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The Open Group OGA-032 Exam Questions
- Topic 1: Language Structure: This section of the exam measures skills of Enterprise Architects and covers the ArchiMate language structure. Candidates must explain the concept of layering, including Business, Application, and Technology layers and service-orientation. They also need to understand the dimensions of the ArchiMate Core and Full Frameworks, covering aspects, layers, core framework, and physical elements. Additionally, candidates will explain abstraction concepts such as external and internal views, active and behavior perspectives, and conceptual, logical, and physical levels.
- Topic 2: Generic Metamodel: This part evaluates Enterprise Architects on explaining the hierarchy of behavior and structure elements in ArchiMate. Candidates must explain active structure elements, behavior elements, passive structure elements, and their specializations, including collaboration and interaction elements.
- Topic 3: Relationships: This section assesses Solution Architects in explaining and applying derivation rules for relationships in ArchiMate. Candidates should demonstrate the use of these rules in practical modeling situations and understand derivation rules for potential relationships.
- Topic 4: Motivation Modeling: Business Analysts are assessed on explaining motivation elements like stakeholder, driver, assessment, goals, outcomes, principles, requirements, constraints, meanings, and values. They also need to describe how motivation elements relate to core elements to show the connection between motivation and implementation.
- Topic 5: Strategy Modeling: Strategy Consultants must explain the use of strategy elements together with motivation and core concepts. They are also required to distinguish between key concepts such as resource, capability, value streams, and courses of action. Application of strategy layer concepts and relationships in real-world modeling scenarios is expected.
- Topic 6: Business Layer: Business Process Architects demonstrate their skills in applying business layer elements, including active structure, behavior, and passive structure elements, in real-case modeling scenarios. They must also explain the use of composite elements within the business layer.
- Topic 7: Application Layer: IT Architects focus on applying application layer elements such as active structure, behavior, and passive structure elements in practical modeling situations.
- Topic 8: Technology Layer: Infrastructure Architects are evaluated on their ability to apply technology layer elements in real-case modeling. This includes active structure, behavior, passive structure, and physical elements.
- Topic 9: Relationships between Core Layers: Solution Architects must explain the correct usage of relationships between core layers using established rules and examples. Application of derivation relationships in these cross-layer relationships is also assessed.
- Topic 10: Implementation and Migration: Program Managers demonstrate understanding of the elements and relationships in the implementation and migration metamodel. They must show how to apply these elements to develop transition architectures and use them effectively in real-case modeling. Understanding relationships with other layers and aspects is also required.
- Topic 11: Addressing Stakeholder Concerns with Architecture Views, Viewpoints, and Customization Enterprise Architects explain how to define and classify architecture viewpoints and the steps involved. They also need to create views by applying the mechanisms and concepts from different layers and derivation rules. Finally, candidates demonstrate the use of viewpoint mechanisms in real modeling scenarios, emphasizing their importance in addressing stakeholder concerns.
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Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
The ArchiSurance senior management, board members, customers, and major stockholders have expressed long-standing concerns regarding the business continuity risks associated with relying on a single data center. Located in an area prone to
flooding, earthquakes, and occasional water leaks from the cafeteria above, the current data center has significant vulnerabilities.
To address these concerns and mitigate the risks, ArchiSurance has developed a comprehensive plan to relocate its existing data center to two separate ready-to-use data centers in different cities. As a major undertaking, the approval of the Board of
Directors is required to proceed with the project.
The primary objectives of the data center move are to reduce the risk of business interruptions, reduce both planned and unplanned downtime for critical applications, and provide reassurance to ArchiSurance stakeholders. Ensuring minimal disruption
during the transition is crucial. However, several constraints make the planned migration to the new data centers particularly challenging. Certain critical ArchiSurance applications cannot be offline for more than one hour, and any planned downtime must
be restricted to specific four-hour windows on weekends. Additionally, the migration cannot take place during quarterly or year-end closing periods to avoid disrupting critical processing operations.
ArchiSurance management has devised a multi-phase data center transformation program to facilitate a smooth transition. Each phase is critical for establishing stable and fully functional data center configurations throughout the transformation process.
