Scenario Glacier Ridge LLC Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
Glacier Ridge LLC is a vacation property management firm that is growing through
acquisition. It manages over 200 resort properties across North America . Many of the resort
properties use the same internal IT systems that they used before they were acquired. Until
recently, the only requirement that has been placed en each property is that they use a
standard financial reporting system to report their financials ID the headquarters on a
weekly basis. The CEO has stated his concerns about the inefficiencies of the current
approach and identified the need to change. He has defined a new strategic vision that will
enhance the Glacier Ridge property business by standardizing its operations across the
network to provide consolidated financial, human resources, logistics, sales and marketing,

and yield management. He has also stated that he expects results by the end of the current
fiscal year. These changes will provide the company with improved utilization of its capacity
and more efficient operations. The addition of a corporate-wide data warehouse will provide
analytics that will enable the marketing group to improve its ability to target advertising into
key markets to improve yields. Glacier Ridge has a mature enterprise architecture (EA)
practice and uses TOGAF 9 as the method and guiding framework. The CIO is the sponsor
of the activity. In planning this change, the Chief Architect engaged the services of a
well-known consulting firm that specializes in business strategy. An initial study has been
conducted to identify the strategic changes needed to implement the CEO’s vision. This
recently completed with approval of a strategic architecture encompassing the entire firm,
including detailed requirements and recommendations. Based on the recommendations
from the initial engagement, Glacier Ridge has embraced an Architecture Vision to adopt an
enterprise application that is tailored to the needs of the hospitality industry. Refer to the
Glacier Ridge scenario Your role is that of Chief Architect. You have been asked to
recommend the best approach to take in this architecture engagement to realize the CEO’s
vision. Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

A.
Since the initial engagement has identified the need to change, you recommend that the
team focus on defining the target architecture by going through the architecture definition
phases (B-D). This will ensure that the change can be defined in a structured manner and
address the requirements needed to realize the vision.

B.
Since the vision is well understood and the strategic architecture agreed, you
recommend that the target architecture is defined first, followed by transition planning. This
will ensure that the current inefficiencies of the baseline architecture are not carried forward,
and that the proposed solution addresses the requirements identified in the initial
architecture engagement.

C.
You recommend that this engagement define the Technology Architecture first in order to
assess the current infrastructure capacity and capability. Then the focus should be on
transition planning and architecture deployment. This will identify requirements to ensure
that the projects are sequenced in an optimal fashion so as to realize the vision.

D.
You recommend that the team focus on architecture definition, with a specific emphasis
on understanding the strategic change parameters of the business strategy. Once
understood, the team will be in the best position to identify the requirements, drivers, issues,

and constraints for this engagement. You would ensure that the target architecture
addresses non-functional requirements so as to help forecast future impacts.