Scenario
Global Traders Inc.
Please read this scenario prior to answering the question Global Traders is a large, global
commodities trading company which has been growing rapidly through a series of acquisitions. Each
new 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, Global Traders has begun implementing a single Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) system to consolidate information from several applications that exist across the lines
of business. The Corporate Board is concerned that the new ERP system must be able to manage and
safeguard customer information in a manner that meets or exceeds the legal requirements of the
countries in which the company operates. This will be an increasingly important capability as the
company expands its online services offered to clients and trading partners. The CIO has formed an
Enterprise Architecture department, and one of the primary goals in its charter is to coordinate
efforts between the ERP implementation team and the business unit personnel who will be involved
in the migration process. The CIO has also formed a crossfunctional Architecture Review Board to
oversee and govern the architecture. After reviewing the available alternatives, and based on
recommendations from the ERP vendor, Global Traders has selected TOGAF 9 as the basis for its
Enterprise Architecture program. The CIO has endorsed this choice with the full support of top
management. 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?

A.
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.

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

C.
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.

D.
You examine the mission statements for Global Traders 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 Global Traders. You then seek the endorsement of the CIO
and senior management.