The Open Group OGEA-103 Exam Syllabus Topics:

The Open Group TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Combined Part 1 and Part 2 Sample Questions:

1. You are working as an Enterprise Architect at a large company. The company runs many retail stores as well as an online marketplace that allows hundreds of brands to partner with the company. The company has a mature Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice and uses the TOGAF standard for its architecture development method. The EA practice is involved in all aspects of the business, with oversight provided by an Architecture Board with representatives from different parts of the business. The EA program is sponsored by the Chief Information Officer (CIO).
Many of the stores remain open all day and night. Each store uses a standard method to track sales and inventory, which involves sending accurate, timely sales data to a central AI-based inventory management system that can predict demand, adjust stock levels, and automate reordering. The central inventory management system is housed at the company's central data center.
The company has acquired a major rival. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) believes that the merger will enable growth through combined offerings and cost savings. The decision has been made to fully integrate the two organizations, including merging retail operations and systems. Duplicated systems will be replaced with one standard retail management system. The CIO expects significant savings from these changes across the newly merged company.
The rival company has successfully implemented the use of hand-held devices within stores for both customers and staff, which has increased satisfaction due to time savings. The CIO has approved the rollout of these devices to all stores but has stated that training should be brief, as there are many part-time employees.
You have been asked to confirm the most relevant architecture principles for this transformation. Based on the TOGAF Standard, which of the following is the best answer?

A) Common Use Applications, Data is an Asset, Data is Accessible, Ease of Use, Business Continuity
B) Common Vocabulary and Data Definitions, Compliance with the Law, Requirements Based Change, Responsive Change Management, Data Security
C) Control Technical Diversity, Interoperability, Data is an Asset, Data is Shared, Business Continuity
D) Maximize Benefit to the Enterprise, Common Use Applications, Data is an Asset, Responsive Change Management, Technology Independence

2. Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
You are the Chief Enterprise Architect at a large food service company specializing in sales to trade and wholesale, for example, restaurants and other food retailers.
One of your company ' s competitors has launched a revolutionary product range and is running a very aggressive marketing campaign. Your company ' s resellers are successively announcing that they are not interested in your company ' s products and will sell your competitor ' s.
The CEO has stated there must be significant change to address the situation. He has made it clear that new markets must be found for the company ' s products, and that the business needs to pivot, and address the retail market as well as the existing wholesale market.
A consideration is the company ' s ability and willingness to change its business model, and if it is a temporary or permanent change. An additional risk factor is one of culture. The company has been used to a stable business with a reasonably well known and settled client base - all with its own local understandings and practices.
The CEO is the sponsor of the EA program within the company. You have been engaged with the sales, logistics, production, and marketing teams, enabling the architecture activity to start. An Architecture Vision, Architecture Principles, and Requirements have all been agreed. As you move forward to develop a possible Target Architecture you have identified that some of the key stakeholders ' preferences are incompatible. The incompatibilities are focused primarily on time-to-market, cost savings, and the need to bring out a fully featured product range, but there are additional factors.
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You have been asked how you will address the incompatibilities between key stakeholder preferences.
Based on the TOGAF standard which of the following is the best answer?

A) You recommend that since the CEO has stated that the company must pivot, it is better tocompromise on a full product range rather than time-to-market. You would develop just enough of theTarget Architecture to demonstrate fitness of the proposed approach. You would limit the descriptionto just where there is a gap between the current baseline. You would seek approval by thestakeholders to move forward with developing the Target Architecture in detail.
B) You would seek to understand value preferences and priorities of the stakeholders. You woulddevelop alternative Target Architectures, highlighting the gaps between current state and thealternatives. You would consider combining features from one or more alternatives in collaborationwith the stakeholders. A formal stakeholder review should then be held to decidewhich alternative isfit for purpose and should be moved forward with. You will then secure the funding required.
C) You would review the Stakeholder Map and ensure that you have addressed and represented theconcerns of all department heads. You will involve them in resolving the incompatibilities. The Communications Plan should include a report that summarizes the key features of the architecturewith and how incompatibilities were resolved to reflects the stakeholders ' requirements.You willcheck with each key stakeholder they are satisfied with how the incompatibilities have been resolved.
D) You would use the Architecture Vision, Principles, and Requirements to define a set of criteria foralternatives and create a set of architecture views to illustrate the impact of the alternative TargetArchitectures. You would identify the impact on planned projects. You would understand the strengthsand weaknesses of the alternatives. You would conduct a formal stakeholder review to decide whichalternative to move forward with. You will determine the funding required.

