Enterprise Architecture

Final Exam: Spring Semester – May 11, 2020 Time Allowed: Open Book

Answer any four of four questions:

1. Describe how an enterprise’s Chief Information Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief
Operating Officer should cooperate and coordinate in developing and managing an
integrated approach to enterprise architecture, capital planning, and project management.
(25 points)

2. (a).What is an EA repository and how does it support the EA implementation methodology?
(15 points)
(b). Why are there no 100 percent fool-proof IT Security solutions? (10 points)

3. Your organization, Linda Designs Corporation is facing an accreditation panel of a regulatory body in the next six months. You have been hired to a newly created position of a Lead Project Manager to coordinate the projects at the headquarters to ensure that the organization is compliant and accredited. As you settle into your new role, you discovered that the organization has no functional Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) and Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP). The available COOP and DRP documents were obsolete and did not reflect the current organizational operations.
(a). Explain in detail the actions you would take at this point rectify the anomaly in order
to meet the organization’s goals. (12 points)
(b). What are the key differences between COOP and DRP? (5)
(c). What are the key elements that should be components of the two plans? (8 points)

4. (a). Untrained personnel is costly to the organization. However, people remain the weakest security link in the organization. How true are these statements? Explain in detail.
(5 points)
(b). As the Enterprise Program Manager of IT Operations in your enterprise organization, what
are the different strategies you would deploy to strengthen the security posture of the organization? (15 points).
(c). What is the role of project management plan in an enterprise organization? (5 points)

5. Othello Trading Corporation inherited a huge enterprise network infrastructure two years ago via acquisition. During this period, the organization has been running two parallel networks and has decided to streamline and align its operations and processes by consolidating the two networks into one functional state-of-the-art network infrastructure for efficiency, high productivity and stable growth. This entails redesigning the corporation’s existing enterprise network architecture to accommodate the acquired network. Your role as the Chief Architect is to lead this effort to move the organization from the current architecture to the desired architecture. How would you utilize architecture management plan to achieve the desired goal? (25 points)

6. Your organization, Zangote Industrial Company is moving forward with its plans to acquire two other competitor organizations and proceed to merge the three organizations into one enterprise organization with global coverage in Egypt, Canada, Brazil, Taiwan, and Uruguay. As the Chief Enterprise Architect of Zangote, the executive management has requested that you present an hour PowerPoint Presentation that would reassure them that the acquisitions and subsequent merger will worth the effort and financial investment. As the Subject Matter Expert in Enterprise Architecture who would guide them through the process, how would you reassure them that the plan would work? What are the essential elements of mergers and acquisitions that you need to point out to your organization? What is your advice for your company? (25 points).

Good luck.

Dr. Chike Patrick Chike
Professor