QUESTION 5
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You have been assigned the role of Lead Enterprise Architect within a leading professional services company that specializes in providing outsourcing services. Outsourcing services include business processes, infrastructure, and service management The company also provides business consulting services. The company has an established Enterprise Architecture program based on the TOGAF standard, sponsored jointly by the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Information Officer. An Architecture Board has been formed comprised of IT staff executives and executives from the major service areas and consulting practice. With numerous service areas and many diverse engagements in progress at any given time, overall engagement management within the company has become challenging. The company has recently had a number of high profile projects that have overrun on budget and under delivered, thereby damaging its reputation. The Enterprise Architecture (EA) team has been working with the Strategic Planning team to create a strategic Enterprise Architecture to address these issues The EA team has held workshops with key stakeholders to define a set of architecture principles to govern the architecture work They have completed an Architecture Vision at a strategic level and laid out high-level Architecture Definitions for the four domains. They have set out an ambitious vision of the future of the company over a five-year period. This will include three distinct transformations. The CIO has made it clear that prior to the approval of the detailed Implementation and Migration plan, the EA team will need to assess the risks associated with the proposed architecture. He has received concerns from some of the senior management across the company that the proposed architecture may be too ambitious and they are not sure it can produce sufficient value to warrant the risks.
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You have been asked to recommend an approach to satisfy these concerns.
Based on the TOGAF Standard Version 9 2, which of the following is the best answer?

A. The EA team should bring together information about potential solutions from the appropriate sources within the enterprise, such as the Architecture Repository Once the target architecture has been assembled, it should be analyzed using a state evolution table to determine the Transition Architectures and associated risks A value realization process should then be established to ensure that the concerns raised are addressed.
B. The EA team should review and consolidate the gap analysis results from Phases B to D. This should be completed before preparing the detailed Implementation and Migration plan. The gap analysis results can be used to understand the transformations that are required to achieve the proposed Target Architecture. The EA team should then assess the readiness of the organization to undergo change. Once the architecture has been assembled. It should be analyzed using a state evolution table to determine the Transition Architectures.
C. The EA team should evaluate the organization’s readiness to undergo change. This will allow the risks associated with the transformations to be identified and mitigated for. It will also identify improvement actions to be worked into the Implementation and Migration Plan. The Business Value Assessment technique should then be used to determine the business value and associated risks for the transformation.
D. The EA team should apply an interoperability analysis to evaluate any potential issues across the architecture. This should include the development of a matrix showing the interoperability requirements. The EA team would then reconcile the interoperability requirements with potential solutions and risks Once all the concerns have been resolved. The EA team should finalize the Architecture Roadmap and the Implementation and Migration Plan

Correct Answer: C