Scenario: Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question You are serving as the Lead Architect for the enterprise architecture team at the prime contractor for the Dreadnought Unmanned Aircraft System program. Over the course of this contract, the company has grown rapidly by acquisition and has inherited numerous different procurement processes and related IT systems. The decision has been made to consolidate and reduce redundant procurement processes and systems. The CEO has announced that the company will seek to leverage higher volume discounts and lower related IT support costs by instituting a preferred supplier program. TOGAF 9 Is used for internal Enterprise Architecture activities, with an iterative approach for executing Architecture Development Method (ADM) projects. At present, there are no particularly useful architectural assets related to this initiative, so all assets need to be acquired and customized or created from scratch. The company prefers to implement commercial off the shelf package applications with little customization. The CIO, who is the project sponsor, has stated that she is not concerned about preserving existing processes or systems. The architect-re development project has put in place Its Architecture Capability for this project and has started a number of iteration cycles to develop the Architecture. Some tasks to address concerns related to the Business Architecture have been completed. The next immediate task is to address the Information Systems Architectures. The Information Systems Architectures must address stakeholder concerns such as: Which procurement-related business processes are supported by zero, one, or many existing applications? What non-procurement applications will need to be integrated with any new procurement applications? What data will need to be shared?Refer to the Scenario [Note: You may need to refer to TOGAF 9 Chapter 35 in order to answer this question.] You have been asked to identify the most appropriate catalogs, matrices, and diagrams for this situation. Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

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Scenario:  Please read this scenario prior to answering the Question  You are serving as the Lead Architect for the enterprise architecture team at the prime contractor for the Dreadnought Unmanned Aircraft System program.  Over the course of this contract, the company has grown rapidly by acquisition and has inherited numerous different procurement processes and related IT  systems. The decision has been made to consolidate and reduce redundant procurement processes and systems. The CEO has announced that the company will  seek to leverage higher volume discounts and lower related IT support costs by instituting a preferred supplier program.  TOGAF 9 Is used for internal Enterprise Architecture activities, with an iterative approach for executing Architecture Development Method (ADM) projects.  At present, there are no particularly useful architectural assets related to this initiative, so all assets need to be acquired and customized or created from scratch.  The company prefers to implement commercial off the shelf package applications with little customization. The CIO, who is the project sponsor, has stated that she  is not concerned about preserving existing processes or systems.  The architect-re development project has put in place Its Architecture Capability for this project and has started a number of iteration cycles to develop the  Architecture. Some tasks to address concerns related to the Business Architecture have been completed. The next immediate task is to address the Information  Systems Architectures.  The Information Systems Architectures must address stakeholder concerns such as:  Which procurement-related business processes are supported by zero, one, or many existing applications?  What non-procurement applications will need to be integrated with any new procurement applications?  What data will need to be shared?Refer to the Scenario  [Note: You may need to refer to TOGAF 9 Chapter 35 in order to answer this question.]  You have been asked to identify the most appropriate catalogs, matrices, and diagrams for this situation.  Based on TOGAF 9, which of the following is the best answer?

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Correct Answer is :  In the early iterations of Architecture development, you would describe the Target Application Architecture with Application Communication diagrams and an Application Interaction matrix, and describe the Target Data Architecture with a Data Entity/Business Function matrix and a System/Data matrix. In the later iterations of Architecture development, you would describe the Baseline Application Architecture with a System/Function matrix, and describe the Baseline Data  Architecture with a Data Entity/Data Component catalog.

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