Scenario
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You have been appointed as a consultant to the Chief Enterprise Architect of a multinational
pharmaceutical corporation. The corporation includes 30 subsidiary companies with operations in
over 60 countries and products sold in over 125 countries. It has major research and development
sites in over 45 locations worldwide.
The management team is deeply committed to ensuring that the corporation is a world leader in
socially responsible pharmaceutical development with a business strategy that focuses on
profitability through environmentally friendly operating processes as well as a commitment to
disease eradication.
The operations of the corporation are subject to legal and regulatory requirements for each country
where they operate. The production of prescription pharmaceutical products has governmental
controls that are strictly enforced and compliance is critical. Recently a competitor was heavily fined
for violating the regulations in a country where it was conducting a clinical trial for a new regulated
drug.
The Governing Board is concerned about the risks posed in this complex global environment. As a
result the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has appointed a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) to be
responsible for overseeing and managing compliance issues for the corporation. The CCO reports
directly to the CEO.
The CCO has approved the expenditure of resources to establish an Enterprise Architecture program.
He has requested to be informed about the status of projects that could impact regulatory
compliance. He also wants the corporate legal staff and auditors to analyze all proposed
architectures to ensure that they are within the legal guidelines for each country. 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 framework for the development and evolution of the Enterprise
Architecture practice. The Preliminary Phase has been completed to establish the enterprise
architecture capability for this project.
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You have been asked to recommend an approach that would enable the development of an
architecture that addresses the needs of the Chief Compliance Officer, legal staff, auditors and the
research organization.
Based on TOGAF, which of the following is the best answer?
A.
You recommend that a stakeholder map be developed. This will allow the architects to define
groups of stakeholders that share common concerns. A set of views should be defined to address the
concerns for each group of stakeholders. Architecture models should then be created for each view
to address the stakeholders’ concerns.
B.
You recommend that each project architecture activity is developed using a consistent modeling
approach that is uniform across all architecture projects. Each architecture should be defined based
on this fixed set of models so that all concerned parties can examine the models to ensure that their
issues and concerns have been addressed.
C.
You recommend that a special report be created for those groups that have sufficient power and
level of interest. This report should summarize the key features of the architecture with respect to
the particular location. Each of these reports should reflect the stakeholders’ requirements.
D.
You recommend that a set of models be created for each project architecture that can be used to
ensure that the system will be compliant with the local regulations. Stakeholders should then view
the models to verify that their concerns have been properly addressed.