Scenario
Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question You have been assigned the role of Chief
Enterprise Architect within a leading outsourcing services company. The company has over 20,000
outsourcing professionals and works on some of the world’s largest outsourcing projects.
Outsourcing services include business processes, infrastructure, and service management. The
company also provides business consulting services. With numerous service areas and a large
number of diverse engagements in progress at any given time, overall engagement management
within the company has become challenging. The company does not want to risk Its outstanding
reputation or its international certifications and CMM ratings. The company has an established an
Enterprise Architecture program based on TOGAF 9, sponsored jointly by the Chief Executive Officer

and Chief Information Officer. An Architecture Board has been formed comprised of IT staff
executives and executives from the major service areas and consulting practice. The Enterprise
Architecture (EA) team has been working with the Strategic Planning team to create a strategic
enterprise architecture to address these issues. The EA team has defined a framework and held
workshops with key stakeholders to define a set of architecture principles to govern the architecture
work. They have completed an Architecture Vision at a strategic level and laid out Architecture
Definitions for the four domains. They have set out an ambitious vision of the future of the company
over a five-year period. This includes a solution architecture including three distinct transformations.
The CIO has made it clear that prior to the approval of the detailed Implementation and Migration
plan, the EA team will need to assess the risks associated with the proposed architecture. He has
received concerns from some of the vice presidents across the company that the proposed
architecture may be too ambitious and they are not sure it can produce sufficient value to warrant
the attendant risks. Refer to the Scenario You have been asked to recommend an approach to satisfy
these concerns. Based on TOGAF, which of the following is the best answer?

A.
The EA team should gather information about potential solutions from the appropriate sources.
Once the Solution Architecture has been assembled, it should be analyzed using a state evolution
table to determine the Transition Architectures. A value realization process should then be
established to ensure that the concerns raised are addressed.

B.
Before preparing the detailed Implementation and Migration plan, the EA team should review and
consolidate the gap analysis results from Phases B to D to understand the transformations that are
required to achieve the proposed Target Architecture. The EA team should then assess the readiness
of the organization to undergo change. Once the Solution Architecture has been assembled, it
should be analyzed using a state evolution table to determine the Transition Architectures.

C.
The EA team should apply an interoperability analysis to evaluate any potential issues across the
Solution Architecture. This should include the development of a matrix showing the interoperability
requirements. Once all of the concerns have been resolved, the EA team should finalize the
Architecture Roadmap and the Implementation and Migration Plan.

D.
The EA team should apply the Business Transformation Readiness Assessment technique. This will
allow the risks associated with the transformations to be identified and mitigated for. It will also
identify improvement actions to be worked into the Implementation and Migration Plan. The
Business Value Assessment technique should then be used to determine the business value and
associated risks for the transformation.