IT Certification Exam Questions & Answers

QUESTION 185
In TOGAF, what is the difference between an artifact and a deliverable?

QUESTION 186
Scenario:
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You have been assigned the role of Chief Enterprise Architect within a leading North American information technology services company. The company has a number of service portfolios including infrastructure, applications, business process outsourcing, accounting, and financial services.
With numerous practice areas and a multitude of diverse engagements underway 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 Chief Executive Officer and Chief Information Officer have co-sponsored the creation of an Enterprise Architecture prog-am based on TOGAF 9. An Architecture Board has been formed comprised of IT staff executives and executives from the major practice areas.
The Enterprise Architecture team has been working with the Strategic Planning team to create a strategic enterprise architecture to address these issues. The 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 senior partners 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 9, which of the following is the best answer?

QUESTION 187
In which ADM phase is the Implementation and Migration Plan coordinated with other activities in the enterprise?

QUESTION 188
In which part of the ADM cycle do building block gaps become associated with work packages that will address the gaps?

QUESTION 189
Which is the final step in the architecture development Phases B, C, and D?

QUESTION 190
You are working as an Enterprise Architect at a technology company. The company has multiple subsidiary companies, engaged in mobile, online shopping, cloud computing services, and a social media platform. The company has grown rapidly and claims to be adding 20 million new users a month.
The company has an established Enterprise Architecture (EA) program based on the TOGAF standard, sponsored jointly by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO). In your role as an Enterprise Architect within the EA team, you work closely with the business stakeholders in the company as well as the sponsors.
The senior leadership within the company is worried about the ability of the company to address the challenges of climate change and the opportunities around artificial intelligence. They are concerned that the business will not be sustainable without making significant changes. Most senior leaders feel that the operations must become more efficient, and the organization needs to change in order to achieve its future goals.
The CEO has decided that reorganizing its subsidiaries around artificial intelligence and machine learning will improve the way the company creates and delivers value. The sponsors have approved an EA project for the reorganization. The EA team has created a strategic architecture with the CEO and CIO. It includes an Architecture Vision and high-level definitions of the domain architectures. This sets out an ambitious plan over a three-year period and covers three distinct transformations to implement the reorganization.
The sponsors have read reports that up to 70% of companies are failing at digital and artificial intelligence transformation. They have made it clear that prior to the approval of the detailed Implementation and Migration Plan, the EA team needs to assess and mitigate the risks associated with the reorganization. They want assurance that the reorganization will succeed and deliver the promised increases in value for the business.
You have been asked by the EA team leader to recommend the approach to address the request from the sponsors.

QUESTION 191
What level of risk is the risk categorization prior to determining and implementing mitigating actions?

QUESTION 192
Scenario
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You are serving as the Lead Enterprise Architect for a chain of convenience stores. The stores operate 24 hours a day and 7 days a week and use cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) technology to manage their sales and inventory. Cloud-based POS systems store all user data, including sales and inventory in a remote server.
The cloud-based systems collect real-time data to support ordering and product selection decisions including the tailoring of product assortment based on sales history, customer demographics as well as the next day’s weather forecast. In many cases, several stores are located in neighboring areas. This strategy makes distribution to each store cheaper, as well as making multiple deliveries per day possible. The stores also act as self-service delivery locations for a large online retailer which further increases the number of potential customers entering the stores.
An Enterprise Architecture practice exists within the company, with the CEO and CIO as joint sponsors. They have decided to adopt TOGAF standard within the practice and the first project is to restructure the Enterprise Architecture so that it can better support the existing environment and accommodate future changes of strategy within the company.
The CIO has stated that the following issues need to be addressed in the restructuring:
* They need to address problems with data quality and inconsistent data in order to support better decision making and analysis.
* The architecture should focus on the needs of the business, not technology
* To remain competitive, new products and promotions must undergo market trials before deployment across the retail chain. Information systems must be able to manage changes and updates without undue delays.
[Note: You should assume that the company has adopted the example set of principles that are listed and defined in TOGAF standard, Architecture Principles chapter. You may need to refer to the Architecture Principles chapter, section 20.6 (located in Part III) within the reference text in order to answer this question.] You have been asked to identify the most relevant architecture principles for the current situation.
Based on the TOGAF standard, which of the following is the best answer? [Note: The ordering of the principles listed in each answer is not significant.]

QUESTION 193
Which of the following best describes the purpose of the Business Transformation Readiness Assessment technique?

QUESTION 194
Which section of the TOGAF template for Architecture Principles highlights the requirements for carrying out the principle?

QUESTION 195
Complete the sentence. The architecture domains that are considered by the TOGAF standard as subsets of an overall enterprise architecture are Business. Technology

QUESTION 196
Which is the first step in the architecture development Phases B, C, and D?

QUESTION 197
Which ADM phase is responsible for assessing the performance of the architecture and making recommendations for change?

QUESTION 198
Which of the following best describes the concept of Boundaryless Information Flow?

QUESTION 199
Which of the following best describes the purpose of the Business Scenarios technique?

QUESTION 200
What does the TOGAF standard describe as a structure which can be used for developing a broad range of architectures?