TOGAF 40

The Implementation and Migration Plan deliverable has the following content, except:

Work Package Portfolio

Implementation Plan

Project Charters

Interactions with other management frameworks

Implementation and Migration Strategy

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

To allow an enterprise to exploit the latest trends in technology

To ensure compliance in an enterprise to corporate auditing standards

To optimise an enterprise into an environment that is responsive to business needs

To enable the CIO to take effective control of the business units across an enterprise

To provide a set of standards that all actors must adhere to within an enterprise

Which of the following best describes the Capability-Based Planning technique?

A technique used to develop general rules and guidelines for the architecture being developed

A technique used for business planning that focuses on business outcomes

A technique used to plan the degree to which information and services are to be shared

A technique used to validate an architecture

Which of the following is NOT an approach in Phase G?

Use the organization’s established portfolio/program management approach, where this exists

Follow the organization’s standard for corporate, IT, and Architecture Governance

Adopt a phased deployment schedule that reflects the business priorities embodied in the Architecture Roadmap

Define an operations framework to ensure the effective long life of the deployed solution

Creation of an Implementation and Migration Plan in co-operation with the portfolio and project managers

Which of the following is not the purpose of Architecture Compliance Review exercise?

To identify services that are currently application-specific but might be provided as part of the enterprise infrastructure

To document strategies for collaboration, resource sharing, and other synergies across multiple architecture teams

To improve the maturity level of architecture discipline within the organization

To identify where the standards themselves may require modification

To take advantage of advances in technology

Within the Taxonomy of Architecture Viewpoints which of the following is a Core Diagram of the Architecture Vision?

Principles Catalog

Solution Concept Diagram

Enterprise Manageability Diagram

Stakeholder Map Matrix

Benefits Diagram

Which of the following is NOT a stated reason for using a tool for Enterprise Continuum?

Enable sharing of architecture information within an organization

Facilitate easier maintenance of the software assets

Ensure common terminology is used

Promote re-use

Provide stakeholders with relevant models

Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

Corporate Strategic Plan manages and creates Capabilities

Capability consists of Capability Increment

Capability Increment is documented by Transition Architecture

Architecture and Solution Building Blocks are the basis for Capability Increment Solutions

Capability is documented in Architecture Vision

As architecture deliverables and work products created in one ADM phase are modified by subsequent phases, how does TOGAF suggest tracking the changes?

Workflow management system

Document checkpoints and journaling

Version numbers

Change control committee

Publish and subscribe system

Which among the following statements is NOT correct?

TOGAF recommends the way in which functionality, products, and custom developments are assembled into building blocks

An architecture is a composition of a set of building blocks and the specification of how those building blocks are connected

Every organization must decide for itself what arrangement of building blocks works best for it

Various building blocks in an architecture specify the services required in an enterprise specific system

A good choice of building blocks can lead to improvements in legacy system integration, interoperability, and flexibility in the creation of new systems and applications

Which of the following is defined as the risk categorization after the implementation of mitigating actions?

Initial Level of Risk

Strategic Level of Risk

Actual Level of Risk

Residual Level of Risk

The relationship between the Architecture Continuum and the Solutions Continuum is one of ___ (complete the sentence).

Guidance, direction and supplementing

Guidance, derivation and support

Guidance, direction and support

Governance, derivation and supplementing

Governance, direction and support

Within Phase C: Information Systems Architectures of the ADM which of the following is not a step stated by TOGAF

Finalise the application architecture

Develop Target Application Architecture Description

Document dependencies and assumptions

Conduct formal stakeholder review

Create Architecture Definition Document

According to TOGAF Document Categorization Model, which are the four categories of content?

