The Open Group TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Part 2 - OGEA-102 certification

Scenario:
You are working as an Enterprise Architect at a large company. The company runs a chain of home improvement stores, as well as a website for selling products. The website lets many brands work with the company.
The stores open seven days a week and use a standard method to track sales and inventory. This involves sending accurate and timely sales data to a central inventory management system that can predict demand, adjust stock levels, and automate reordering. The website is supported by regional fulfillment centers and also uses the central inventory management system. The central inventory management system is housed at the company's central data center.
The company has agreed to merge with a major competitor. The leadership teams of both organizations have said they are committed to a smooth transition for customers. All stores will keep their own brand names.
They will combine the systems of the organizations, which includes merging retail operations and systems.
Duplicated systems will be replaced with one standard retail management system. Additionally, they will reduce the number of applications being used. The CIO expects that these changes will lead to substantial cost savings for the newly merged company.
An enterprise plan for both organizations has been created. The aim is to set priorities for the transition, especially in terms of information management and application development. It is crucial to make decisions that will create long-term value.
The company has a mature Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice and uses the TOGAF standard for its architecture development method. The EA program is sponsored by the Chief Information Officer (CIO).
The Request for Architecture Work to oversee the transition has been approved. The project has been scoped, and you have been assigned to work on it.
You have been asked to confirm the most relevant architecture principles for the transition.
Based on the TOGAF Standard, which of the following is the best answer?

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

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You are employed as an Enterprise Architect within a multinational company. The company has been very successful and has been buying companies around the world. This has led to a growing number of manufacturing divisions in various locations with a complex supply chain.
The top management recently expressed concerns about the company ' s effectiveness because of its multiple data centers and duplicate applications. The EA team has been working on a project to solve this issue. An analysis shows that supply chain issues have led to not enough products being produced to meet all the customer demand.
A strategic architecture has been defined to help meet customer demand and manage the supply chain more effectively. The strategic architecture involves combining different Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications that are currently used separately in the company ' s production sites.
Each division has finished the Architecture Definition documentation to address their own specific manufacturing needs. The Enterprise Architects have agreed an overall strategy for the migration. They have defined a set of work packages that address the gaps found. They have defined the intermediate architectural states between the Baseline and Target architecture to add a new ERP environment into the company.
Because of the risks posed by this change from the current environment, the architects have recommended that a phased approach should be taken to implement the target architecture with several stages of change. They have created a draft roadmap with the implementation process estimated to take over two years.
The company has an established Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice and follows the TOGAF Architecture Development Method. The company also uses various management frameworks such as business planning, project/portfolio management, and operations management. The EA program is sponsored by the Chief Information Officer (CIO). In your role as an Enterprise Architect within the EA team, you work closely with the important stakeholders from the various divisions within the company.
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You have been assigned to plan the next steps for the migration. Which approach will you choose?
Based on the TOGAF standard which of the following is the best answer?

• A. You estimate the business value for each project by applying the BusinessValue Assessment Technique to prioritize the migration projects and projectsteps. The assessment should focus on return on investment and criteria forevaluating performance to track the progress of the architecturetransformation. You would confirm and plan a series of Transition Architecturephases using a table of Architecture Definition Increments that lists theprojects. You then update the Implementation and Migration Plan.
• B. You conduct a series of Compliance Assessments to check that thearchitecture is being implemented as required by the contract. This is donenow to confirm that the implementation team is following the correctdevelopment process, and if not, so course correction is viable. This involvesusing monitoring tools and making sure that performance targets are beingachieved. If the targets are not met, you would then need to make adjustmentsto the performance requirements and update them in the Implementation andMigration Plan.
• C. You finalize the Architecture Definition documentation with updates to reflectthe implementation approach. You ensure that Implementation and MigrationPlan is consistent with the chosen approach.
  You identify the resourcesneeded to undertake the development projects. You would then produce anImplementation Governance Model to manage the lessons learned beforefinishing the plan. You ensure that the lessons learned are applied to theImplementation and Migration Plan.
• D. You will focus on project selection. You make sure that the Implementation andMigration plan aligns with the other management frameworks in use in thecompany. Next, you assign a value to each work package, taking into accountthe resources available and how they fit into the overall strategy. Using thesework packages, you estimate resource requirements and timings. You thenselect which projects will be included in the Implementation and Migration Plan.

