Lecture 2 - EA

Question 1

Vilka är de fyra områdena inom EA?

Answer 1

-Business
-Information
-Applications
-Technology

Question 2

Why do we need EA?

Answer 2

To create and sustain Business and IT Alignment (BITA)

Question 3

How can we use models to help with EA?

Answer 3

-For representation
-Guide to action

Question 4

What is digitization?

Answer 4

Conversion of content to digital formats

Question 5

What is digitalization?

Answer 5

Leveraging process technologies to take advantage of digitized content

Question 6

What is digital transformation?

Answer 6

Transformation of business enabled by digitization of content and rapid change capabilities

Question 7

What is one challenge of digitalization?

Answer 7

Integration of product IT (P-IT) and enterprise IT (E-IT); two different speed architecures

Question 8

What is the difference between strategy and tactics in EA?

Answer 8

Strategy is the game-plan, tactics is how to execute the game-plan

Question 9

What are example of EA principles?

Answer 9

-IT lösningar ska i första hand köpas som tjänst
-IT stöd ska baseras på standardsystem och egenutveckling ska undvikas

Question 10

What is a reference architecture?

Answer 10

Template for an architecture instantiation for a certain domain within the city plan (Best Practice)

Question 11

What is ArchiMate?

Answer 11

Technical standard from The Open Group and is based on the concepts of the IEEE 1471 standard

Question 12

What is a problem of using tools in EA?

Answer 12

Static, inflexible, can be reductive to follow rigidly