An international Insurance company has grown with little consideration for rationalization and consolidation.
There is no coordination between business unit and every one have managed its own applications. The CIO
decided to establish an Enterprise Architecture program within the enterprise to enable the company to expand
to other markets in the next two years. The company has not any Enterprise Architecture Capability in place
and the he CIO has set up an Architecture Board and called its first meeting. Refer to the scenario above
As Lead Architect you will establish a TOGAF 9 Enterprise Architecture program. Identify the best way to do
this among the answers below.
Choose one of the following answers
A.
You tailor TOGAF 9 with the help of the Architecture Board to integrate it with the legacy procedures
established by the PMO. You also examine the relationship of TOGAF with other processes and
frameworks for governance, systems development and operations management. You then define the
footprint of the enterprise architecture.
B.
As Lead Architect you create a Request for Architecture Work to allocate resources to work on the
Architecture Vision. Based on the outcome of the Business Scenario technique you apply, you create the
Common Systems Architecture to guide the choice of Solutions Building Blocks. These will be then used for
integrating the systems across business units.
C.
You clarify the agreement on key business drivers and the scope of the enterprise architecture. You then
clarify the requirements for architecture work. You define the architecture principles together with the help of
the Architecture Board in order to lead the architecture work. You consider how to tailor TOGAF 9 for this
enterprise.
D.
You conduct an Architecture Maturity Assessment. You then use the TOGAF ADM to state the
requirements for the integration of a new company information management system into the organization.You then list a set of business goals together with the Architecture Board that will be a reference to the
enterprise architecture program.