An international Insurance company has grown with little consideration for rationalization and
consolidation. There is no coordination between business unit and every one have managed its own
applications. The CIO decided to establish an Enterprise Architecture program within the enterprise
to enable the company to expand to other markets in the next two years. The company has not any
Enterprise Architecture Capability in place and the he CIO has set up an Architecture Board and
called its first meeting. Refer to the scenario above
As Lead Architect you will establish a TOGAF 9 Enterprise Architecture program. Identify the best
way to do this among the answers below.
Choose one of the following answers
A.
You tailor TOGAF 9 with the help of the Architecture Board to integrate it with the legacy
procedures established by the PMO. You also examine the relationship of TOGAF with other
processes and frameworks for governance, systems development and operations management. You
then define the footprint of the enterprise architecture.
B.
As Lead Architect you create a Request for Architecture Work to allocate resources to work on the
Architecture Vision. Based on the outcome of the Business Scenario technique you apply, you create
the Common Systems Architecture to guide the choice of Solutions Building Blocks. These will be
then used for integrating the systems across business units.
C.
You clarify the agreement on key business drivers and the scope of the enterprise architecture.
You then clarify the requirements for architecture work. You define the architecture principles
together with the help of the Architecture Board in order to lead the architecture work. You consider
how to tailor TOGAF 9 for this enterprise.
D.
You conduct an Architecture Maturity Assessment. You then use the TOGAF ADM to state the
requirements for the integration of a new company information management system into the
organization. You then list a set of business goals together with the Architecture Board that will be a
reference to the enterprise architecture program.
True – I would choose option C.
The key differentiator of the options is “Scope of the enterprise architecture” which is critical in Preliminary Phase (as the scenario states First Meeting).
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Option C
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