OG0-092: TOGAF 9 Part 2 Exam

You are the Lead Enterprise Architect at a multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Germany that manufactures cars, trucks, and buses. It has manufacturing plants throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Each plant has operated its own planning and production-scheduling systems, together with custom-developed applications that control the automated production equipment at that plant.

The company has a continuing initiative to improve the efficiency of all production operations and, particularly, reduce its carbon footprint. During a recent internal quality-improvement exercise, it was found that replacing the current planning and scheduling systems with a common Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system in one central data center could significantly reduce energy use. This central system would support every plant by replacing the functionality of the existing systems. It would also remove the need for full data centers at each plant facility.

The Enterprise Architecture department has operated for several years and has mature, well-developed architecture governance and development processes based on the TOGAF standard. At a recent meeting, the Architecture Board approved a Request for Architecture Work sponsored by the global CIO. The request covered the initial architectural investigations and development of a comprehensive architecture to plan the transformation.

You have been asked to select the most appropriate recommendation to ensure the team evaluates different approaches to the problem and clarifies the architecture requirements.

Based on the TOGAF standard, which of the following is the best answer?