Scenario
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ArchiSurance has entered into a legal agreement to acquire ArchiSpecialty, a specialty insurer that
has several lines of business, including insuring organizations that conduct high-stakes contests.
Prior to entering into this agreement, ArchiSurance staff carefully examined the ArchiSpecialty
Enterprise Architecture to develop an integration plan with four successive phases. Each phase of
the plan provides a stable foundation for ArchiSurance to conduct its newly expanded business
while making significant progress toward the targeted integration of ArchiSpecialty operations. The
first phase of the plan, Common Ownership, will begin on the acquisition date specified in the legal
agreement. The second through fourth phases will begin after their predecessors are complete.
During the Common Ownership phase, the two companies’ websites will be linked to each other
and their interactive voice response (IVR) system menus will be integrated. During the second
phase, known as Integrated Organizations, the corresponding ArchiSurance and ArchiSpecialty
departments will be combined and all financial processing will be migrated to the original
ArchiSurance systems. In the third Phase, known as Integrated Customer Operations,
ArchiSpecialty customer relationship management (CRM) data will be migrated to the
corresponding ArchiSurance applications. In the fourth and final phase, known as Integrated
Operations, the ArchiSpecialty claims data will be migrated to the corresponding ArchiSurance
applications. However, the ArchiSpecialty underwriting solution for high-stakes contests will be
retained due to its unique capabilities.
The underwriting solution for high-stakes contests assists underwriters in creating a policy to
insure against the possibility of a contestant winning an improbable but expensive award, such as
$1 million US for hitting a hole-in-one on a golf course, or a luxury world cruise for a winning spin
of a roulette wheel. In return for a single premium payment, the insurer agrees to pay the award if
a contestant earns it fairly. When an underwriter receives a request for an insurance quote, either
from a promotions company that is planning the contest or from a company with its own
promotions department, he uses the Contest Modeler application to precisely describe the planned
contest and the coverage requested, and to store the contest model in a machine-readable format.
Then, the underwriter uses the Contest Query application, which reads the contest model and
queries a collection of audited contest results to find records of similar contests. Then, the

underwriter uses the Contest Estimator application to estimate the premium for the coverage
request, and also to produce a report with a recommended set of conditions to provide with the
quote. After consulting the report, the underwriter uses the Quoting Tool application to prepare a
quote for the customer. Then, the underwriter sends the quote to the customer via secure email. If
the customer accepts the quote, the underwriter uses the Contract Generator to prepare a contract
for the customer, which he also sends via secure email. In the contract, the customer agrees to
employ a contest auditor who will report the audited results of the contest regardless of whether
prizes are awarded. The underwriter uses the Contest Tracker application to add these reports to
the collection of audited contest results. Note that all reports are delivered in a standard markup
language that can be read by other software programs and either processed in the background or
rendered visually.
Refer to the Scenario
The executive in charge of the ArchiSpecialty acquisition has asked you to illustrate the integration
roadmap. You must show that each phase of the acquisition realizes a separate plateau. For each
plateau, you must identify the deliverables described in the scenario.
Which answer provides the best illustration?

Scenario
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The daily mutual fund trading cycle consists of four key processes: Transaction capture, pricing,
trading and reconciliation. Transaction capture consists of two sub-processes: manual exchange
and loans and distributions (LSD). For transaction capture, retirement plan participants use an
online account management application to enter manual fund exchange transactions. For L&D,
plan participants use a separate application to enter requests. The L&D application determines
whether the request can be fulfilled based on the mutual fund balances held in each plan balances
and a set of business rules. Each day’s captured manual exchange transactions accumulate in a
transaction database.
ArchiSurance contracts with a third-party information service to receive a file of mutual fund prices
at the close of each trading day. The pricing application uses this file to convert captured
transaction into trades, and then validates each trade against the mutual fund balances held In
each plan. The pricing generates a trade file with the minimum number of trades necessary. The
trading application sends this file to an external trading service. When the trading application
receives a confirmation file back from the trading service, it passes it to the reconciliation
application, which updates the plan recordkeeping database.
The account management and LSD applications are hosted on separate application server
clusters. Each cluster is a physically separate host that runs application server software on a set of

virtualized hosts. All of these applications use a database server infrastructure that is hosted on
another separate cluster of virtualized servers also on a dedicated physical host. The pricing,
consolidation, trading and reconciliation applications, however, are batch applications that run on
the ArchiSurance mainframe computer. All application hosts are connected via a converged data
center network (DCN), which also connects them to a storage area network (SAN) as well as a
wide area network (WAN) that is used to communicate with the external trading service. The
SANincludes two physically separate storage arrays, one of which holds data for all databases,
and another that holds data for all files.
Refer to the Scenario
A newly-formed team of systems analysts would like to better understand the business processes
and applications for daily fund trading. Describe the business processes and sub-processes, the
applications that they use, the data objects accessed by those applications, and the external
application services that access some of those data objects.
Which is the best answer?

Scenario
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The ArchiSurance enterprise document management infrastructure provides critical support for
myriad types of documents and document-based transactions, many of which are executed in high
volume each day. At the core of the infrastructure is the document management systems software,
which has three major modules: a document engine that stores, retrieves and performs a variety of
operations on documents, a workflow engine that hosts document management applications, and
an application engine, which hosts the most sophisticated applications. The application engine
invokes the document and workflow engines as necessary when hosting application components
that require their services.

The claim management application component is critical to ArchiSurance business operations. It is
hosted by the application engine, and launches whenever an individual files a new claim. The
claim management component requires different documents to demonstrate proof of loss
depending on the type of claim filed, the type of insurance that is in force, and various other
circumstances. When the correct documents are filed and verified by an intake operator, proof of
loss is complete, and the claim management component assigns the claim to a claim analyst by
reading and updating analyst status data and applying business rules stored as data.
Due to its business-critical nature, the document management solution is hosted redundantly at
two geographically separate data center sites known as Site A and Site B. Both sites provide
identical infrastructure. Each site contains a highly available data center network (DCN) that is
connected to the highly available ArchiSurance wide area network (WAN). Each claim
management server is connected to its site DCN, and each DCN is a converged network that
connects both servers and storage arrays, including a physical storage array dedicated to the
claim management application. Each site contains four high-powered separate physical servers
dedicated to the claim management application. At any one time, one server is on standby while
the other three servers are, respectively, hosting the document, workflow and application engines.
Each active server provides a monitoring service that is In constant two-way communication with
the monitoring service on the standby server. If a server fails, the surviving monitoring services
perform a failover sequence to assume failed server’s workload if it was active. The surviving
monitoring services also alert the operation team on duty.
Refer to the Scenario
A new IT manager has asked you to model the applications and system software elements
involved in document management, including the services they provide, the data objects they
handle, and how they work together.
Which answer best models this information?