Scenario
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You have been assigned the role of Chief Enterprise Architect within a leading outsourcing services company.
The company has over 20,000 outsourcing professionals and works on some of the world’s largest outsourcing
projects. Outsourcing services include business processes, infrastructure, and service management. The
company also provides business consulting services.
With numerous service areas and a large number of diverse engagements in progress at any given time,
overall engagement management within the company has become challenging. The company does not want to
risk its outstanding reputation or its international certifications and CMM ratings.
The company has an established an Enterprise Architecture program based on TOGAF 9, sponsored jointly by
the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Information Officer. An Architecture Board has been formed comprised of
IT staff executives and executives from the major service areas and consulting practice.
The Enterprise Architecture (EA) team has been working with the Strategic Planning team to create a strategic
enterprise architecture to address these issues. The EA team has defined a framework and held workshops
with key stakeholders to define a set of architecture principles to govern the architecture work. They have
completed an Architecture Vision at a strategic level and laid out Architecture Definitions for the four domains.
They have set out an ambitious vision of the future of the company over a five-year period. This includes a
solution architecture including three distinct transformations.
The CIO has made it clear that prior to the approval of the detailed implementation and Migration plan, the EA
team will need to assess the risks associated with the proposed architecture. He has received concerns from
some of the vice presidents across the company that the proposed architecture may be too ambitious and they
are not sure it can produce sufficient value to warrant the attendant risks.
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You have been asked to recommend an approach to satisfy these concerns.
Based on TOGAF, which of the following is the best answer?

A.
The EA team should gather information about potential solutions from the appropriate sources. Once the
Solution Architecture has been assembled; it should be analyzed using a state evolution table to determine
the Transition Architectures. A value realization process should then be established to ensure that the
concerns raised are addressed.

B.
Before preparing the detailed Implementation and Migration plan, the EA team should review and
consolidate the gap analysis results from Phases B to D to understand the transformations that are required
to achieve the proposed Target Architecture. The EA team should then assess the readiness of the
organization to undergo change. Oice the Solution Architecture has been assembled, it should be analyzed
using a state evolution table to determine the Transition Architectures.

C.
The EA team should apply an interoperability analysis to evaluate any potential issues across the Solution
Architecture. This should include the development of a matrix showing the interoperability requirements.
Once all of the concerns have been resolved, the EA team should finalize the Architecture Roadmap and
the Implementation and Migration Plan.

D.
The EA team should apply the Business Transformation Readiness Assessment technique. This will allow
the risks associated with the transformations to be identified and mitigated for. It will also identify
improvement actions to be worked into the Implementation and Migration Plan. The Business Value
Assessment technique should then be used to determine the business value and associated risks for the
transformation.