Central, Mandated, Recommended and Supplemental

Central, Mandated, Reference and Supplemental

Core, Mandated, Reference and Supplemental

Core, Mandated, Recommended and Supporting

Central, Mandated, Recommended and Supporting

Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

Effective governance ensures that problems are identified early and that subsequent changes to the environment occur in a controlled manner

Architecture Governance is the practice by which enterprise architectures and other architectures are managed and controlled at an enterprise-wide level

Corporate Governance is a broad topic and outside the scope of the TOGAF framework

Architecture Governance typically operates within a hierarchy of governance structures

Architecture Governance helps creating organizational structures that enabled each individual department to operate at maximum efficiency

Which of the following is not true of the Architecture Development Method?

The ADM provides a tested process for developing architectures

The ADM is iterative

The ADM explains how generic solutions can be specialized to support an organisation

The ADM has ten phases

The ADM allows organisations to transform their enterprise in response to business goals and opportunities

The TOGAF defined process for Risk Management consists of which activities?

Risk Classification, Risk Quantification, Initial Risk Assessment, Risk Response Development and residual risk assessment, and Risk Monitoring

Risk Identification, Initial Risk Quantification, Risk Mitigation and residual risk assessment, and Risk Response Control

Risk Classification, Risk identification, Initial Risk Assessment, Risk Mitigation and residual risk assessment, and Risk Monitoring

Risk Identification, Risk Quantification, Risk Response Development and Risk Response Control

Risk classification, Risk identification, Initial Risk Assessment, Risk Response Development and Risk Response Control

Which of the following best describes the purpose of the TRM?

To provide a list of standards

To provide a visual model, and core terminology for generic platform services

To provide a method for architecture development

To provide a generic framework for IT governance

To provide a system engineering viewpoint on a possible solution

Which of these is not the characteristic of a building block?

It may be a subassembly of other building blocks

It may be assembled from other building blocks

It considers implementation and usage, and evolves to exploit technology and standards

It may specify implementation details

Ideally, a building block is re-usable and replaceable, and well specified with stable interfaces

What according to TOGAF is an Enterprise?

An enterprise is an organization that uses computers

Any large organization

Entire business group or corporation comprising of all local and international main and sub offices, divisions, subsidiaries, and departments

A large corporation or government agency, but it may also refer to a company of any size with many systems and users to manage

Any collection of organizations that has a common set of goals

Catalog

In Phase D, which of the following resources from the Architecture Repository should be considered in the development of the Technology Architecture?

Implementation and Migration Plan

TOGAF Technical Reference Model

Business rules, job descriptions

Stakeholder Map

Architecture Vision

Complete the sentence. To promote effective architectural activity within the enterprise, TOGAF 9 recommends the establishment of a(n) _____

Quality Assurance department

Enterprise Architecture Capability

IT Governing Board

Program Management Office

Which of the following statements about Requirements Management phase is correct?

It focuses on minimizing changes to requirement

This phase is executed at the beginning

TOGAF has a recommend process for requirements management

It does not dispose of, address, or prioritize any requirements; this is done within the relevant phase of the ADM

Prioritizing requirement is an activity of this phase

Which of the following lists the components within the Architecture Repository?

Architecture Metamodel, Architecture Capability, Architecture Landscape, SIB, Reference Library, Governance Log

Business Metamodel, Architecture Capability, Architecture Landscape, SIB, Reference Library, Governance Log

Organizational Metamodel, Architecture Capability, Architecture Landscape, Best Practices, Reference Library, Compliance Strategy

Architecture Metamodel, Organizational Capability Model, Application Landscape, SIB, Reference Library, Governance Model

According to TOGAF, where should architecture governance artifacts be stored?

In the Foundation Architecture

In the Requirements Repository

In the Architecture Repository

In the Integrated Infrastructure Reference Model

In the Standards Information Base

Which of the following statements best describes the purpose of the Architecture Requirements Specification?

A record of deviations from the planned architectural approach to identify changes to be made

A qualitative view of the solution to communicate the intent of the architect

A document that triggers the start of an architecture development cycle

A quantitative view of the solution to measure the implementation

Which one of the following best describes an Architecture Contract?

