TESTS FOR LECTURE 6 - Processes of Enterprise Architecture Practice

Which general types of EA artifacts are leveraged in the Strategic Planning process? 1. Considerations 2. Standards 3. Visions 4. Landscapes 5. Outlines 6. Designs

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Which statements regarding the relationship between the Technology Optimization and Strategic Planning processes are true? 1. Strategic Planning provides an overall strategic direction and conceptual requirements to the Technology Optimization process 2. Technology Optimization provides strategic IT capabilities and constraints to the Strategic Planning process 3. Strategic Planning leads, while Technology Optimization follows 4. Technology Optimization and Strategic Planning are carried out in a sequential manner, one after another

1,2,3

Which statements regarding the Initiative Delivery process are true? 1. Different instances of the Initiative Delivery process represent separate IT initiatives 2. Initiative Delivery always implies two essential steps: initiation and implementation 3. Initiative Delivery at different stages involves business leaders, architects and project teams 4. Initiative Delivery results in new working IT solutions 5. Initiative Delivery implies first creating Designs and only then Outlines to describe respective IT initiatives 6. Initiative Delivery is carried out separately from regular project management activities

1,2,3,4

Which statements regarding the relationship between the Strategic Planning and Initiative Delivery processes are true? 1. Strategic Planning logically precedes Initiative Delivery 2. Strategic Planning provides planned business needs to the Initiative Delivery process 3. Initiation Delivery can be launched only as a reaction to the business needs identified as part of the Strategic Planning process 4. Failures of Initiation Delivery can influence the Strategic Planning process

1,2,4

Which statements regarding the Technology Optimization process are true? 1. Technology Optimization in an "internal" process carried out mostly by architects 2. Organizations always run multiple instance of the Technology Optimization process 3. Technology Optimization is a continuous and unstructured process not integrated with any regular processes or activities 4. Technology Optimization takes the current structure of the organizational IT landscape as an input 5. Technology Optimization implies numerous informal discussions and periodical formal approvals 6. The overall meaning of Technology Optimization can be formulated as need-to-solution

1,3,4,5

Which statements regarding the process view of an EA practice are true? 1. Successful EA practices always require complex and comprehensive changes in the organizational decision-making processes 2. Status, authority and competence of architects allows them to make important planning decisions for other stakeholders and then expect their implementation 3. Products of Strategic Planning will be ignored and never acted upon unless they were developed with an involvement and active participation of senior business leaders 4. Proposed IT solutions will not be sponsored and funded unless they have been seriously discussed with relevant business leaders at the initiation step of the Initiative Delivery process 5. Proposed system structures will not be respected by IT project teams unless all project participants contributed to their development at the implementation step of the Initiative Delivery process

1,3,4,5

Which general types of EA artifacts are leveraged in the Technology Optimization process? 1. Considerations 2. Standards 3. Visions 4. Landscapes 5. Outlines 6. Designs

2 and 4

Which statements regarding the relationship between the Initiative Delivery and Technology Optimization processes are true? 1. Initiative Delivery is always triggered by the Technology Optimization process 2. Best practices learned as part of Initiative Delivery inform the Technology Optimization process 3. Technology Optimization provides technical rationalization suggestions to the Initiative Delivery process 4. New IT solutions implemented as a result of the Initiative Delivery process "update" Technology Optimization activities

2,3,4

Which statements regarding the Strategic Planning process are true? 1. Strategic Planning is carried out in a strict step-by-step manner as recommended by various EA methodologies, e.g. TOGAF architecture development method (ADM) 2. Strategic Planning always involves both business leaders and architects 3. Strategic Planning is integrated with regular strategic management activities 4. Strategic Planning often implies discussing a desired operating model, necessary business capabilities and specific business needs 5. Strategic Planning aims to improve overall quality of the organizational IT landscape 6. The overall meaning of Strategic Planning can be formulated as strategy-to-portfolio

2,3,4,6

Which general types of EA artifacts are leveraged in the Initiative Delivery process? 1. Considerations 2. Standards 3. Visions 4. Landscapes 5. Outlines 6. Designs

5 and 6