The initial phase entails detailed scheduling and planning to develop a comprehensive transformation plan aligned with ArchiSurance's timing and scheduling requirements. During the second phase, ArchiSurance will procure the necessary hardware and
software for the new data centers, while also seeking refunds for the hardware and software in the current data center once it is decommissioned. The third phase involves setting up the new data centers and conducting parallel testing of the new
hardware and software alongside the existing production environment. The transition between the old and new data centers occurs in the fourth phase, followed by the fifth phase, which is the decommissioning of the old data center. This involves
returning the hardware and software to obtain the contracted refunds. Each phase, from the second to the fifth, is initiated once specific conditions outlined in the previous phase have been met.
Refer to the Scenario
The IT department's leader has assigned you the task of creating a model to explain the rationale behind Archisurance's decision to transform its data center infrastructure. The model should show the concerns and motivations of the stakeholders
involved. Additionally, it should outline the specific goals to be achieved through the data center transformation program, the associated deliverables, and the limitations that must be considered throughout the program's implementation.
Which of the following answers provides the best explanation?
A.
B.
C.
D.
We need to identify the most accurate and complete model that explains:
Stakeholder Concerns & Motivations -- Including senior management, board members, customers, and stockholders.
Objectives & Goals -- Reducing business risks, minimizing downtime, and reassuring stakeholders.
Deliverables -- The transition to two new data centers and data center transformation program.
Constraints & Requirements -- Planned downtime limits, critical application uptime requirements, and scheduling constraints.
Why C is the Best Choice:
Includes all stakeholder concerns -- Clearly represents business continuity risks and the rationale for transitioning to two new data centers. Clearly defines the objectives -- Reducing downtime and risk of business interruption. Shows key constraints --
Critical applications cannot be offline for more than one hour.
Downtime must be in four-hour weekend windows.
The migration must avoid closing periods. Links deliverables to objectives -- The data center transformation program and new data centers are clearly positioned as solutions. Represents dependencies correctly -- Showing how each motivation leads to a goal, which leads to a deliverable.
Why Not A, B, or D?
A: Does not establish a strong link between the concerns and the solution clearly enough.
B: The structure does not align well with the scenario requirements, and some constraints and dependencies are missing.
D: Overcomplicates some relationships and does not emphasize stakeholder concerns effectively.
Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
ArchiSurance has decided to leverage its financial expertise by offering defined contribution retirement plans. Each trading day, ArchiSurance submits consolidated mutual fund trading transactions to a stock exchange on behalf of its retirement plan
participants.
The daily mutual fund trading cycle consists of four key processes: Transaction capture, pricing, trading and reconciliation. Transaction capture consists of two sub-processes: manual exchange and loans and distributions (L&D). For transaction
capture, retirement plan participants use an online account management application to enter manual fund exchange transactions. For L&D, plan participants use a separate application to enter requests. The L&D application determines whether the
request can be fulfilled based on the mutual fund balances held in each plan balances and a set of business rules. Each day's captured manual exchange transactions accumulate in a transaction database.
ArchiSurance contracts with a third-party information service to receive a file of mutual fund prices at the close of each trading day. The pricing application uses this file to convert captured transaction into trades, and then validates each trade against the
mutual fund balances held in each plan. The pricing application generates a trade file with the minimum number of trades necessary. The trading application sends this file to an external trading service. When the trading application receives a
confirmation file back from the trading service, it passes it to the reconciliation application, which updates the plan recordkeeping database.
The lead application Architect has decided to merge the pricing application, the trading application and the reconciliation application into one application, which will be serving the pricing, trading and reconciliation processes respectively. The reason for
this is that maintenance costs for these three components are too high and the performance is too slow. This implementation will increase the performance and lower the maintenance cost significantly.
The CIO has agreed on this plan, but wants this to be done in two phases, each in a separate project. Phase 1 should include the merger of the Trading and Pricing applications. Phase 2 should then merge the merged applications with the Reconciliation
application respectively. Each project phase has a number of defined deliverables. Phase 1 has two deliverables, TraPri application implemented and tested' and 'Active TraPri application', which together form a first transition architecture. Phase 2 has
two deliverables, 'Recon 2.0 application implemented and tested' and 'Back-up applications phased out', which together form the second transition architecture. These two projects are part of the ArchiSurance application integration program scheduled
for the next 6 months.
