Enterprise Architecture

Question 1

What does Enterprise Architecture try to answer?

Answer 1

How does architecture fit into the corporate structure

Question 2

Enterprise Architecture is super specific, right?

Answer 2

Nope. It’s broad.

Question 3

Enterprise Architectures attempt to do what things?

Answer 3

Bring order to chaos.

Question 4

Is legacy bad

Answer 4

Not necessarily

Question 5

What is a legacy system

Answer 5

Something that’s quite old.

Question 6

What is the average life of a business strategy?

Answer 6

Less than 12 months

Question 7

What is the average life of an IT infastructure?

Answer 7

5-7 years

Question 8

Name a type of ‘standard’

Answer 8

plug and play

Question 9

Why bother about standards?

Answer 9

They allow you to work in an already established framework

Question 10

What are the benefits of an EA

Answer 10

Cost effective
Easier to implement new business solutions
More secure and robust
An environment with standards = good for data

Question 11

A consistent dataset is what?

Answer 11

A powerful dataset.

Question 12

Typical IT environments are what?

Answer 12

Messy
Point-solution heavy
Difficult to maintain
Expensive and unruly

Question 13

IT Investment is often

Answer 13

Reactive
Focused on point solutions
Poorly informed
Not robust

Question 14

EA is a blueprint that defines what things?

Answer 14

Idealised configuration of organisations IT and systems and their connections

Question 15

EA needs to be what?

Answer 15

Reliable, flexible, affordable

Question 16

What is the corporate view

Answer 16

Group wide rather than division video of IT

Question 17

What is the long view

Answer 17

long term view of IT investment

Question 18

What is end to end

Answer 18

Including all elements of design

Question 19

What do you need to know to develop an enterprise architecture?

Answer 19

Business knowledge
How IT works in enterprise
Understanding business constraints

Question 20

How do you develop EA

Answer 20

• Spend time with business leaders

- Categorise how technology works

Question 21

What is a business focused princple?

Answer 21

Align EA with business needs

Question 22

What is independent principle

Answer 22

make the architecture independent of organisational structure

Question 23

what is standards-based

Answer 23

use standard / industry-based stuff

Question 24

what is state of the market principle

Answer 24

use solutions that are proven to work rather than bleeding edge

Question 25

what is robust, reliable, supported principle

Answer 25

adopt solutions with well-defined roadmap

Question 26

what is flexible principle

Answer 26

allows for business change

Question 27

what is reuse technology principle

Answer 27

exploit existing technology

Question 28

what is buy service first principle

Answer 28

use cloud services first, then off the shelf, then custom

Question 29

what is a public facing channel

Answer 29

functions visible outside of company (like a website)

Question 30

what is a department function

Answer 30

business functions in a single department (legacy management)

Question 31

what is a group function

Answer 31

business function used across departments (document management)

Question 32

what is technical infastructure

Answer 32

all the tech needed to run stuff (desktops)

Question 33

Does an EA need to be updated?

Answer 33

Yes. But not every month.

Question 34

What is EA perched between

Answer 34

A science and an art

Question 35

What are the four views an enterprise architecture needs to take?

Answer 35

Corporate view Long view End to end Standards-based

Question 36

What are the four benefits of having an enterprise architecture?

Answer 36

Reduced costs Faster to development More robust Connected

Question 37

What are the four things that can happen without an enterprise architecture?

Answer 37

Expensive, point solutions Isolated pockets of data. Disparate units that are hard to connect Huge maintainability burdens

Question 38

What three things do you need to have to develop an EA?

Answer 38

Business knowledge IT knowledge Business constraint understanding

Question 39

What are the 5 things you should do to develop a EA?

Answer 39

``` Spend time with leaders Spend time with users Research technology Define ideal environment Develop a roadmap ```

Question 40

What are the high level blocks of an EA

Answer 40

Public facing Departmental functions Group functions Technical infrastructure