Dante Manufacturing is a big supplier in the automotive industry, head quarter in London with main
plants in New York, Milan, Toronto and Tokio. Each one of these plants has been operating its own
Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP II) system, production scheduling and custom
applications for production automation. Dante’s objective is to minimize waste production
improving production operations. During an analysis of the process improvements was determined
that a significant improvement on waste production could be achieved replacing the outdated MRPII
system with a common Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) located in London. Dante has welldeveloped governance and processes based on TOGAF 9. The Chief Engineer of Global
Manufacturing operations is the business sponsor and issued a Request for Architectural Work. The
architectural activity for the implementation of the new ERP platform is kicked off and the
architectural vision is produced. Some concerns on the security, reliability, responsibility and time to
manage change of driving the MRP II and production scheduling by a central system located in
London are raised by the team of architects working on the project and by senior management of
the various organizations. These last in particular, stressed the need to align the information
management with the business.
Refer to the scenario above As Lead Architect you have been asked to update the IT architectural
principles to address the concerns raised by the project stakeholders and the senior management.
According to TOGAF 9 (assuming the enterprise is using the example set of principles in TOGAF 9
Section 23.6), which of the following is the best answer?
Choose one of the following answers
A.
Common Use Applications, Data is Shared, Data is Accessible, Data is Secure, Interoperability,
Control, Technology Independence.
B.
Business Continuity, Service-Orientation, Data is Shared , Data is Accessible, Data is Secure,
Responsive Change Management.
C.
Requirements-Based Change, Ease-of-Use, Data is Normalized.
D.
Information Management is Everybody’s business, IT Responsibility, Data Trustee, Technology
Independence, Responsive Change Management.