansion into the Asia
Pacific region is also planned. The firm is organized into several business units that each
focus on manufacturing particular families of instruments such as brass, woodwind, and
percussion. 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 pint
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 9 Architecture Content Framework. The EA process framework is well coordinated
with the PMO, Systems Development, and Operations functions. The firm has completed a
strategic plan to reorganize its Sales & Marketing organization according to the four 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 architecture 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 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
Lead Architect for an enterprise architecture project team within a leading medical device
manufacturer that specializes in miniature devices. The latest product under development is
a tiny wireless device that can be implanted in the brain and can deliver a precise electric
shock when the wearable Pain Control Unit (PCU) detects an increase in stress induced by

the onset of a migraine headache. This technology will be a breakthrough in the treatment
of this condition, and several competitors are striving to be the first to introduce a product
into the market. However, all of them must demonstrate the effectiveness and safety of their
products in a set of clinical trials that will satisfy the regulatory requirements of the countries
in the target markets. The Enterprise Architecture group within the company has been
engaged in an architecture development project to create a secure networked collaboration
system that will allow researchers at its product development laboratories worldwide to
share information about their independent clinical trials. The Enterprise Architecture group is
a mature organization that has been utilizing TOGAF for several years. They use the
TOGAF 9 ADM with extensions required to support current good manufacturing practices
and good laboratory practices in 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 and privacy issues that are relevant for each
domain. A corresponding Security Architecture has been defined. 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. Refer to the
Scenario You have been asked to recommend the approach to identify the work packages
that will be included in the Transition Architecture(s). Based on TOGAF 9, which of the
following is the best answer?

Scenario Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question 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. Refer to the Scenario 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?

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 enterprisewide 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 Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question 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. Refer to the Scenario 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 have been
appointed as a consultant to the Chief Enterprise Architect of a multinational pharmaceutical
corporation. The corporation includes 30 subsidiary companies with operations in over 60
countries and products sold in over 125 countries. It has major research and development
sites in over 45 locations worldwide. The management team is deeply committed to
ensuring that the corporation is a world leader in socially responsible pharmaceutical
development with a business strategy that focuses on profitability through environmentally

friendly operating processes as well as a commitment to disease eradication. The
operations of the corporation are subject to legal and regulatory requirements for each
country where they operate. The production of prescription pharmaceutical 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 clinical trial for a new regulated drug. The Governing Board is concerned
about the risks posed in this complex global environment. As a result the Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) has appointed a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) to be responsible for
overseeing and managing compliance issues for the corporation. The CCO reports directly
to the CEO. The CCO has approved the expenditure of resources to establish an Enterprise
Architecture program. He has requested to be informed about the status of projects that
could impact regulatory compliance. He also wants the corporate legal staff and auditors to
analyze all proposed architectures to ensure that they are within the legal guidelines for
each country. In addition, the research organization should be able to see that the
architecture is appropriate for its needs. TOGAF 9 has been mandated as the framework for
the development and evolution of the Enterprise Architecture practice. The Preliminary
Phase has been completed to establish the enterprise architecture capability for this project.
Refer to the Scenario 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 research organization. Based on TOGAF, which of the
following is the best answer?

Scenario Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question Your role is that of a
consultant to the Lead Enterprise Architect in a company that develops photovoltaic
technologies for use in large-scale solar power farms. The company has three
manufacturing facilities, two in the United States, and one in Southern France. Each of
these facilities supplies a different manufacturer that assembles and sells complete
systems. The solar panels and photovoltaic arrays are custom engineered to meet each
manufacturer’s design specifications. A challenge that the solar power industry has faced is
the efficiency of energy conversion. When a conventional solar panel overheats, it becomes
inefficient and generates less energy. In response to this, the research arm of the company
has pioneered the development of a new solar panel design that will produce up to 50%
more energy than standard solar panels when operating at elevated temperatures. This will
allow the production of significantly more useable energy per square meter than from
standard solar technology. This new design is ready to go into production. The company
has a mature Enterprise Architecture practice that is supported by a cross-functional
Architecture Board. TOGAF 9 is used for developing the automated manufacturing process
and systems used to design, manufacture and test the solar power technologies they
produce. The Chief Information Officer and the Chief Operating Officer co-sponsor the
Enterprise Architecture program. As part of putting the new solar panel design into
production, a pilot architecture project at a single location has defined an updated standard

approach for controlling the automated test systems used to perform final 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 test
system controller for each location. The Chief Engineer has expressed concern that a
uniform process be employed at each location to ensure consistency and high yields. Refer
to the Scenario The Lead Enterprise Architect has asked you to recommend the best
approach to address the Chief Engineer’s concern. Based on TOGAF, which of the
following is the best answer?

Scenario Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question You have been
assigned the role of Chief Enterprise Architect within a leading outsourcing services
company. The company has over 20,000 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. 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 does not want to risk Its outstanding reputation or its
international certifications and CMM ratings. 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 includes a
solution architecture including 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?

Scenario Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question You are serving as the
Lead Architect for a chain of convenience stores, operating as a franchise, which has over
5000 retail outlets throughout the Asia-Pacific region. The stores operate 24 hours a day
and 7 days a week and rely on point-ofsale technology to manage their inventory. – – – –
Stores place all orders on-line. The back-office systems collect realtime 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 clay’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.
An Enterprise Architecture practice exists within the company, with the CEO and CIO as
joint sponsors. They have decided to adopt TOGAF 9 within the practice and the first project
is to restructure the Enterprise Architecture so that it can better accommodate the changing
strategies within the company and also better respond to changes in economic and
technical environments. The CIO has stated that the following issues need to be addressed
in the restructuring: The systems should be able to withstand any unforeseen disruptions
which might affect day to day operations. This is highly critical for ensuring high levels of
customer satisfaction and maintaining and growing revenue. Dependencies between the
application components, the application platform, and technology infrastructure should be
minimal and well defined. This will facilitate scalability and ease of enhancement of the
service offerings. The company is adopting the ARTS Operational Data Model and Data
Warehouse Model from the National Retail Federation. This will address past problems with
data quality and inconsistent data . 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.
Refer to the Scenario [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.]