Archimate Foundation - Part 2 - Chapter 4-5

Question 1

What are the main types of elements of the Archimate language?

Answer 1

It consists of two main types of elements: structure (“nouns”) and behaviour elements (“verbs”)

Question 2

Which ones are the structure elements?

Answer 2

Structure elements are the strategic element resource, and structural elements, which are subdivided into active structure elements and passive structure elements. Active structure elements can be further subdivided into external active structure elements (also called interfaces) and internal active structure elements.

Question 3

Which ones are the behaviour elements?

Answer 3

Behaviour elements are the strategic elements course of action and capability, and behaviour elements which can be subdivided into internal behaviour elements, external behaviour elements (also called services), and events.

Question 4

What is an active structure element?

Answer 4

Active structure elements are the subjects that can perform behaviour

Question 5

How is subdivided the active structure elements?

Answer 5

These can be subdivided into internal active structure elements (i.e., the business actors, application components, nodes,etc.), that realize this behaviour – and external active structure elements ( i.e., the interfaces) that expose this behaviour to the environment. An interface provides an external view of the service provider and hides its internal structure.

Question 6

What does an internal active structure represent?

Answer 6

An internal active structure element represents an entity that is capable of performing behavior.

Question 7

What does an external active structure element represent?

Answer 7

An external active structure element, called an interface, represents a point of access where one
or more services are provided to the environment.

Question 8

What are behaviour elements?

Answer 8

Behavior elements represent the dynamic aspects of the enterprise.

Question 9

How is subdivided the behaviour elements?

Answer 9

Behaviour elements can be subdivided into internal behaviour elements and external behaviour elements; i.e., the services that are exposed to the environment. Also, third type of behaviour element is event.

Question 10

What does an internal behaviour element represent?

Answer 10

An internal behaviour element represents a unit of activity performed by one or more active structure elements.

Question 11

What does an external behaviour element represent?

Answer 11

An external behaviour element, called a service, represents an explicitly defined exposed behaviour.

Question 12

What does an event element represent?

Answer 12

An event is a behavior element that denotes a state change. An event may have a time attribute that indicates the moment or moments at which the event
happens. For example, this can be used to model time schedules.

Question 13

What is a passive structure element?

Answer 13

A passive structure element is a structural element that cannot perform behavior. Active
structure elements can perform behavior on passive structure elements.

Question 14

Which ones are specialization of structure and behavior elements?

Answer 14

Collaboration and interaction

Question 15

What is collaboration?

Answer 15

A collaboration is an aggregate of two or more active structure elements, working together to
perform some collective behavior.

Question 16

What is interaction?

Answer 16

An interaction is a unit of collective behavior performed by (a collaboration of) two or more
active structure elements.

Question 17

What are the motivation elements included in the language?

Answer 17

The motivation elements included in the language are: stakeholder, value, meaning, driver,
assessment, goal, outcome, principle, requirement, and constraint.

Question 18

What are the strategy elements included in the language?

Answer 18

The strategy elements include capability, resource, and course of action.

Question 19

What are the composite elements included in the language?

Answer 19

The composite elements consist of other concepts, possibly from multiple aspects or layers of the
language. The generic composite elements defined in the language are grouping and location.

Question 20

What is the grouping element?

Answer 20

The grouping element aggregates or composes concepts that belong together based on some
common characteristic.

Question 21

What is a location?

Answer 21

A location is a place or position where structure elements can be located or behavior can be
performed.

Question 22

Complete the sentence: If we model the sentence “Janet paints a picture”, the subject
“Janet” would go into ……….
A. active structure
B. behavior
C. passive structure
D. external behavior

Answer 22

A

Question 23

Complete the sentence: A service is a(n) ……….
A. passive structure element
B. motivation element
C. external active structure element
D. external behavior element

Answer 23

D

Question 24

Complete the sentence: Collective behavior is modeled as a(n) ……….
A. collaboration
B. interaction
C. interface
D. relationship

Answer 24

B

Question 25

Which aspect of the ArchiMate Framework includes business actors, application
components, and devices?
A. Active structure
B. Behavior
C. Informational concepts
D. Passive structure

Answer 25

A

Question 26

Which of the following is a behavior element?
A. Application function
B. Business actor
C. Application component
D. Artifact

Answer 26

A

Question 27

Which of the following is a composite element?
A. Capability
B. Collaboration
C. Interaction
D. Location

Answer 27

D

Question 28

What are the ways to classify the relationships in the Archimate language?

