Exam 11: Enterprise Architecture

A well-defined set of rules or ____ describe how one or more services can "talk" to each other.

To use SOA to build a comprehensive set of services that support a business initiative,users and IT people must define the services to be offered and design how to link and sequence the necessary services.

With the distributed model,processing capacity is much more ___________________ by adding more servers or upgrading to faster servers.

____ (sustaining technology)is a process of implementing continual small enhancements to a process,resulting in slow but steady improvement.

____________________ thinking involves understanding,forming perspectives,and thinking critically about new ideas or ways of doing things differently.

The ____ is a language for specifying,constructing,visualizing,and documenting the artifacts of a software-intensive system.

____ are physical units such as servers or mainframes.

All organizations should use the same approach to realizing enterprise architecture.

_____ (disruptive technology)creates such dramatic change that it transforms existing industries or creates new ones.

Managers need to participate as ____________________ in the development and implementation of enterprise architecture so they can convey the type of value propositions being conceived.

Today a company can do all the right things but still fail unless it has viable enterprise architecture to guide its strategic direction.

Enterprise architecture is planned using ____.

A well-designed enterprise architecture creates a foundation of common ____________________ processes and shared data that ultimately allow for the development of new value propositions.

List the four components of the TOGAF enterprise architecture.

In 1996,Congress passed the ____ act,which gave the Office of Management and Budget the authority to dictate standards for "developing,maintaining,and facilitating the implementation" of an enterprise architecture.

It takes the unique knowledge and skills of the organization's workers-the ____ of the organization-to develop these business processes effectively.

It is easy to add incremental amounts of mainframe computing capacity to handle increased demands for additional processing,because mainframes are easily scalable.

High-order thinking is vital for adapting to the new global economy.

____ applications share the processing,formatting,presentation,and storage functions across clients and servers.

To meet changing business requirements,enterprise architecture must be in a state of constant evolution.