TOGAF 40

Where does the Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model fit in terms of the Enterprise Continuum?

Common Systems Architectures

Foundation Architectures

Industry Architectures

Organization-Specific Architectures

Which of the following is not described by a Business Scenario in TOGAF?

The people and computing components who execute the scenario

A business process, application, or set of applications

The business and technology environment

The desired outcome of proper execution

The underlying business vision

Which among the following statements about Architecture Continuum is NOT true?

It shows the relationships among foundational frameworks, common system architectures, industry architectures, and enterprise architectures

Every artifact in the Solutions Continuum has a one to one relationship with a corresponding artifact in the Architecture Continuum

It represents a structuring of Architecture Building Blocks (ABBs) which are re-usable architecture assets

It offers a consistent way to define and understand the generic rules, representations, and relationships in an architecture, including traceability and derivation relationships

It is a useful tool to discover commonality and eliminate unnecessary redundancy You answered

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

Strategic Level of Risk

Residual Level of Risk

Initial Level of Risk

Actual Level of Risk

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

Program Management Office

IT Governing Board

Quality Assurance department

Program Management Office

Enterprise Architecture Capability

Which of the following is not comes under the Technology Architecture documentation?

Technical implementation architecture

Target Technology Architecture that will form the basis of the subsequent implementation and migration planning

Hardware, software, and communications technology and their relationships to each other and the environment

The principles governing its design and evolution IT system

Fundamental organization of the IT system

Which answer is not an accurate statement about TOGAF Business Scenarios?

A good business scenario is Specific, Measureable, Actionable, Realistic and Time-bound

Business Scenarios define requirements for sharing information and services within an organisation

Business Scenarios describe a method for deriving business requirements for architecture and the implied technical requirements

Business Scenarios are principally used during the Architecture Vision and Business Architecture phases of the ADM.

Business Scenarios describe a business process and application, the business and technology environment, the actors and the desired outcome of proper execution

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

Benefits Diagram

Principles Catalog

Stakeholder Map Matrix

Solution Concept Diagram

Enterprise Manageability Diagram

Which of the following is defined by TOGAF as a representation of a system from the perspective of a related set of concerns?

Viewpoint

Capability Architecture

Statement of Work

View

Architecture Building Block

The Architecture Continuum consists of which types of architecture

Baseline Architectures, Solution Architectures, Industry Architecture and Business Specific Architectures

Foundation Architectures, Common Systems Architecture, Industry Architectures and Business Specific Architectures

Foundation Architectures, Common Systems Architecture, Industry Architectures and Organisation Specific Architectures

Foundation Architectures, Solutions Architectures, Industry Architectures and Organisation Specific Architectures

Baseline Architectures, Common Systems Architecture, Industry Architectures and Organisation Specific Architectures

In which phase of the TOGAF ADM do activities include assessing the dependencies, costs, and benefits of the migration projects?

Phase H

Requirements Management

Phase E

Phase F

Phase G

Which of the following is not one of the domain architectures produced by the TOGAF ADM process?

Business Architecture

Application Architecture

Pattern Architecture

Data Architecture

Technology Architecture

Which of these is not a recommended step to create the required views for a particular architecture?

Select appropriate viewpoints

Select key stakeholders

Refer to any existing libraries of viewpoints

Analyze their requirement and document them

Generate views of the system using the selected viewpoints as templates

What does the Architecture Requirements Specification provide?

An aspirational view of the end architecture product

Context for architecture work by describing the needs

A quantitative view of the solution stating measurable criteria

List of individual increments of change

A qualitative view of the solution and aims to communicate the intent of the architects

Which of the following best describes how TOGAF defines an enterprise?

Any organization whose stock is traded

Any set of organizations based at the same geographic location

Any corporation with more than 10,000 employees

Any organization involved in commerce

Any collection of organizations that has a common set of goals

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

The ARTS data model

The TOGAF Technical Reference Model

The STEP framework

The Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model

The Resource-Event-Agent model

Which of the following statements about TOGAF Building Blocks and their use in the ADM cycle is correct?

Building Blocks become more implementation-specific in Phase E

Building Blocks should be first selected in Phase D

Building Blocks should be identified in abstract form as part of the Preliminary Phase

Building Blocks in phases D, E and F are evolved to a common pattern of steps

TOGAF states that establishing and operating an Architecture Board is more than offset by the savings accrued from preventing one off solutions and unconstrained development. Which of the following answers does TOGAF not state as a reason for establishing an Architecture Board?

