The Open Group TOGAF 9 Part 2 OG0-092 Exam Questions

Page: 1 / 14
Total 75 questions

Want more questions? Get Premium Access.
()

Question 1

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 Kore

a. 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, well-developed 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

During the initial meeting of the Common ERP Deployment architecture project team, a number of alternative recommendations for how to proceed are put forward by members of the team.

You have been asked to select the most appropriate recommendation to ensure that the team evaluates different approaches to the problem and clarifies the requirements for the architecture.

Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

AThe team should develop Baseline and Target Architectures for each of the manufacturing plants, ensuring that the views corresponding to selected viewpoints address key concerns of the stakeholders. A consolidated gap analysis between the architectures will then be used to validate the approach, and determine the capability increments needed to achieve the target state.

BThe team should exercise due diligence and carefully research vendor literature and conduct a series of briefings with vendors that are on the current approved supplier list. Based on the findings from the research, the team should define a preliminary Architecture Vision. The team should then use that model to build consensus among the key stakeholders.

CThe team should use stakeholder analysis to understand who has concerns about the initiative. The team should then hold a series of interviews at each of the manufacturing plants using the business scenario technique. This will then enable them to identify and document the key high-level stakeholder requirements for the architecture.

DThe team should conduct a pilot project that will enable vendors on the short list to demonstrate potential solutions that will address the concerns of the stakeholders. Based on the findings of that pilot project, a complete set of retirements will be developed that will drive the evolution of the architecture.

Answer : C

Question 2

Scenario:

Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question

You have been assigned the role of Lead Enterprise Architect for a manufacturing firm that specializes in musical instruments. The firm has been established for over 100 years, operating in North America for most of that time. In the last ten years, the firm has expanded into European markets and will soon establish a market in Latin Americ

a. A future expansion into the Asia Pacific region is also planned.

The firm is organized into several business units that each focus on manufacturing particular families of instruments such as brass, woodwind, and percussion. Each business unit has acquired other producers to expand its manufacturing capacity. This has resulted in a complex environment with a high diversity of business and manufacturing systems.

The Enterprise Architecture (EA) program within the firm has been functioning for several years. It has made significant progress in consolidating the technology portfolio and establishing key standards. The CIO and the COO are pint sponsors of the EA program. The EA program is mature, with an active Architecture Board and a well-defined architecture process and standard content templates based on the TOGAF 9 Architecture Content Framework. The EA process framework is well coordinated with the PMO, Systems Development, and Operations functions.

The firm has completed a strategic plan to reorganize its Sales & Marketing organization according to the four target geographic markets. One of the goals of this reorganization is to improve the ability of Marketing to collect more meaningful market analytics that will enable each sector to better address market needs with effective marketing campaigns and global product presence.

A Request for Architecture Work to address the goals of the reorganization has been approved. As the architecture team commences its work, the CIO has expressed concerns about whether the firm will be able to adapt to the proposed architecture and how to manage the associated risks.

Refer to the Scenario

You have been asked how to address the concerns of the CIO.

Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

AIn Phase B, the team should create a set of views that will enable them to identify the factors that will influence the successful introduction of the architecture into the organization. There should then be an assessment of each factor on a maturity scale that will allow the team to gauge the urgency, readiness, and degree of difficulty to fix. These factors can then be used to assess the initial risks associated with the proposed architecture.

BIn Phase A the team should analyze their risk by completing an Implementation Factor Assessment and Deduction Matrix to identify the particular risks associated with the implementation and deployment. The matrix should include a list of factors to be considered, their descriptions, and constraints that should be taken into account. These factors can then used to assess the initial risks associated with the proposed architecture.

CIn Phase A, the team should use the Business Transformation Readiness Assessment technique to identify the factors that will influence the successful introduction of the architecture into the organization. The assessment should include determining the readiness rating for each factor based on a maturity scale that will allow the team to gauge the urgency, readiness, and degree of difficulty to fix. These factors can then used to assess the initial risks associated with the proposed architecture.