An agreement between development partners and sponsors on the deliverables, quality, and fitness-for-purpose of an architecture

An agreement between development partners and sponsors on how best to monitor implementation of the architecture

An agreement between the development partners and stakeholders on the acceptable risks and mitigating actions for an architecture

An agreement between the lead architect and the development partners on the enforcement of Architecture Compliance for an architecture

Which of the following statements is not correct in context of the Business Architecture?

Business Architecture should demonstrate how stakeholder concerns are addressed

Business Architecture looks at the Enterprise in abstraction and does not look at the relationship between people and process

Business Architecture is often necessary as a means of demonstrating the business value of subsequent architecture work

A knowledge of the Business Architecture is a prerequisite for architecture work in any other domain

Business Architecture should support the agreed Architecture Vision

What phase of the ADM does the cost/benefit analysis?

Phase E

Phase B

Preliminary Phase

Phase F

Phase A

Which section of the TOGAF template for Architecture Principles should highlight the business benefits for adhering to the principle?

Statement

Name

Rationale

Implications

Which of the following statements is true about risk management in the ADM?

Risk analysis should be carried out first in the Migration Planning phase

Risk is pervasive in all enterprise architecture activity and should be managed in all phases of the ADM

Risk analysis is outside the scope of enterprise architecture projects

The only risks that are within the scope of enterprise architecture are technological risks You answered

Risk analysis is best conducted in the Architecture Vision phase so that the risk is eliminated in subsequent phases

Which of the following is not a correct statement about the stakeholder concern?

Concerns are represented in the architecture by these requirements

Concerns determine the acceptability of the system

Each stakeholder typically has interests in, or concerns relative to, that system

Concerns are the root of the process of decomposition into requirements

The terms “concern” and “requirement” are synonymous

Which one of the following is an objective of Phase A of the TOGAF ADM?

To secure formal approval to proceed

To define the framework that is going to be used to develop the enterprise architecture

To define an IT Strategy that maps out the technology infrastructure

To prepare a Solution Architecture for the enterprise

To allocate the resources needed to implement the architecture project

Which one of the following best describes a primary use of the Architecture Vision document?

A checklist for compliance reviews

To describe the benefits of the proposed capability to stakeholders

An evaluation tool to select vendors to conduct a proof of concept demonstration

To calculate detailed cost estimates

To project plan the implementation activities

Which of the following could be considered for potential use in Phase C, Application Architecture?

The Resource-Event-Agent model

The STEP framework

The TOGAF Technical Reference Model

The Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model

The ARTS data model

Which Phase of the ADM define and initiate the Business Scenarios?

Phase C

Phase D

Preliminary phase

Phase A

Phase B

Which of the following is not part of the description of the Enterprise Continuum?

The Enterprise Continuum contains Architecture Context and Requirements, the Architecture Continuum, the Solutions Continuum and Deployed Solutions

The Enterprise Continuum explains how generic solutions can be specialised to support a particular organisation

The Enterprise Continuum provides a view of the Architecture Repository

The Enterprise Continuum comprises two complementary concepts: the Architecture Continuum and the Solutions Continuum

The Enterprise Continuum uses the structure in the architecture Repository for the classification of assets

Which of the following is not an ADM Guideline or Technique?

Usecase Modeling

Interoperability Requirements

Architecture Patterns

Capability-Based Planning

Architecture Principles

Which part of the TOGAF document provides a number of architecture development phases, together with narratives for each phase?

Part II: Architecture Development Method (ADM)

Part I: Introduction

Part III: ADM Guidelines and Techniques

Part IV: Architecture Content Framework

Part V: Enterprise Continuum and Tools

Which of the following statements is NOT true for ADM?

An output in an early ADM phase may be modified in a later phase

ADM does not determine the scope for an enterprise architecture activity; this must be determined by the organization itself

ADM defines a recommended sequence for the various phases and steps involved in developing an organization-wide enterprise architecture

The numbering scheme provided in the TOGAF ADM for its outputs is a mandated practice

The ADM has ten phases

TOGAF - 40 Questions