Archimate Foundation - Quick summary Flashcards
Fast review
What are the relationships types?
Structural. Dependency. Dynamic Other
Define the dynamic relationships and their notation
Dynamic, which are used to model behavior dependencies between elements
Define the Other relationships and their notation
Other, which do not fall into one of the structural, dependency and dynamic categories
Which ones are motivation elements?
Stakeholder Driver Outcome Goal Assessment Requirement Constrain Value Meaning Principle
Define the first 5 elements of the motivation, stakeholder, driver, assessment, goal and outcome? and their notation
Which ones are motivation elements?
Stakeholder Driver Assessment Outcome Goal Requirement Constrain Value Meaning
Define the other 5 elements of the motivation?, principle, requirement, constrain, meaning and value and their notation.
What are the strategy elements?
Capability, resource and course of action.
What is the difference between an internal active structure and external active structure?
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.
What is the difference between an internal active structure and external active structure?
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.
What is the difference between internal behaviour and external behaviour?
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.
What is the difference between internal behaviour and external active behaviour?
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.
What behavour element represents a state of change?
An event is a behavior element that denotes a state change.
What is the difference between an internal active structure and external active structure?
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.
Define active elements of the business layer, which ones are internal and which one external?. What are the notations they use?
Internal Active structure. Attached figure
Which relationships can be used with a Junction?
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
Describe the structural relationships and their notations
Structural, which model the static construction or composition of concepts of the same or different types
Define dependency relationships and their notation
Dependency, which model how elements are used to support other elements
define the strategy elements and their notation
Define the behavour elements of the business layer and their notation
Define the passive elements of the business layer and their notation
Define the active elements of the application layer and their notation
Define the behaviour elements of the application layer and their notation
Define the passive structure elements of the application layer and their notation
Define the passive structure elements of the technology layer and their notation
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
B. a reference structure used to classify elements of the ArchiMate core language
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
B. Behavior
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
D. The Ax application component is served by the Bx application component
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
B. Business function
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
C. A structure or behavior element in one of the core layers of the ArchiMate language
What relationship type models that an element provides its functionality to another element?
A. Access
B. Influence
C. Realization
D. Serving
D. Serving
What type of core element realizes a capability?
A. Active structure
B. Behavior
C. Composite
D. Passive structure
B. Behavior
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
B. Path
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.
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
B. Business function
