Scenario
Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question You are serving as the Chief Architect for a
large, global commodities trading company which has been growing rapidly through a series of
acquisitions. Each 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, the company has made the decision to introduce a single enterprisewide application to consolidate information from several applications that exist across the lines of
business. The application will be used by all business units and accessed by suppliers through well
defined interfaces. Refer to the Scenario As part of the process for establishing the Enterprise
Architecture department, you are developing a set of architecture principles to guide the activities.
You need to specify the best approach for this work. Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the
best answer?

A.
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.

B.
You examine the mission statements for the company 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 the company. You then seek the endorsement of the CIO
and senior management.

C.
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.

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