Scenario Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question You are serving as the
Lead Enterprise Architect at a major supplier in the automotive industry. The company is
headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio with manufacturing plants across the United States,
Brazil, Germany, Japan and South Korea . Each of these plants has been operating its own
planning and production scheduling systems, as well as custom developed applications that
drive the automated production equipment at each plant. The company is implementing lean
manufacturing principles to minimize waste and improve the efficiency of all of its production
operations. During a recent exercise held for internal quality improvement, it was
determined that a significant reduction in process waste could be achieved by replacing the
current planning and scheduling systems with a common Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP) system located in the Cleveland data center. This central system would provide
support to each of the plants replacing the functionality in the existing systems. It would also
eliminate the need for full data centers at each of the plant facilities. A reduced number of IT
staff could support the remaining applications. In some cases, a third-party contractor could
provide those staff. The Enterprise Architecture department has been operating for several
years and has mature, well-developed architecture governance and development processes
that are strongly based on TOGAF 9. At a recent meeting, the Architecture Board approved
a Request for Architecture Work sponsored by the Chief Engineer of Global Manufacturing
Operations. The request covered the initial architectural investigations and the development
of a comprehensive architecture to plan the transformation. The Common ERP Deployment
architecture project team has now been formed, and the project team has been asked to
develop an Architecture Vision that will achieve the desired outcomes and benefits. Some of
the plant managers have expressed concern about the security and reliability of diving their
planning and production scheduling from a remote centralized system. The Chief Engineer
wants to know how these concerns can be addressed. Refer to the Scenario During the
initial meeting of the Common ERP Deployment architecture project team, a number of
alternative recommendations for how to proceed are put forward by members of the team.
You have been asked to select the most appropriate recommendation to ensure that the
team evaluates different approaches to the problem and clarifies the requirements for the
architecture. Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

A.
The team should develop Baseline and Target Architectures for each of the
manufacturing plants, ensuring that the views corresponding to selected viewpoints address

key concerns of the stakeholders. A consolidated gap analysis between the architectures
will then be used to validate the approach, and determine the capability increments needed
to achieve the target state.

B.
The team should exercise due diligence and carefully research vendor literature and
conduct a series of briefings with vendors that are on the current approved supplier list.
Based on the findings from the research, the team should define a preliminary Architecture
Vision. The team should then use that model to build consensus among the key
stakeholders.

C.
The team should use stakeholder analysis to understand who has concerns about the
initiative. The team should then hold a series of interviews at each of the manufacturing
plants using the business scenario technique. This will then enable them to identify and
document the key highlevel stakeholder requirements for the architecture.

D.
The team should conduct a pilot project that will enable vendors on the short list to
demonstrate potential solutions that will address the concerns of the stakeholders. Based
on the findings of that pilot project, a complete set of retirements will be developed that will
drive the evolution of the architecture.