DIn Phase A, the team should conduct a Business Scenario to identify the stakeholders' concerns and the resulting retirements. Once the retirements have been identified, they can be assessed in terms of their risks. The risks should be evaluated in terms of how they could be avoided, transferred, or mitigated. Any risks that cannot be resolved should be identified as residual risks and their disposition should be decided by the Architecture Board.

Answer : D

Question 3

Scenario: Eight Twelve

Eight Twelve has retail outlets throughout North Americ

a. An Enterprise Architecture practice already exists in Eight Twelve. Now the CEO and CIO decide that they want to use TOGAF9 to re-architect their Enterprise Architecture to cater to the changing strategies of Eight Twelve to better respond to the changes in the economic and technology environments.

Some of the key issues which need to be addressed in this re-architecting work are:

1. Since Eight Twelve's retail chain operate 24 hours a day and are expanding to South America and Europe, the retail chain business ecosystem should be able to withstand any unforeseen disruptions which might affect the chain's day to day operations. This is highly critical to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction and thus maintaining and enhancing Eight Twelve's revenue chain.

2. Dependency between the application components, which are the nerve centers to Eight Twelve's sophisticated range of services both external and internal, and the application platform and technology infrastructure should be minimal. This would facilitate scalability and ease of enhancement of the service offerings.

3. Eight Twelve uses the ARTS Data Model and the quality of data is of utmost importance for its operation.

4. Users of the Enterprise Information ecosystem should have an environment which is able to cater to their needs without any undue delays.

Which one of the following set of Architecture Principles do you feel is the most appropriate for these guidelines stated above for the TOGAF 9 architecting work which Eight Twelve is embarking on?

Aa) Maximize Benefit to the Enterpriseb) Data Trusteec) Service Orientationd) Responsive Change Management

Ba) Business Continuityb) Data is an Assetc) Data is Sharedd) Requirements Based Change

Ca) Maximize Benefit to the Enterpriseb) Data is an Assetc) Data is Sharedd) Requirements Based Change

Da) Business Continuityb) Data Trusteec) Technology Independenced) Responsive Change Management

Answer : D

Question 4

Scenario

Please read this scenario prior to answering the question

You have been assigned the role of Lead Enterprise Architect for a firm that produces components and replacement parts for the automobile, electronics, and telecommunications industries. The firm has been established for over 70 years. North America has been the primary market for its products, with just 20% of its output being exported to Europe. The firm is planning to expand its exports to Europe and also to establish sales in South America and the Asia Pacific region.

The firm is organized into business units that each focus on the different industry sectors. Each business unit has acquired other producers to expand its manufacturing capacity. This has resulted in a complex environment with a high diversity of business and manufacturing systems.

The Enterprise Architecture (EA) program within the firm has been functioning for several years.

It has made significant progress in consolidating the technology portfolio and establishing key standards. The CIO and the COO are joint sponsors of the EA program. The EA program is mature, with an active Architecture Board and a well-defined architecture process and standard content templates based on the TOGAF 9 Architecture Content Framework. The EA process framework is well coordinated with the PMO, Systems Development, and Operations functions.

The firm has completed a strategic plan to reorganize its Sales & Marketing organization according to the target geographic markets. One of the goals of this reorganization is to improve the ability of Marketing to collect more meaningful market analytics that will enable each sector to better address market needs with effective marketing campaigns and global product presence.

Refer to the Scenario

You have been asked how to address the concerns of the CIO.

Based on TOGAF, which of the following is the best answer?

AIn Phase B, the team should create a set of views that will enable them to identify the factors that will influence the reorganization. There should then be an assessment of each factor on a maturity scale that will allow the team to gauge the urgency, readiness, and degree of difficulty to fix. These factors can then be used to assess the initial risks associated with the proposed project.

BIn Phase A, the team should analyze their risk by completing an Implementation Factor Assessment and Deduction Matrix to identify the particular risks associated with the implementation and deployment. The matrix should include a list of factors to be considered, their descriptions, and constraints that should be taken into account. These factors can then used to assess the initial risks associated with the proposed project.

