OGBA-101 practice question 7 of 10

Complete the sentence. The TOGAF standard covers the development of four architecture domains. Business. Data. Technology and___________.

Full set: 127 questions
Answer options
A:

A. Capability

B:

B. Application

Correct answer
C:

C. Transition

D:

D. Segment

Correct Answer:
B. B. Application
Explanation

The TOGAF standard explicitly defines four architecture domains that form the foundation of enterprise architecture development. These are Business, Data, Application, and Technology. The Application Architecture domain provides a blueprint for the individual applications to be deployed, their interactions, and their relationships to the organization's core business processes. It is a critical link between the Business Architecture (what the business does) and the Technology Architecture (how it is implemented). The question asks to complete this standard list of four domains.

Why Incorrect

A. Capability: Capability is a key concept and artifact within the Business Architecture domain, describing an ability that an organization possesses, but it is not one of the four primary domains.
C. Transition: A Transition Architecture is a temporary state of the architecture used to describe the roadmap from the Baseline to the Target Architecture, not a distinct domain.
D. Segment: An Architecture Segment is a detailed, self-contained portion of the overall enterprise architecture (e.g., for a specific department), not one of the four fundamental domains.

References

1. The Open Group. (2022). The TOGAF® Standard, 10th Edition. Van Haren Publishing.

Part II: Architecture Development Method (ADM), Section 5.2, "Architecture Domains": This section explicitly states, "The TOGAF standard covers the development of four architecture domains: Business, Data, Application, Technology."

Part I: Introduction, Section 3.10, "Application Architecture": This section defines Application Architecture as "A description of the structure and interaction of the applications as groups of capabilities that provide business functions and manage the data assets."

2. Lankhorst, M. (Ed.). (2013). Enterprise Architecture at Work: Modelling, Communication and Analysis (3rd ed.). Springer.

Chapter 2, Section 2.3.1, "The TOGAF Framework": This academic text discusses the TOGAF ADM and its phases, consistently identifying the four core domains as Business, Application, Data, and Technology. (Note: While sometimes grouped as Information Systems Architecture, Application and Data are distinct domains).

3. Pennsylvania State University. (n.d.). EA 871: Enterprise Architecture Foundations I. Course materials for the Master of Professional Studies in Enterprise Architecture and Business Transformation.

Module on TOGAF: Courseware in this program details the TOGAF framework, consistently referencing the BDAT (Business, Data, Application, Technology) model as the four primary architecture domains.

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