Establishing an architecture board prevents one of solutions and unconstrained developments that lead to
High cost of development
High cost of support
Lower quality
Numerous runtime environments
All of these
Architecture governance should be guided by
accepted accounting practices
marketing strategies
procurement policies
architecture principles
Who is involved in developing architecture principles
Governing board
Chief architect
All of these actors are involved
Business stakeholders
CIO/CTO
Which of the following is a key criteria for selecting architecture principles
The principle is popular with IT management.
The principle promotes alignment of IT strategies with business strategies and visions.
The principle provides a high degree of control to IT management.
The principle assures compliance by the business units.
The principle assures uniform compliance to IT mandates.
Which of the below the key business driver, when addressed will tend to dictate the sequence of implementation?
Reduction of Costs
Consolidation of services
Ability to handle change
A goal to have minimum of interim solutions
All of the above
Which of the following statements describe generic building blocks
A building block is a package of functionality defined to meet the business needs
A building block has published interfaces to access the functionality
A building block may be assembled from other building block
A building block may have multiple implementations
Which of the following statements does not apply to Enterprise Continuum
It is a virtual repository of all known architecture assets and artefacts in the IT industry
It is a virtual repository of all architecture assets and artefacts which the enterprise is considering in its own architecture project
It provides a taxonomy for classifying architecture assets
It is an important aid to communication for architects on both the buy and supply side
It is an aid to organisation of re-usable and solution assets
Which of the following is not a key architecture governance process
Undertaking compliance assessments against SLAs
Architecture implementation
Granting dispensations
Business Control to ensure compliance with Business policies
Architecture Board is responsible and accountable for achieving the following goals
Identifying re-usable components
Consistency between sub-architectures
The production of usable governance material and activities
B & C only
Why is architecture governance beneficial
It links IT processes, resources and information to organizational strategies and objectives
It integrates and institutionalizes IT best practices
It enables the organization to take full advantage of its information, infrastructure and hardware and software assets
It protects the underlying digital assets of the organization