OGEA-103: TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Combined Part 1 and Part 2 Exam

You are an Enterprise Architect working at a vehicle manufacturing company. The company specializes in buses and coaches. You are part of an Enterprise Architecture (EA) team with responsibilities across multiple divisions of the company.

The company has a corporate strategy focused on switching its vehicles to electric power. It has invested heavily in a new standardized design, production efforts, and major components to use across its full product range. The company has multiple manufacturing plants in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Customer demand has created a backlog of orders because many customers want more environmentally friendly public transportation. There are not enough electronic components available, which is making it difficult to produce products and satisfy customer demand. To address this issue, the company has staged making the battery packs itself and has hired new suppliers.

The company has a well-established EA practice. It uses the TOGAF Standard as the foundation for its work, including the internal EA framework. In addition, the company uses various management frameworks such as business planning, project management, and operations management. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Chief Operating Officer (COO) jointly sponsor the Enterprise Architecture program.

The EA team is working on a project to improve the process and systems used to design, produce, and test the battery pack. As part of bringing the new battery pack into production, changes to the assembly processes must be made. A trial has been completed at a single location. The Chief Engineer, sponsor of the activity, and the Architecture Board have approved the plan to roll out these changes to all plants.

Preliminary Architecture Contracts have been developed that describe the work needed to put the new processes in place for each location. The company combines internal teams with a few third-party contractors at the locations. The Chief Engineer is concerned that the deployment will not be consistent and of satisfactory quality.