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Question 1

As a business architecture domain category, which definition of a policy is correct?

Options:

A.

A course or principle of action

B.

An internally defined business rule

C.

A legal statement from the legal team

D.

A third party agreement for insurance coverage

Question 2

In a business architecture context, changes to facilities and equipment:

Options:

A.

Result from an organization's strategic direction and operational issues

B.

Accommodate different work habits as jobs evolve and culture changes

C.

Are based on current operational need, not business architecture directives

D.

Must be considered when new IT or production technology becomes available

Question 3

Which related, but separate, discipline is combined with business architecture to find and analyze opportunities for operational cost reduction?

Options:

A.

IT architecture

B.

Portfolio management

C.

Requirements analysis

D.

Lean Six Sigma analysis

Question 4

A benefit of having a capability map is that the map:

Options:

A.

Represents a business strategy

B.

Enables laser-like investment analysis

C.

Serves as a starting point for a business model

D.

Provides a comprehensive perspective on value analysis

Question 5

What accurately describes future state capabilities?

Options:

A.

They are capabilities that have yet to be automated

B.

They cannot appear in a capability map in any form

C.

They have no place in a capability mapping discussion

D.

They represent capabilities the business has no ability to perform

Question 6

In which business architecture perspective are stakeholder types normally reflected?

Options:

A.

Product mapping

B.

Initiative mapping

C.

Capability mapping

D.

Information mapping

Question 7

What is true about business architecture and business processes?

Options:

A.

Business processes are part of the core or foundational business architecture perspective

B.

Business process decomposition is an effective approach to defining business capabilities

C.

End-to-end business processes are represented in business architecture as value streams

D.

Business architecture provides a framework for assessing process improvement opportunities

Question 8

What is a definitive indicator of how important a capability is to the business?

Options:

A.

Being a level one capability

B.

Heat map ranking on the heat map

C.

Impact or criticality rating of the capability

D.

Being listed in the strategic capability category

Question 9

What is the relationship between business architecture and the System Development Lifecycle (SDLC)?

Options:

A.

The SDLC provides a framework under which business architecture is deployed

B.

Business architecture is framed within and completed as a step within the SDLC

C.

Business architecture provides a separate and independently valuable perspective

D.

Business architecture and SDLC both focus on providing perspective on a given project

Question 10

What is a comprehensive definition of stakeholders?

Options:

A.

Employees and any internally defined business roles within the organization

B.

Customers, patients, constituents or other recipients of products and services

C.

Business partners and other third parties, including agents, brokers and outsourcers

D.

Individuals or organizations with a vested interest in achieving value through a particular outcome

Question 11

SOA services are distinct, non-ambiguous and non-redundant.  Which business representation shares these characteristics?

Options:

A.

Capabilities

B.

Value streams

C.

Business processes

D.

Information concepts

Question 12

When designing an automation solution, what is an effective business architecture perspective for providing input to SOA services orchestration and reusability?

Options:

A.

Business unit to capability mapping

B.

Business process to capability mapping

C.

Value stream stage to capability mapping

D.

Information concept to capability mapping

Question 13

What is important to consider in business capability outsourcing?

Options:

A.

Internal stakeholder mapping identifies capabilities that should be outsourced to third parties

B.

Information mapping highlights where shared databases should be established with a third party

C.

Capabilities managed by third parties are highlighted so they can be removed from the capability map

D.

Value stream / capability cross-mapping highlights where capabilities should be synchronized in-house or among third parties

Question 14

What is a key factor in an organization's ability to transform itself in a business architecture context?

Options:

A.

Access to capital to fund initiatives in a timely manner

B.

Business transparency through business architecture

C.

IT's ability to support change through application development

D.

The availability of competent resources with required skill sets

Question 15

Which business architecture perspective augments capability-to-application mapping to further application portfolio consolidation analysis?

Options:

A.

Initiative

B.

Strategy

C.

