The Open Group TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Part 2 Sample Questions:

1. You are working as an Enterprise Architect within the Enterprise Architecture (EA) team at a healthcare and life sciences company. The EA team is developing a secure system for researchers to share clinical trial information easily across the organization and with external partners.
Due to the highly sensitive nature of the information, each architecture domain must consider privacy and safety concerns. The healthcare division has been directed to minimize disruptions to clinical trials while introducing the new system gradually.
How would you identify the work packages for introducing the new system? Based on the TOGAF standard, which of the following is the best answer?

A) Use a Consolidated Gaps, Solutions, and Dependencies Matrix to classify each solution, group them into work packages, then regroup into Capability Increments. Document in an Architecture Definition Increments Table.
B) Draw up an Implementation Factor Catalog to indicate actions and constraints. Use a Consolidated Gaps, Solutions, and Dependencies Matrix, then group similar activities into work packages and identify dependencies.
C) Use a Consolidated Gaps, Solutions, and Dependencies Matrix to create work packages and sequence them into Capability Increments. Document in a Transition Architecture State Evolution Table.
D) Identify Solution Building Blocks for development or procurement, then use a CRUD matrix to rank and select the most cost-effective work packages. Schedule the rollout sequentially across regions.

2. Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
You are employed as an Enterprise Architect for a company that is an international supplier of manufacturing systems.
The company has multiple manufacturing plants where it assembles both standard and customized products for industrial production automation. Each of these plants has been operating its own planning and production scheduling systems, as well as applications and control systems that drive the automated production line. The current systems work with the local partners in the supply chain at each plant.
The company has been facing competition in the marketplace and its leadership has been considering how to improve production efficiency. A favored proposal is to replace many of the systems with a centralized system communicating with the manufacturing plants. The CIO has asked the EA team to develop an architecture for this approach that supports both standardized and customized production across multiple manufacturing plants, while maintaining enterprise-wide integration and governance.
The company has an Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice and uses the TOGAF standard as the basis for its work. It has been running for many years and has established governance and development processes for EA.
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) sponsors the Enterprise Architecture program. You are part of an Enterprise Architecture (EA) team that has responsibilities across the company.
As a supplier of manufacturing systems with multiple plants, there are many interested parties that will need to be satisfied.
The Architecture Board has approved the Request for Architecture Work to find out if such an architecture transformation would lead to efficiency improvements.
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You have been assigned to lead this project and asked to outline your next steps.
Based on the TOGAF standard, which of the following is the best answer?

A) You would run a proof-of-concept project to allow your suppliers to demonstrate candidate off-the- shelf solutions that address the concerns of the stakeholders. After looking at the results of the project, you would select the most efficient solution and use that to set the requirements. Once the re quirements are complete, there should be a formal stakeholder review, and permission requested to move forward to develop the Target Architecture.
B) You would run multiple workshops at the manufacturing plants to discover and document business requirements. This would also help you understand the location-specific problems and identify the actors and roles at each location. You would create a matrix of stakeholders to identify key people involved and their concerns. You would then determine and record the main stakeholder requirements for the architecture. Finally, you would create clear high-level descriptions of the current and future architectures.
C) You would conduct a series of workshops with the local partners to gather requirements from them.
Based on the findings from the workshops, you would define a preliminary Architecture Vision including summary views, high-level requirements, and high-level definitions of the baseline and target environments from a business, information systems, and technology perspective. You would then use the Architecture Vision to build agreement among the local partners.
D) You would create high level views of the baseline and target Architectures for each manufacturing plant, and then a set of views corresponding to selected viewpoints to address key concerns of the stakeholders. The gap analysis results for the architectures should be reviewed and consolidated into a single list. A set of work packages should be identified. A formal stakeholder review should be held to obtain approval before moving to the Target Architecture phase.

3. Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
You are working as Chief Enterprise Architect at a large Internet company. The company has many divisions, ranging from cloud to logistics. The company has grown rapidly, expanding from initially selling physical books and media to a range of services including an online marketplace, live-streaming. eBooks. and cloud services.
Overall management of the numerous divisions has become challenging. Recent high-profile projects have overrun on budget and under delivered, damaging the company ' s reputation, and adversely impacting its share price. There is a widely held view within the executive management that the organization structure has played a major role in these project failures.
The company has an established Enterprise Architecture program based on the TOGAF standard, sponsored jointly by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO). The CEO has decided that the company needs to reorganize its divisions around artificial intelligence and machine learning with a focus on automation. The CEO has worked with the Enterprise Architects to create a strategic architecture for the reorganization, including an Architecture Vision, together with definitions for the four domain architectures.
This sets out an ambitious vision of the future of the company over a three-year period. This includes a set of work packages and includes three distinct transformations.
The CIO has made it clear that prior to the approval of the detailed Implementation and Migration plan, the EAteam will need to assess the risks associated with the proposed architecture. He has received concerns from key stakeholders across the company that the proposed reorganization may be too ambitious and there is doubt whether it can produce sufficient value to warrant the risks.
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You have been asked to recommend an approach to satisfy these concerns. Based on the TOGAF Standard, which of the following is the best answer?

