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
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.
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?

A.
You gather information from credible industry sources in the commodities business. Based on that, you
assess current trends and apply that to defining a set of principles that embody best practices. You select
architecture principles that do not conflict with each other and that should be stable. You ensure that all the
principles are realistic and avoid including principles that are obvious.

B.
You examine the mission statements for the company and each of its businesses, together with the
corporate value statements. Based on that, you define a set of principles and review with the CIO. When
developing the principles you ensure that they actively promote the alignment of IT with the business
strategies and initiatives of the company. You then seek the endorsement of the CIO and senior
management.

C.
You define a set of principles that support the preferred best practices embodied in the Enterprise
Architecture department charter. You publish the principles on the corporate intranet to ensure widespread
acceptance and compliance. You then schedule regular periodic Compliance Assessments with individual
business units to check that they have made satisfactory progress toward meeting the objectives and
conditions embodied in the principles.

D.
You examine the mission statements for the company and each of its businesses, together with the
corporate value statements. Based on that, you work with the Architecture Board to define the principles.
When developing the principles you ensure that they actively promote the alignment of IT with the corporate
business strategies. You then hold a series of review meetings with all the relevant stakeholders, including
senior management, ensuring their support.