The Open Group OG0-093 TOGAF 9.2 Combined Part 1 and Part 2 Exam Practice Test

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Question 1

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.

AYou would assess the organization's preparedness to undergo change. This will allow the risks associated with the transformations to be identified, classified, and mitigated. This would include identifying dependencies between the set of changes, including gaps and work packages. It will also identify improvement actions to be worked into the Implementation and Migration Plan. The business value, effort, and risk associated with each transformation should be determined.

BBefore preparing the detailed Implementation and Migration Plan, you would review and consolidate the gap analysis results from Phases B to D. This will identify the transformations required to achieve the proposed Target Architecture. You would then assess the readiness of the organization to undergo change and determine an overall direction to address and mitigate risks identified. The Transition Architecture should then be planned to use a state evolution table.

CYou would bring together information about potential approaches and produce several alternative target transition architectures. You would then investigate the different architecture alternatives and discuss these with stakeholders using the Architecture Alternatives and Trade-offs technique. Once the target architecture has been selected, 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.

DYou would apply an interoperability analysis to evaluate the potential issues across the proposed new architecture. This should include the development of a matrix showing the interoperability requirements. The degree of interoperability should then be aligned with the corporate operating model to ensure risks are mitigated and minimized. The risk mitigations can then be included within each of the target Transition Architectures. You would then finalize the Architecture Roadmap and the Implementation and Migration Plan.
Explanation:
Option A aligns with TOGAF's focus on change readiness assessment and risk mitigation in transformations. Identifying dependencies, gaps, and risks, and addressing them in the Implementation and Migration Plan, aligns with the ADM's Phases E and F.
Options B, C, and D introduce unnecessary complexity, focusing on specific techniques or analysis methods that do not comprehensively address the sponsors' concerns about transformation readiness.

Answer : A

Question 2

Your role is that of an Enterprise Architect, reporting to the Chief Enterprise Architect, at a technology company. The company provides staff, as well as cloud-based services for many government agencies.

The company uses the TOGAF standard as the method and guiding framework for its Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice. The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is the sponsor of the activity. The practice uses an iterative approach for its architecture development. This has enabled the decision-makers to gain valuable insights into the different aspects of the business.

The nature of the business is such that the data and the information stored on the company systems are the company's major asset and are highly confidential. The company employees work remotely and need constant access to the company systems, which is done by the public infrastructure. They use message encryption, secure internet connections using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), and other standard security measures. The company has provided computer security awareness training for all its staff.

The Chief Security Officer (CSO) has noted an increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on companies with a similar profile. The CSO understands that even with thorough preparation, a major attack could stop employees from being able to do their jobs. This could lead to a large financial loss, damage to the company's reputation with customers, and employees being unable to work.

A risk assessment has been completed, and the company has looked for cyber insurance that covers such attacks. The price for this insurance is very high. The CTO has decided not to get cyber insurance to cover such attacks.

You have been asked to describe the steps you would take to strengthen the current architecture to improve data protection.

AYou would monitor for technology updates from your existing suppliers that could enhance the company's capabilities to detect, react, and recover from an IT security incident. You would prepare and run a disaster recovery planning exercise for an attack and analyze the performance of the current Enterprise Architecture. Using the findings, you would prepare a gap analysis of the current Enterprise Architecture. You would prepare change requests to address identified gaps. You would add the changes implemented to the Architecture Repository.

BYou would request an Architecture Compliance Review with the scope to examine the company's ability to respond to such attacks. You would identify the departments involved and have them nominate representatives. You would then tailor checklists to address the requirement for increased resilience. You would circulate to the nominated representatives for them to complete. You would then review the completed checklists, identifying and resolving issues. You would then determine and present your recommendations.

CYou would ensure that the company has in place up-to-date processes for managing change to the current Enterprise Architecture. Based on the scope of the concerns raised, you recommend that this be managed at the infrastructure level. Changes should be made to the baseline description of the Technology Architecture. The changes should be approved by the Architecture Board and implemented by change management techniques.

DYou would assess the business continuity requirements and analyze the current Enterprise Architecture for gaps. You would recommend changes to address the situation and create a change request. You would arrange a meeting of the Architecture Board to assess and approve the change request. Once approved, you would create a new Request for Architecture Work to begin an ADM cycle to implement the changes.
Explanation:
Option A aligns with TOGAF's approach to risk management and iteration within the ADM. It emphasizes proactive monitoring, gap analysis, and disaster recovery exercises, which are essential in addressing the identified risks. Updating the Architecture Repository ensures proper documentation and alignment with the architecture lifecycle.
Option B focuses on compliance rather than actively addressing identified risks.
Option C prematurely limits the scope to the infrastructure level, neglecting broader security and resilience measures.
Option D delays action by initiating a new ADM cycle without leveraging immediate mitigation strategies.

