QUESTION 8
Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
You are serving as an Enterprise Architect at a government agency responsible for securing government communications and information systems. The agency has an established Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice based on the TOGAF standard. This includes formal modelling using the TOGAF Content Metamodel. The Executive Director of the agency is the sponsor of the EA practice. The agency has recently received information from intelligence sources that the current communication systems may no longer be secure. In response, a program is underway to upgrade the systems. Since reliable, high-performance, and secure communications are essential to preserving national security, there are stringent requirements for the architecture of the upgraded systems. It must be able to provide assurance and verification of specific performance measures on the key services that are most crucial for system operation. Focusing on these service-level details and specific measurements will allow stricter requirements to be enforced in service contracts. It will also provide a high degree of assurance that necessary performance is being delivered and that notifications will occur if any critical service fails to perform as required. The Chief Architect has noted that the core EA artifacts that have been in use are notable to describe these new capabilities. The artifacts do not have explicit provisions for defining the in-depth measurement requirements regarding specific services required for the system. She has leaned that certain services within the current system have service measurement implementations that match some of the new requirements, but they are only used in a few areas. Recent EA efforts at another national agency have produced generalized high-performance communication system models to realize similar requirements in a critical defense system involving secure communications. it is possible that these models maybe useful for the upgrade program.
Refer to the Scenario
[Note. You may need to refer to the Content Metamodel chapter section 30.4 (located in Part IV) of the reference text in order to answer this question.]
You have been asked to recommend changes to the Architecture Content Metamodel used in the agency to accommodate the requirements of the upgraded system.
Based on the TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2, which of the following is the best answer?

A. You recommend all of the extensions be incorporated into the Architecture Content Metamodel. The full Content Metamodel will enable the EA team to capture and categorize all the important additional data needed to support the performance and measurement objectives linked to these artifacts. Once the new repository content has been implemented, on-demand queries can be used to generate a customized governance stakeholder view that isolates the artifacts and data needed to assess measurement for any particular service.
B. You recommend that the motivation and governance extensions are incorporated into the Architecture Content Metamodel. Using these extensions will allow modeling the goals, objectives, and drivers for the architecture, linking them to service levels and more detailed governance models. This will also

enable the ability to re-use existing profiles, customizing them for the various service contracts involved.
C. You recommend that the services extension be incorporated into the Architecture Content Metamodel. By using this extension, the service model is no longer constrained by what is expected in typical business service definitions. allowing more flexibility for adding customized models to support the more stringent measurement requirements. The services extension can also be used to map terminology between the business services and the application components.
D. You recommend that a Communications Engineering view is created using the infrastructure consolidation extension from the Architecture Content Metamodel This view will allow architects to align the needed performance measurement communications across the system This will support the stringent performance measurements needed for the more detailed governance views required for the upgraded system, making the interfaces to the communication and network layer of the architecture highly visible at the application level.

Correct Answer: B