Scenario: Mansfield Bearing
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Mansfield Bearing Inc. manufactures ball bearings used in industrial equipment applications. They have
manufacturing operations in several cities in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
The firm has traditionally allowed each manufacturing plant to drive its own production planning systems. Each
plant has its own custom Materials Requirements Planning, Master Production Scheduling, Bill of Materials,
and Shop Floor Control systems. Mansfield employs “Just In Time” techniques to minimize wastes caused by
excessive inventory and work in process. The increasingly competitive business environment has compelled
the firm to improve its business capability to be more responsive to the needs of industrial customers. To
support this capability, the firm has decided to implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution that
will enable Mansfield to better coordinate its manufacturing capacity to match the demands for its products
across all plants. In addition, there are also new European regulations coming into force to which their
manufacturing processes must conform in the next six months.
As part of the implementation process, the Enterprise Architecture (EA) department has begun to implement an
architecture process based on TOGAF 9. The CIO is the sponsor of the activity. The Chief Architect has
directed that the program should include formal modeling using the Architecture Content Framework and the
TOGAF Content Metamodel. This will enable support for the architecture tooling that Mansfield utilizes for its
EA program.
The Chief Architect has stated that in order to model the manufacturing process it will be necessary to model
processes that are event-driven. Also, in order to consolidate applications across several data centers it will be
necessary to model the location of IT services. In particular, the end goal is to have the single ERP applicationrunning in a single data center. Currently the project is in the Preliminary Phase, and the architects are tailoring
the Architecture Development Method (ADM) and Architecture Content Framework to fit into the Mansfield
Bearing environment.
Refer to the Global Traders Inc. Scenario
You are serving as the Chief Architect.
As part of the process for establishing the Enterprise Architecture department, you have decided to create a set
of principles to guide the activities.
You have been asked to recommend the best approach for this work.
Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?
Refer to the Mansfield Bearing Scenario
Your role is the Lead Architect.
You have been asked to recommend a response to the Chief Architect’s request to tailor the TOGAF Content
Metamodel.
Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

A.
You recommend that the architecture team incorporates the Governance and Motivation Extensions into
their tailored Content Metamodel. This would allow modeling of the target milestones they want to achieve
with this consolidation of applications to a single data center. These extensions will also enable
demonstration of regulatory compliance for the manufacturing process.

B.
You recommend that the architecture team incorporate the Process Modeling and Governance extensions
into their tailored Content Metamodel. This is suitable as this is a significant IT change that will impact its
operational governance models. This will ensure that they include specific entities and attributes that will
allow them to model the event-driven nature of the manufacturing processes more precisely.

C.
You recommend that he architecture team incorporates the Data and Services Extensions into their tailored
Content Metamodel. This would allow modeling of the location of IT services and ensure regulatory
compliance for the manufacturing process. It will also allow for identification of redundant duplication of
capability which will be needed for a successful consolidation to a single data center.

D.
You recommend that the architecture team incorporate the Process Modeling and Infrastructure
Consolidation extensions into their tailored Content Metamodel. As the environment is process-centric this
will enable them to model the manufacturing processes and store information to support regulatory
compliance. It also includes views useful for managing the consolidation of applications into a single data
center.