Answer : A

Question 3

You are working as an Enterprise Architect. The company you work for creates and sells products targeted at the end-user market, which are sold through retail organizations worldwide.

The company is embarking on a Digital Transformation 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.

The feedback from customers is that they do not find much value in these direct-to-consumer digital products. Analysis of the data on how the products are being used and who is using them shows that the products are not reaching the target audience that they were designed for, leading to a failure to meet the revenue goals. The product manager is seeking advice on how to tackle these problems, while making sure that the products still comply within the guardrails set by the EA team.

You are part of the Enterprise Architecture Team. 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.

You are working with the EA Team Leader to develop a plan for the overall Digital Transformation project. 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. The product development for this experiment took a Minimum Viable Architecture approach, including a shallow architecture development iteration with a focus on the Application Architecture, followed by a quick and minimal implementation.

The Enterprise Architecture practice at the company is sponsored by the Chief Technology Officer. 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 EA team leader wants to know how to gather information in order to respond to the product manager.

AYou would revise the target architecture for ADM Phase B and create new architecture models to address the issues raised. The modeling techniques 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 use of value stream mapping to break down the activities for the direct-to-consumer products. You would investigate different target Business Architecture alternatives.

BYou would review the baseline architecture for ADM Phase B to determine what gaps in functionality have been missed in the target architecture that would meet the customer's needs and attract the target audience. You would research emerging new technologies and draw up a list of alternatives that would increase the value proposition for the target audience. You would then define candidate roadmap components from the alternatives and develop a proposed schedule for deployment using a just-in-time approach. This will provide the product manager with the needed guidance to address the concerns raised.

CYou would perform another iteration of ADM Phases B-C. This would include the 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 by the product manager.

DYou would focus on the target Application Architecture, revising it to better align with the overall Digital Transformation plan. You would write a new Statement of Architecture Work and submit it for review by the EA team leader. The Statement of Architecture Work should include a detailed project description and a work plan. Once approved by the EA team leader, you would conduct a full ADM cycle based on the Statement of Architecture Work to gather all the necessary information to address the issues raised by the product manager.
Explanation:
Option A correctly addresses the issue by focusing on understanding customer value through Business Architecture modeling and value stream mapping. These approaches, supported by TOGAF's ADM Phase B, help ensure that the architecture aligns with customer needs and improves revenue generation.
Options B, C, and D either neglect customer-focused modeling or emphasize unnecessary phases like complete ADM cycles, which would delay actionable insights for the product manager.

Answer : A

Question 4

You are an Enterprise Architect working within a multinational company. The company has been very successful and has been buying companies around the world. It 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 defined a set of work packages that address the gaps found. They have noted the value produced, work needed, and dependencies between work packages to achieve a target architecture for adding 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. The entire implementation process is 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.

You have been asked about the next steps in planning the migration.

AYou put the Architecture Definition Document under configuration control. This will make sure that the architecture stays relevant and flexible to the needs of the enterprise. You would identify the needed resources to undertake the development projects. You would then produce an Implementation Governance Model to manage the lessons learned before finishing the plan. You suggest that the lessons learned be applied as changes to the architecture without a further check.

BYou estimate the business value for each project by applying the Business Value Assessment Technique to prioritize the implementation projects and project steps. The assessment should focus on return on investment and criteria for evaluating performance to track the progress of the architecture transformation. You would confirm and plan a series of Transition Architecture phases using a table of Architecture Definition Increments that lists the projects.

CYou conduct a series of Compliance Assessments to check that the architecture is being implemented as required by the contract. The Compliance Assessment needs to confirm that the implementation team is following the correct development process. This involves using monitoring tools and making sure that performance targets are being achieved. If the targets are not met, you would then need to make adjustments to the performance requirements and update them in the Implementation and Migration Plan.

DYou evaluate how the Implementation and Migration Plan affects the other frameworks currently in use within the organization. At a minimum, you make sure that the plan aligns with the business planning, project/portfolio management, and operations management frameworks. Next, you assign a value to each work package, taking into account the resources available and how they fit into the overall strategy. Using these work packages, you select which projects will be included in the Implementation and Migration Plan.
Explanation:
Option B aligns with TOGAF's ADM Phase F (Migration Planning). Using the Business Value Assessment Technique, prioritizing work packages, and confirming Transition Architectures ensures an effective and phased approach to mitigate risks and achieve desired business outcomes. TOGAF emphasizes creating a table of Architecture Definition Increments to guide this process.
Option A neglects the detailed planning and prioritization necessary for phased implementation.
Option C focuses prematurely on compliance without first ensuring a structured migration plan.
Option D emphasizes alignment but lacks the prioritization and ROI evaluation required for Transition Architectures.

