Scenario
Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question You are the Lead Architect for a firm that
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. “Just In Time” manufacturing techniques are used 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 it 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 the firm uses for its EA program. The Chief Architect
has stated that in order to model the complex 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 assets. In particular, the end goal is to have
the single ERP application running 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 corporate environment. Refer to the Scenario 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 incorporate the Process Modeling and Infrastructure
Consolidation extensions into their tailored Content Metamodel. As the environment is
processcentric 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.

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 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 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 application to a single data center. These
extensions will also enable demonstration of regulatory compliance for the manufacturing process.

D.
You recommend that the architecture team incorporates the Data and Services Extensions into
their tailored Content Metamodel. This would allow modeling of the location of IT assets 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.