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Which TOGAF “Certifications” paths are there?

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  • TOGAF 9 Foundation
  • TOGAF 9 Practitioner
  • TOGAF Enterprise Architecture part 1
  • TOGAF Enterprise Architecture part 2
  • TOGAF Business Architecture Foundation
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Which TOGAF “Learning” paths are there?

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  • Integrating Risk & Security in TOGAF Enterprise Architecture
  • TOGAF Framework: Digital Specialist
  • TOGAF Framework: Agile Specialist
  • TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Leader
  • TOGAF Business Architecture level 1
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What is considered as Enterprise?

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Any collection of organizations that have common goals
- Entire Enterprise
- Specific Area in the Enterprise

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What may include an enterprise?

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  • Partners
  • Suppliers
  • Customers
  • Internal business units
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What are examples of an enterprise?

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  • Whole corporation or division
  • Government agency or government department
  • Group of Countries
  • ….
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Why is an Enterprise Architecture developed?

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To guide effective change. It provides a framework for change linked to both strategic direction and business value

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How is Enterprise Architecture used in governance? (2 Answers)

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  1. Direct change activity
  2. Control change activity
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What does a good Enterprise Architecture facilitate? (4 Answers)

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  • Effective governance
  • Management
  • Risk Management
  • Opportunities
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What are the key benefits for having enterprise architecture? (5 Answers)

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  • More effective decision making by C-Level executive and business leaders
  • More effective and efficient business operations
  • More effective and efficient digital transformation and operations
  • Better return on existing investments and reduced risk future investments
  • Faster, simpler and cheaper procurment
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Why does enterprise architecture matter? (3 Answers)

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  • Better planning
  • Earlier visibility
  • More informed designs
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What is the TOGAF structure based on? (2 answers)

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  • TOGAF fundamental content
  • TOGAF series guide
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Why is the TOGAF standard suitable as framework for Enterprise Architecture?

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It is a standardized approach and de-risk the activity

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What provides the TOGAF standard as Enterprise Architecture? (3 Answers)

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  • Standard cycle of change (ADM)
  • Building blocks
  • Set of guidelines, techniques and advice
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What are the 4 architecture domains?

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  • Business architecture
  • Data architecture
  • Application architecture
  • Technology architecture
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Architecture effort can be divided into abstractions levels:

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  • Why - Why is architecture needed?
  • What - What functionally and requirement need to be met by the architecture?
  • How - How do we structure the functionality
  • With what - With what asset we implement this structure
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Which architecture levels are there?

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  • Contextual - Why
  • Conceptual - What
  • Logical - How
  • Physical - With what
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What does the Enterprise Continuum deliver?

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Classification for architecture and solution artifacts.

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How can you see enterprise continuum?

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A view of the repository of all architecture assets

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What are architecture assets (Artifcats)

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  • Models
  • Building blocks
  • Patterns
  • Architecture viewpoint
  • …..
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Which ideas support enterprise continuum? (2 Answers)

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  • Re-use where possible
  • An aid to communication
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What include the architecture repository? (8 Answers)

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  • Metamodel
  • Capability
  • Landscape
  • Standards library
  • Reference library
  • Governance repository
  • Architecture requirement repository
  • Solution landscape (SBBs)
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What defines the content framework? (3 Answers)

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  • A categorization framework
  • The work product
  • A collection of models
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What defines the enterprise metamodel?

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Type of entities and the relationships between entities

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What is an architecture capability ? (2 Answers)

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  • The ability to develop, use and sustain the architecture
  • Architecture governance
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Where does enterprise architecture establish capabilities? (9 Answers)

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  • Finance management
  • Performance management
  • Service management
  • Risk & Opportunity management
  • Resource management
  • Communication & stakeholder management
  • Supplier management
  • Configuration management
  • Environment management
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What is important with risks

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Identify, classify and mitigate before starting

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Which risks levels are there?

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  • Initial level of risk - Before defining and implementing mitigation actions
  • Resident level of risk - After implementation of mitigation actions
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What does the TOGAF ADM provides? (3 Answers)

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  • A tested and repeatable proces for developing architectures
  • A method for deriving organization specific enterprise architecture
  • It is designed to address business requirements
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Which ADM Phases are there? (9 Answers)

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  • Preliminary
  • Phase A: Architecture Vision
  • Phase B: Business architecture
  • Phase C: Information system architecture
  • Phase D: Technology architecture
  • Phase E: Opportunities and solutions
  • Phase F: Migration planning
  • Phase G: Implementation Governance
  • Phase H: Architecture change management
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Which deliverable states are there?

