Scenario: Glacier Ridge LLC
Please read this scenario prior to answering the question Glacier Ridge LLC is a vacation property
management firm that is growing through acquisition. It 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 en each property is
that they use a standard financial reporting system to report their financials ID 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 Glacier
Ridge property 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 corporatewide data warehouse will provide analytics that will enable the marketing group to improve its
ability to target advertising into key markets to improve yields. Glacier Ridge has mature enterprise
architecture (EA) 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 engagement, Glacier Ridge has embraced an
Architecture Vision to adopt an enterprise application that is tailored to the needs of the hospitality
industry.
Refer to the Glacier Ridge scenario Your role is that of Chief Architect. You have been asked to
recommend the best approach to take in this architecture engagement to realize the CEO’s vision.
Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

Scenario: Summer Seeds BV
Please read this scenario prior to answering the question Summer Seeds BV is an international
agricultural company exporting bulbs, flowers and seeds worldwide. It is headquartered in
Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and has sales and distribution centers in over 60 countries
worldwide. Several of these centers include administrative, manufacturing, and research facilities.
To achieve full integration of their research capabilities with their development centers located in
various climate zones, the company wants to develop strong self directed teams in each location. It
also wants to define new business models that are profitable while reducing their impact on the
environment. The management is deeply committed to ensuring that the company is a world leader
in socially responsible seed development with a business strategy that focuses on profitability
through environmentally friendly operating processes. Summer Seed’s international operations are
subject to various legal and regulatory requirements. In areas such as genetically modified seeds,
governmental controls are strictly enforced and compliance is critical. Recently a competitor was
heavily fined for violating the regulations in a country where it was developing pest-resistant seeds.
The Governing Board is concerned, and as a result has approved the expenditure of resources to
establish an Enterprise Architecture program. They have requested information about the status of
projects that could impact regulatory compliance. They also want to enable the corporate legal staff
and auditors to analyze proposed architectures to ensure that they are within the legal guidelines for
a given location. 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 guiding framework for the
development and evolution of the Enterprise Architecture practice.
Refer to the Summer Seeds BV Scenario You have been appointed as the Lead Consultant. You have
been asked to recommend an approach that would enable the development of an architecture that
addresses the needs of all these parties. 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: Sollace Manufacturing
Please read this scenario prior to answering the question Sollace Manufacturing is a major supplier
in the automotive industry, headquartered In Cleveland, Ohio with manufacturing plants in Chicago,

Sao Paulo, Stuttgart, Yokohama, and Seoul. 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.
Sollace Manufacturing 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 Sollace Manufacturing 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 Review Board approved a
Request for Architecture Work from the Chief Engineer of Global Manufacturing Operations who is
the project sponsor. 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 driving their planning
and production scheduling from a central system located in Cleveland. The Chief Engineer wants to
know how these concerns can be addressed.
Refer to the Sollace Manufacturing Scenario You are serving as the Lead Enterprise Architect for the
Common ERP Deployment architecture project. One of the earliest initiatives in the Enterprise
Architecture program at Sollace Manufacturing was the definition of a set of IT principles and
architecture principles that are well aligned with the overall enterprise 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. [Note: You should assume that Sollace Manufacturing has adopted the example set
of principles that are listed and defined in TOGAF 9, Section 23.6.] Based on TOGAF 9, which of the
following is the best answer?

Scenario: Raxlon Inc.
Case Study Title (Case Study):

Raxlon Inc. is a Fortune 500 Company dealing in high value drugs and pharma products. Its annual
turnover is over 120 billion $. It has more than 100,000 employees all over the globe in its R&D,
Manufacturing and Marketing Units.
Raxlon’s CEO, Dr Peter Fowles, is a pharmacology expert and has over 72 patents on various types of
drugs mainly used for treating patients with genetic disorders. Raxlon is now moving into a suite of
high end critical drug products used for Genetic Repair of congenital Diseases like Alzhmeir’s disease
and Epilepsy. Rexlon has a well developed EA practice and in 2009 the EA practice has adopted
TOGAF 9 as the primary Framework for Enterprise Architectural Change Agent.
Dr Fowles’ main concerns are:
Security of the critical data which they have gained over the years after painstaking research.
Although Rexlon had an adequate security system Dr Fowles feels it may not be adequate to deal
with the new order of things, especially with data which is highly confidential and if leaked would
have major financial impact on the Company.
Dr Fowles calls his CIO and explains his position to him and entrusts whim with the responsibly of
evaluating the current security system, operation and governance and determine which are the gaps
which need to be addressed during the fresh architectural work. Assume that a new Security
Framework would be used in the ADM life cycle. To protect Rexlon’s valuable IP.
The CIO apprises the Lead Architect of the sensitive nature of the work he has to complete within
the next 2 months.
Identify which of the following processes would be most appropriate for the Lead Architect to adopt
in this situation.

