Introduction to Core Concepts Flashcards
What is the document number for TOGAF 10?
C220
What does TOGAF mean?
The Open Group Architecture Framework
Who prepared the TOGAF Standard, 10th Edition?
Architecture Forum (a forum of The Open Group)
What’s the link for The Open Group website?
opengroup.org
What are the types of EA Certification?
EA Foundation and EA Practitioner
List the Core Body of Knowledge or the Fundamental Content of the TOGAF Framework.
- Introduction to Core Concepts
- ADM
- ADM Techniques
- Applying the ADM
- Architectural Content
- Capability and Governance
List the TOGAF Series Guides
- The TOGAF Leader’s Guide to Establishing and Evolving an EA Capability
- A Practitioner’s Approach to Developing Enterprise Architecture Following the TOGAF ADM
- Enabling Enterprise Agility
- Integrating Risk and Security within a TOGAF Enterprise Architecture
- Business Scenarios
- Using the TOGAF Standard in the Digital Enterprise
What is an Enterprise?
- Enterprise is any collection of organizations that have common goals.
- The highest level of description of an organization used to identify the boundary encompassed by the Enterprise Architecture and EA Capability.
What is Enterprise Architecture?
A set of abstractions and models that simplify and communicate complex structures, processes, rules, and constraints to improve understanding, implementation, forecasting, and resourcing.
What is the purpose of Enterprise Architecture?
It provides a framework for change to manage risk and uncertainty.
What are the benefits of an Enterprise Architecture?
- More effective strategic decision making by C-Level executives and business leaders
- More effective and efficient operations due to lower operational costs by sharing capabilities across the organization
- Better ROI and Procurement since risk for future investment is reduced and information governing procurement is more readily available
- Balancing conflicting demands by providing a Big Picture view where trade-off analysis will be done and decisions will be made.
How is the Open Group Library structured?
The Open Group Library consists of:
- TOGAF Library
- TOGAF Standard
- TOGAF Fundamental Content
- TOGAF Series Guides
- White Papers
- Guides
- Reference Architecture
- Reference Cards
- Data Sheets
- Pocket Guides
Why is the TOGAF Standard suitable for Enterprise Architecture?
- It is suitable for EA since it plays an important role in standardizing and de-risks the architecture process.
- It is a framework for identifying and implementing change.
What are the Architecture Domains?
- Business Architecture
- Data Architecture
- Application Architecture
- Technology Architecture
What is Business Architecture?
Business Architecture defines the business strategy, governance, organization, and key business processes.
What is Data Architecture?
Data Architecture describes the structure of an organization’s logical and physical data assets and data management resources.
What is Application Architecture?
Application Architecture provides a blueprint for the individual applications to be deployed, their interactions, and their relationships to the core business processes of the organization.
What is Technology Architecture?
Technology Architecture describes the digital architecture and the logical software and hardware infrastructure capabilities and standards that are required to support the deployment of business, data, and applications services.
What is Architecture Abstraction?
An architectural technique for dividing a problem into smaller areas that are easier to model and therefore easier to solve.
What fundamental questions are answered by dividing architecture effort into abstraction levels?
- Why is the architecture needed?
- What functionality and other requirements need to be met by the architecture?
- How do we structure the functionality?
- With what assets shall we implement this structure?
What are the Abstraction Levels of Architecture?
- Contextual - Why
- Conceptual - What
- Logical - How?
- Physical - With what?
What is Contextual Abstraction?
- It is understanding the environment in which an enterprise operates and the context in which architecture work is planned and executed.
- It answers why an enterprise undertakes architecture work, what is the scope of the work, and the motivation in terms of goals, drivers, and objectives.
What is Conceptual Abstraction?
It is decomposing the requirements to understand the problem, and what is needed to address the problem, without unduly focusing on how the architecture will be realized.
What is Logical Architecture?
- It is identifying the kinds of business, data, and technology components needed to achieve the services identified in the concepts level.
- It is about identifying how an architecture can be organized and structured in an implementation-independent fashion.
What is Physical Abstraction?
- It is the allocation and implementation of physical components to meet the identified logical components.
- It is about determining with what physical components the logical-level components can be realized.
What is the Enterprise Continuum?
- The Enterprise Continuum sets the broader context for an architect and explains how architecture assets can be leveraged and specialized in order to support the requirements of an individual organization.
- It gives you guidelines on how to implement the Architecture Repository.
Enumerate the parts of an Enterprise Continuum.
- Architecture Continuum
- Solutions Continuum
Define the Architecture Repository.
- The Architecture Repository is the implementation of the Enterprise Continuum.
- It contains the Architecture Landscape, Solutions Landscape, Reference Library, Standards Library, Architecture Requirements Repository, and the Compliance Assessments in the Governance Repository.
- These are implemented using an EA tool with a modeling and analytic tool, and a file repository.
What is a Content Framework?
- It is a categorization framework to be used to structure the Architecture Descriptions, the work products used to express an architecture, and the collection of models that describe the architecture.
- It is a list of standards indicating what diagram to use, when to use it and which notation to use.
What is an Enterprise Metamodel?
- It defines the types of entities to appear in the models that describes the enterprise, together sith the relationships between these entities.
- It allows architectural concepts to be captured, stored, filtered, queried, and represented in a way that supports consistency, completeness, and traceability.
- It describes how you should perform modeling.
- It provides a good starting point for examining the information the EA Capability requires
What are the types of Architectural Work Products?
- Deliverables
- Contractual outputs of projects like SOW, SLA, etc.
- contains artifacts
- Artifacts - Catalogs, Matrices (tabular), Diagrams (graphical)
- contains ABBs
- Architecture Building Blocks (ABB)
What are the types of Artifacts?
- Catalogs - List of technologies, stakeholders, business functions, etc.
- Matrices - Tables of things; Tabular representation of relationships between building blocks
- Diagrams - Graphical representation of relationships between building blocks
What are the parts of the Architecture Repository?
- Architecture Metamodel
- Architecture Landscape
- Reference Library
- Standards Library
- Governance Repository
- Architecture Landscape
- Solutions Landscape
- Architecture Requirements Repository
