Chapter 6 - Enterprise Continuum

Question 1

How many parts does the Enterprise Continuum have

Answer 1

3 - Enterprise Continuum /Architecture Continuum / Solutions Continuum

Question 2

Enterprise Continuum

Answer 2

is the outermost continuum and classifies assets related to the context of EA - contains Solution & Arch Continuum

Question 3

Architecture Continuum

Answer 3

offers ways to understand generic rules / relationships - representation Architecture Building Blocks, and shows relationships among foundational frameworks and common systems (e.g. III-RM). Useful tool to discover commonality and redundancy

Question 4

Solutions Continuum

Answer 4

Offers ways to understand implementation of assets defined in Arch Continuum - Solution Building Blocks

Question 5

Architecture Continuum - From FOUNDING to ORGANIZATION SPECIFIC

Answer 5

1: Foundation -> 2. Common Systems Arch -> 3. Industry Architecture -> 4. Org Specific Arch

Question 6

1. Foundation Architecture

Answer 6

generic components, principles and guidelines

Question 7

2. Common System Architecture

Answer 7

guide the selection and integration of specific services from foundation - building common solutions

Question 8

3. Industry Architecture

Answer 8

Retails industry “Active Store” architecture or open software for petrotechnical topics

Question 9

4. Org specific architecture

Answer 9

final deployment or third party components

Question 10

1. Foundation solution

Answer 10

highly generic concepts and tools - e.g. help desk - example foundation programming language or structures such as ITIL

Question 11

2. Common Systems Solution

Answer 11

Set of products and services which may be certified - Vendors are typical providers of technology centric common systems - “Software as a Service” as an example

Question 12

3. Industry Solution

Answer 12

Industry solution re-usable packages - appropriate for the industry

Question 13

4. Org-Specific Solution

Answer 13

Org-Specific Solution will be structured ito support specific SLAs

Question 14

Architecture Repository

Answer 14

Model of physical instance of the Enterprise Continuum.