Scenario: MegaMart
Case Study Title (Case Study):
MegaMart is a Retail Chain which has expanded throughout India and the Far East.

The CEO and CIO decide that there is a crying need to put an Enterprise Architecture in place to
realize MegaMart’s strategy to expand its revenue and diversify. The CIO has evaluated and decided
to go in for TOGAF9 and adapt it to his enterprise requirements.
The Preliminary and Vision Phase have been completed.
As such very few architectural artifacts exist and the target architecture as of now is not very clear.
As the Lead Architect how would you guide your team of architects for the Business Architecture
definition?

Scenario: AutoComp Corporation
AutoComp Corporation produces components for the Car industry. Driven by the global financial
downturn they are looking to reduce IT costs. They believe there is a cost saving opportunity within
IT but this is not quantified in terms of potential savings nor is there agreed target architecture.
Final decisions on the solutions are not yet fully agreed. They have completed their Vision Phase and
first pass of the three architecture definition phases and now they want to finalize and plan their
solutions. You are the Chief Architect from a consulting organization brought into review the work to
date by AutoComp Corporation and to make recommendations to the CIO and the board on this.
Which of the following answers best describes how TOGAF recommends in this context?

Scenario: Eight Twelve
Eight Twelve has retail outlets throughout North America. An Enterprise Architecture practice
already exists in Eight Twelve. Now the CEO and CIO decide that they want to use TOGAF9 to rearchitect their Enterprise Architecture to cater to the changing strategies of Eight Twelve to better
respond to the changes in the economic and technology environments.
Some of the key issues which need to be addressed in this re-architecting work are:
1. Since Eight Twelve’s retail chain operate 24 hours a day and are expanding to South America and
Europe, the retail chain business ecosystem should be able to withstand any unforeseen disruptions
which might affect the chain’s day to day operations. This is highly critical to ensure high levels of
customer satisfaction and thus maintaining and enhancing Eight Twelve’s revenue chain.
2. Dependency between the application components, which are the nerve centers to Eight Twelve’s
sophisticated range of services both external and internal, and the application platform and
technology infrastructure should be minimal. This would facilitate scalability and ease of
enhancement of the service offerings.
3. Eight Twelve uses the ARTS Data Model and the quality of data is of utmost importance for its
operation.
4. Users of the Enterprise Information ecosystem should have an environment which is able to cater
to their needs without any undue delays.
Which one of the following set of Architecture Principles do you feel is the most appropriate for
these guidelines stated above for the TOGAF 9 architecting work which Eight Twelve is embarking
on?

Scenario: Marona Inc.
Marona Inc is a Fortune 500 Enterprise in the retail industry with retail store components
manufacturing units and marketing outlets spanning the globe and having an annual turnover of 20
billion$ with more than 100, 000 employees world wide.
The CEO, CIO and the stakeholders of the ongoing EA projects are concerned about rising costs and
as one measure want to do an investigation into the operational aspects of the realized Enterprise
Architecture using TOGAF9.
The CIO approaches you as the Lead Enterprise Architect to carry out this exercise the stakeholder
had voiced to him the following concerns:
They want to analyze the roles of the top management for each revenue earning service. Moreover,
many of the HR related critical Search application component have become extremely slow. This
needs to be diagnosed and rectified. Moreover there is no proper tracking of revenue from retail
store component products over time. There has also been a lot of unauthorized or unwanted access
to many of the critical information.
Hence the mode of access needs to be strengthened and made much more secure. Another
additional concern is the new launches and the progress of each of the launches over time.
Determine which of the following set of viewpoints are most appropriate to analyze and view in
order to address this concern of the stakeholders.

Magic Wand Corporation manufactures a range of equipment used by magician worldwide. The
global popularity of a series of children’s books describing the formative years of a budding wizard
and his various escapades at wizard school has driven unprecedented sales growth in the magical
equipment market.
The current IT systems at Magic Wand are struggling to cope with the high volumes in this growth
market. The CIO wants to persuade the board of Magic Wand Corporation to make a greater
investment in the IT systems to cope with the new higher transaction volumes. On of the key
components the CIOs wants to include when he approaches the board is a description of the current
problems and how they may be addressed from an architectural point of view.
As the High Architect of Magic Wand Corporation, the CIO has delegated the task of creating a vision
for the future Architecture to you.
Which of the following answers best describes how TOGAF recommends delivering an Architecture
Vision for the CIO?