Scenario
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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.
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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?

Complete the sentence. According to TOGAF, the simplest way of thinking about the
Enterprise Continuum is as a _____

Scenario
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You have been assigned the role of Chief Enterprise Architect within a leading outsourcing services
company. The company has over 20,000 outsourcing professionals and works on some of the world’s
largest outsourcing projects. Outsourcing services include business processes, infrastructure, and
service management. The company also provides business consulting services.
With numerous service areas and a large number of diverse engagements in progress 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 company has an established an Enterprise Architecture program based on TOGAF 9, sponsored
jointly by the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Information Officer. An Architecture Board has been
formed comprised of IT staff executives and executives from the major service areas and consulting
practice.
The Enterprise Architecture (EA) team has been working with the Strategic Planning team to create a
strategic enterprise architecture to address these issues. The EA 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 vice presidents across the company that the proposed
architecture may be too ambitious and they are not sure it can produce sufficient value to warrant
the attendant risks.
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You have been asked to recommend an approach to satisfy these concerns.
Based on TOGAF, which of the following is the best answer?