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

Overview

You are working as an Enterprise Architect for a company that is an international supplier of manufacturing systems. You are part of an Enterprise Architecture (EA) team with responsibilities across the company.

The company has four manufacturing plants where it assembles both standard and customized products for industrial production automation. Each plant has been running its own planning and production scheduling systems, along with applications and control systems that drive the automated production line.

During a recent management meeting, a senior Vice-President referred to an interview in which a competitor company’s CIO explained how they had improved production efficiency. Multiple planning and scheduling systems had been replaced by a common system in a central data center. Some discussion followed, and the CIO explained that the situations are not comparable because the company’s current systems architecture is already optimized. As the competitor has reported better financial results, the CEO has asked for an investigation into the common central data solution.

In response, the Architecture Board approved a Request for Architecture Work to determine whether such an architecture transformation would result in efficiency improvements. You have been asked to help the architecture team with this project.

A concern of the plant managers is the safety and dependability of using a remote centralized system for planning and scheduling production. The system they choose must also be able to work with the local partners in the supply chain at each plant.

The company has an Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice and uses the TOGAF Standard as the basis for its work. It has been operating for many years and has established governance and development processes for EA. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) sponsors the Enterprise Architecture program.