Refer to the Scenario
You have been asked by the lead application architect to show how the applications used for daily trading can be migrated. This should include a description of the work packages, deliverables and transition architectures.
Which of the following answers best describes the applications and migration plan?
A.
B.
C.
D.
We need to determine the best model that:
Shows the current applications and their functions -- Pricing, Trading, and Reconciliation applications.
Represents the migration phases --
Phase 1: Merges the Trading and Pricing applications into TraPri.
Phase 2: Merges TraPri with the Reconciliation application to create Recon 2.0.
Includes transition architectures -- Each phase has distinct deliverables marking the transition from old applications to new merged applications.
Shows the work packages and dependencies -- The sequence of activities leading to the final implementation.
Why D is the Best Choice:
Clearly distinguishes baseline (existing) applications and the new applications after the migration. Illustrates the two transition states correctly --
First transition: Implementation and activation of the TraPri application.
Second transition: Implementation of Recon 2.0 and phase-out of backup applications. Depicts the migration process sequentially -- Ensuring a clear understanding of how the applications evolve over time. Work packages and deliverables are well structured -- Aligning with the phases described in the scenario.
Why Not A, B, or C?
A: Does not correctly represent the transition phases and their deliverables.
B: Lacks clarity in differentiating baseline applications from transition architectures.
C: Misrepresents dependencies and transition states, making the migration process unclear.
Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
ArchiCar has been a market leader in the premium priced luxury car sector for the last decade. Its product leadership strategy has brought superior products to market, and enabled ArchiCar to achieve premium prices for its cars. This strategy has been
widely successful in the past, but recently competitors have been offering comparable products and taking significant market share. The governing board of ArchiCar has identified opportunities in emerging markets where the ArchiCar brand is associated
with luxury and high performance products, but is thought to be too expensive for mass-market success. Based on this assessment, the board has made the decision to setup a subsidiary company to mass-produce affordable cars locally. This will be
achieved by focusing on a strategy of operational excellence. Such a strategy is ideal for such markets where customers value cost over other factors.
To facilitate this strategic transformation, the project has been divided into multiple phases within a five-year program. The initial phase, known as "Achieving Operational Excellence," is underway. The engineering team has begun devising an action plan
to drive the necessary changes and outlining the technological conditions that must be met. The product architect has identified three current capabilities - industry-leading engineering, high-quality materials sourcing, and cutting-edge focussed R&D -
along with their contributions to the new production philosophy.
Moving forward, it has been determined that two out of the three current capabilities require revision. Materials sourcing needs to be adjusted to meet optimization demands, and R&D targets must align with future goals to enable affordable production.
Additionally, process engineering is introduced as a fourth capability to shift the company's focus from products to a process-oriented approach.
The Enterprise Architecture team has been tasked with migration planning, and identifying key work packages and deliverables. They have identified two transition states between the current and future scenario. The first transition aims to adjust current
capabilities, including revising the R&D approach and procurement strategy. The second transition aims to shift from a product-centric mindset to a process-focused approach and adjust materials sourcing accordingly. It is important to consider existing
supplier contracts that cannot be immediately canceled during this process.
The Enterprise Architecture team has identified that the second transition must implement a process framework, in order to shift to a process focus and meet a number of requirements, including the requirement for end-to-end process thinking. As this
requirement impacts procurement processes, it also impacts the procurement strategy.
Refer to the Scenario
You have been tasked with modeling the current capabilities of ArchiCar, identifying the capabilities necessary for the company to achieve Operational Excellence, and showing the motivations behind these changes
Which of the following models best answers this?
A.
B.
C.
D.
We need to find the model that best represents:
Current Capabilities -- Industry-leading engineering, high-quality materials sourcing, and cutting-edge focused R&D.
Strategic Shift -- Moving from product leadership to operational excellence to enter emerging markets.
Required Changes --
Adjusting R&D targets to support cost-effective production.
Revising materials sourcing for optimization.
Introducing process engineering to enable a process-oriented mindset.
Motivations Behind the Changes --
Competitor pressure.
Emerging market opportunities.
High costs limiting mass-market success.
