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Module 2: Business Architecture Frameworks Flashcards

Understand artefacts of a business architecture / business architecture views / frameworks

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What are the five key views of a business identified by The Object Management Group Business Architecture Special Interest Group

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  • Business Strategy View
  • Business Capabilities View
  • Value/Process View
  • Business Knowledge View
  • Organisational View
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What is the business strategy view in OMGbasig

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What this business is looking to achieve, it’s strategic and tactical goals

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‘What does the business want’ is answered by what OMG BAsig View?

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Business Strategy View

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What is the business capabilities view in OMG BAsig

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Capture hierarchy of capabilities, what a business has to do, what it does.

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What are the business capabilities view categorised into in OMG BAsing?

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  1. Customer Facing
  2. Support
  3. Strategic
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What question does the business capabilities view aim to answer in OMG Basig?

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What does the business do

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What is the value/process view in OMG BAsig?

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Value-adding steps needed to deliver organisations value proposition to the market

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What OMG BAsing view is also known as ‘business in motion’

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Value/process view

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What question does Value/process view in OMG BAsig answer?

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How does the business do it

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What is CIP?

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Conceptual Infromation Model

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What is BDA

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Business Data Architecture

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What answers the question ‘What does the business know?’ in the OMG BAsig

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Business Knowledge Capability

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What is the business knowledge view in OMG Basig?

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Encapsulates what the business knows and how the business communications

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What is the Organisational View in OMG BAsig

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Relationships between organisational units and organisations interfaces

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What question does the Organisational View in OMG Basig answer?

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What is the structure of the business

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What is the Zachman’s Framework?

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6 levels (rows) and 6 columns. The first two describe the contextual and conceptual aspects of the enterprise architecture.

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What does the Contextual Level in Zachman’s Framework show?

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Senior management perspective

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What does the Conceptual Level in Zachman’s Framework show?

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Business Concepts

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How does Zachman uses representations of the Enterprise?

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Create a logical structure of the architecture

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What is The Open Group Architecture Framework?

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Popular framework for enterprise architecture that provides an approach for designing, planning and implementing and governing an enterprise information technology architecture

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What are the TOGAF architecture domains?

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  1. Business architecture
  2. Data architecture
  3. Applications architecture
  4. Technology Architecture
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TOGAF: What is business architecture?

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  1. Framework for understanding and improving organisations business operations.
  2. Defines principles, standards and models
  3. High level view of organisation including goals, capabilities, process, infromation and organisational structure
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TOGAF: What is data architecture

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Organisation’s logical and physical assets and data management resources

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TOGAF: What is applications architecture

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Blueprint for the individual systems to be deployed

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TOGAF: What is technology architecture

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Hardware, Software` and Network Infrastructure needed to support deployment of critical applications

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What is the key difference between the ADM and the content framework?

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ADM describes what needs to be done to create an architecture. Content model describes what the architecture should look like in target state

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What does the ADM look to address

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  1. Vision
  2. Define the architecture
  3. Planning the transformation
  4. Architecture governance
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Does the ADM require information as inputs?

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Yes

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What is the content framework

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provides an underlying structure for the ADM that defines inputs and outputs in more detail.

30
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The ADM and Content Framework should not overlap? True or False

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False, the content framework should be used as a companion to the ADM

31
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How does the Business Architecture Guild describe architecture?

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Reflecting the multi-dimensional aspects of the real-world in an abstract format.

32
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Capabilities, Value Streams, Information and Organisation as foundational aspects of the business architecture. True or False?

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True

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Why are Capabilities, Value Streams, Information and Organisation seen as foundational aspects?

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Provide a holistic view of the business and how it operates

34
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Define Business Blueprint as per the Business Architecture Guild

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A graphical representation of one or more aspects of an extended enterprise, which may extend beyond organisation boundaries

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Business architecture frameworks do not use business blueprints. True or False

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False, the blueprints provide transparency on change initiatives

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What do business scenarios provide?

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Context in which to apply business blueprints.

37
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Is the POPIT model an architectural technique?

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No

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What does the POPIT model encapsulate?

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Aspects of business architecture and holistic view of the business and constituent parts

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What does the POPIT model help to understand are related?

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Business motivation,
strategic architecture
business operating model
technical architecture

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What are the 5 views of the POPIT Model

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Process View
Organisational View
People View
Infromation View
Technical View

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What blueprint can be used to understand the Process View in the POPIT Model?

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Value proposition
Value stream
Value chain
Core business processes

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What blueprint can be used to understand the Organisational View in the POPIT Model?

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External environment
Vision/Strategy/Tactic
Business Op Model
Capabilities
Business Unites
Management Style
Change Initiatives
Organisational Memory

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The following blueprints aid in understanding what view in the POPIT Model:
- Job Descriptions
- Role
- Competency
- Culture
- Communication

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People View

44
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The following blueprints aid in understanding what view in the POPIT Model:
- Business Services
- Technical Architecture
- Applicational Architecture
- Security

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Technological View

45
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Which one of the following is NOT an Architectural framework:
1. TOGAF
2. Architecture Systems Framework
3. Zachman Framework
4. Five Views of the Object Modelling Group BAsig

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Architecture Systems Framework

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Business Strategy View, Business Capability View, Value View and Business Knowledge view are included in what Framework?

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OMG Basig

47
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Which elements of the Zachman Framework represent Why, How and Where

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Motivation,

Function

Network

48
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In Zachman Framework what element represents Why

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Motivation

49
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In Zachman Framework what element represents What

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Data

50
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In Zachman Framework what element represents How

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Function

51
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In Zachman Framework what element represents Who

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People

52
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In Zachman Framework what element represents Where

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Network

53
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In Zachman Framework what element represents When

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Time

54
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The Business Architecture Guild identifies four foundational aspects of the business architecture within its business architecture knowledge base. Which one of the following is included as on of four:
1. Performance
2. Vision and Strategy
3. Organisation
4. Policies and Rules

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Organisation

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