Answer 28

The relationships in the ArchiMate language are classified in four ways:
 Structural, which model the static construction or composition of concepts of the same or
different types
 Dependency, which model how elements are used to support other elements
 Dynamic, which are used to model behavior dependencies between elements
 Other, which do not fall into one of the above categories

Question 29

What is a composition relationship?

Answer 29

Indicates that an element consists of one or more other concepts.
A composition relationship is always allowed between two
instances of the same element type.
The usual interpretation of a composition relationship is that the
whole or part of the source element is composed of the whole of
the target element.
The entity at the end with the diamond is the parent of the entity
on the other end (the child).

Question 30

What is an aggregation relationship?

Answer 30

Indicates that an element consists of one or more other concepts.
An aggregation relationship is always allowed between two
instances of the same element type.
The usual interpretation of an aggregation relationship is that the
whole or part of the source element aggregates the whole of the
target element.
The entity at the end with a diamond is considered to be the
parent of the entity at the end without a diamond.
An alternate notation is to nest elements.

Question 31

What is an assignment relationship?

Answer 31

Expresses the allocation of responsibility, performance of
behavior, or execution.
The assignment relationship links active structure elements with
units of behavior that are performed by them, business actors
with business roles that are fulfilled by them, and nodes with
technology objects.
It always points from active structure to behavior, and from
behavior to passive structure. The non-directional notation from
the ArchiMate 2.1 Specification and before, which shows the
black ball at both ends of the relationship, is still allowed but
deprecated.

Question 32

What is an access relationship?

Answer 32

Models the ability of behavior and active structure elements to
observe or act upon passive structure elements.
This represents a data dependency, denoted by a dashed line.
The access relationship indicates that a process, function,
interaction, service, or event “does something” with a passive
structure element; e.g., create a new object, read data from the
object, write or modify the object data, or delete the object. The
relationship can also be used to indicate that the object is just
associated with the behavior; e.g., it models the information that
comes with an event, or the information that is made available as
part of a service.
The arrow head, if present, indicates the direction of the flow of
information.

Question 33

What is an influence relationship?

Answer 33

Models that an element affects the implementation or
achievement of some motivation element.
This is the weakest type of dependency, and is used to model
how motivation elements are influenced by other elements.
Attributes can be used to indicate the sign and/or strength of the
influence. The choice of possible attribute values is left to the
modeler; e.g., {++, +, 0, -, –} or [0..10]. By default, the influence
relationship models a contribution with unspecified sign and
strength.

Question 34

What is a triggering relationship?

Answer 34

Describes a temporal or causal relationship between elements.

Question 35

What is a flow relationship?

Answer 35

Transfer from one element to another.

Question 36

What is an specialization relationship?

Answer 36

Indicates that an element is a particular kind of another

element.

Question 37

What is an association relationship?

Answer 37

Models an unspecified relationship, or one that is not
represented by another, more specific ArchiMate
relationship.
An association relationship is always allowed between
two elements, or between a relationship and an
element.

Question 38

What is a Junction ?

Answer 38

Used to connect relationships of the same type.
A junction is not an actual relationship in the same
sense as the other relationships, but rather a
relationship connector.
A junction may have multiple incoming relationships
and one outgoing relationship, one incoming
relationship and multiple outgoing relationships, or
multiple incoming and outgoing relationships (the
latter can be considered a shorthand of two subsequent
junctions).
A junction is used to explicitly express that several
elements together participate in the relationship (and
junction) or that one of the elements participates in the
relationship (or junction).

Question 39

Complete the sentence: Relationships that model temporal dependencies between behavior
elements are known as ……….
A. other
B. structural
C. dynamic
D. static

Answer 39

C

Question 40

Which of the following is not a structural relationship?
A. Composition
B. Triggering
C. Aggregation
D. Assignment

Answer 40

B

Question 41

Which of the following relationships is used to describe the transfer of information between
processes?
A. Flow
B. Triggering
C. Aggregation
D. Used by

Answer 41

A

Question 42

What type of relationship can be used to model the following: A Purchase Order is a type of
a Business Form.
A. Composition
B. Specialization
C. Aggregation
D. Assignment

Answer 42

B

Question 43

Complete the sentence: When two or more dynamic relationships of the same type need to
be connected you should use a(n) ……….
A. aggregation
B. composition
C. intersection
D. junction

Answer 43

D

Question 44

Which of the following statements about the grouping relationship is not true?
A. The grouping relationship indicates that objects belong together based on some
common characteristic.
B. The grouping relationship has no formal semantics.
C. It is used to show graphically that model elements have something in common.
D. Model elements may only belong to one group.

Answer 44

D