Enterprise Architecture

What is the purpose of Enterprise Architecture (EA)?

• To complicate the business processes

• To increase the cost of IT investments

• To simplify the complexity and understand how business and technology work together

• To ignore the changing business environment

What does Business Architecture focus on?

• Managing physical machines and infrastructure

• Capturing how a business operates and modeling processes, products, and roles

• Storing and managing petabytes of data

• Designing software solutions for businesses

Why is Data Architecture important?

• To reduce the amount of data a company uses

• To increase the cost of data storage

• To simplify the complexity of data sources and formats

• To complicate data management

What is Technology Architecture responsible for?

• Capturing how a business operates

• Defining software solutions for businesses

• Describing the underlying infrastructure needed to run business applications

• Modeling the sources and formats of data

Why do businesses need Enterprise Architecture?

• To avoid using software solutions

• To complicate business operations

• To align business and technology, adapt to change, and deliver value

• To increase the complexity of IT investments

What is one main focus of Enterprise Architecture?

• To reduce the cost of IT investments

• To increase the complexity of business processes

• To simplify the complexity and understand how business and technology work together

• To ignore the changing business environment

What does Application Architecture define?

• The underlying infrastructure needed to run business applications

• The sources and formats of data

• The processes and products of a business

• The software solutions that help businesses do their job and adapt to change

Why is Enterprise Architecture considered a business concern?

• Because it only focuses on IT concerns

• Because it helps align business objectives with IT solutions and adapt to change

• Because it complicates business operations

• Because it increases the cost of IT investments

What is the role of IT in relation to Enterprise Architecture?

• To increase the complexity of business processes

• To ignore the changing business environment

• To make sure that whatever is built can adapt to change and support business operations

• To avoid adapting to change

Why do businesses need Data Architecture?

• To complicate data management

• To simplify the complexity of data sources and formats

• To increase the cost of data storage

• To reduce the amount of data a company uses