Scenario
Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question Your role is that of Lead Enterprise
Architect within a vacation property management firm that has been growing through acquisition.
The firm 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 on each property is that they use a standard financial reporting
system to report their financial results to 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 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.
The firm has a mature enterprise architecture 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 study, the firm has taken the decision to adopt a packaged suite of integrated applications that
is tailored to the needs of the hospitality industry. Refer to the scenario You have been asked by the
Chief Architect to justify the best approach for architecture development to realize the CEO’s vision.
Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

Scenario
Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question You have been assigned the role of Chief
Enterprise Architect within a leading North American information technology services company. The
company has a number of service portfolios including infrastructure, applications, business process
outsourcing, accounting, and financial services. With numerous practice areas and a multitude of
diverse engagements underway at any given time, overall engagement management within the
company has become challenging. The company does not want to risk its outstanding reputation or
its international certifications and CMM ratings. The Chief Executive Officer and Chief Information
Officer have co-sponsored the creation of an Enterprise Architecture prog-am based on TOGAF 9. An
Architecture Board has been formed comprised of IT staff executives and executives from the major
practice areas. The Enterprise Architecture team has been working with the Strategic Planning team
to create a strategic enterprise architecture to address these issues. The team has defined a
framework and held workshops with key stakeholders to define a set of architecture principles to
govern the architecture work. They have completed an Architecture Vision at a strategic level and
laid out Architecture Definitions for the four domains. They have set out an ambitious vision of the
future of the company over a five-year period. This includes a solution architecture including three
distinct transformations. The CIO has made it clear that prior to the approval of the detailed
Implementation and Migration plan, the EA team will need to assess the risks associated with the
proposed architecture. He has received concerns from some of the senior partners that the
proposed architecture may be too ambitious and they are not sure it can produce sufficient value to
warrant the attendant risks. Refer to the Scenario You have been asked to recommend an approach
to satisfy these concerns. Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

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 [Note:
You should assume that the company has adopted the example set of principles that are listed and
defined in TOGAF 9, Section 23.6.] One of the earliest initiatives in the Enterprise Architecture
program was the definition of a set of architecture principles. These now need to be updated to
address the concerns raised. You have been asked to select a set of principles most appropriate for
guiding the team to define a robust solution. Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best
answer?

Scenario
Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question You have been assigned the role of Lead
Enterprise Architect for a manufacturing firm that specializes in musical instruments. The firm has
been established for over 100 years, operating in North America for most of that time. In the last ten
years, the firm has expanded into European markets and will soon establish a market in Latin
America . A future expansion into the Asia Pacific region is also planned. The firm is organized into
several business units that each focus on manufacturing particular families of instruments such as
brass, woodwind, and percussion. Each business unit has acquired other producers to expand its
manufacturing capacity. This has resulted in a complex environment with a high diversity of business
and manufacturing systems. The Enterprise Architecture (EA) program within the firm has been
functioning for several years. It has made significant progress in consolidating the technology
portfolio and establishing key standards. The CIO and the COO are pint sponsors of the EA program.
The EA program is mature, with an active Architecture Board and a well-defined architecture process
and standard content templates based on the TOGAF 9 Architecture Content Framework. The EA
process framework is well coordinated with the PMO, Systems Development, and Operations
functions. The firm has completed a strategic plan to reorganize its Sales & Marketing organization
according to the four target geographic markets. One of the goals of this reorganization is to
improve the ability of Marketing to collect more meaningful market analytics that will enable each
sector to better address market needs with effective marketing campaigns and global product
presence. A Request for Architecture Work to address the goals of the reorganization has been
approved. As the architecture team commences its work, the CIO has expressed concerns about
whether the firm will be able to adapt to the proposed architecture and how to manage the
associated risks. Refer to the Scenario You have been asked how to address the concerns of the CIO.
Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

Scenario
Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question You are serving as the Lead Architect for
an enterprise architecture project team within a leading medical device manufacturer that
specializes in miniature devices. The latest product under development is a tiny wireless device that
can be implanted in the brain and can deliver a precise electric shock when the wearable Pain
Control Unit (PCU) detects an increase in stress induced by the onset of a migraine headache. This
technology will be a breakthrough in the treatment of this condition, and several competitors are
striving to be the first to introduce a product into the market. However, all of them must
demonstrate the effectiveness and safety of their products in a set of clinical trials that will satisfy
the regulatory requirements of the countries in the target markets. The Enterprise Architecture
group within the company has been engaged in an architecture development project to create a
secure networked collaboration system that will allow researchers at its product development
laboratories worldwide to share information about their independent clinical trials. The Enterprise
Architecture group is a mature organization that has been utilizing TOGAF for several years. They use
the TOGAF 9 ADM with extensions required to support current good manufacturing practices and
good laboratory practices in their target markets. Due to the highly sensitive nature of the
information that is managed, special care was taken to ensure that each architecture domain
included an examination of the security and privacy issues that are relevant for each domain. A
corresponding Security Architecture has been defined. The Executive Vice President for Clinical
Research is the sponsor of the Enterprise Architecture activity. She has stated that the changes to
the enterprise architecture for the new system will need to be rolled out on a geographic basis that
will minimize disruptions to ongoing clinical trials. The work will need to be done in stages and rolled
out in geographical regions. Refer to the Scenario You have been asked to recommend the approach
to identify the work packages that will be included in the Transition Architecture(s). Based on TOGAF
9, which of the following is the best answer?