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which of the following is the best answer?

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.
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?

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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 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.

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.

10 Comments on “which of the following is the best answer?

  1. Ionut Coman says:

    why not D?

    In C there are two formulas that sound, from TOGAF perspective, a bit far fetched:
    – appropriate training for key employees
    – You establish an agreement with the security architects defining their role within the ongoing architecture project – What type of agreement?




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    1. PB says:

      Answer should be “C”.
      The question relates to preliminary phase which as per TOGAF doc (Chapter 21.5):
      The framework and principles rarely change, and so the security implications called out in the objectives of this phase should be fairly straightforward. A written security policy for the organization must be in place, and there should be regular notification and education established for employees.




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  2. Justin Yao says:

    Consider “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?”

    It’s in preliminary phase, I think A is the best one. BCD is talking details which should be in later pahses.




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  3. RK says:

    Option B is correct

    Not C: Implied that solution needs be developed to address the concern, instead of address the concern in the ERP solution itself.




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