Product

D.

Business unit

Question 16

As it pertains to initiative investment and planning, a business architecture practitioner is responsible for:

Options:

A.

Identifying projects for implementation

B.

Setting the strategy that defines the business case

C.

Establishing performance metrics to evaluate the decision

D.

Monitoring internal and external factors post-implementation

Question 17

Which discipline is considered to be a part of the extended business architecture?

Options:

A.

Strategy mapping

B.

Capability mapping

C.

Organization mapping

D.

Business process modeling

Question 18

In business architecture, a service is:

Options:

A.

A pre-bundled sets of capabilities

B.

An IT organization deliverable to a business unit

C.

An intangible product, such as accounting or consultancy

D.

A perspective on value stream stage to capability mapping

Question 19

What is the central focal point of an organization map?

Options:

A.

Capability

B.

Enterprise

C.

Business Unit

D.

Business Partner

Question 20

What accurately describes an information map?

Options:

A.

A semantic web

B.

A business vocabulary

C.

A relational data model

D.

A conceptual data model

Question 21

What is the business architecture practitioner's role when there is a change in strategy?

Options:

A.

Compare system and process architectures within business capabilities and develop business requirements to align them

B.

Highlight value streams and core business capabilities and define the impacts on value delivery, capabilities and business areas

C.

Identify what needs to change through financial gap analysis and create business capabilities to improve the organization's financial position

D.

Formulate an acceptable business solution and then build a comprehensive design that defines the scope and outlines business requirements

Question 22

A business architecture practitioner’s advisory role is described as trusted advisor to:

Options:

A.

IT as a liaison to the business

B.

Business executives and planning teams

C.

Other business architecture practitioners

D.

Analysts and software development teams

Question 23

A project team is attempting to build an SOA service.  Which business perspective should be aligned to information concepts to inform the team of the data the service needs to access?

Options:

A.

Capability

B.

Value stream

C.

Business unit

D.

Business process

Question 24

What is the benefit of heat mapping the capability map when conceiving, building and launching a new product?

Options:

A.

It identifies the resources required to deploy the new product

B.

It identifies current processes needed to implement the new product

C.

It provides insight to the capabilities of highest value to the product launch team

D.

It identifies if improved or new capabilities are required to enable the product launch

Question 25

Which cross-mapping is commonly used as a way to understand where a certain organization may have unique versus overlapping abilities?

Options:

A.

Business unit to location cross-mapping

B.

Business unit to capability cross-mapping

C.

Information to business unit cross-mapping

D.

Business unit to value stream cross-mapping

Question 26

Compared to the business analyst role, the scope of the business architecture practitioner role is:

Options:

A.

Broader, represents the IT environment, and may help set project priorities

B.

The same, but utilizes different mapping techniques at the beginning of a project

C.

Broader, utilizes different mapping techniques, and may help set project priorities

D.

Broader, utilizes the same mapping techniques, and manages business analysts

Question 27

Which business architecture perspective is commonly tied directly to stakeholder?

Options:

A.

Product

B.

Strategy

C.

Information

D.

Value stream

Question 28

What is considered a business blueprint?

Options:

A.

Porter value chain

B.

Year-end financial projections

C.

Program deployment roadmap

D.

Application system interface map

Question 29

What does a capability heat map represent?

Options:

A.

Effectiveness of a given capability

B.

Impact a capability has on the business

C.

Which business unit uses the capability

D.

Which value stream relies on the capability

Question 30

In investment analysis, business architecture:

Options:

A.

Leverages the capability map as a standalone blueprint

B.

Defines the elements of IT where cost savings can be achieved

C.

Enables strategic and organizational alignment of investment options

D.

Identifies financial performance metrics to inform investment analysis

Question 31

What is an example of a business architecture scenario?

Options:

A.

Strategy map

B.

Balanced Scorecard

C.

Merger & acquisition

D.

Business architecture knowledgebase

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