Why D is the Best Choice:
Includes all current and future capabilities -- Shows the existing strengths of engineering, R&D, and materials sourcing while introducing process engineering as required for operational excellence. Clearly depicts the shift in strategy -- From product leadership to operational excellence and the necessary transformations. Captures stakeholder concerns and motivations -- Including competition, cost concerns, and emerging market opportunities. Represents dependencies and sequencing correctly -- Reflecting how each capability change contributes to the transition states and ultimate business goals.
Why Not A, B, or C?
A: Does not properly represent the transition between product leadership and operational excellence.
B: Fails to clearly define the required capability changes and motivations.
C: Lacks key relationships between strategy shifts and operational changes.
Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
ArchiSurance has decided to leverage its financial expertise by offering defined contribution retirement plans. Each trading day, ArchiSurance submits consolidated mutual fund trading transactions to a stock exchange on behalf of its retirement
plan participants.
The daily mutual fund trading cycle consists of four key processes: Transaction capture, pricing, trading and reconciliation. Transaction capture consists of two sub-processes: manual exchange and loans and distributions (L&D). For transaction
capture, retirement plan participants use an online account management application to enter manual fund exchange transactions. For L&D, plan participants use a separate application to enter requests. The L&D application determines whether
the request can be fulfilled based on the mutual fund balances held in each plan balances and a set of business rules. Each day's captured manual exchange transactions accumulate in a transaction database.
ArchiSurance contracts with a third-party information service to receive a file of mutual fund prices at the close of each trading day. The pricing application uses this file to convert captured transaction into trades, and then validates each trade
against the mutual fund balances held in each plan. The pricing application generates a trade file with the minimum number of trades necessary. The trading application sends this file to an external trading service. When the trading application
receives a confirmation file back from the trading service, it causes the reconciliation application to update the plan recordkeeping database.
The account management and L&D applications are hosted on separate application server clusters. Each cluster is a physically separate host that runs application server software on a set of virtualized hosts. All of these applications use a
database server infrastructure that is hosted on another separate cluster of virtualized servers also on a dedicated physical host. The pricing, consolidation, trading and reconciliation applications, however, are batch applications that run on the
ArchiSurance mainframe computer. All application hosts are connected via a converged data center network (DCN), which also connects them to a storage area network (SAN) as well as a wide area network (WAN) that is used to communicate
with the external trading service. The SAN includes two physically separate storage arrays, one of which holds data for all databases, and another that holds data for all files.
Refer to the Scenario
The systems analysts would like to better understand the business processes and applications for daily fund trading. You have been asked to describe the business processes and sub-processes, the applications that they use, the data objects
accessed by those applications, and the external application services that access some of those data objects.
Which of the following is the best answer? Note that you are not required to model the business actors/roles.
A.
B.
C.
D.
In this scenario, the goal is to model the business processes, their sub-processes, the applications supporting these processes, and the data objects these applications access. Additionally, external services that access some of these data objects need to be shown. This includes capturing the key processes and their dependencies, as well as understanding how the applications interact with data and external services.
Key ArchiMate 3.2 Concepts Applied:
Business Processes and Sub-Processes:
Transaction Capture Process: Consists of two sub-processes:
Manual Exchange
Loans & Distribution (L&D) This process is responsible for capturing transactions from users through different applications (Online Account Management, L&D Application).
Pricing Process: This process uses the Mutual Fund Prices from a third-party service and the Plan Balances to validate and price trades.
Trading Process: This process generates a Trade File and interacts with an external Trading Service.
Reconciliation Process: This final process updates the Plan Recordkeeping Data after confirming trades from the External Trading Service.
Applications and Data:
Online Account Management Application and L&D Application: These capture user inputs for transactions and maintain Transaction Data and Plan Balances.
Pricing Application: Uses Mutual Fund Prices and Transaction Data to generate Trade Data.
Trading Application: Submits Trade Data and receives a Confirmation File from the external Trading Service.
Reconciliation Application: Uses the Confirmation File to update Plan Recordkeeping Data.
External Application Services:
Third-Party Information Service: Provides Mutual Fund Prices.
External Trading Service: Processes trades and returns a Confirmation File.
