Here are 9 multiple choice questions to help you test your understanding:

1. You need to make an impactful presentation of the high-level view of the interaction with the outside
world to quickly on-board and align stakeholders for a particular change initiative, so that all participants
understand the high-level functional and organizational context of the architecture engagement. Which
viewpoint will you choose?

A. Value Chain Diagram

B. Solution Concept Diagram

C Business Interaction Matrix

D. Functional Decomposition Diagram

2. You want to present a pencil sketch of the expected solution at the outset of the engagement. It
should embody key objectives, requirements, and constraints for the engagement and also highlight work
areas to be investigated in more detail with formal architecture modeling. You need to make all
participants understand what the architecture engagement is seeking to achieve and how it is expected
that a particular solution approach will meet the needs of the enterprise. Which viewpoint will you choose?

A. Value Chain Diagram

B. Solution Concept Diagram

C. Driver/Goal/Objective Catalog

D. Business Footprint Diagram

3. You want to present to the senior-level (CxO) stakeholders a view which depicts the links between
business goals, organizational units, business functions, and services, and maps these functions to the
technical components delivering the required capability. The view should provide a clear traceability
between a technical component and the business goal that it satisfies, whilst also demonstrating
ownership of the services identified. Which viewpoint will you choose?

A. Solution Concept Diagram

B. Business Footprint Diagram

C. Driver/Goal/Objective Catalog

D. Goal/Objective/Service Diagram
4. As a part of defining the Data Architecture you need to clearly assign ownership of data entities,
understand the data and information exchange requirements and determine whether any data entities are
missing and need to be created. You expect this view to help enable development of data governance
programs across the enterprise. Which viewpoint will you choose?

A. Data Entity/Data Component Catalog

B. Data Entity/Business Function Matrix

C. Data Dissemination Diagram

D. Application/Data Matrix

5. As a part of defining the Data Architecture you need to support the gap analysis and determine whether
any of the applications are missing and as a result need to be created. You also need to identify the
degree of data duplication within different applications, and the scale of the data lifecycle and understand
where the same data is updated by different applications. Which viewpoint will you choose?

A. Data Entity/Data Component Catalog

B. Data Entity/Business Function Matrix

C. Data Dissemination Diagram

D. Application/Data Matrix

6. As a part of defining the Information System Architecture you need to come up with an indication of the
business criticality of application components by assigning business value to data it manages. In the
process you also need to show how the logical entities are to be physically realized by application
components. Which viewpoint will you choose?

A. Data Entity/Business Function Matrix

B. Data Dissemination Diagram

C. Application/Data Matrix

D. Data Lifecycle diagram

7. As a part of defining the Information System Architecture you need to understand the degree of
interaction between applications, identifying those that are central in terms of their dependencies on other
systems. You also need to scope the overall dependencies between applications. Which viewpoint you
will NOT choose?
 A. Interface Catalog

B. Application Interaction Matrix

C. Application Communication Diagram

D. Application/Function Matrix

8. You need to understand the application support requirements of the business services and processes

carried out by an organization unit and determine whether any of the applications are missing and as a
result need to be created. Which viewpoint will you choose?

A. Software Distribution Diagram

B. Application Use-Case Diagram

C. Application/Function Matrix

D. Application/Organization Matrix

9. Which of the following viewpoint you will NOT use to understand the security requirements?

A. Role Catalog, Actor/Role Matrix and Role/System Matrix

B. Data Security Diagram

C. Networked Computing/Hardware Diagram

D. Application/Technology Matrix

Answers

1. A Value Chain Diagram

2. B Solution Concept Diagram

3. B Business Footprint Diagram

4. B Data Entity/Business Function Matrix

5. D Application/Data Matrix

6. B Data Dissemination Diagram

7. D Application/Function Matrix

8. D Application/Organization Matrix

9. D Application/Technology Matrix