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Exam OG0-092 topic 1 question 19 discussion

Actual exam question from The Open Group's OG0-092
Question #: 19
Topic #: 1
[All OG0-092 Questions]

Scenario:
Your role is that of Lead Enterprise Architect within a vacation property management firm that has been growing through acquisition. The firm manages over 200 resort properties across North America. Many of the resort properties use the same internal IT systems that they used before they were acquired. Until recently, the only requirement that has been placed on each property is that they use a standard financial reporting system to report their financial results to the headquarters on a weekly basis.
The CEO has stated his concerns about the inefficiencies of the current approach and identified the need to change. He has defined a new strategic vision that will enhance the business by standardizing its operations across the network to provide consolidated financial, human resources, logistics, sales and marketing, and yield management. He has also stated that he expects results by the end of the current fiscal year.
These changes will provide the company with improved utilization of its capacity and more efficient operations. The addition of a corporate-wide data warehouse will provide analytics that will enable the marketing group to improve its ability to target advertising into key markets to improve yields.
The firm has a mature enterprise architecture practice and uses TOGAF 9 as the method and guiding framework. The CIO is the sponsor of the activity.
In planning this change, the Chief Architect engaged the services of a well-known consulting firm that specializes in business strategy. An initial study has been conducted to identify the strategic changes needed to implement the CEO's vision. This recently completed with approval of a strategic architecture encompassing the entire firm, including detailed requirements and recommendations.
Based on the recommendations from the initial study, the firm has taken the decision to adopt a packaged suite of integrated applications that is tailored to the needs of the hospitality industry.
You have been asked by the Chief Architect to justify the best approach for architecture development to realize the CEO's vision.
Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

  • A. You recommend that the target architecture is defined first, followed by transition planning. This is because the vision is well understood and the strategic architecture agreed. This will ensure that the current problems and inefficiencies of the baseline architecture are not carried forward, and that the proposed solution addresses the requirements identified in the initial study.
  • B. You recommend that the team focus on architecture definition, with a specific emphasis on understanding the strategic change parameters of the business strategy. Once understood, the team will be in the best position to identify the requirements, drivers, issues, and constraints for this engagement. You would ensure that the target architecture addresses non-functional requirements so as to ensure the target architecture is robust and secure.
  • C. You recommend that the team focus on defining the target architecture by going through the architecture definition phases (B-D). This is because the initial study identified the need to change. This will ensure that the change can be defined in a structured manner and address the requirements needed to realize the vision.
  • D. You recommend that this engagement define the baseline Technology Architecture first in order to assess the current infrastructure capacity and capability. Then the focus should be on transition planning and architecture deployment. This will identify retirements to ensure that the projects are sequenced in an optimal fashion so as to realize the vision.
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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️
by Sankar88 at July 5, 2020, 5:17 p.m.

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chandank
Highly Voted 3 years, 9 months ago
Answer: A. Architectural Definition of Bounded Change Initiatives Architecture Development (Target First) Transition Planning Focus on elaborating the target to meet a previously defined and agreed vision, scope, or set of constraints. Use the target as a basis for analysis to avoid perpetuation of baseline, sub-optimal architectures.
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Divya07
Highly Voted 3 years, 5 months ago
it should be A check out https://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf92-doc/m/chap18.html - section 18.4 for Togaf 9.2
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CarlosPinheiro
Most Recent 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Selected Answer: A
I think the question is related to Architectural Engagement. In specific to the Architectural Definition of Bounded Change Initiatives. The strategic vision and the need for change have already been agreed upon and approved. The vision also represents the CIO Visio, not the EA vision. So, i guess the next step should be to get into a preliminary phase and Phase A to develop that architectural vision. This is why A is the best answer and not C.
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Red8aron
9 months, 1 week ago
Selected Answer: A
In the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM), the target architecture is developed before the implementation or transition planning. The target architecture represents the desired future state of the organization's architecture and is based on the business requirements, goals, and objectives identified during the architecture development process.
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anotherstori
9 months, 1 week ago
Answer should be C. What the external firm did is akin to the Architecture Vision phase. Now, B-D are needed. Answer A says so too but doesn't elaborate.
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aurzau
1 year, 6 months ago
Answer is A. I got 100% and this was one of my questions.
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khaled890
1 year, 9 months ago
Selected Answer: A
it's Nabil that say it :)
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Prasadvd
1 year, 9 months ago
Selected Answer: A
A makes most sense as this satisfies Bounded initiative with a target first approach as well provides for transition palnning across the business units
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Kmkmk12
1 year, 9 months ago
Answer should be A - We start with the Target Architecture
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rkustagi
1 year, 11 months ago
Selected Answer: D
The answer is D. This deals with current capability and transition architectures that eventually move organisation to Target architecture
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BNSRK
1 year, 5 months ago
"This will identify retirements " this disqualifies D. Given scenario states "This recently completed with approval of a strategic architecture encompassing the entire firm, including detailed requirements and recommendations"
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BNSRK
1 year, 5 months ago
B also says about identify requirements.
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OPENSOFT
2 years, 5 months ago
Why can't be B? Beteween A. and B. I dont understand why can't be B.
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sameersoftyhcl
2 years, 9 months ago
I think D is the right answer because: Bounded Change Initiative is only applicable as below: [Focus on elaborating the target to meet a previously defined and agreed vision, scope, or set of constraints. Use the target as a basis for analysis to avoid perpetuation of baseline, suboptimal architectures.] But in this case, the Org has already decided to use Packaged APPLICATION INTEGRATION suite. So we need to start with baseline Technology Architecture.
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93madox
1 year, 1 month ago
TOGAF prefers TopDown appraoch - Target first then baseline. Baseline first would only be present if there is no Baseline at all AND solution that is in mind is not packed Off-The-Shelf product. In all other cases Target comes first.
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mrg998
2 years, 9 months ago
Answer is A. A friend got this in the exam, answered A and got 100%.
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Prince_C
3 years, 7 months ago
Answer is A
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gomzee123
3 years, 8 months ago
Answer should be C. Business Stratergy is still reviewed.
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tomvik
3 years, 9 months ago
Ans should be C , We focus on Target Architecture but need to through with all ADM phases to gather requirement for each architecture domain.
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93madox
1 year, 1 month ago
Because B to D is not an iteration. Going only from B-D doesnt touch SBBs, nor Transition. Here we have packed solution that is already selected.
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Sankar88
3 years, 9 months ago
It should have been A, because old systems are acquired ones and when new common system for entire enterprise is adopted, why do we want to care about baseline first architecture approach ?
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