Dante Manufacturing is a big supplier in the automotive industry, head quarter in London with main plants in
New York, Milan, Toronto and Tokio. Each one of these plants has been operating its own Manufacturing
Requirements Planning (MRP II) system, production scheduling and custom applications for production
automation. Dante’s objective is to minimize waste production improving production operations. During an
analysis of the process improvements was determined that a significant improvement on waste production
could be achieved replacing the outdated MRPII system with a common Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
located in London. Dante has well-developed governance and processes based on TOGAF 9. The Chief
Engineer of Global Manufacturing operations is the business sponsor and issued a Request for Architectural
Work. The architectural activity for the implementation of the new ERP platform is kicked off and the
architectural vision is produced. Some concerns on the security, reliability, responsibility and time to manage
change of driving the MRP II and production scheduling by a central system located in London are raised by the
team of architects working on the project and by senior management of the various organizations. These last in
particular, stressed the need to align the information management with the business.
Refer to the scenario above As Lead Architect you have been asked to update the IT architectural principles to
address the concerns raised by the project stakeholders and the senior management. According to TOGAF 9
(assuming the enterprise is using the example set of principles in TOGAF 9 Section 23.6), which of the
following is the best answer?
Choose one of the following answers

A.
Common Use Applications, Data is Shared, Data is Accessible, Data is Secure, Interoperability, Control,
Technology Independence.

B.
Business Continuity, Service-Orientation, Data is Shared , Data is Accessible, Data is Secure, Responsive
Change Management.

C.
Requirements-Based Change, Ease-of-Use, Data is Normalized.

D.
Information Management is Everybody’s business, IT Responsibility, Data Trustee, Technology
Independence, Responsive Change Management.