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You have been appointed as a consultant to the Lead Enterprise Architect of an international agricultural company that exports bulbs, flowers and seeds worldwide. The company has its headquarters in the Netherlands, and has sales and distribution centers in over 30 countries worldwide. Several of these centers include administrative, manufacturing, and research facilities.
To achieve full integration of their research capabilities with their development centers located in various climate zones, the company wants to develop strong self-directed teams in each location. It also wants to define new business models that are profitable while reducing their impact on the environment. The management team is deeply committed to ensuring that the company is a world leader in socially responsible seed development with a business strategy that focuses on profitability through environmentally friendly operating processes.
The international operations of the company are subject to legal and regulatory requirements for each country where they operate. The production of genetically modified seeds 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 developing pest-resistant seeds.
The Governing Board is concerned about the risks posed in this complex global environment, and as a result has approved the expenditure of resources to establish an Enterprise Architecture program. They have requested to be informed about the status of projects that could impact regulatory compliance. They also want to enable the corporate legal staff and auditors to analyze proposed architectures to ensure that they are within the legal guidelines for a given location. 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 Governing Board, legal staff, auditors and the research organization.
Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

• A.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.
• B.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 stakeholders1 requirements.
• C.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.
• D.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.

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Which one of the following best describes the purpose of the Communications Plan?

• A.To act as a deliverable container for artifacts created during a project
• B.To ensure that the results of a Compliance Assessment are distributed to the Architecture Board
• C.To ensure that information is communicated to the right stakeholders at the right time
• D.To inform the Architecture Board of changes to the architecture
• E.To show progression of change from the Baseline Architecture to the Target Architecture

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Complete the sentence. The Standards Information Base is a repository area that ___________.

• A.defines the parameters, structures, and processes to support governance of the Architecture Repository
• B.describes the organization specific architecture framework and method
• C.lists the set of specifications to which architectures must conform
• D.provides a record of the governance activity across the enterprise
• E.provides guidelines, templates, and patterns used to create new architectures

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Which of the following statements best describes the purpose of enterprise architecture?

• A.To allow an enterprise to exploit the latest trends in technology
• B.To optimise an enterprise into an environment that is responsive to business needs
• C.To enable the CIO to take effective control of the business units across an enterprise
• D.To ensure compliance in an enterprise to corporate auditing standards
• E.To provide a set of standards that all actors must adhere to within an enterprise

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Complete the sentence. The Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model (III-RM) is an example of a (n) ______ Architecture reference model

• A.Application
• B.Business
• C.Data
• D.Technology

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