Scenario
Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question You are serving as the Lead Architect for
an insurance company, which has been formed through the merger of three previously independent
companies. The company now consists of three divisions with the same names and division
headquarters as their predecessors. The lack of integration between the three divisions has
increasingly caused problems in the handling of customer and financial information. The inability to
share information has resulted in lost opportunities to “leverage the synergies” that had been
intended when the company was formed. At present, each division maintains its own applications.
Despite an earlier initiative to install a common application to manage customer, products, and
claims Information, each division has different ways of defining 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
common web portal, contact center software suite, and document management system. Also the
company has selected a single enterprise-wide customer relationship management (CRM)
application to consolidate information from several applications that exist across the divisions. The
application will be used by each of the divisions and accessed by third party partners through well
defined interfaces. The Corporate Board is concerned that the new application must be able to
manage and safeguard confidential customer information in a secure manner that meets or exceeds
the legal requirements of the countries in which the company operates. This will be an increasingly
important capability as the company expands its online services in cooperation with its partners. The
CIO has formed an Enterprise Architecture department, and one of the primary goals in its charter is
to coordinate efforts between the implementation team and the migration teams in each division.
The CIO has also formed a cross-functional Architecture Board to oversee and govern the
architecture. The company has an existing team of security architects. TOGAF 9 has been selected as
the core framework for use for the Enterprise Architecture program. The CIO has endorsed this
choice with the full support of top management. Refer to the Scenario In the Preliminary Phase you
need to define suitable policies and ensure that the company has the appropriate capability to
address the concerns of the Corporate Board. Based on TOGAF, which of the following is the best
answer?

A.
You evaluate the implications of the concerns raised by the Corporate Board in terms of
regulatory requirements and their impact on business goals and objectives. Based on this
understanding, you then issue a Request for Architecture Work to commence an architecture
development project to develop a solution that will address the concerns. You allocate a security
architect to oversee the implementation of the new application that is being developed.

B.
You start by clarifying the intent that the Board has for raising these concerns. This enables you to
understand the implications of the concerns in terms of regulatory requirements and the potential
impact on current business goals and objectives. You propose that a security architect or security
architecture team be allocated to develop a comprehensive security architecture and that this be
considered an additional domain architecture.

C.
You evaluate the implications of the Board’s concerns by examining the security and regulatory
impacts on business goals, business drivers and objectives. Based on your understanding, you then
update the current security policy to include an emphasis on the concerns. You define architecture
principles to form constraints on the architecture work to be undertaken in the project. You then
allocate a security architect to ensure that security considerations are included in the architecture
planning for all domains.

D.
You identify and document the security and regulatory requirements for the application and the
data being collected. You ensure that written policies are put in place to address the requirements,
and that they are communicated across the organization, together with appropriate training for key
employees. You identify constraints on the architecture and communicate those to the architecture
team. You establish an agreement with the security architects defining their role within the ongoing
architecture project.