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You are part of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) team at a company, employed as an Enterprise Architect.
The company creates and sells goods targeted at the consumer market, which are sold to retail organizations worldwide.
The EA team has operated successfully for several years and has well developed processes based on the TOGAF standard. The EA team ' s responsibilities include architecting product development processes and customer experience. The Enterprise Architecture practice at the company is sponsored by the Chief Technology Officer.
The company uses Agile product management techniques and Agile development practices. The EA team works with the product management teams, supporting and enabling the Agile development teams. The company routinely implements architecture and solution sprints that run in parallel, with the EA team developing Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA) deliverables.
The company is starting a digital transformation project where it will expand its offerings from physical products to also Include digital products and digital services. This includes enabling each of its product lines to offer digital products or services associated with their existing physical products.
You have been asked to work on a specific product line, which is experimenting with new direct-to-consumer digital products using a third-party platform. A Minimum Viable Architecture approach was taken for this experiment, including a shallow architecture development iteration with a focus on the Application Architecture, followed by a quick and minimal Implementation.
Customer feedback shows that the direct-to-consumer digital products are missing their revenue targets and are not reaching the target customers. The feedback is also saying that the customers do not find much value in these direct-to-consumer digital products. The product manager is seeking advice on how to tackle these problems, while making sure that the products stay within the guardrails set by the EA team.
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How will you gather information to address the missed revenue targets and inability to reach the intended target customers?
Based on the TOGAF standard which of the following is the best answer?

• A. You would revise the target architecture for ADM Phase B and create new architecture models to address the issues raised. The models should identify different groups of customers, what they find valuable, how much it costs to serve them, and the resulting revenue. You would examine the customer value by using value stream mapping to breakdown the activities for the direct-to-consumer products.
  You would investigate different target Business Architecture alternatives.
• B. You would start another iteration of ADM Phases B-C. This would include development of a description in the Architecture Definition Document of how the product architecture needs to operate to achieve the business goals, and how the application will support the needs of the business as well as the customers. The Data Architecture should identify tools for data capture that would help with analysis of the concerns raised.
• C. You would start with the target Application Architecture, revising it to better align with the overall digital transformation plan. You would write a new Statement of Architecture Work including a detailed project description and a work plan. This should be submitted for review by the EA team leader. Once approved by the EA team leader, you would start a full ADM cycle to gather all the necessary information to address the issues raised.
• D. You would start with the baseline Business Architecture and develop new architecture models to address the concerns raised. You use modeling techniques to identify customer segments, determine what is necessary to meet the customer ' s needs, and how to attract the target audience. In addition, including value streams and information maps would help. You would investigate different alternatives that would enhance the value proposition for the target audience.

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You are the Lead Enterprise Architect at a major agribusiness company. The company ' s main annual harvest is lentils, a highly valued food grown worldwide. The lentil parasite, broomrape, has been an increasing concern for many years and is now becoming resistant to chemical controls. In addition, changes in climate favor the propagation and growth of the parasite. As a result, the parasite cannot realistically be exterminated, and it has become pandemic, with lentil yields falling globally.
The CEO appreciates the seriousness of the situation and has set out a change in direction that is effectively a new business for the company. There are opportunities for new products, and new markets. The company will use the fields for another harvest and will cease to process third-party lentils. Thus, the target market will change, and the end-products will be different and more varied. This is a major decision and the CEO has stated a desire to repurpose rather than replace so as to manage the risks and limit the costs.
The company has a mature Enterprise Architecture practice based in its headquarters and uses the TOGAF standard as the method and guiding framework. The practice has an established Architecture Capability, and uses iteration for architecture development. The CIO is the sponsor of the activity.
The CIO has assigned the Enterprise Architecture team to this activity. At this stage there is no shared vision, or requirements.
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You have been asked to propose the best approach for architecture development to realize the CEO ' s change in direction for the company.
Based on the TOGAF standard which of the following is the best answer?

