Scenario
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You are serving as the Lead Architect for an enterprise architecture project team within a leading multinational
pharmaceutical and medical devices manufacturer. Its brands include numerous household names for
medications and first aid supplies.
The company has a long history of innovating new treatments for many common illnesses and diseases. Prior
to launching a new treatment, the company has to demonstrate its effectiveness and safety in a set of clinical
trials that satisfy the regulatory requirements of the countries in the target markets. All clinical trials are
undertaken by its research laboratories, which employ over 10,000 people at separate facilities in the United
Kingdom, United States, Sweden, France, Canada, India, China and Japan. In addition to internal research and
development activities the company is also involved in publicly funded collaborative research projects, with
other industrial and academic partners.
The Enterprise Architecture group within the company has been engaged in an architecture development
project to create a secure networked collaboration system that will allow researchers at its product development
laboratories worldwide to share information about their clinical trials. This system will also connect with external
partners.
The Enterprise Architecture group is a mature organization. They use the TOGAF 9 ADM with extensions
required to support current good manufacturing practices and good laboratory practices in their target markets.
Due to the highly sensitive nature of the information that is managed, special care was taken to ensure that
each architecture domain included an examination of the security and privacy issues that are relevant.
The Executive Vice President for Clinical Research is the sponsor of the Enterprise Architecture activity. She
has stated that the changes to the enterprise architecture for the new system will need to be rolled out in stages
on a regional basis that minimizes disruptions to ongoing clinical trials.
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You have been asked to recommend the approach to identify the work packages that will be included in the
Transition Architecture(s).
Based on TOGAF, which of the following is the best answer?
A.
Determine the set of Solution Building Blocks required by identifying which Solution Building Blocks need to
be developed and which need to be procured. Eliminate any duplicate building blocks. Group the remaining
Solution Building Blocks together to create the work packages using a CRUD matrix. Rank the work
packages in terms of cost and select the most cost-effective options for inclusion in a series of Transition
Architectures. Schedule the roll out of the work packages to be sequential across the geographic regions.
B.
Create an Implementation Factor Assessment and Deduction Matrix and a Consolidated Gaps, Solutions
and Dependencies Matrix. For each gap, identify a proposed solution and classify it as new development,
purchased solution, or based on an existing product. Group similar solutions together to form work
packages. Identify dependencies between work packages factoring in the clinical trial schedules. Regroup
the packages into a set of Capability Increments scheduled into a series of Transition Architectures.
C.
Group the Solution Building Blocks from a Consolidated Gaps, Solutions and Dependencies Matrix into a
set of work packages. Using the matrix as a planning tool, regroup the work packages to account for
dependencies. Sequence the work packages into the Capability Increments needed to achieve the Target
Architecture. Schedule the rollout one region at a time. Document the progression of the enterprisearchitecture using a state evolution table.
D.
Use a Consolidated Gaps, Solutions and Dependencies Matrix as a planning tool. For each gap classify
whether the solution is either a new envelopment, purchased solution, or based on an existing product.
Group the similar solutions together to define the work packages. Regroup the work packages into a set of
Capability Increments to transition to the Target Architecture taking into account the schedule for clinical
trials.