Free CBA – Business Architecture Guild Certified Business Architect (CBA) Practice Test Question

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  Provides context for aligning business objectives with initiatives

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  Enables executives to align customer offerings with strategic plans

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  Establishes a way to better align capabilities with application architecture

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  Offers a point of focus for determining how to improve stakeholder performance
  
  
  

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  The business architecture

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  An organization’s operating model

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  An organization’s business model

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  Lean Six Sigma value stream models
  
  
  

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  Capability mapping

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  Organization mapping

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  Value stream mapping

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  Value network mapping
  
  
  

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  Product heat maps

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  Capability heat maps

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  Information heat maps

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  Business unit heat maps
  
  
  

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  Framework for strategic business planning

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  Collection of IT disciplines, domains and technologies

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  Orchestrated perspective on people, process and technology

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  Unified perspective of business architecture and IT architecture
  
  
  

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  Establishes an agile requirements approach and methodology

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  Frames the data persistency approach used by a solution architecture

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  Provides best practices for establishing a technical architecture deployment

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  Provides a frame of reference for articulating the scope of solution deployments
  
  
  

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  Omit the product from the company's product map

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  Omit the product from the company's strategic plan

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  Incorporate the product into the company's product map

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  Merge the company's product map with the third party's product map
  
  
  

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  Product

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  Strategy

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  Information

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  Value stream
  
  
  

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  In red, indicating a poor score for the capability

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  In purple, indicating the capability does not exist but is desirable

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  In a color indicating the minimum desired performance level for the capability if it did exist in the business unit

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  In a color representing the average performance level of all of the capabilities under the parent capability under which the capability is assigned
  
  
  

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  Not prescriptive

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  Defined by deliverables

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  About third party interface management

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  Applied using Porter's Five Forces Model
  
  
  

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  Collaboration

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  Process modeling

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  Strategy development

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  Software tool installation
  
  
  

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  Think globally, but act locally

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  Focus on solution architecture

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  Provide maps, not business solutions

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  Start with current state IT perspective
  
  
  

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  Incrementally as needed

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  Jointly across major business segments

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  Within individual independent business units

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  Within the IT department in alignment with IT architecture governance policies
  
  
  

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  Result from an organization's strategic direction and operational issues

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  Accommodate different work habits as jobs evolve and culture changes

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  Are based on current operational need, not business architecture directives

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  Must be considered when new IT or production technology becomes available
  
  
  

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  It helps envision value delivery for participating stakeholders

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  It establishes a foundation for a well-defined business vocabulary

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  It provides an investment focus for improving customer satisfaction

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  It allows each business unit to avoid viewing value delivery holistically