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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 enterprise-wide 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.
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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?
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The ABC company is the prime contractor for the Telesto Unmanned Spacecraft program. Over the course of this contract, the company has grown rapidly by acquisition and has inherited numerous different procurement processes and related IT systems. The company is moving aggressively to consolidate and reduce redundant procurement processes and systems. The CEO has announced that the company will seek to leverage higher volume discounts and lower related IT support costs by instituting a preferred supplier program.
To achieve this goal, the company needs to define Baseline and Target Architectures. These architectures must address key stakeholders ' concerns such as:
1. What groups of people should be involved in procurement-related business processes?
2. What current applications do those groups use?
3. Which procurement-related business processes are supported by zero, one, or many existing applications?
4. What are the overall lifetimes of the Request for Proposal and Purchase Order business objects? What non-procurement applications will need to be integrated with any new procurement applications?
5. What data will need to be shared?
At present, there are no particularly useful architectural assets related to this initiative, so all assets need to be acquired and customized or created from scratch. The company prefers to implement existing package applications from systems vendors with little customization.
The architecture development project has just completed its Architecture Context iteration cycle and is about to begin the Architecture Definition iteration cycle. The company is using TOGAF for its internal Enterprise Architecture activities. It uses an iterative approach for executing Architecture Development Method (ADM) projects.
The architecture development project has just completed its Architecture Context iteration cycle and is about to begin the Architecture Definition iteration cycle.
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You are serving as the Lead Architect.
You have been asked to identify the most appropriate architecture viewpoints for this situation.
Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?
Which of the following does the TOGAF standard classify as catalogs, matrices and diagrams?
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You are employed as an Enterprise Architect within a large law firm. The firm operates in many countries and has a complicated structure. Every office must follow the local regulations in its country.
The firm has an established Enterprise Architecture department, which has been operating for several years. It has architecture governance and development processes based on the TOGAF standard. In addition to the Enterprise Architecture program, the firm has several management frameworks in use, including business planning, project and portfolio management, and operations management. The Architecture Board includes representatives from all parts of the firm.
The Chief Information Officer is the sponsor of the Enterprise Architecture program. The Chief Information Officer has actively encouraged architecting with agility within the Enterprise Architecture department as her preferred approach for projects. The Chief Information Officer has given approval for a Request for Architecture Work to explore the adoption of an AI-based system for managing legal cases and financial processes.
Senior management has become increasingly worried about how well the business is running, especially with the advancements in Artificial Intelligence. Many of the firm’s competitors have started using AI to assist with legal strategies, streamline processes, and boost productivity. One of the most important benefits AI has for the business is its ability to increase accuracy and minimize mistakes.
Some of the top managers are worried about a change in the way of working and whether it will achieve the goals. Their staff also fear that management will use the system to measure their performance. The Chief Information Officer wants to know how to address these concerns and reduce risks. The new system would provide guidance to legal professionals and analysts on which tasks to focus on. The main goals are to improve productivity and make better use of staff. In addition, the Chief Information Officer hopes these changes will lead to higher customer satisfaction.
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The Chief Information Officer has asked you how to address the concerns and lower risks when introducing Artificial Intelligence in the firm.
Based on the TOGAF standard, which of the following is the best answer?