Quiz 1

Question 1

• An organization or sub-activity whose boundary is defined by commonly- held goals, processes, and resources.
• This includes whole organizations in the public, private, or non-profit sectors, part(s) of an organization such as business units, programs, and systems, or part(s) of multiple organizations such as consortia and supply chains.

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Enterprise

Question 2

• The analysis and documentation of an enterprise in its current and future states from an integrated strategy, business, and technology perspective.
• a management and technology practice
• focuses on the design and management of an organization’s overall structure, including its business processes, information systems, technology infrastructure, and human resources.
• Strategy + Business + Technology

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Enterprise Architecture

Question 3

by defining the overall vision, mission, and goals of the enterprise, and ensuring that its business and technology initiatives are aligned with these objectives.
- understanding the organization’s competitive landscape, identifying its core capabilities, and defining the key performance indicators that will be used to measure its success.

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Strategy

Question 4

by analyzing and modeling its operations, identifying areas of inefficiency or redundancy, and proposing improvements that can be implemented using technology solutions.
- This involves understanding the organization’s business capabilities, processes, information, and resources, and defining the key interactions between them.

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Business

Question 5

by defining the systems, applications, data, and infrastructure that will support the organization’s operations.

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Technology

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• Integrates and aligns various disciplines, such as business, information technology, operations,
  finance, and human resources, to provide a comprehensive view of an organization and enable effective communication and collaboration between different stakeholders.

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Meta-Discipline

Question 7

• (of a creative work) referring to itself or to the conventions of its genre; self-referential.
• Meaning “Beyond”

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Meta

Question 8

• virtual world where people can interact, work, and play using virtual reality (VR) technology, signifying a shift beyond just being a social
• media platform and into a more immersive digital environment;

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Metaverse

Question 9

• strategic planning and management framework that provides a comprehensive view of an organization and enables effective communication and collaboration between different stakeholders.

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Enterprise Architecture Approach

Question 10

• which identifies the planning, decision-making, and oversight processes and groups that will determine how the EA is developed and maintained, accomplished as part of an organization’s overall governance.

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Governance

Question 11

• which are specific steps to establish and maintain an EA program, via the selected approach.

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Methodology

Question 12

• identifies the scope of the overall architecture and the type and relationship of the various sub architecture levels and threads.
• Not all frameworks allow for sub-domains or are able to integrate strategy, business, and technology planning.

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Framework

Question 13

• Identifies the types and methods of documentation to be used in each sub-architecture area, including strategic analyses, business plans, internal controls, security Best Practices Framework Artifacts Methodology Governance Standards, and models of workflow, databases, systems, and networks.
• Core element also includes the online repository where artifacts are stored.

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Artifacts

Question 14

• identify business and technology standards for the enterprise in each domain, segment, and component of the EA.
• This includes recognized international, national, local, and industry standards as well as enterprise-specific standards.

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Standards

Question 15

which are proven ways to implement parts of the overall architecture or sub-architectures, in context of the over-arching EA.

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Best Practices

Question 16

• Helps organizations optimize their technology solutions to achieve their business goals.
• It provides a structured approach to IT management that can help organizations improve their efficiency, reduce costs, and achieve their objectives

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EA as a Management Program

Question 17

• Connects goals, activities, and resources
• process of aligning an organization’s business strategy with its IT strategy.
• It involves ensuring that the organization’s business objectives, goals, and processes are properly supported by its IT infrastructure and systems.
• This can help to improve efficiency, increase agility, and enable the organization to respond to changing market conditions and customer needs more effectively.

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Strategic Alignment

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• Resource governance and Implementation
• providing a holistic, hierarchical view of current and future resources,

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Standardized Policy

Question 19

• Financial control and configuration management
• refers to the use of information and analysis to support decision-making in an organization.
• EA provides a framework for decision support by defining the organization’s business and IT architectures, which provide a comprehensive view of the organization’s capabilities and resources.
• decision support is a critical aspect of EA,

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Decision Support

Question 20

• Lifecycle approach to development/management
• refers to the management and allocation of an organization’s resources, including its people, processes, data, applications, and infrastructure.
• by defining the organization’s current and future-state architectures, which provide a comprehensive view of the organization’s capabilities and resources.
• help organizations to allocate resources more effectively, reduce costs, and improve their overall performance.

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Resource Oversight

Question 21

• used to develop and implement technology solutions that align with an organization’s business goals and objectives.
• provides a systematic approach to designing, managing, and evolving IT systems.
• It provides a systematic approach to designing, managing, and evolving IT systems that can help organizations improve their efficiency, reduce costs, and achieve their objectives

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EA as an Analysis and Design Method

Question 22

• The framework, analysis/design method, and artifact set

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EA Approach

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Views of as-is strategies, processes, and resources

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Current Views

Question 24

• Views of to-be strategies, processes, and resources

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Future Views

Question 25

- A plan to move from the current to the future EA

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EA Management Plan

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- Identifies the scope of the architecture to be developed and establishes relationships between the architecture’s areas. - geometric design and the areas that are identified for documentation. - creates an abstracted set of “views” of an enterprise through the way that it collects and organizes architecture information

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EA Analysis and Design Element #1: The Framework

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- changeable goals, processes, standards, and resources that may extend enterprise-wide or be contained within a specific line of business or segment

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EA Analysis and Design Element #2: EA Components

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- EA components that currently exist within the enterprise at each level of the framework. - referred to as the “as-is” view. - current view of the EA serves to create a ‘baseline’ inventory of current resources and activities that is documented in a consistent way with the future view of the EA

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EA Analysis and Design Element #3: Current Architecture

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- documents those new or modified EA components that are needed by the enterprise to close an existing performance gap or support a new strategic initiative, operational requirement, or technology solution.

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EA Analysis and Design Element #4: Future Architecture

Question 30

- The EA Management Plan articulates the EA program and documentation approach. - provides descriptions of current and future views of the architecture, and a sequencing plan for managing the transition to the future business/technology operating environment. The EA Management Plan is a living document that is essential to realizing the benefits of the EA as a management program.

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EA Analysis and Design Element #5: EA Management Plan

Question 31

- refer to the different paths of execution within an enterprise system that are initiated by an event or a request. - can be thought of as the specific processes that are initiated by a user, application, or system that work together to accomplish a task or set of tasks. - Enables architects to design enterprise systems that can handle multiple concurrent processes efficiently and effectively.

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EA Analysis and Design Element #6: Threads

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- is a centralized storage system for an organization's IT architecture. - It stores, manages, and provides access to all of an organization's architectural artifacts.

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EA Repository

Question 33

enumerate 3 AE

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Strategic Business Technology

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enumerate AE approach

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Governance Methodology Framework Artifacts Standards Best Practices