Exam CBA Business Architecture Guild Certified Business Architect (CBA) v6.0

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A capability that has been automated:

  • A. Is a service
  • B. Is a capability
  • C. Is an IT capability
  • D. Is an application system


Answer : B

What is a core competency for a business architecture practitioner?

  • A. Collaboration
  • B. Process modeling
  • C. Strategy development
  • D. Software tool installation


Answer : A

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

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

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

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

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