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which of the following is the best answer?

Scenario
Please read this scenario prior to answering the question You are serving as the Lead Enterprise
Architect at a major supplier in the automotive industry. The company is headquartered in
Cleveland, Ohio with manufacturing plants across the United States, Brazil, Germany, Japan and
South Korea . Each of these plants has been operating its own planning and production scheduling
systems, as well as custom developed applications that drive the automated production equipment
at each plant. The company is implementing lean manufacturing principles to minimize waste and
improve the efficiency of all of its production operations. During a recent exercise held for internal
quality improvement, it was determined that a significant reduction in process waste could be
achieved by replacing the current planning and scheduling systems with a common Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP) system located in the Cleveland data center. This central system would
provide support to each of the plants replacing the functionality in the existing systems. It would
also eliminate the need for full data centers at each of the plant facilities. A reduced number of IT
staff could support the remaining applications. In some cases, a third-party contractor could provide
those staff. The Enterprise Architecture department has been operating for several years and has
mature, well-developed architecture governance and development processes that are strongly
based on TOGAF 9. At a recent meeting, the Architecture Board approved a Request for Architecture
Work sponsored by the Chief Engineer of Global Manufacturing Operations. The request covered the
initial architectural investigations and the development of a comprehensive architecture to plan the
transformation. The Common ERP Deployment architecture project team has now been formed, and
the project team has been asked to develop an Architecture Vision that will achieve the desired
outcomes and benefits. Some of the plant managers have expressed concern about the security and
reliability of diving their planning and production scheduling from a remote centralized system. The
Chief Engineer wants to know how these concerns can be addressed. Refer to the Scenario [Note:
You should assume that the company has adopted the example set of principles that are listed and
defined in TOGAF 9, Section 23.6.] One of the earliest initiatives in the Enterprise Architecture
program was the definition of a set of architecture principles. These now need to be updated to
address the concerns raised. You have been asked to select a set of principles most appropriate for
guiding the team to define a robust solution. Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best
answer?

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A.
Common-use Applications, Control Technical Diversity, Ease of Use, Interoperability, Data is
Shared, Data is Accessible, Data Security

B.
Business Continuity, Common-use Applications, Maximize Benefit to the Enterprise, Data is
Shared, Data is Accessible, Data Security

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

D.
Service-orientation, Responsive Change Management, Business Continuity, Data is Accessible,
Data Security

4 Comments on “which of the following is the best answer?

  1. correctans says:

    I pick B.

    “Some of the plant managers have expressed concern about the security and
    reliability”
    Business continuity and data security needs to be key elements for answer. So choices B and D remain. D is incorrect as it used Responsive Change Management which is not called for. So B.




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