CIn Phase A, the team should use the Business Transformation Readiness Assessment technique to identify the factors that will influence the reorganization. The assessment should include determining the readiness rating for each factor based on a maturity scale that will allow the team to gauge the urgency, readiness, and degree of difficulty to fix. These factors can then used to assess the initial risks associated with the proposed project.

DIn Phase A, the team should conduct a Business Scenario to identify the stakeholders1 concerns and the resulting requirements. Once the requirements have been identified, they can be assessed in terms of their risks. The risks should be evaluated in terms of how they could be avoided, transferred, or mitigated. Any risks that cannot be resolved should be identified as residual risks and their disposition should be decided by the Architecture Board.

Answer : C

Question 5

Scenario: Marona Inc.

Marona Inc is a Fortune 500 Enterprise in the retail industry with retail store components manufacturing units and marketing outlets spanning the globe and having an annual turnover of 20 billion$ with more than 100, 000 employees world wide.

The CEO, CIO and the stakeholders of the ongoing EA projects are concerned about rising costs and as one measure want to do an investigation into the operational aspects of the realized Enterprise Architecture using TOGAF9.

The CIO approaches you as the Lead Enterprise Architect to carry out this exercise the stakeholder had voiced to him the following concerns:

They want to analyze the roles of the top management for each revenue earning service. Moreover, many of the HR related critical Search application component have become extremely slow. This needs to be diagnosed and rectified. Moreover there is no proper tracking of revenue from retail store component products over time. There has also been a lot of unauthorized or unwanted access to many of the critical information.

Hence the mode of access needs to be strengthened and made much more secure. Another additional concern is the new launches and the progress of each of the launches over time.

Determine which of the following set of viewpoints are most appropriate to analyze and view in order to address this concern of the stakeholders.

A(i) System/Functions Matrix(ii) Actor/Role Matrix(iii) Data Entity/Business Function Matrix(iv) Technology Portfolio Catalog(v) Data Security Diagram

B(i) Goal/Objective/Service Diagram(ii) Contract Measure Catalog(iii) Data Dissemination Diagram(iv) Application Communication Diagram(v) Data Life Cycle Diagram

C(i) Location Catalog(ii) Service/Function Catalog(iii) Data Entity/Business Function Matrix(iv) Application Communication Diagram

D(i) System/Functions Catalog(ii) System/Technology Matrix(iii) Goal/Objective/Service Diagram(iv) Product Life Cycle Diagram(v) Data Security Diagram

Answer : D

Question 6

Scenario: Armstrong Defense Industries

Please read this scenario prior to answering the question

Armstrong Defense Industries is the prime contractor for the Dreadnought Unmanned Aircraft System 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. Armstrong Defense 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, Armstrong Defense 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?

5. What non-procurement applications will need to be integrated with any new procurement applications?

6. What data will need to be shared?

At present, there are no particularly useful architectural assets related to this initiative. 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.

Armstrong Defense is using TOGAF for its internal Enterprise Architecture activities. It uses an iterative approach for executing Architecture Development Method (ADM) projects.

Refer to the Armstrong Defense Industries Scenario

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?

AIn the early iterations of the Architecture Definition: * Describe the Baseline Business Architecture with a Baseline Business Process catalog* Describe the Baseline Application Architecture with a Technology Portfolio catalog* Describe the Baseline Data Architecture with a Data diagramIn the later iterations of the Architecture Definition: * Describe the Target Business Architecture with an Actor/Process/Data catalog* Describe the Target Application Architecture with a System/Technology matrix* Describe the Target Data Architecture with a Data Dissemination diagram

BIn the early iterations of the Architecture Definition: * Describe the Target Business Architecture with a Business Service/Function catalog and a Business Interaction matrix* Describe the key business objects with Product Lifecycle diagrams* Describe the Target Application Architecture with Application Communication diagrams and an Application Interaction matrix* Describe the Target Data Architecture with a Data Entity/Business Function matrix and a System/Data matrixIn the later iterations of the Architecture Definition: * Describe the Baseline Business Architecture with a Business Service/Function catalog and a Business Interaction matrix* Describe the Baseline Application Architecture with a System/Organization matrix and a System/Function matrix* Describe the Baseline Data Architecture with a Data Entity/Data Component catalog

