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 LSD,
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, ere of which holds data for all databases,
and another that holds data for all files.
Refer to the Scenario
You have been asked by a team of IT auditors to show the applications used for daily trading and
the infrastructure that underlies them, including all ArchiSurance servers, storage arrays and
networks. It is not necessary to model the WAN or other external infrastructure.
Which answer best describes the applications and infrastructure?

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The ArchiSuranceTo Go mobile consumer solution is increasingly important to ArchiSurance,
which uses it to sell and renew insurance products, provide customer service, enable accurate and
convenient home recordkeeping, and capture and process claims. The solution consists of three
components. The Consultant lets customers review their existing coverage, and update it based
on common life events, such as getting a new car, moving into a new home, or having a family
member move in or out. If necessary, they can speak or chat with a customer service
representative. The Home Manager helps customers photograph and catalogue their valuable
possessions in order to support the filing of accurate claims in case of loss or damage. The Claim
Manager enables customers to quickly file a claim for loss or damage to an insured auto, home or
possession. It enables customers to describe the incident by referencing information captured with
the Consultant and the Home Manager applications. In addition, it allows thecustomer to add
photocraphs, audio, video and text to support a claim, submit the claim, and monitor its progress.
The ArchiSuranceTo Go components rely on a number of application services hosted by
ArchiSurance. The first is an Auto Identification and Description (AID) service that the Consultant
uses to validate and complete auto information entered by customers. The second service, Home
Identification and Description (HID) performs the same function for home information, and is used
by the Home Manager. The Consultant also uses the Virtual Agent service to guide customers as
they select coverage options, the Payment Processor service to arrange premium payments, and
the Coverage Activator service to generate policies and put them in force.
ArchiSurance to Go also relies on a number of infrastructure services. The Home Manager uses a
Multimedia Repository service to store and retrieve information about insured homes. The Claim
Manager also uses this service for claim information entered bycustomers. All three components
of ArchiSuranceTo Go use a Personal Security service to register and authenticate customers,
and to manage their profiles.
Each application service is realized by an application component with the same name. Also, each
infrastructure service is realized by a system software environment with the same name.
ArchiSurance hosts both the application components and system software environments in a
virtualized server pool within its data center. Each service has its own virtual server. Each server is
connected to a data center network (DCN) which in turn connects to a commercial wide area
network (WAN).
Refer to the Scenario
The marketing department would like a better understanding of the business services that
ArchiSuranceTo Go delivers, and the application services and components that are used to deliver
those business services. The marketing department would also like to understand the data
accessed directly by the interactive application components.
Which answer provides the best explanation?

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ArchiSurance senior management, board members, customers and major stockholders have long
been concerned about disaster resiliency in light of the company’s heavy reliance on a single data
center. The data center is located in an area that is prone to flooding and earthquakes, according
to expert assessments done by consultants retained for this purpose. In addition, the data center
is located under a busy cafeteria, and water occasionally leaks through its ceiling.
To adoress these problems, ArchiSurance has developed a plan to move from its current data
center to a pair of ready-to-use data centers in separate cities. The data center move is designed
to reduce the risk of business interruption, reduce both planned and unplanned downtime for
critical applications, and reassure ArchiSurance stakeholders. However, a number of limitations
make theplanned transition to the new data centers particularly challenging. A number of critical
ArchiSurance applications cannot be offline for more than an hour, and any downtime for these
application must only occur in certain four-hour windows each weekend. Also, the move cannot
occur during quarterly or year-end closing periods in order to avoid interrupting critical processing.
Fulfillment of these specific type of requirements will reduce the risk of business interruption from
the data center move activities themselves.
ArchiSurance management has therefore planned a multi-phase data center transformation
program. All of the activities in each phase are necessary to ensure a progression of stable and
fully functional data center configurations. The first phase consists of detailed scheduling and
planning to produce a comprehensive transformation plan that meets ArchiSurance timing and
scheduling requirements During the second phase, ArchiSurance is to contract for the hardware
and software required for the new datacenters,as well for refunds for the hardware and software to
be returned from the current data center once it is shut down. During the third phase, the new data
centers are to be set up, and the new hardware and software are to be tested in parallel with what
is already in production. The actual transition between the old and new data centers occurs in the
fourth phase, and the fifth phase involves shutting down and dismantling the old data center, and
returning its hardware and software for contracted refunds. Phases two through five are each to be
initiated when specific conditions are met in the previous phase.
Refer to the Scenario
The newly hired program manager for data center transformation has asked you to describe the
program implementation plan. You must express each of the plan phases as a separate work
package with specific deliverables. You must also show the relationships between phases along
with how each phase contributes to a particular stable data center state.
Which answer provides the best description?

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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 isplanning 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 t contract for the customer,
which he also sends via secure email. In the contract, the customer agrees to employ a contest
auditorwho 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 ArchiSurance chief information officer has asked you to explain the unique suite of
applications that ArchiSpecialty uses to underwrite high-stakes contest insurance. You must model
these applications, the services they provide and the data they access.
Which answer provides the best explanation?