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  • Draft
  • Approved
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How is the ADM iterative?

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  • Whole proces
  • Between phases
  • Within phases
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All the ADM phases can be handled subsequent there is no hard flow (True/False)

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True

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How can you reach governance in the decision framework?

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Architecture board

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What is the key concept to govern the technical architecture

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The architecture project

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For what is the architecture project used?

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To direct and control the enterprise architecture team to address issues in the enterprise

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What are the 2 key concept to govern the architecture project

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  • Architecture contract
  • Architecture requirement specification
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How is the scope of architecture defined?

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  • Breadth : What is the fall extend
  • Depth : Detail
  • Time period
  • Architecture domains (business/data/application/technology)
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Why you should consider architecture alternatives?

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It helps architect to extract hidden agenda’s, principles and requirements that can impact the final target architecture

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Where does TOGAF standard align with agile

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In Phase G, where a project is implemented

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Which resources supports the application of TOGAF ADM

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  • Guidelines
  • Templates
  • Checklist
  • Other detailed information
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Which guidelines and technologies help you to the application of TOGAF ADM

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  • ADM Techniques
  • TOGAF series guide
  • TOGAF white papers
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What are architecture principles

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General rules & guidelines. These are developed by the enterprise architect in conjunction with stakeholders and accepted in the architecture board.

This is an output of the preliminary phase

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Which purpose address the architecture principles?

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  • Enabling decision making
  • Aligning the enterprise
  • Ensuring governance
  • Understanding values and cultures
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TOGAF includes a recommended template for describing principles

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  • Name
  • Statement
  • Rationale
  • Implications
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What makes a good architecture principle?

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The beliefs and values of the organization. A few, in number, future oriented, and endorsed and championed by senior management

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Which 5 criteria distinguish good set of principles

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  • Complete
  • Robust
  • Understandable
  • Consistent
  • Stable
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Where is the business scenario used for?

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To help identify and understand the business requirement that an architecture must address

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What is the result of a good business scenario?

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Representation of a significant business need or problem and enables vendors to understand value of the solution to the customer

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A business scenario describe?

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  • Business problem
  • Business and technology environment
  • The people and computer components who execute the scenario
  • The desired outcome
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Can business scenario used in every ADM Phase

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Yes, most likely preliminary phase

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How does the method look like?

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  1. Identify
  2. Document
  3. Make smart
  4. Identify participants
  5. Identify computer actors
  6. Check for fitness-for-purpose
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What is the purpose of the gap analyse

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Document difference between baseline and target architecture. It identifies building blocks of the architecture that are edited, changed or deleted

53
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How does organizations see interoperability

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  • Operational (business) interoperability
  • Information interoperability
  • Technical interoperability
54
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How is interoperability determined in TOGAF

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Through all the ADM Phases

55
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What is the biggest change to work under architecture

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Humans. To accept, change, identify issues and dealing with them in the implementation phase E/F

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In which phase the “transformation readiness assessment” is recommended?

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Phase A: architecture vision

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What are the recommended activities in the TRA?q

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  • Determine the readiness factors
  • Present the readiness factors
  • Asses the readiness factors
  • Asses the risk for reach readiness factor
  • Work these actions into the implementation and migration phase E/F
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In which phase risks are identified?

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Phase A: as part of the TRA

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How does the ADM support iteration?

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  • iteration to describe a comprehensive architecture landscape through multiple adm cylcles
  • iteration to describe the integrated process of developing an architecture
  • iteration to describe the process of managing change to the organization capabilities
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Where take iteration place within the adm cycle?

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  • Projects may operate multiple adm phases concurrently - between architecture phases
  • Projects may cycle beween adm phases
  • Project may update work products with new information - When details or scope change during proces
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When wil each phase of architecture be bound?

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By a Request of Architecture Work

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What are the characteristics that frame the architecture landscape

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  • breadth
  • level of detail
  • time
63
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Which three architecture levels of granularity are there?

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  • Strategic architecture - Allows for direction setting at an executive level
  • Segment architecture - Direction setting and development of architecture roadmap (program of portfolio)
  • Capability architecture - Provides organization framework for change and development
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What defines the term architecture partition

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A subset of architecture resulting from dividing that architecture to facilitate the development and management

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How does partitions help?

