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The TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2You are acting as the Lead Architect for an Enterprise Architecture project team within a multinational oil and gas corporation. It is organized into two principal business groupings:
- Upstream operations, which include exploration for crude oil and natural gas and operation of the infrastructure required to bring oil and gas to market
- Downstream operations, which include the manufacturing, distribution, and marketing activities for oil products and chemicals
Safety is a company priority, with the objective of causing zero harm to people and the environment. The company must meet the regulatory requirements of every country in which it operates.
The downstream business produces one-third of the company’s worldwide profits and includes more than 30,000 petrol stations and various oil refineries. In some countries, it also includes oil refining, a retail petrol-station network, lubricants manufacture and marketing, and industrial fuel and lubricants sales. The downstream business has traditionally operated locally, under the management of local “operating companies”.
The Governing Board is concerned about the risk of operating in this complex global environment, where a large portion of the downstream business is represented by local operating companies. Consequently, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has appointed a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) to oversee and manage compliance issues for the corporation. The CCO reports directly to the CEO.
The CCO has approved spending resources to establish an Enterprise Architecture program and has mandated use of the TOGAF standard as the framework. He has asked to be
You have been asked to recommend an approach that would enable development of an architecture that meets the needs of the Chief Compliance Officer, legal staff, auditors, and the local operating companies.
Based on the TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2, which of the following is the best answer?
- A You recommend that an analysis of the stakeholders is undertaken, including development of a Stakeholder Map. This will allow the architects to define groups of stakeholders who have common concerns. The concerns and relevant viewpoints should then be defined for each group of stakeholders, and recorded in the Architecture Vision document.
- B You recommend that the ArchiMate modeling language is used to create a set of models that can be applied uniformly across all architecture projects. Each architecture should then be defined based on this fixed set of models. All concerned parties can then examine the models to ensure that their needs have been addressed.
- C You recommend that a set of models be created for each project architecture that can be used to ensure that the system will be compliant with the local regulations. A formal review should be held with the stakeholders to verify that their concerns have been properly addressed by the models.
- D You recommend that a Communications Plan be created to address the powerful and influential stakeholders. This plan should include a report that summarizes the key features of the architecture with respect to each location and reflect the stakeholders' requirements. You will check with each stakeholder that their concerns are being addressed.
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