Quality & EA Framework

What is the primary goal of Enterprise Architecture?

• Developing new software applications

• Maximizing short-term profits

• Understanding enterprise components and their inter-relationships

• Managing employee training programs

Which of the following is a key benefit of effective Enterprise Architecture?

• Increasing employee turnover

• Reducing technological complexity

• Ignoring organizational goals

• Promoting siloed communication

Which phase of Enterprise Architecture typically involves creating a detailed blueprint for the future state of an organization's IT and business infrastructure?

• Business Analysis

• Strategic Planning

• Implementation

• Maintenance and Governance

What role does Enterprise Architecture play in an organization's strategic planning and decision-making process?

• It focuses solely on short-term operational tasks.

• It is a rigid document that doesn't adapt to changes.

• It serves as a master plan and acts as a collaboration force.

• It is primarily concerned with daily routine tasks.

How does Enterprise Architecture contribute to improving communication and alignment within an organization?

• By promoting isolated and uncoordinated activities.

• By emphasizing a lack of transparency.

• By discouraging any form of collaboration.

• By providing a comprehensive view of the enterprise and fostering collaboration.

What is one of the primary purposes of Enterprise Architecture frameworks?

• To complicate and confuse architectural outcomes

• To eliminate the need for architectural planning

• To provide a means to order architecture results

• To solely focus on short-term operational tasks

How do Enterprise Architecture frameworks contribute to ensuring the completeness of architectural results?

• By guarding the completeness of architecture results in terms of scoping and level of detail

• By making architecture results overly complex

• By promoting architectural outcomes that lack scoping

• By ignoring architectural results altogether

What do Enterprise Architecture frameworks enable in terms of architectural decision traceability?

• They prevent any traceability of decisions and their impact

• They make architectural decisions opaque and untraceable

• They provide insight into the interrelationships of architectural results and enable traceability.

• They focus on isolating architectural decisions from any interrelationships

Which of the following statements is true regarding the role of Enterprise Architecture frameworks?

• They discourage architects from collaborating on projects

• They facilitate alignment, consistency, and collaboration in architecture efforts

• They restrict architectural results to a single perspective

• They are solely focused on individual architectural decisions

Which of the following is a key foundational element of an Enterprise Architecture program that provides a structured approach for analysis and documentation?

• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

• Enterprise Architecture Framework (EA framework)

• Project Management Office (PMO)