Answer : B

Question 5

You are an Enterprise Architect at a food production and distribution company. The primary goal of the company is to maximize profit while satisfying the needs of consumers for its products. Its customers are demanding food that is produced sustainably, safely, and transparently while reducing environmental impact.

The business is highly mechanized, and this mechanization has caused a decrease in the number of workers needed, together with a focus on agricultural engineering to improve the efficiency of its farms, its processing facilities, and the overall enterprise. As part of this, the company has established an Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice based on the TOGAF standard, using it as the method and guiding framework. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is the sponsor of EA practice. The introduction of EA has enabled the decision-makers to have valuable insights into the different aspects of the business.

Global warming has caused a lot of poor harvests, and the company is producing fewer crops than before. This combined with an increase in costs for energy, feed, fuel, and fertilizer has led to a significant decrease in profits. The rising costs and reduced profits mean that the company is unable to take as much planned action on climate measures as it would like, such as reducing its carbon footprint. In response to the situation, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has decided that big changes are needed that will lead both to improved crop production and profitability. They must look to all aspects of the business. This includes looking at the mix of crops to mitigate for the change in climate.

The company will also cease to process its own crops and will sell off its processing facilities. Thus, the target market will change, and the end-products will be different and more varied. A formal request for architecture change has been approved. At this stage, there is no fixed scope, shared vision, or objectives.

Refer to the scenario: You have been asked to propose the best approach for architecture development to realize the CEO's change in direction for the company.

AYou propose that the priority is to produce a new Request for Architecture Work leading to the development of a new Architecture Vision. The trade-off method should be applied to identify and select an architecture satisfying the stakeholders. For an efficient change, the EA team should be aligned with the organization's planning, budgeting, operational, and change processes.

BYou propose that this engagement define the baseline Technology Architecture first in order to assess the current infrastructure capacity and capability for the company. Then the focus should be on transition planning and incremental architecture deployment. This will identify requirements to ensure that the projects are sequenced in an optimal fashion so as to realize the change.

CYou propose that the team uses the architecture definition document and focuses on architecture development starting simultaneously in Phases B, C, and D. This is because the CEO has 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 change.

DYou propose that the team focus on architecture definition including the development of business models, with emphasis on defining the change parameters to support this new business strategy that the CEO has identified. Once understood, the team will be in the best position to identify the requirements, drivers, issues, and constraints for the change.
Explanation:
Option D aligns with TOGAF's ADM, emphasizing the need to define and analyze the business strategy and parameters as part of Phase B (Business Architecture). This ensures that the architecture supports the new direction by addressing the core issues and defining a clear scope before proceeding to other phases.
Options A, B, and C either focus prematurely on Technology Architecture or omit the importance of creating a clear business strategy foundation before other phases.

Answer : D

Question 6

Scenario

Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question

Your role is that of Lead Enterprise Architect for a chain of convenience stores. The chain includes over 15,000 retail outlets throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Each store in the chain is an independently owned and operated franchise. The stores operate 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Many of the stores have been with the franchise for more than 10 years and still use the original IT systems deployed at that time.

The CEO of the chain has stated his concerns about the inefficiencies of the current systems and identified the need to change. He has defined a new strategic vision that will enhance the business by providing its franchisees new services to help them compete with other retail outlets and online retailers. This strategy is part of the long-term commitment to enhance the brand image and increase 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 products, and more efficient operations. The stores will also act as delivery and return locations for a large online retailer which will further increase the number of potential customers. The addition of a corporate-wide data warehouse will provide analytics that will enable the marketing group to improve its ability to target advertising and new products to specific regions.

The chain has a mature Enterprise Architecture practice based in its headquarters and uses the TOGAF standard as the method and guiding framework. The CIO is the sponsor of the activity.

The Chief Architect engaged the services of a leading 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 decision for the chain to adopt a packaged suite of integrated applications that is tailored to the needs of the franchise has been taken.

Refer to the scenario

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?

AYou 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.

BYou propose that this engagement define the baseline architecture first in order to assess the current infrastructure capacity and capability. The initial priority is to understand the proble,. 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.

CYou 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.

DYou 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.

Answer : A

Question 7

Which of the following best describes the purpose of an Architecture Definition Document?

ATo act as a deliverable container for artifacts created during a project

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

CTo provide a high-level view of the end architecture product

DTo govern the architecture throughout its implementation process

ETo show progression of change from the Baseline Architecture to the Target Architecture

Answer : A