High cost of operation and support

Higher risk

High costs of development

Better understanding of the business and their requirements

Lower quality

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

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

Business Architecture should support the agreed Architecture Vision

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

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

Business Architecture should demonstrate how stakeholder concerns are addressed

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

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

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

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

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

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

To ensure that architecture information is communicated to the right stakeholders at the right time

To support Boundaryless Information Flow

To ensure that the outcomes of a Compliance Assessment are distributed to the members of the

To evangelize the architecture to the end user community

To keep the Architecture Review Board appraised of changes to the architecture

For which phases is the Business Transformation Readiness Assessment a key technique?

Phases A, E and F

Phases E and F

Phases E, F and G

Phases from A to F

Phases E only

In which phase of the ADM is an initial assessment of Business Transformation Readiness performed?

Phase F

Phase A

Phase E

Phase B

Preliminary Phase

Which of the ADM phases includes the objective of establishing the organizational model for enterprise architecture?

Phase E

Phase A

Phase D

Phase B

Preliminary

Which are the three main categories of architectural work product does Architecture Content Framework specify?

Request for Architecture Work, Statement of Architecture Work and Architecture Contract

Architecture Vision, Architecture Design Document and Transition Architecture

Building Block, Artifact and Deliverable

Source Architecture, Target Architecture and Gap Analysis

Architecture Vision, Architecture Requirements Specification and Architecture Roadmap

Which of the following answers does not follow the TOGAF definition?

A system is a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole

An architectural description is a collection of artefacts that document an architecture

A view is a representation of a whole system from the perspective of a related set of concerns

Concerns are the key interests that are crucially important to the stakeholders in the system and determine the acceptability of the system.

A viewpoint is where you are looking from – the vantage point or perspective that determines what you see

According to TOGAF, the recommended dimensions used to define the scope of an architecture include all the following, except:

Subject Matter

Depth

Architecture Domains

Subject Matter

Breadth

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

Phase B

Phase A

Phase C

Phase D

Preliminary phase

Which Phase of the ADM describes the defining scope and identification of stakeholders?

Architecture Vision

Opportunities and Solutions

This activity occurs outside of the ADM

Preliminary Phase

Requirements management

Which of the following statements is not correct in the context of TOGAF?

The Architecture Continuum provides a consistent way to describe and understand the implementation of the assets

Organization-Specific Architectures describe and guide the final deployment of user-written or third-party components that constitute effective solutions for particular enterprises

Common Systems Architectures guide the creation of an architecture useful for building common solutions across a wide number of relevant domains

A Foundation Architecture supports the complete enterprise operating environment

Industry Architectures guide the integration of common systems components with industry specific components

Which of the following describes an architecture from a specific view point?

An artifact

An Architectural Building Block

A deliverable

A building block

A Solution Building Block

In which ADM phase are the business principles, business goals and strategic drivers validated?

Preliminary Phase

Phase B, Business Architecture

Preliminary Phase

Requirements Management Phase

Phase H, Architecture Change Management

An organization has bought a large enterprise application. As a result, which of the following could be included in the organization’s Solutions Continuum?

Product information for purchased products

Detailed pricing information about the purchased products

Architecture Building Blocks for the organizations’ Industry-Specific Architecture

A reference implementation of the Technical Reference Model for the organization

A reference implementation of the Foundation Architecture

Which among the following statements about patterns is NOT correct?

Pattern is “an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others”

Patterns are considered to be a way of putting building blocks into context

Patterns can tell when, why, and what trade-offs you have to make

Patterns are a package of functionality defined to meet business needs across an organization

Patterns offer the promise of helping the architect to solutions that have been proven to deliver effective in the past

What Architecture Building Blocks does?

They are product or vendor-aware

They define the implementation

They define how the functionality will be realized through products and components

They capture architecture requirements

They fulfill business requirements

In which phase of the ADM are the gap analysis results from the four architecture domains taken into account?

Requirements Management

Phase E

Phase H

Phase G

Phase F

The objectives for Phase F: Migration Planning does not include which of the following:

To finalise the Architecture Vision and Architecture Definition Document

To generate and gain consensus on an outline Implementation and Migration Strategy

To create evolve and monitor the detailed Implementation and Migration plan

To confirm the Transition Architectures defined in Phase E

To prioritize all work packages, projects and building blocks

Which of the following is NOT an activity in Phase E?

Perform a cost/benefit analysis and a risk assessment

Perform initial implementation planning

Group projects into Transition Architectures

Decide on approach — Make versus buy versus re-use

Identify the major implementation projects

Which one of the following statements best describes the ADM Guidelines and Techniques?

Techniques support different usage scenarios that can be adapted directly into the ADM iteration process

Guidelines address different usage scenarios including different process styles and specialist architectures that can be adapted in the ADM

Guidelines address different usage scenarios that cannot be adapted directly into the ADM iteration process

Which phase of the ADM is used to finalize a set of transition architectures that will support implementation?

Phase F

Phase G

Phase F

Phase D

Phase E

TOGAF - 40 Questions