Scenario
Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question You have been appointed as a consultant
to the Lead Enterprise Architect of an international agricultural company that exports bulbs, flowers
and seeds worldwide. The company has its headquarters in the Netherlands, and has sales and
distribution centers in over 30 countries worldwide. Several of these centers include administrative,
manufacturing, and research facilities. To achieve full integration of their research capabilities with
their development centers located in various climate zones, the company wants to develop strong
self-directed teams in each location. It also wants to define new business models that are profitable
while reducing their impact on the environment. The management team is deeply committed to
ensuring that the company is a world leader in socially responsible seed development with a
business strategy that focuses on profitability through environmentally friendly operating processes.
The international operations of the company are subject to legal and regulatory requirements for
each country where they operate. The production of genetically modified seeds 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 developing pest-resistant seeds. The
Governing Board is concerned about the risks posed in this complex global environment, and as a
result has approved the expenditure of resources to establish an Enterprise Architecture program.
They have requested to be informed about the status of projects that could impact regulatory
compliance. They also want to enable the corporate legal staff and auditors to analyze proposed
architectures to ensure that they are within the legal guidelines for a given location. 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
Governing Board, legal staff, auditors and the research organization. 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 Enterprise Architect in a
company that specializes in the development of wind turbine blades for use in large-scale
commercial wind energy production systems. The company has manufacturing facilities located in
Illinois, Nebraska, and Manitoba . Each of these plants supplies a different manufacturer that builds
and sells complete systems. The turbine blades are custom engineered to meet each manufacturer’s
design specifications. Until recently, most turbine blades were fabricated manually using molded
fiber-reinforced plastics. However, recent improvements in composite materials, coupled with
enhanced automated methods for precision application of materials during the molding process,
have led to significant reduction in weight, increase in strength, and improved blade longevity. The
company has pioneered the development of a proprietary automated process for continuous
extrusion of the turbine blades. Patents have been filed to protect the process, but certain trade
secrets must be closely guarded. The company has a mature Enterprise Architecture organization

that is supported by a cross functional Architecture Board. The Chief Information Officer and the
Chief Operating Officer cosponsor the Enterprise Architecture program. TOGAF 9 and its
Architecture Development Method (ADM) are used to develop the automated manufacturing
processes and systems that are used to design, manufacture, and test the blade assemblies.
Recently, a pilot architecture project was completed at a single location that defined a standard
approach for controlling the Automated Test System that is used at each plant to perform final
quality assurance tests on each completed blade assembly. The Architecture Board 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, sponsor of the activity, has expressed concern that a uniform
process be employed at each location to ensure consistency. Refer to the Scenario You have been
asked to recommend the best approach to address the Chief Engineer’s concern. 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. The Corporate Board is concerned that the new application must be able to
manage and safeguard confidential customer information in a secure manner that meets or exceeds
the legal requirements of the countries in which the company operates. This will be an increasingly
important capability as the company expands its online services in cooperation with its trading
partners. The CIO has formed an Enterprise Architecture department, and one of the primary goals
in its charter is to coordinate efforts between the implementation team and the business unit
personnel who will be involved in the migration process. The CIO has also formed a cross-functional
Architecture Board to oversee and govern the architecture. The company has an existing team of
security architects. TOGAF 9 has been selected for use for the Enterprise Architecture program. The
CIO has endorsed this choice with the full support of top management. Refer to the Scenario In the
Preliminary Phase you need to define suitable policies and ensure that the company has the
appropriate capability to address the concerns of the Corporate Board. Based on TOGAF 9, which of
the following is the best answer?

Scenario
Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question Your role is that of Lead Enterprise
Architect within a vacation property management firm that has been growing through acquisition.
The firm manages over 200 resort properties across North America . Many of the resort properties
use the same internal IT systems that they used before they were acquired. Until recently, the only
requirement that has been placed on each property is that they use a standard financial reporting
system to report their financial results to the headquarters on a weekly basis. The CEO 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 standardizing its operations across
the network to provide consolidated financial, human resources, logistics, sales and marketing, and
yield management. He has also stated that he expects results by the end of the current fiscal year.
These changes will provide the company 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 markets to improve yields.
The firm has a mature enterprise architecture practice 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 firm,
including detailed requirements and recommendations. Based on the recommendations from the
initial study, the firm has taken the decision to adopt a packaged suite of integrated applications that
is tailored to the needs of the hospitality industry. Refer to the scenario You have been asked by the
Chief Architect to justify the best approach for architecture development to realize the CEO’s vision.
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 Chief
Enterprise Architect within a leading North American information technology services company. The
company has a number of service portfolios including infrastructure, applications, business process
outsourcing, accounting, and financial services. With numerous practice areas and a multitude of
diverse engagements underway 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 Chief Executive Officer and Chief Information
Officer have co-sponsored the creation of an Enterprise Architecture prog-am based on TOGAF 9. An
Architecture Board has been formed comprised of IT staff executives and executives from the major
practice areas. The Enterprise Architecture team has been working with the Strategic Planning team
to create a strategic enterprise architecture to address these issues. The 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 senior partners 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 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 [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?