Data Objects:
Transaction Data: Captured by the transaction capture processes.
Mutual Fund Prices: Received from the third-party service.
Trade Data: Generated by the pricing and trading applications.
Plan Recordkeeping Data: Updated by the reconciliation process after trade confirmation.
Why Option B is Correct:
Option B provides the most complete and accurate representation of the scenario. It captures the business processes (Transaction Capture, Pricing, Trading, Reconciliation) and their sub-processes, while showing the appropriate connections to the applications that support these processes.
It clearly depicts the data objects (Transaction Data, Plan Balances, Trade File, Mutual Fund Prices, Plan Recordkeeping Data) and their flows between the processes and applications.
The model also includes the external services (Third-Party Information Service and External Trading Service), showing how these interact with the internal applications and data objects.
It accurately represents the flow of Trade Data from the Pricing Application to the Trading Application, and the use of Mutual Fund Prices by the Pricing Process.
Why Other Options Are Incorrect:
Option A and Option D miss some critical connections between the applications and the external services. They also lack clarity in how the data flows between the processes and applications.
Option C does not adequately represent the interaction between the applications and the external services (e.g., Third-Party Information Service), which is a key requirement in this scenario.
Conclusion:
Option B provides the best and most accurate description of the business processes, applications, data objects, and external services involved in ArchiSurance's daily fund trading operations, following ArchiMate 3.2 standards for modeling business processes and applications.
Please read this scenario prior to answering the question
The ArchiSurance enterprise document management solution plays a crucial role in supporting a large number of document types and managing a high volume of document-based transactions each day. Given its business-critical nature, the document
management solution is hosted redundantly across two geographically separate data center sites: Site A and Site B. Both sites are configured identically to ensure seamless operations.
Each site has a highly available data center network (DCN) that connects to the resilient ArchiSurance wide area network (WAN). Each claim management server is connected to its respective site's DCN, forming a converged network that interconnects
servers and storage arrays. A dedicated physical storage array is allocated to the claim management application within each DCN. Additionally, each site houses four powerful physical servers exclusively dedicated to the claim management application.
Among these servers, one remains on standby at any given time, while the other three take on specific roles in hosting the document, workflow, and application engines.
The standby server is responsible for monitoring the behavior of the other servers, providing a logging and reporting service. The active servers regularly transmit data to facilitate this monitoring functionality. In the event of a server failure, the standby
server steps in to perform resource reallocation, replacing the faulty server. However, this task requires manual intervention from a system administrator to reconfigure the logging and reporting service to adapt to the new environment.
Refer to the Scenario
The IT manager has asked you to model the hardware and networks that support the document management solution. This includes capturing the infrastructure components such as data center sites, servers, storage, and networks. Additionally, you
are expected to outline the necessary functionality and services required to enable failover within a server cluster. Given that both data centers share an identical configuration, it is sufficient for Site B to only show the associated networking.
Which of the following is the best answer?
A.
B.
C.
D.
We need to identify the most accurate and complete model that represents:
Infrastructure Components -- Including data centers, servers, storage arrays, and networks.
Failover Capabilities -- Showing the standby server's role in monitoring and switching functionality upon failure.
Redundant Setup -- Ensuring the representation of both data centers (Site A and Site B), with Site B showing only networking.
Interconnectivity -- Between servers, DCN, and WAN.
Why D is the Best Choice:
All required infrastructure components are included, such as:
Physical servers (Document, Workflow, and Application Servers).
Standby Server for failover.
Claim Management Storage Array.
DCN (Data Center Network) for Site A and Site B.
ArchiSurance WAN for external connectivity.
The Standby Server is correctly linked to logging, monitoring, and reporting, showing its role in monitoring and failover.
Networking is modeled properly:
Both Site A and Site B have a DCN, correctly interconnecting storage and servers.
Site B does not duplicate servers but represents networking, as per the scenario.
Functionality of Failover is Modeled Accurately:
Monitoring and reporting services are depicted.
Manual intervention by a system administrator is present.
Why Not A, B, or C?
A: Does not fully capture the network and storage relationships clearly.
B: Similar to A but misses some essential network connections.
C: Incorrect failover representation, and networking elements are not clearly depicted.
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