Scenario
Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question You are the Lead Architect for a firm that
manufactures ball bearings used in industrial equipment applications. They have manufacturing
operations in several cities in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The firm has
traditionally allowed each manufacturing plant to drive its own production planning systems. Each
plant has its own custom Materials Requirements Planning, Master Production Scheduling, Bill of
Materials, and Shop Floor Control systems. “Just In Time” manufacturing techniques are used to
minimize wastes caused by excessive inventory and work in process. The increasingly competitive
business environment has compelled the firm to improve its business capability to be more
responsive to the needs of industrial customers. To support this capability, the firm has decided to
implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution that will enable it to better coordinate its
manufacturing capacity to match the demands for its products across all plants. In addition, there
are also new European regulations coming into force to which their manufacturing processes must
conform in the next six months. As part of the implementation process, the Enterprise Architecture
(EA) department has begun to implement an architecture process based on TOGAF 9. The CIO is the
sponsor of the activity. The Chief Architect has directed that the program should include formal
modeling using the Architecture Content Framework and the TOGAF Content Metamodel. This will
enable support for the architecture tooling that the firm uses for its EA program. The Chief Architect
has stated that in order to model the complex manufacturing process it will be necessary to model
processes that are event-driven. Also, in order to consolidate applications across several data
centers it will be necessary to model the location of IT assets. In particular, the end goal is to have
the single ERP application running in a single data center. Currently the project is in the Preliminary
Phase, and the architects are tailoring the Architecture Development Method (ADM) and
Architecture Content Framework to fit into the corporate environment. Refer to the Scenario You
have been asked to recommend a response to the Chief Architect’s request to tailor the TOGAF
Content Metamodel. 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 Chief Architect for a
large, global commodities trading company which has been growing rapidly through a series of
acquisitions. Each 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, the company has made the decision to introduce a single enterprisewide application to consolidate information from several applications that exist across the lines of
business. The application will be used by all business units and accessed by suppliers through well
defined interfaces. Refer to the Scenario As part of the process for establishing the Enterprise
Architecture department, you are developing a set of architecture principles to guide the activities.
You need to specify the best approach for this work. 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 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?

Scenario
Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question You have been appointed as a consultant
to the Chief Enterprise Architect of a multinational pharmaceutical corporation. The corporation
includes 30 subsidiary companies with operations in over 60 countries and products sold in over 125
countries. It has major research and development sites in over 45 locations worldwide. The
management team is deeply committed to ensuring that the corporation is a world leader in socially
responsible pharmaceutical development with a business strategy that focuses on profitability
through environmentally friendly operating processes as well as a commitment to disease
eradication. The operations of the corporation are subject to legal and regulatory requirements for
each country where they operate. The production of prescription pharmaceutical products has
governmental controls that are strictly enforced and compliance is critical. Recently a competitor
was heavily fined for violating the regulations in a country where it was conducting a clinical trial for
a new regulated drug. The Governing Board is concerned about the risks posed in this complex
global environment. As a result the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has appointed a Chief Compliance
Officer (CCO) to be responsible for overseeing and managing compliance issues for the corporation.
The CCO reports directly to the CEO. The CCO has approved the expenditure of resources to
establish an Enterprise Architecture program. He has requested to be informed about the status of
projects that could impact regulatory compliance. He also wants the corporate legal staff and
auditors to analyze all proposed architectures to ensure that they are within the legal guidelines for
each country. In addition, the research organization should be able to see that the architecture is
appropriate for its needs. TOGAF 9 has been mandated as the framework for the development and
evolution of the Enterprise Architecture practice. The Preliminary Phase has been completed to
establish the enterprise architecture capability for this project.
Refer to the Scenario

You have been asked to recommend an approach that would enable the development of an
architecture that addresses the needs of the Chief Compliance Officer, legal staff, auditors and the
research organization. Based on TOGAF, which of the following is the best answer?

Scenario
Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question Your role is that of a consultant to the
Lead Enterprise Architect in a company that develops photovoltaic technologies for use in large-scale
solar power farms. The company has three manufacturing facilities, two in the United States, and
one in Southern France. Each of these facilities supplies a different manufacturer that assembles and
sells complete systems. The solar panels and photovoltaic arrays are custom engineered to meet
each manufacturer’s design specifications. A challenge that the solar power industry has faced is the
efficiency of energy conversion. When a conventional solar panel overheats, it becomes inefficient
and generates less energy. In response to this, the research arm of the company has pioneered the
development of a new solar panel design that will produce up to 50% more energy than standard
solar panels when operating at elevated temperatures. This will allow the production of significantly
more useable energy per square meter than from standard solar technology. This new design is
ready to go into production. The company has a mature Enterprise Architecture practice that is
supported by a cross-functional Architecture Board. TOGAF 9 is used for developing the automated
manufacturing process and systems used to design, manufacture and test the solar power
technologies they produce. The Chief Information Officer and the Chief Operating Officer co-sponsor
the Enterprise Architecture program. As part of putting the new solar panel design into production, a
pilot architecture project at a single location has defined an updated standard approach for
controlling the automated test systems used to perform final quality assurance. The Chief Engineer,
sponsor of the activity, and the Architecture Board have approved the plan for immediate
implementation at each plant. Architecture Contracts have been developed that detail the work
needed to implement and deploy the new automated test system controller for each location. The
Chief Engineer has expressed concern that a uniform process be employed at each location to
ensure consistency and high yields. Refer to the Scenario The Lead Enterprise Architect has asked

you to recommend the best approach to address the Chief Engineer’s concern. Based on TOGAF,
which of the following is the best answer?