Scenario:
Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
You are serving as the Lead Enterprise Architect at a major supplier in the automotive industry. The
company is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio with manufacturing plants across the United States,
Brazil, Germany, Japan and South Korea. 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.
The company 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 Enterprise Architecture department has been operating for several years and has mature, welldeveloped architecture governance and development processes that are strongly based on TOGAF 9.

At a recent meeting, the Architecture Board approved a Request for Architecture Work sponsored by
the Chief Engineer of Global Manufacturing Operations. 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
diving their planning and production scheduling from a remote centralized system. The Chief
Engineer wants to know how these concerns can be addressed.
Refer to the Scenario
[Note: You should assume that the company has adopted the example set of principles that are
listed and defined in TOGAF 9, Section 23.6.]
One of the earliest initiatives in the Enterprise Architecture program was the definition of a set of
architecture 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.
Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

A.
Common-use Applications, Control Technical Diversity, Ease of Use, Interoperability, Data is
Shared, Data is Accessible, Data Security

B.
Business Continuity, Common-use Applications, Maximize Benefit to the Enterprise, Data is
Shared, Data is Accessible, Data Security

C.
Technology Independence, Data Trustee, Information Management is Everybody’s Business, IT
Responsibility, Responsive Change Management

D.
Service-orientation, Responsive Change Management, Business Continuity, Data is Accessible,
Data Security