A) The Enterprise Architects should bring together information about potential approaches and produce several alternative target transition architectures. They should then investigate the different architecture alternatives and discuss these with stakeholders using the Architecture Alternatives and Trade-offs technique. Once the target architecture has been selected, 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.
B) Before preparing the detailed Implementation and Migration plan, the EnterpriseArchitects should review and consolidate the gap analysis results from Phases B toThis will identify the transformations required to achieve the proposed TargetArchitecture. The Enterprise Architects should then assess the readiness of theorganization to undergo change and determine an overall direction to address andmitigate risks identified. The Transition Architecture should then be planned to use astate evolution table.
C) The Enterprise Architects should evaluate the organization ' s readiness to undergo change. This will allow the risks associated with the transformations to be identified, classified, and mitigated for. This should include identifying dependencies between the set of changes, including gaps and work packages.
It will also identify improvement actions to be worked into the Implementation and Migration Plan. The business value, effort, and risk associated for each transformation should be determined.
D) Establishing interoperability in alignment with the corporate operating model will ensure risks are minimized. The Enterprise Architects 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. These can then be included within the transformation strategy embedded in the target transition architectures. The Enterprise Architects should then finalize the Architecture Roadmap and the Implementation and Migration Plan.

4. Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
You are working as an Enterprise Architect at a large supermarket. The company runs many retail stores, as well as an online grocery shop. Many of the stores used to remain open 24/7, but the number has decreased in recent years. Instead, they now focus on fulfilling online orders during the night.
The company has a mature Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice and uses the TOGAF standard for its architecture development method. The EA practice is involved in all aspects of the business, with oversight provided by an Architecture Board with representatives from different parts of the business. The EA program is sponsored by the Chief Information Officer (CIO).
Each store uses a standard method to track sales and inventory. This involves sending accurate timely sales data to a central Al-based inventory management system that can predict demand, adjust stock levels and automate reordering. The central inventory management system is housed at the company ' s central data center.
The company has bought a major rival. The Chief Executive Officer believes that a merger will enable growth through combined offerings and cost savings. The decision has been taken to fully integrate the two organizations, including merging retail operations and systems. This means that duplicated systems will be replaced with one standard retail management system. Also, the company will reduce the number of applications that are used. The CIO expects significant savings will be achieved by implementing these changes across the newly merged company.
One improvement that the rival has successfully implemented is the use of hand-held devices within stores, for both customers and staff. This has increased both customer and staff employee satisfaction due to the time savings this has brought. The CIO has given the go-ahead to roll out the devices in all stores but has stated that training on how to use the hand-held devices should be brief because there are a lot of employees, many of whom are part-time.
The Request for Architecture Work to oversee the merger has been approved. The project has been scoped and you have been assigned to work on it. Your role includes managing the architecture for the retail stores.
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You have been asked to confirm the most relevant architecture principles for the transformation.
Based on the TOGAF Standard, which of the following is the best answer?
[Note: The sequence of the principles listed in each answer does not matter. You should assume the company follows the set of principles that are provided in the TOGAF Standard, ADM Techniques, Architecture Principles chapter. You may need to refer to section 2.6 located in ADM Techniques within the reference text to answer this question.]

A) Maximize Benefit to the Enterprise, Common Use Applications, Data is an Asset, Responsive Change Management, Technology Independence
B) Common Vocabulary and Data Definitions, Compliance with the Law, Requirements Based Change, Responsive Change Management, Data Security
C) Control Technical Diversity, Interoperability, Data is an Asset, Data is Shared, Business Continuity
D) Common Use Applications, Data is an Asset, Data is Accessible, Ease of Use, Business Continuity

5. Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
Your role is that of a senior architect, reporting to the Chief Enterprise Architect, at a medium-sized company with 400 employees. The nature of the business is such that the data and the information stored on the company systems is their major asset and is highly confidential.
The company employees travel extensively for work and must communicate over public infrastructure using message encryption, VPNs, and other standard safeguards. The company has invested in cybersecurity awareness training for all its staff. However, it is recognized that even with good education as well as system security, there is a dependency on third-parly suppliers of infrastructure and software.
The company uses the TOGAF standard as the method and guiding framework for its Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice. The CTO is the sponsor of the activity.
The Chief Security Officer (CSO) has noted an increase in ransomware (malicious software used in ransom demands) attacks on companies with a similar profile. The CSO recognizes that no matter how much is spent on education, and support, it is likely just a matter of time before the company suffers a significant attack that could completely lock them out of their information assets.
A risk assessment has been done and the company has sought cyber insurance that includes ransomware coverage. The quotation for this insurance is hugely expensive. The CTO has recently read a survey that stated that one in four organizations paying ransoms were still unable to recover their data, while nearly as many were able to recover the data without paying a ransom. The CTO has concluded that taking out cyber insurance in case they need to pay a ransom is not an option.
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You have been asked to describe the steps you would take to improve the resilience of the current architecture?
Based on the TOGAF standard which of the following is the best answer?

A) You would monitor for technology changes from your existing suppliers that could improve resilience.
You would prepare and run a disaster recovery planning exercise for a ransomware attack and analyze the performance of the current Enterprise Architecture. Using the findings, you would prepare a gap analysis of the current Enterprise Architecture. You would prepare change requests to address identified gaps. You would add the changes implemented to the Architecture Repository.
B) You would determine business continuity requirements, and undertake a gap analysis of the current Enterprise Architecture. You would make recommendations for change requirements to address the situation and create a change request. You would manage a meeting of the Architecture Board to assess and approve the change request. Once approved you would produce a new Request for Architecture Work to activate an ADM cycle to carry out a project to define the change.
C) You would ensure that the company has in place up-to-date processes for managing change to the current Enterprise Architecture. Based on the scope of the concerns raised you recommend that this be managed at the infrastructure level. Changes should be made to the baseline description of the Technology Architecture. The changes should be approved by the Architecture Board and implemented by change management techniques.
D) You would request an Architecture Compliance Review with the scope to examine the company ' s resilience to ransomware attacks. You would identify the departments involved and have them nominate representatives. You would then tailor checklists to address the requirement for increased resilience. You would circulate to the nominated representatives for them to complete. You would then review the completed checklists, identifying and resolving issues. You would then determine and present your recommendations.

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