ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE Flashcards

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is the art and science of designing complex structures, which involves fundamental concepts or properties of a system in its environment, embodied in its elements, relationships, and in the principles of its design and evolution.

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Architecture

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is a collection of organizations that has a common set of goals, objectives, and/or a single targeted outcome.

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Enterprise

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is a coherent collection of principles, methods, and models that are used in the design and realization of an enterprise’s organizational structure, business processes, information systems, and infrastructure

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Enterprise architecture

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These pertain to the organizational and IT infrastructure and processes.

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Internal Drivers

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These pertain to the business and IT strategies and standards.

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External Drivers

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It is the identification, selection, and implementation of an organization’s long-term goals and objectives

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Strategic Management

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This is a management system that helps an enterprise to clarify and implement its vision and strategy.

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Balanced Scorecard (BSC)

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It is the development of a model that identifies the products or services the business will sell, the target market it has identified, and the expenses it anticipates

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Business Model Development

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This is a template in creating high level descriptions of new or existing business models. It consists the following elements: value propositions, key activities, key resources, key partners, customer segments, customer relationships, channels, cost structure, and revenue streams.

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Business Model Canvas

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This is a blueprint of an enterprise that provides a common organizational understanding and is used to align strategic objectives and tactical demands

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Business Architecture

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It is the act of overseeing different activities and
tasks within an organization to ensure that the products and services
offered, as well as the means used to achieve them, are effective in
achieving and maintaining the desired level of quality within an
organization

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Quality Management

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12
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It involves the processes that ensure the
effective and efficient use of information technology in enabling an
organization to achieve its goals

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IT Governance and Support

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13
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It is an internationally accepted IT control framework
that provides organizations with a set of “good practices” that
helps in implementing an IT governance structure throughout an
organization.

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Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology
(COBIT)

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This is the most widely accepted set of best practices in the IT service
delivery domain, which is composed of series of documents giving
guidance on the provision of good IT services, including the
facilities that need IT support, in a process-oriented approach.

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Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)

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It involves the process of combining the developed
software or application with the other management and engineering
processes

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IT Implementation

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This is a model that provides numerous guidelines for assessing the maturity of an organization and the improvements needed in various process areas to proceed from one level to the next.

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Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)

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Processes are usually impromptu and chaotic.

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Initial

18
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Processes are planned, performed,
measured, and controlled.

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Managed

19
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Processes are defined in terms of standards,
procedures, tools, and methods.

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Defined

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Quantitative objectives for
quality and process performance are established and
used as criteria in managing process.

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Quantitatively Managed

21
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Processes are continuously improved in the
technological aspect of the organization.

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Optimizing

22
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An open and independent modeling language for an enterprise
architecture that is supported by different tool vendors and consulting
firms

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ArchiMate Specification

23
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This model expresses the properties of a system
architecture using symbols that refer to reality.

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Symbolic Model

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This model interprets the meaning of each symbol in
a symbolic model.

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Semantic Mode