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Exam OGEA-103 topic 1 question 45 discussion

Actual exam question from The Open Group's OGEA-103
Question #: 45
Topic #: 1
[All OGEA-103 Questions]

Please read this scenario prior to answering the question.
You are working as Chief Enterprise Architect at a large Internet company. The company has many divisions, ranging from cloud to logistics. The company has grown rapidly, expanding from initially selling physical books and media to a range of services including an online marketplace, live-streaming, eBooks, and cloud services.
Overall management of the numerous divisions has become challenging. Recent high-profile projects have overrun on budget and under delivered, damaging the company's reputation, and adversely impacting its share price. There is a widely held view within the executive management that the organization structure has played a major role in these project failures.
The company has an established Enterprise Architecture program based on the TOGAF standard sponsored jointly by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO). The CEO has decided that the company needs to reorganize its divisions around artificial intelligence and machine learning with a focus on automation. The CEO has worked with the Enterprise Architects to create a strategic architecture for the reorganization, including an Architecture Vision, together with definitions for the four domain architectures. This sets out an ambitious vision of the future of the company over a three-year period. This includes a set of work packages and includes 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 key stakeholders across the company that the proposed reorganization may be too ambitious and there is doubt whether it can produce sufficient value to warrant the risks.
Refer to the scenario.
You have been asked to recommend an approach to satisfy these concerns.
Based on the TOGAF Standard, which of the following is the best answer?

  • A. The Enterprise Architects should evaluate the organization s readiness to undergo change. This will allow the risks associated with the transformations to be identified, classified, and mitigated for. This should include identifying dependencies between the set of changes, including gaps and work packages. It will also identify improvement actions to be worked into the Implementation and Migration Plan. The business value, effort, and risk associated for each transformation should be determined.
  • B. Establishing interoperability in alignment with the corporate operating model will ensure risks are minimized. The Enterprise Architects 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. These can then be included within the transformation strategy embedded in the target transition architectures. The Enterprise Architects should then finalize the Architecture Roadmap and the Implementation and Migration Plan.
  • C. Before preparing the detailed Implementation and Migration plan, the Enterprise Architects should review and consolidate the gap analysis results from Phases B to D. This will identify the transformations required to achieve the proposed Target Architecture. The Enterprise Architects should then assess the readiness of the organization to undergo change and determine an overall direction to address and mitigate risks identified. The Transition Architecture should then be planned to use a state evolution table.
  • D. The Enterprise Architects should bring together information about potential approaches and produce several alternative target transition architectures. They should then investigate the different architecture alternatives and discuss these with stakeholders using the Architecture Alternatives and Trade-offs technique. Once the target architecture has been selected, it should be analyzed using a state evolution table to determine the Transition Architectures. A value realization process should then be established to ensure that the concerns raised are addressed.
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Suggested Answer: A 🗳️
by dima_o at Feb. 22, 2024, 9:24 a.m.

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c7117e4
1 month ago
Selected Answer: A
Definitely not B and D, but why not C? "The CEO has worked with the Enterprise Architects to create a strategic architecture for the reorganization, including an Architecture Vision, together with definitions for the four domain architectures. This sets out an ambitious vision of the future of the company over a three-year period. This includes a set of work packages and includes three distinct transformations." The work packages and transition architectures are already completed. The only remaining part is the Business readiness transformation assessment which also explicitly mentions about value and risk that are the stakeholders concern. A best answer, C second best. We should always do a minimal to achieve the target, as per togaf. C would be the best answer if the work packages and transformations were not already identified
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Jeenia
1 month, 1 week ago
Selected Answer: A
A is the right answer - 1stly, it addresses the question asked - about an approach that can warrant risks of transformation. 2ndly, it starts with conducting the transformation readiness assessment, which is crucial in businesses before jumping into the ADM cycle. While option B also talks about mitigating risks, but it focuses more on the interoperability option - which is less likely to solve the problem stated. Simply put, it does not warrant the risks.
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VipulKGosai
1 month, 1 week ago
Selected Answer: D
D should be the correct answer. Producing Alternate Architecture and trade-off between them to identify best suitable target architecture with transition architecture. Realising value during each transition architecure to ensure that the concerns raised are addressed.
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VipulKGosai
1 month, 1 week ago
D should be the correct answer. Producing Alternate Architecture and trade-off between them to identify best suitable target architecture with transition architecture. Realising value during each transition architecure to ensure that the concerns raised are addressed.
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dima_o
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Selected Answer: C
Business Transformation readiness assessment is initiated in Phase E, Completed in Phase F and monitored in Phase G. Understanding the readiness of the organization to accept change, identifying the issues, and then dealing with them in the Implementation and Migration Plans is key to successful architecture transformation in Phases E and F. This will be a joint effort between corporate (especially human resources) staff, lines of business, and IT planners.
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