CBA Business Architecture Guild Business Architect Questions + Answers

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Question 1
Which business architecture perspective is commonly used to assess the alignment of a
Lean Six Sigma perspective and business architecture?
A. Value stream
B. Strategy map
C. Capability map
D. Stakeholder map


Answer : A

Question 2
Which statement about business models and business architecture is accurate?
A. A business architecture requires a pre-existing business model as a starting point
B. Best practices dictate that there should only be one business model for a business
C. A business model requires a pre-existing business architecture as a starting point
D. Best practices dictate that there should only be one business architecture for a business


Answer : D

Question 3
Business architecture practitioners should have the basic ability to:
A. Craft agile business requirements to address a specific business issue
B. Drive business process design efforts, prioritization, documentation and optimization
C. Socialize and leverage business blueprints to enable business planning and issue analysis
D. Create and leverage service-oriented architecture components to deploy automation solutions


Answer : C

Question 4
Which capability serves as a key focal point for deploying a case management environment?
A. Fuel Management
B. Asset Management
C. Product Management
D. Agreement Management


Answer : D

Question 5
The set of competencies that illustrate the role of a business architecture practitioner are:
A. Facilitation, influencing and leadership
B. Decision making, strategy develpment and innovation
C. Program management, consultancy and IT governance
D. Subject matter expertise, decision making and leadership


Answer : A


Question 6
What is the goal of a value stream?
A. To satisfy or delight the customer
B. To deliver value to participating stakeholders
C. To ensure that each stage is hit in sequence
D. To reduce the time it takes to move from end-to-end


Answer : A

Question 7
From which primary source are information concepts and definitions derived?
A. Business units
B. Product inventories
C. Business capabilities
D. Value stream stage names


Answer : C

Question 8
What is a business architecture practitioner's role when defining scope for a business solution?
A. Determining the level of responsibility of the primary stakeholder
B. Identifying the affected business processes and tracing their impacts
C. Examining the organization's change readiness strategy at the enterprise level
D. Assessing the impacts to capabilities and value streams across business units


Answer : D

Question 9
During the planning stage, a business architecture methodology enables which outcome?
A. User story articulation
B. Business process modeling
C. Well-articulated scope definition
D. Return on investment determination


Answer : C

Question 10
A consultant is working on a business initiative involving three business units, each of which uses a different enterprise architecture framework. Which action should the consultant take to efficiently and effectively establish and leverage business architecture to form an integrated approach and solution?
A. Define core business architecture domains for each business unit and then try to align them using each framework
B. Utilize a different architecture framework approach for each business unit and then compare and align business perspectives
C. Map an enterprise view of core business architecture domains and use it to analyze gaps and similarities across business units
D. Map out the business processes for each of the three organizations and then align those processes through the view of each framework


Answer : C


Question 11
What is the main purpose of business architecture tooling?
A. It ensures that desktop technologies are not used to manage the business architecture
B. It establishes a formal link between the business architecture and operational databases
C. It enables teams to capture, manage, communicate and share the business architecture
D. It provides a way to integrate business architecture with the software development process


Answer : C

Question 12
What provides the strongest indication of misaligned projects when performing an analysis of potential initiatives supporting a common strategy?
A. The financial analysis identifies a negative net present value
B. There is little-to-no cross-business unit collaboration or coordination
C. The combined projects have a low opportunity for increased revenue
D. All of the projects address a single capability or its lower-level capabilities


Answer : B

Question 13
What is an example of a business architecture scenario?
A. Strategy map
B. Balanced Scorecard
C. Merger & acquisition
D. Business architecture knowledgebase


Answer : C

Explanation:
Topic2,Business Architecture Core Mapping Knowledge
Question 14
In addition to value streams and capabilities, the domains of business architecture that should be used when shifting to a customer-centric business model are:
A. Products and processes
B. Organization and information
C. Processes and application systems
D. Application systems and information


Answer : B

Question 15
How can utilizing business architecture help when shifting to a customer-centric business model?
A. It provides guidance on selection of a new customer relationship management system
B. It provides a basis for current/future state perspectives needed to realign the business model
C. It identifies business units and capabilities required to better serve various customer segments
D. It puts the business architecture practitioner in the role of the customer to understand the experience


Answer : B


Question 21
What is a definitive indicator of how important a capability is to the business?
A. Being a level one capability
B. Heat map ranking on the heat map
C. Impact or criticality rating of the capability
D. Being listed in the strategic capability category


Answer : C

Question 22
A central component of Porter’s Five Forces Model is:
A. Cost
B. Strategy
C. Efficiency
D. Competition


Answer : D

Question 23
What is a benefit of aligning business architecture with Lean Six Sigma?
A. Business architecture serves as a prerequisite for establishing Lean Six Sigma value streams
B. Lean Six Sigma value stream definition is a prerequisite for establishing a business architecture
C. Business architecture surfaces upstream and downstream impacts of Lean Six Sigma efforts across business units
D. Business architecture provides additional information to Lean Six Sigma work regarding process model decompositions


Answer : C

Question 24
What is the correct sequence of events when establishing a business architecture practice within an organization?
A. Create business architecture baseline, socialize baseline to obtain buy-in and then communicate business value
B. Determine business architecture objectives, communicate business value and then establish business architecture baseline
C. Establish business architecture baseline, map to IT architecture and then assess opportunities to leverage business architecture
D. Formalize the governance structure, build the business architecture baseline and then determine business architecture objectives


