Archimate Foundation - Quick summary

Question 1

What are the relationships types?

Answer 1

Structural. Dependency. Dynamic Other

Question 2

Define the dynamic relationships and their notation

Answer 2

Dynamic, which are used to model behavior dependencies between elements

Question 3

Define the Other relationships and their notation

Answer 3

Other, which do not fall into one of the structural, dependency and dynamic categories

Question 4

Which ones are motivation elements?

Answer 4

Stakeholder Driver Outcome Goal Assessment Requirement Constrain Value Meaning Principle

Question 5

Define the first 5 elements of the motivation, stakeholder, driver, assessment, goal and outcome? and their notation

Answer 5

Question 6

Which ones are motivation elements?

Answer 6

Stakeholder Driver Assessment Outcome Goal Requirement Constrain Value Meaning

Question 7

Define the other 5 elements of the motivation?, principle, requirement, constrain, meaning and value and their notation.

Answer 7

Question 8

What are the strategy elements?

Answer 8

Capability, resource and course of action.

Question 9

What is the difference between an internal active structure and external active structure?

Answer 9

An internal active structure element represents an entity that is capable of performing behaviour. An external active structure element, called an interface, represents a point of access where one or more services are provided to the environment.

Question 10

What is the difference between an internal active structure and external active structure?

Answer 10

An internal active structure element represents an entity that is capable of performing behaviour. An external active structure element, called an interface, represents a point of access where one or more services are provided to the environment.

Question 11

What is the difference between internal behaviour and external behaviour?

Answer 11

An internal behavior element represents a unit of activity performed by one or more active structure elements. An external behavior element, called a service, represents an explicitly defined exposed behavior.

Question 12

What is the difference between internal behaviour and external active behaviour?

Answer 12

An internal behavior element represents a unit of activity performed by one or more active structure elements. An external behavior element, called a service, represents an explicitly defined exposed behavior.

Question 13

What behavour element represents a state of change?

Answer 13

An event is a behavior element that denotes a state change.

Question 14

What is the difference between an internal active structure and external active structure?

Answer 14

An internal active structure element represents an entity that is capable of performing behaviour. An external active structure element, called an interface, represents a point of access where one or more services are provided to the environment.

Question 15

Define active elements of the business layer, which ones are internal and which one external?. What are the notations they use?

Answer 15

Internal Active structure. Attached figure

Question 16

Which relationships can be used with a Junction?

Answer 16

The relationships that can be used in combination with a junction are all the dynamic and dependency relationships, as well as assignment, realization, and association. 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). A junction should either have one incoming and more than one outgoing relationships, or more than one incoming and one outgoing. It is allowed to omit arrowheads of relationships leading into a junction. Junctions used on triggering relationships are similar to gateways in BPMN and forks and joins in UML activity diagrams. They can be used to model high-level process flow. A label may be added to outgoing triggering relationships of a junction to indicate a choice, condition, or guard that applies to that relationship. Such a label is only an informal indication. No formal, operational semantics have been defined for these relationships, because implementation-level languages such as BPMN and UML differ in their execution semantics and the ArchiMate language does not want to unduly constrain mappings to such languages

Question 17

Describe the structural relationships and their notations

Answer 17

Structural, which model the static construction or composition of concepts of the same or different types

Question 18

Define dependency relationships and their notation

Answer 18

Dependency, which model how elements are used to support other elements

Question 19

define the strategy elements and their notation

Answer 19

Question 20

Define the behavour elements of the business layer and their notation

Answer 20

Question 21

Define the passive elements of the business layer and their notation

Answer 21

Question 22

Define the active elements of the application layer and their notation

Answer 22

Question 23

Define the behaviour elements of the application layer and their notation

Answer 23

Question 24

Define the passive structure elements of the application layer and their notation

Answer 24

Question 25

Define the passive structure elements of the technology layer and their notation

Answer 25

Question 26

Complete the sentence: The ArchiMate Core Framework is ……….
A. an abstraction of the ArchiMate Framework at which an enterprise can be modeled
B. a reference structure used to classify elements of the ArchiMate core language
C. the central part of the ArchiMate language that defines the concepts and relationships to
model Enterprise Architectures
D. a description of the top-level language structure

Answer 26

B. a reference structure used to classify elements of the ArchiMate core language

Question 27

Consider the following symbol for an element shown using the standard notation:

What type of element does this denote?
A. Active structure
B. Behavior
C. Composite
D. Motivation

Answer 27

B. Behavior

Question 28

Consider the following diagram:

What is the correct description of this diagram?
A. The Bx application component realizes the Ax application component.
B. Information flows from the Bx application component to the Ax application component.
C. The Bx application component triggers the Ax application component.
D. The Ax application component is served by the Bx application component

Answer 28

D. The Ax application component is served by the Bx application component

Question 29

Which Business Layer element is defined as: “A collection of business behavior based on a chosen set of criteria (typically required business resources and/or competencies), closely aligned to an organization, but not necessarily governed by the organization”?
A. Business activity
B. Business function
C. Business interaction
D. Business process

Answer 29

B. Business function

Question 30

What is a core element?
A. A basic unit of the core metamodel
B. An element consisting of other elements from multiple aspects of the core language
C. A structure or behavior element in one of the core layers of the ArchiMate language
D. A property associated with a core language concept

Answer 30

C. A structure or behavior element in one of the core layers of the ArchiMate language

Question 31

What relationship type models that an element provides its functionality to another element?
A. Access
B. Influence
C. Realization
D. Serving

Answer 31

D. Serving

Question 32

What type of core element realizes a capability?
A. Active structure
B. Behavior

C. Composite
D. Passive structure

Answer 32

B. Behavior

Question 33

What element is defined as a representation of a link between two or more nodes, through which the nodes exchange material?
A. Communication network
B. Path
C. Technology interface
D. Technology interaction

Answer 33

B. Path

Question 35

Answer 35

False. There is no prescription for using colours in Archimate, you can use any colours.

Archimate defines yellow, blue and green for business, applications and technology layers.

Question 36

Which Business layer element is defined as: “A collection of business behavior based on a chosen set of
criteria (typically required business resources and/or competencies), closely aligned to an organization,
but not necessarily governed by the organization”?
A. Business activity
B. Business function
C. Business interaction
D. Business process

Answer 36

B. Business function