3. Consider the following ADM phases objectives.
Objective
1-Determine whether an incremental approach is required, and if so identify Transition Architectures that will deliver continuous business value
2-Generate the initial complete version of the Architecture Roadmap, based upon the gap analysis and candidate Architecture Roadmap components from Phases B, C, and D
3-Finalize the Architecture Roadmap and the supporting Implementation and Migration Plan
4-Ensure that the business value and cost of work packages and Transition Architectures is understood by key stakeholders Which phase does each objective match?

A) 1G-2E-3F-4F
B) 1E-2E-3F-4F
C) 1E-2F-3E-4F
D) 1F-2E-3F-4G

4. Which ADM Phase includes creation of an Enterprise Architecture Capability?

A) Phase A
B) Phase H
C) Preliminary Phase
D) Phase G

5. Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
Your role is that of a consultant to the Lead Enterprise Architect to an international supplier of engineering services and automated manufacturing systems. It has three manufacturing plants where it assembles both standard and customized products for industrial production automation. Each of these plants has been operating its own planning and production scheduling systems, as well as applications and control systems that drive the automated production line.
The Enterprise Architecture department has been operating for several years and has mature, well-developed architecture governance and development processes that are based on the TOGAF Standard. The CIO sponsors the Enterprise Architecture.
During a recent management meeting, a senior Vice-President highlighted an interview where a competitor company ' s CIO is reported as saying that their production efficiency had been improved by replacing multiple planning and scheduling systems with a common Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system located in a central data center. Some discussion followed, with the CIO responding that the situations are not comparable, and the current architecture is already optimized.
In response, the Architecture Board approved a Request for Architecture Work covering the investigations to determine if such an architecture transformation would lead to improvements in efficiency. You have been assigned to support the architecture team working on this project.
A well-known concern of the plant managers is about the security and reliability of driving their planning and production scheduling from a remote centralized system. Any chosen system would also need to support the current supply chain network consisting of local partners at each of the plants.
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You have been asked to explain how you will initiate the architecture project.
Based on the TOGAF Standard, which of the following is the best answer?

A) You would research vendor literature and conduct a series of briefings with vendorsthat are on the current approved supplier list. Based on the findings from theresearch, you would define a preliminary Architecture Vision including summaryviews, high-level requirements, and high-level definitions of the baseline and targetenvironments from a business, information systems, and technology perspective.
Youwould then use that to build consensus among the key stakeholders.
B) You would conduct a pilot project that will enable vendors to demonstrate potentialoff-the-shelf solutions that address the concerns of the stakeholders. Running a pilotproject will save time and money later in the process. Based on the findings of thatpilot project, a complete set of requirements can then be developed that will drive theevolution of the architecture. Once the requirements are completed, a formalstakeholder review should be held, and permission sought to proceed to develop thetarget architecture.
C) You would hold a series of interviews at each of the manufacturing plants using thebusiness scenarios technique. This will allow you to understand the systems andintegrations with local partners. You would use stakeholder analysis to identify keyplayers in the engagement, and to understand their concerns. You will then identifyand document the key high-level stakeholder requirements for the architecture. Youwill then generate high level definitions of the baseline and target architectures.
D) You would develop baseline and target Architectures for each of the manufacturingplants, ensuring that the views corresponding to selected viewpoints address keyconcerns of the stakeholders. A business case, together with performance metricsand measures should be defined to ensure the architecture meets the businessneeds. A consolidated gap analysis between the architectures will then validate theapproach and determine the capability increments needed to achieve the target state.

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