Scenario:
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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 enterprise-wide 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.
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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?

A.
You start by clarifying the intent that the Board has for raising these concerns. This enables you to
understand the implications of the concern 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.

B.
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.

C.
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 arecommunicated 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.

D.
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.