Scenario Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question You are serving as the
Lead Architect for an insurance company, which has been formed through the merger of
three previously independent companies. The company now consists of three divisions with
the same names and division headquarters as their predecessors. The lack of integration
between the three divisions has increasingly caused problems in the handling of customer
and financial information. The inability to share information has resulted in lost opportunities
to “leverage the synergies” that had been intended when the company was formed. At
present, each division maintains its own applications. Despite an earlier initiative to install a
common application to manage customer, products, and claims Information, each division
has different ways of defining 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 common web
portal, contact center software suite, and document management system. Also the company
has selected a single enterprise-wide customer relationship management (CRM) application
to consolidate information from several applications that exist across the divisions. The
application will be used by each of the divisions and accessed by third party partners
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 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 migration teams in each division. 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 as
the core framework 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,
which of the following is the best answer?

A.
You evaluate the implications of the concerns raised by the Corporate Board in terms of
regulatory requirements and their impact on business goals and objectives. Based on this
understanding, you then issue a Request for Architecture Work to commence an
architecture development project to develop a solution that will address the concerns. You
allocate a security architect to oversee the implementation of the new application that is
being developed.

B.
You start by clarifying the intent that the Board has for raising these concerns. This
enables you to understand the implications of the concerns in terms of regulatory
requirements and the potential impact on current business goals and objectives. You
propose that a security architect or security architecture team be allocated to develop a
comprehensive security architecture and that this be considered an additional domain
architecture.

C.
You evaluate the implications of the Board’s concerns by examining the security and
regulatory impacts on business goals, business drivers and objectives. Based on your
understanding, you then update the current security policy to include an emphasis on the
concerns. You define architecture principles to form constraints on the architecture work to
be undertaken in the project. You then allocate a security architect to ensure that security
considerations are included in the architecture planning for all domains.

D.
You identify and document the security and regulatory requirements for the application
and the data being collected. You ensure that written policies are put in place to address the
requirements, and that they are communicated across the organization, together with
appropriate training for key employees. You identify constraints on the architecture and
communicate those to the architecture team. You establish an agreement with the security
architects defining their role within the ongoing architecture project.

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