Scenario
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Your role is that of Lead Enterprise Architect within the staff headquarters of a large hotel chain. The chain
manages over 500 hotels across North America and Canada, with another 230 hotels internationally in the
United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Unlike other hotel chains, which are often a mix of
company-owned and franchised units, each hotel in the chain is an independently owned and operated
franchise. Many of the hotels use the same internal IT systems that they used before they joined the
franchise. Until recently, the only requirement that has been placed on each hotel is that they use a
standard financial reporting system to report their financial results to the headquarters on a weekly basis.
The CEO of the chain has stated his concerns about the inefficiencies of the current approach and
identified the need to change. He has defined a new strategic vision that will enhance the business by
providing its franchisees new support services including worldwide reservations, global, national and
regional marketing as well as consolidated financial, logistics, and yield management. This strategy is part
of the long-term commitment to enhance the brand image and drive superior revenue for the chain. He has
also stated that he expects improved financial results by the end of the current fiscal year.
These changes will provide the chain with improved utilization of its capacity and more efficient operations.
The addition of a corporate-wide data warehouse will provide analytics that will enable the marketing group
to improve its ability to target advertising into key national and regional markets to improve yields.
The chain has a mature enterprise architecture practice based in its headquarters and uses TOGAF 9 as
the method and guiding framework. The CIO is the sponsor of the activity.
In planning this change, the Chief Architect engaged the services of a well-known consulting firm that
specializes in business strategy. An initial study has been conducted to identify the strategic changes
needed to implement the CEO's vision. This recently completed with approval of a strategic architecture
encompassing the entire chain, including detailed requirements and recommendations.
Based on the recommendations from the initial study, the chain has taken the decision to adopt a
packaged suite of integrated applications that is tailored to the needs of the hospitality industry.
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You have been asked by the Chief Architect to propose the best approach for architecture development to
realize the CEO's vision.
Based on TOGAF, which of the following is the best answer?

• A.You propose that this engagement define the baseline Technology Architecture first in order to assess
  the current infrastructure capacity and capability. Then the focus should be on transition planning and
  architecture deployment. This will identify requirements to ensure that the projects are sequenced in an
  optimal fashion so as to realize the vision.
• B.You propose that the target architecture is defined first, followed by transition planning. This is because
  the vision is well understood and the strategic architecture agreed. The target first approach will ensure
  that the current problems and inefficiencies of the baseline architecture are not carried forward, and
  that the proposed solution addresses the requirements identified in the initial study.
• C.You propose that the team focus on defining the target architecture by going through the architecture
  definition phases (B-D). This is because the initial study identified the need to change. This will ensure
  that the change can be defined in a structured manner and address the requirements needed to realize
  the vision.
• D.You propose that the team focus on architecture definition, with a specific emphasis on understanding
  the strategic change parameters of the business strategy. Once understood, the team will be in the
  best position to identify the requirements, drivers, issues, and constraints for this engagement. You
  would ensure that the target architecture addresses non-functional requirements so as to ensure the
  target architecture is robust and secure.

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Which of the following describes a purpose of an Architecture Compliance review?

• A.Identifying relationships between management frameworks
• B.Identifying stakeholders and their concerns
• C.Identifying the business transformation risks for an architecture project
• D.Identifying criteria for procurement activities
• E.Identifying work packages for inclusion in the Architecture Roadmap

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Which one of the following is an objective of the Preliminary Phase of the ADM?

• A.To define the relevant stakeholders and their concerns
• B.To define the application systems for the Target Architecture
• C.To define the framework and methodologies to be used
• D.To define and prioritize work packages
• E.To define the Baseline Architecture for this cycle of the ADM

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Which of the following best describes the purpose of the Architecture Vision?

• A.It contains an assessment of the current architecture requirements
• B.It defines the scope and approach to complete an architecture project
• C.It is sent from the sponsor and triggers the start of an architecture development cycle
• D.It provides a high-level aspirational view of the end architecture project
• E.It provides a schedule for implementation of the target architecture

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You have been assigned the role of Chief Enterprise Architect within a leading outsourcing services company.
The company has over 20,000 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.
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 does not want to risk Its outstanding reputation or its international certifications and CMM ratings.
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 includes a solution architecture including 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.
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You have been asked to recommend an approach to satisfy these concerns.
Based on TOGAF, which of the following is the best answer?

• A.The EA team should apply an interoperability analysis to evaluate any potential issues across the Solution 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.
• B.The EA team should gather information about potential solutions from the appropriate sources. Once the Solution 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.
• C.The EA team should apply the Business Transformation Readiness Assessment technique. 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.
• D.Before preparing the detailed Implementation and Migration plan, the EA team should review and consolidate the gap analysis results from Phases B to D 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 Solution Architecture has been assembled, it should be analyzed using a state evolution table to determine the Transition Architectures.

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