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. After
reviewing the available alternatives, and based on recommendations from the ERP vendor,
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. As part of the process
for establishing the Enterprise Architecture department, you have decided to create a set of
principles to guide the activities. You have been asked to recommend the best approach for
this work. Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

A.
You examine the mission statements for Global Traders and each of its businesses,
together with the corporate value statements. Based on that, you define a set of principles
and review with the CIO. When developing the principles you ensure that they actively
promote the alignment of IT with the business strategies and initiatives of Global Traders.
You then seek the endorsement of the CIO and senior management.

B. You define a set of principles that support the preferred best practices embodied in the
Enterprise Architecture department charter. You publish the principles on the corporate
intranet to ensure widespread acceptance and compliance. You then schedule regular
periodic Compliance Assessments with individual business units to check that they have
made satisfactory progress toward meeting the objectives and conditions embodied in the
principles.

C.
You examine the mission statements for Global Traders and each of its businesses,
together with the corporate value statements. Based on that, you work with the Architecture
Review Board to define the principles. When developing the principles you ensure that they
actively promote the alignment of IT with the Global Traders business strategies. You then
run a series of reviews with all the relevant stakeholders, including senior management,
ensuring their support.

D.
You gather information from credible industry sources in the commodities business.
Based on that, you assess current trends and apply that to defining a set of principles that
embody best practices. You select architecture principles that do not conflict with each other
and that should be stable. You ensure that all the principles are realistic and avoid including
principles that are obvious.