QUESTION 3
Please read this scenario prior to answering the question.
Your role is an Enterprise Architect for a chain of convenience stores. Many of the stores remain open 24 hours a day. Each store has a standardized retail solution using cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) technology to manage sales and inventory. The cloud-based systems collect real-time data to support ordering and product selection decisions including the tailoring of product assortment based on sales history, customer demographics as well as the short-term weather forecast. The company has acquired a smaller competitor, that has similar product lines and operates in a different geographic region. The CEO believes that a merger will enable growth through combined offerings and cost savings. This growth includes market share, geographic expansion, as well as product diversification. The decision has been taken to quickly integrate the two organizations, including merging retail operations and systems. The merger will replace duplicated systems with the standardized cloud-based point-of-sale technology. One innovation that the competitor has deployed is the use of hand-held tablets within stores, together with a suite of store management applications, and this is to be adopted across the whole of the merged organization. It has been observed that this has increased employee satisfaction due to the time savings this has brought compared to the previous fixed screens used for data entry.
The company has a mature Enterprise Architecture practice based on the TOGAF Standard, with the CEO and CIO as joint sponsors. A project is underway to manage the merger of the operations and systems.
The CIO anticipates significant cost savings will be made by moving to the standardized retail solution across the merged organization. The ClO has also stated that the staff training for the hand-held tablets should be kept to a minimum due to the large number of employees, which include a large proportion of part-time employees.
Refer to the Scenario
[Note: You should assume that the company has adopted the example set of principles that are listed and defined in the TOGAF standard, Architecture Principles chapter. You may need to refer to the Architecture Principles chapter, section 20.6 (located in Part III) within the reference text in order to answer this question.]
You have been asked to identify the most relevant architecture principles for the current situation.
Based on the TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2, which of the following is the best answer? [Note: The ordering of the principles listed in each answer is not significant.]
A. Requirements Based Change, Responsive Change Management, Data Trustee, Common Vocabulary and Data Definitions, Compliance with the Law
B. Maximize Benefit to the Enterprise, Data Trustee, Data is an Asset, Responsive Change Management, Service Orientation
C. Data is Accessible, Data is Shared, Interoperability, Technology Independence, Control Technical Diversity
D. Common Use Applications, Data is Shared, Data is Accessible, Ease of Use, Business Continuity
Correct Answer: D