Scenario
Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question You have been appointed as a consultant
to the Chief Enterprise Architect of a multinational pharmaceutical corporation. The corporation
includes 30 subsidiary companies with operations in over 60 countries and products sold in over 125
countries. It has major research and development sites in over 45 locations worldwide. The
management team is deeply committed to ensuring that the corporation is a world leader in socially
responsible pharmaceutical development with a business strategy that focuses on profitability
through environmentally friendly operating processes as well as a commitment to disease
eradication. The operations of the corporation are subject to legal and regulatory requirements for
each country where they operate. The production of prescription pharmaceutical products has
governmental controls that are strictly enforced and compliance is critical. Recently a competitor
was heavily fined for violating the regulations in a country where it was conducting a clinical trial for
a new regulated drug. The Governing Board is concerned about the risks posed in this complex
global environment. As a result the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has appointed a Chief Compliance
Officer (CCO) to be responsible for overseeing and managing compliance issues for the corporation.
The CCO reports directly to the CEO. The CCO has approved the expenditure of resources to
establish an Enterprise Architecture program. He has requested to be informed about the status of
projects that could impact regulatory compliance. He also wants the corporate legal staff and
auditors to analyze all proposed architectures to ensure that they are within the legal guidelines for
each country. In addition, the research organization should be able to see that the architecture is
appropriate for its needs. TOGAF 9 has been mandated as the framework for the development and
evolution of the Enterprise Architecture practice. The Preliminary Phase has been completed to
establish the enterprise architecture capability for this project.
Refer to the Scenario

You have been asked to recommend an approach that would enable the development of an
architecture that addresses the needs of the Chief Compliance Officer, legal staff, auditors and the
research organization. Based on TOGAF, which of the following is the best answer?

A.
You recommend that a stakeholder map be developed. This will allow the architects to define
groups of stakeholders that share common concerns. A set of views should be defined to address the
concerns for each group of stakeholders. Architecture models should then be created for each view
to address the stakeholders’ concerns.

B.
You recommend that each project architecture activity is developed using a consistent modeling
approach that is uniform across all architecture projects. Each architecture should be defined based
on this fixed set of models so that all concerned parties can examine the models to ensure that their
issues and concerns have been addressed.

C.
You recommend that a special report be created for those groups that have sufficient power and
level of interest. This report should summarize the key features of the architecture with respect to
the particular location. Each of these reports should reflect the stakeholders’ requirements.

D.
You recommend that a set of models be created for each project architecture that can be used to
ensure that the system will be compliant with the local regulations. Stakeholders should then view
the models to verify that their concerns have been properly addressed.