CIn the early iterations of the Architecture Definition: * Describe the Target Business Architecture with a Business Service/Function catalog and an Organization/Actor catalog* Describe the key business objects with Data Lifecycle diagrams* Describe the Target Application Architecture with Application Communication diagrams and an Application Interaction matrix* Describe the Target Data Architecture with a System/Data matrixIn the later iterations of the Architecture Definition: * Describe the Baseline Business Architecture with a Business Service/Function catalog and a Business Interaction matrix* Describe the Baseline Application Architecture with an Application and User Location diagram and a System/Function matrix* Describe the Baseline Data Architecture with a Data Entity/Data Component catalog

DIn the early iterations of the Architecture Definition: * Describe the Baseline Business Architecture with an Organization/Actor catalog* Describe the Baseline Application Architecture with a System/Function matrix* Describe the Baseline Data Architecture using a Data Entity/Data Component catalogIn the later iterations of the Architecture Definition: * Describe the Target Business Architecture with en Organization/Actor catalog* Describe the Target Application Architecture using Application Communication diagrams end an Application Interaction matrix* Describe the Target Data Architecture with a System/Data matrix

Answer : B

Question 7

Scenario

Please read this scenario prior to answering the question

You have been assigned the role of Chief Enterprise Architect within a leading outsourcing services company. The company has over 15,000 outsourcing professionals and works on some of the world's largest outsourcing projects. Outsourcing services include business processes, infrastructure, and service management. The company also provides business consulting services. Roughly half of its turnover comes from the private sector and half from the public sector.

With numerous service areas and a large number of diverse engagements in progress at any given time, overall engagement management within the company has become challenging. The company has recently had a number of high profile projects that have overrun on budget and under delivered, thereby damaging its reputation.

The company has an established an Enterprise Architecture program based on TOGAF 9, sponsored jointly by the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Information Officer. An Architecture Board has been formed comprised of IT staff executives and executives from the major service areas and consulting practice.

The Enterprise Architecture (EA) team has been working with the Strategic Planning team to create a strategic enterprise architecture to address these issues. The EA team has defined a framework and held workshops with key stakeholders to define a set of architecture principles to govern the architecture work. They have completed an Architecture Vision at a strategic level and laid out Architecture Definitions for the four domains. They have set out an ambitious vision of the future of the company over a five-year period. This will include three distinct transformations.

The CIO has made it clear that prior to the approval of the detailed implementation and Migration plan, the EA team will need to assess the risks associated with the proposed architecture. He has received concerns from some of the vice presidents across the company that the proposed architecture may be too ambitious and they are not sure it can produce sufficient value to warrant the attendant risks.

Refer to the Scenario

You have been asked to recommend an approach to satisfy these concerns.

Based on TOGAF, which of the following is the best answer?

AThe EA team should apply an interoperability analysis to evaluate any potential issues across the architecture. This should include the development of a matrix showing the interoperability requirements. Once all of the concerns have been resolved, the EA team should finalize the Architecture Roadmap and the Implementation and Migration Plan.

BThe EA team should bring together information about potential solutions from the appropriate sources. Once the target architecture has been assembled, it should be analyzed using a state evolution table to determine the Transition Architectures. A value realization process should then be established to ensure that the concerns raised are addressed.

CThe EA team should evaluate the organization's readiness to undergo change. This will allow the risks associated with the transformations to be identified and mitigated for. It will also identify improvement actions to be worked into the Implementation and Migration Plan. The Business Value Assessment technique should then be used to determine the business value and associated risks for the transformation.

DBefore preparing the detailed Implementation and Migration plan, the EA team should review and consolidate the gap analysis results from Phases B to D. This can be used to understand the transformations that are required to achieve the proposed Target Architecture. The EA team should then assess the readiness of the organization to undergo change. Once the architecture has been assembled, it should be analyzed using a state evolution table to determine the Transition Architectures.

Answer : C