Scenario Global Traders Inc. Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
Global Traders is a large, global commodities trading company which has been growing
rapidly through a series of acquisitions. Each new 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, Global Traders has begun

implementing a single Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to consolidate
information from several applications that exist across the lines of business. The Corporate
Board is concerned that the new ERP system must be able to manage and safeguard
customer information in a 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 offered to clients and trading partners. The CIO
has formed an Enterprise Architecture department, and one of the primary goals in its
charter is to coordinate efforts between the ERP implementation team and the business unit
personnel who will be involved in the migration process. The CIO has also formed a
crossfunctional Architecture Review Board to oversee and govern the architecture.Global
Traders has selected TOGAF 9 as the basis for its Enterprise Architecture program. The
CIO has endorsed this choice with the full support of top management. Refer to the Global
Traders Inc. Scenario You are serving as the Chief Architect. You have been asked to
recommend the approach to take in the Preliminary Phase to ensure that the Corporate
Board’s concern is addressed. Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best
answer?

A.
You evaluate the implications of the Board’s concern in terms of regulatory and security
policy requirements. You then update the Global Traders security policy to reflect the
concern, ensuring that this policy is communicated across the organization. You allocate a
security architecture team to ensure that security considerations are included in ongoing
architecture planning. You then assess the security implications and agreements within the
Global Traders businesses and their suppliers.

B.
You start by clarifying the intent that the Board has for raising this concern. This enables
you to understand the implications of the concern 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.

C.
You evaluate the implications of the Board’s concern 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 Board’s concern. You allocate a security architect to
oversee the implementation of the solution in the ERP system that is being developed.

D.
You evaluate the implications of the Board’s concern by examining the potential impacts
on business goals and objectives. Based on your understanding, you then update the
current Global Traders security policy to include an emphasis on the Board’s concern. In
addition, you allocate a security architect to ensure that security considerations are included
in the architecture planning for all domains.