Module 2: Business Architecture Frameworks

Question 1

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

Answer 1

• Business Strategy View
• Business Capabilities View
• Value/Process View
• Business Knowledge View
• Organisational View

Question 2

What is the business strategy view in OMGbasig

Answer 2

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

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Business Strategy View

Question 4

What is the business capabilities view in OMG BAsig

Answer 4

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

Question 5

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

Answer 5

1. Customer Facing
2. Support
3. Strategic

Question 6

What question does the business capabilities view aim to answer in OMG Basig?

Answer 6

What does the business do

Question 7

What is the value/process view in OMG BAsig?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Value/process view

Question 9

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

Answer 9

How does the business do it

Question 10

What is CIP?

Answer 10

Conceptual Infromation Model

Question 11

What is BDA

Answer 11

Business Data Architecture

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Business Knowledge Capability

Question 13

What is the business knowledge view in OMG Basig?

Answer 13

Encapsulates what the business knows and how the business communications

Question 14

What is the Organisational View in OMG BAsig

Answer 14

Relationships between organisational units and organisations interfaces

Question 15

What question does the Organisational View in OMG Basig answer?

Answer 15

What is the structure of the business

Question 16

What is the Zachman’s Framework?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Senior management perspective

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Business Concepts

Question 19

How does Zachman uses representations of the Enterprise?

Answer 19

Create a logical structure of the architecture

Question 20

What is The Open Group Architecture Framework?

Answer 20

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

Question 21

What are the TOGAF architecture domains?

Answer 21

1. Business architecture
2. Data architecture
3. Applications architecture
4. Technology Architecture

Question 22

TOGAF: What is business architecture?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

TOGAF: What is data architecture

Answer 23

Organisation’s logical and physical assets and data management resources

Question 24

TOGAF: What is applications architecture

Answer 24

Blueprint for the individual systems to be deployed

Question 25

TOGAF: What is technology architecture

Answer 25

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

Question 26

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

Answer 26

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

Question 27

What does the ADM look to address

Answer 27

1. Vision 2. Define the architecture 3. Planning the transformation 4. Architecture governance

Question 28

Does the ADM require information as inputs?

Answer 28

Yes

Question 29

What is the content framework

Answer 29

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

Question 30

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

Answer 30

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

Question 31

How does the Business Architecture Guild describe architecture?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

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

Answer 32

True

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Provide a holistic view of the business and how it operates

Question 34

Define Business Blueprint as per the Business Architecture Guild

Answer 34

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

Question 35

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

Answer 35

False, the blueprints provide transparency on change initiatives

Question 36

What do business scenarios provide?

Answer 36

Context in which to apply business blueprints.

Question 37

Is the POPIT model an architectural technique?

Answer 37

No

Question 38

What does the POPIT model encapsulate?

Answer 38

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

Question 39

What does the POPIT model help to understand are related?

Answer 39

Business motivation, strategic architecture business operating model technical architecture

Question 40

What are the 5 views of the POPIT Model

Answer 40

Process View Organisational View People View Infromation View Technical View

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Value proposition Value stream Value chain Core business processes

Question 42

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

Answer 42

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

Question 43

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

Answer 43

People View

Question 44

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

Answer 44

Technological View

Question 45

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

Answer 45

Architecture Systems Framework

Question 46

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

Answer 46

OMG Basig

Question 47

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

Answer 47

Motivation, Function Network

Question 48

In Zachman Framework what element represents Why

Answer 48

Motivation

Question 49

In Zachman Framework what element represents What

Answer 49

Data

Question 50

In Zachman Framework what element represents How

Answer 50

Function

Question 51

In Zachman Framework what element represents Who

Answer 51

People

Question 52

In Zachman Framework what element represents Where

Answer 52

Network

Question 53

In Zachman Framework what element represents When

Answer 53

Time

Question 54

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

Answer 54

Organisation