Answer : B

Question 25
What is the definition of a capability?
A. A product delivered to customers
B. A satisfied business requirement
C. A representation of what the business does
D. A description of how a business does things


Answer : C


Question 26
Capability decomposition:
A. Produces business processes
B. Results in capability stratification
C. Results in lower level capabilities
D. Succeeds when it reaches level 3


Answer : C

Question 27
In a business architecture context, changes to facilities and equipment:
A. Result from an organization's strategic direction and operational issues
B. Accommodate different work habits as jobs evolve and culture changes
C. Are based on current operational need, not business architecture directives
D. Must be considered when new IT or production technology becomes available


Answer : A

Question 28
A business unit wants to enable a new capability. How should the capability be represented on a heat map?
A. In red, indicating a poor score for the capability
B. In purple, indicating the capability does not exist but is desirable
C. In a color indicating the minimum desired performance level for the capability if it did exist in the business unit
D. In a color representing the average performance level of all of the capabilities under the parent capability under which the capability is assigned


Answer : B

Question 29
What is a major benefit of initiative mapping?
A. It assists in tracking the achievement of strategic business objectives
B. It allows management to track stakeholder benefits tied to value streams
C. It helps define how various business units relate to business stakeholders
D. It enables portfolio decisions by capturing complex relationships among in flight programs


Answer : D

Question 30
What is a principle of the Business Architecture Maturity Model?
A. It measures the levels of success or failure of business strategy and goals
B. It establishes a baseline to measure business performance against stated objectives
C. The value provided to the enterprise increases as the business architecture practice matures
D. As the scope of the organization and business architecture practice evolves, the maturity model evolves with it


Answer : C

Question 31
Execution of a successful business architecture effort requires:
A. Willingness to pilot change options and adopt the one with optimal cost/benefit results
B. Executive sponsorship with authority to drive change and willingness to accept decision responsibility
C. A strong business architect to act as project manager and pull together all business unit managers who will be affected
D. A business architecture center of excellence that coordinates interactions among all players in a business change project


Answer : B

Question 32
What is a benefit of aligning business architecture and IT architecture?
A. Technical debt can be more effectively defined and eradicated
B. IT resources can be used to improve the business architecture
C. IT architecture can be used to define and scope business initiatives
D. IT strategies can be more effectively aligned to business-driven planning


Answer : D

Question 33
Assuming that an insurance / multi-service financial institution has multiple divisions with multiple products and partners, the minimum number of value streams that could represent customer product acquisition is as many as needed to represent:
A. All product lines
B. Major insurance divisions
C. Each customer segment
D. A common value perspective


Answer : D

Question 34
Which business blueprint is useful for mapping initiatives to business objectives and key performance indicators?
A. Hoshin Kanri
B. Stakeholder Map
C. Business Motivation Model
D. Norton Kaplan Strategy Map


Answer : A

Question 35
A business architecture practitioner’s advisory role is described as trusted advisor to:
A. IT as a liaison to the business
B. Business executives and planning teams
C. Other business architecture practitioners
D. Analysts and software development teams


Answer : B


Question 36
What is a comprehensive definition of the term strategy?
A. A checklist that can be used to establish project plans and program deployments
B. A varied collection of goals and objectives for a particular business unit in relation to competition
C. A specific course of action that is of a longer-term perspective as opposed to a tactical course of action
D. A pattern or plan that integrates an organizations major goals, policies and action sequences into a cohesive whole


Answer : D

Question 37
Business architecture practitioners work with:
A. Operations managers to assess resource acquisition
B. The strategy team to assess and define business strategy
C. Business analysts to develop business solution requirements
D. Subject matter experts to determine impacts of strategic change


Answer : D

Question 38
A business architecture practitioner is responsible for:
A. Identifying and evaluating investment opportunities
B. Enabling impact analysis and effective response to change
C. Managing change adoption at both enterprise and business unit levels
D. Evaluating the effect of emerging technologies on business improvement initiatives


Answer : B

Question 39
Which business architecture perspective helps ensure that multiple business requirements teams utilize a common business vocabulary across multiple business units?
A. Initiative
B. Product
C. Capability
D. Organization


Answer : C

Question 40
A capability that has been automated:
A. Is a service
B. Is a capability
C. Is an IT capability
D. Is an application system


Question 41
What is a core competency for a business architecture practitioner?
A. Collaboration
B. Process modeling
C. Strategy development
D. Software tool installation


Answer : A

Question 42
Business architecture team principles are described as:
A. A set of principles that guide the decisions of the business
B. An “elevator pitch” which describes a clear purpose for the business architecture team
C. An agreed upon set of truths that guide the actions of business architecture practitioners
D. An engagement model for how business and IT interacts with the business architecture team


Answer : C

Question 43
A principle associated with the business architecture knowledgebase is that the knowledgebase is:
A. Built upon a relational database management system
B. Based upon a standardized, industry accepted metamodel
C. Populated as appropriate to the value it delivers and strategies and projects it facilitates
D. Housed in a repository-based software tool that incorporates import / export and reporting features


Answer : C

Question 44
What are the four domains of IT architecture?
A. Application, Data, Infrastructure and Content
B. Technical, Data, Solution and Shadow Systems
C. Application, Data, Shadow Systems and Technical
D. Technical, Solution, Content and Shadow Systems


Answer : C

Question 45
A business architecture practitioner should manage relationships for which category of stakeholders?
A. End consumers
B. Business partners
C. Board of Directors
D. Business subject matter experts


Answer : D