• A. You propose that this engagement define the baseline Technology Architecture first inorder to assess the current infrastructure capacity and capability for the company. Thenthe focus should be on transition planning and incremental architecture deployment.This will identify requirements to ensure that the projects are sequenced in an optimalfashion so as to realize the change.
• B. You propose that the team focus on architecture definition, with emphasis on definingthe change parameters to support this new business strategy that the CEO hasidentified. Once understood, the team will be in the best position to identify therequirements, drivers, issues, and constraints for the change.
  You would ensure that thearchitecture development addresses non-functional requirements to assure that thetarget architecture is robust and secure.
• C. You propose that the priority is to understand and bring structure to the definition of thechange. The team should focus iteration cycles on a baseline first approach toarchitecture development, and then transition planning. This will identify what needs tochange in order to transition from the baseline to the target, and can be used to work outin detail what the shared vision is for the change.
• D. You propose that the team focus its iteration cycles on architecture development bygoing through the architecture definition phases (B-D) with a baseline first approach.This will support the change in direction as stated by the CEO. It will ensure that thechange can be defined in a structured manner and address the requirements needed torealize the change.

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Your role is that of a consultant to the Lead Enterprise Architect to an international supplier of engineering services and automated manufacturing systems. It has three 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 Enterprise Architecture department has been operating for several years and has mature, well-developed architecture governance and development processes that are based on the TOGAF Standard. The CIO sponsors the Enterprise Architecture.
During a recent management meeting, a senior Vice-President highlighted an interview where a competitor company ' s CIO is reported as saying that their production efficiency had been improved by replacing multiple planning and scheduling systems with a common Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system located in a central data center. Some discussion followed, with the CIO responding that the situations are not comparable, and the current architecture is already optimized.
In response, the Architecture Board approved a Request for Architecture Work covering the investigations to determine if such an architecture transformation would lead to improvements in efficiency. You have been assigned to support the architecture team working on this project.
A well-known concern of the plant managers is about the security and reliability of driving their planning and production scheduling from a remote centralized system. Any chosen system would also need to support the current supply chain network consisting of local partners at each of the plants.
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You have been asked to explain how you will initiate the architecture project.
Based on the TOGAF Standard, which of the following is the best answer?

• A. You would conduct a pilot project that will enable vendors to demonstrate potentialoff-the-shelf solutions that address the concerns of the stakeholders. Running a pilotproject will save time and money later in the process. Based on the findings of thatpilot project, a complete set of requirements can then be developed that will drive theevolution of the architecture. Once the requirements are completed, a formalstakeholder review should be held, and permission sought to proceed to develop thetarget architecture.
• B. You would develop baseline and target Architectures for each of the manufacturingplants, ensuring that the views corresponding to selected viewpoints address keyconcerns of the stakeholders. A business case, together with performance metricsand measures should be defined to ensure the architecture meets the businessneeds. A consolidated gap analysis between the architectures will then validate theapproach and determine the capability increments needed to achieve the target state.
• C. You would hold a series of interviews at each of the manufacturing plants using thebusiness scenarios technique. This will allow you to understand the systems andintegrations with local partners. You would use stakeholder analysis to identify keyplayers in the engagement, and to understand their concerns. You will then identifyand document the key high-level stakeholder requirements for the architecture. Youwill then generate high level definitions of the baseline and target architectures.
• D. You would research vendor literature and conduct a series of briefings with vendorsthat are on the current approved supplier list. Based on the findings from theresearch, you would define a preliminary Architecture Vision including summaryviews, high-level requirements, and high-level definitions of the baseline and targetenvironments from a business, information systems, and technology perspective.
  Youwould then use that to build consensus among the key stakeholders.

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