TOGAF 9 Certified (Level 2) — Question 64

Scenario: Marona Inc.
Marona Inc is a Fortune 500 Enterprise in the retail industry with retail store components manufacturing units and marketing outlets spanning the globe and having an annual turnover of 20 billion$ with more than 100, 000 employees world wide.
The CEO, CIO and the stakeholders of the ongoing EA projects are concerned about rising costs and as one measure want to do an investigation into the operational aspects of the realized Enterprise Architecture using TOGAF9.
The CIO approaches you as the Lead Enterprise Architect to carry out this exercise the stakeholder had voiced to him the following concerns:
They want to analyze the roles of the top management for each revenue earning service. Moreover, many of the HR related critical Search application component have become extremely slow. This needs to be diagnosed and rectified. Moreover there is no proper tracking of revenue from retail store component products over time. There has also been a lot of unauthorized or unwanted access to many of the critical information.
Hence the mode of access needs to be strengthened and made much more secure. Another additional concern is the new launches and the progress of each of the launches over time.
Determine which of the following set of viewpoints are most appropriate to analyze and view in order to address this concern of the stakeholders.

Answer options

• A. (i) System/Functions Matrix (ii) Actor/Role Matrix (iii) Data Entity/Business Function Matrix (iv) Technology Portfolio Catalog (v) Data Security Diagram
• B. (i) Goal/Objective/Service Diagram (ii) Contract Measure Catalog (iii) Data Dissemination Diagram (iv) Application Communication Diagram (v) Data Life Cycle Diagram
• C. (i) Location Catalog (ii) Service/Function Catalog (iii) Data Entity/Business Function Matrix (iv) Application Communication Diagram
• D. (i) System/Functions Catalog (ii) System/Technology Matrix (iii) Goal/Objective/Service Diagram (iv) Product Life Cycle Diagram (v) Data Security Diagram

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D because it includes the System/Functions Catalog and System/Technology Matrix, which are essential for analyzing the operational aspects and roles of management, as well as the Data Security Diagram, which is critical to address unauthorized access concerns. Options A, B, and C do not provide the comprehensive coverage of operational roles, security, and lifecycle management needed to effectively respond to the stakeholders' concerns.