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Simplify the development and management of enterprise architecture

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Does the partition reflect on the organization?

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Yes, each organization has its own partitions

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What are the reasons of partitioning

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  • Organizational unit architectue conflict with on another
  • Different teams need to work on different elements of architecture at the same time
  • Effective architecture re-use requires modular architecture segments that can be taken into broader architecture and solutions
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What are 4 purposes that help frame the planning, horizon breadth and depth of the architecture project?

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  • Architecture to support strategy
  • Architecture to support portfolio
  • Architecture to support project
  • Architecture to support solution delivery
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What delivers the architecture support strategy?

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Enterprise architecture to provide end-to-end target architecture

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What delivers the architecture support portfolio

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Enterprise architecture to support cross-functional, multi-phase, and multi-project change initiatives

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What delivers the architecture support project

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Enterprise architecture to support enterprise project delivery method

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What delivers the support solution delivery

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Enterprise architect that is set to support the solution deployment

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How does TOGAF standars support the digital enterprise?

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It supports and enables the agile environment in delivery and enhancing digital products and services quicker and easier by providing insight into various areas

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To what gives the enterprise architecture insight to support and enable an agile environment?

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  • Reactivly managing technical debt as the result of sprints in cohensive and connected fashion
  • Proactivly managing technical debt and acticipating agile development needs (standardization & Governance)
  • Managing mature digital products and delivering operational excellence (simplifying complexity & Establishing enterprise architecture capability
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What is the definition of governance

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A system that direct and controls the current and future state

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What is governance for process?

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Decision-making process with a defined structure of relationships to achieve enterprise stated goals

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What do we need to define in governance decision making?

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  • Who is responsible
  • Who is involved
  • Who is accountable
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What includes the architecture governance practice and orientation

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  • Controls on the creation and monitoring of components and activities, ensuring introduction, implementation and evolution of architecture
  • Ensuring compliance with internal and external standard and regulatory
  • Support management of controls and compliance
  • Ensuring accountability to external and internal stakeholder
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Where is governance about?

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Hierarchy of decision-making that everyone commits to

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Which domains are there in governance, with their own discipline and processes?

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  • Corporate governance
  • Technology governance
  • IT governance
  • Architecture governance
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Why does architecture governance benefit?

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  • Discipline - all involved teams provide commitment
  • Transparency - all decision making can be inspected by stakeholders
  • Independence - avoid potential conflicts
  • Accountability - governance boards who are responsible for decision-making
  • Responsibility
  • Fairness
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What is a key element of architecture governance?

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Cross organization Architecture Board

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What is the responsiblity of the architecture board?

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  • providing the basis for all decision-making with regard to architecture
  • consistency between sub-architecture
  • establishing targets for re-use of components
  • enforcement of architecture compliance
  • supporting a visible escalation capability of any out-of-bound decisions
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What are architecture contracts?

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The joint agreement between development partners and sponsors on the deliverables, quality and fit-for-purpose of architecture

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Where are architecture contracts in the adm phases

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Phase A - architecture vision
Phase B, C, D - business, data, application and technology architecture

86
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What is essential aspect of architecture governance

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Architecture compliance

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Why are compliance reviews needed?

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  • Catch errors in the project architecture early
  • Ensure the application of best practices in architecture work
  • Provide overview of compliance and mandated standards
  • Identify where standards may need modification
  • Identify services thar currently application specific but might be part of enterprise architecture
  • Communicate to management of status of project
  • Identify and communicate significant architecture gaps to product and services
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What is key concept: Stakeholder?

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This are individuals, teams, organizations or a class of it having an interest in the system. They have a key role in the project

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What is the key concept: Concern

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This are interests in a system relevant to one or more of its stakeholders. They may have a specific aspect of the system function, developing, or operation including reliably, security etc. They may determine the acceptability of the system

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What is the key concept: Architecture view

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This is a representation of the system from the perspective of a related set of concerns. An architecture view is what you see(or stakeholder sees). An enterprise architect creates different architecture view for business, information and technical stakeholders

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What is the key concept: Architecture viewpoint

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In a viewpoint defines the perspective from which an architecture view is taken. It defines how to construct and use an architecture view, the information needed, the modeling techniques and a rational for these choices

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What is a system?

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This is a combination of interacting elements organized to achieve one or more stated purposes

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What is the environment?

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Is the context determining the setting and circumstances of all influences upon a system. This includes development, technological, business operation, political, economical, legal etc.

94
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What is the architecture description

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This is a work product used to express an architecture. A collection of architecture views and models that are together documented

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What is a building block?

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This is a package of functionality defined to meet the business needs across an organization

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Which level of details in building blocks are there?

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Architecture Building Block (ABB)
Solution Building Block (SBB)

97
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What is an architecture building block

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Groups of fundamental functional level architecture requirements

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What is an solution building block

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Real product that can be procured or specific custom developments

99
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A good choice in building blocks can lead to?

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Improvements in legacy system integration, interoperability and flexibility in creation of new system and applications

100
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In which ADM phases takes building blocks place?

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Phase A, B, C, D. It is an iterative process

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What is the building block pattern in phases B, C, D

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  1. Select reference models, viewpoints and tools
  2. Develop baseline architecture description
  3. Develop target architecture description
  4. Perform gap analyse
102
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Which deliverables take p lace in preliminary phase?

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  • Architecture principles
  • Business principles, business goals and business drivers
  • Request of architecture work
103
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Which deliverables take place in phase A: architecture vision

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  • Statement of architecture work
  • Architecture vision
  • Communcation plans
  • Capability assessment
  • Architecture definition document
104
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Which deliverables take place in Phase B, C, D

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  • Architecture definition document
  • Architecture requirement specification
  • Architecture roadmap
105
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Which deliverable take place in phase E: Opportunities and solutions

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  • Architecture definition document
  • Architecture roadmap
  • Implementation and migration plan
  • Implementation governance model
106
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Which deliverables take place in phase F: migration planning

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  • Architecture roadmap
  • implementation and migration plan
  • implementation governance model
107
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Which deliverables take place in phase G: implementation governace

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  • Implementation governance model
  • Architecture contracts
  • Change request
  • Compliance assessment
108
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Which deliverables take place in phase H: Architecture change management

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  • Implementation governance model
  • Architecture contracts
  • Change request
  • Compliance assessment
  • Request for architecture work
  • Requirements impact assessment
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Which deliverables take place in ADM architecture requirement management

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  • Architecture requirement specification
  • Requirements impact assessment
110
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What is an architecture contract

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This is joint agreements between development partners, sponsors on the deliverables, quality and fit-for-purpose

111
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What is architecture definition document

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Is the deliverable container for the core architectural artifacts created during a project

112
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What is business architecture deliverable

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Is developed in phase B. Contains, baseline business architecture, target business architecture, business processes, business roles, business data model and correlation or organization and functions

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What is the information system architecture deliverable

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Is developed in phase C. Contains baseline and target architecture from a system perpective

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What is the technology architecture deliverable

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Is developed in phase D. Contains baseline and target architecture from a technology perspective

115
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What is the architecture requirement speficiation

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This provides a set of quantitive statements that outline what an implementation project must do i order to comply with the architecture

116
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What is the architecture roadmap?

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This list individual work packages that will realize the target architecture and lays them out on a timeline to show progression from the baseline to target architecture

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What is the architecture vision?

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Is created in phase A and provides a high-level summary of the changes to the enterprise from successfully deploy target architecture

118
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What does the capability assessment do?

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To understand the baseline and target capability level of the enterprise. This is carried out in Phase A and later in Phase E. This includes: Business- and IT capability, architecture maturity assessment and business transformation readiness

119
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What does the change request do?

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The architecture is not sufficient for a project. The target architecture needs a change to address the future needs

120
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What is a Critical Success Factor (CSF) for architecture work?

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Communication plan

121
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What is needed in case of communication plan?

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  • Identification stakeholders
  • Identification of communication needs
  • Identification of communication mechanisms
  • Identification of communication timetable
122
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How do you govern the created architecture?

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Compliance assessment. During phase G

123
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What are typical contents of compliance assessments

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  • Overview of project progress and status
  • Overview of project architecture/design
  • Completed architecture checklist
124
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What provides the implementation and migration plan?

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A schedule of project for implementation of the target architecture

125
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What is a request of architecture work

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This is sent from the sponsoring organization to the architecture organization to start a new architecture development lifecycle

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What is requirement impact assessment

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Throughout the ADM cycle new information is collected. This needs to be addressed and integrated in the architecture

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