04. Enterprise Architecture Layer Concepts

1. Motivation Concepts

2. Strategy Concepts

3. Physical Concepts

4. Implementation and Migration Concepts

5. Business Layer

6. Application Layer

7. Technology Layer

List down the Layer Concept Categories:

Motivation Concepts

Which are used to model the enthusiasm, including the reasons, that instigate the design or change of an enterprise architecture?

Motivation Concepts

Which influence, guide, and constrain the design process of an enterprise architecture?

1. Stakeholder

2. Meaning

3. Constraint

4. Assessment

5. Requirement

6. Driver

7. Goal

8. Principle

9. Outcome

10. Value

What are the Terms Related to Motivation Concepts?

Stakeholder

Which is the role of an individual, team, department, or organization that represents their interest in the outcome of the architecture?

Meaning

Which is the knowledge or expertise present in a business object or its representation, given a particular context?

Constraint

Which is the factor that averts or hinders the realization of goals?

Assessment

Which is the result of an analysis of a particular business issue within the enterprise with respect to some drivers?

Requirement

Which is a specific statement of need that architectural designers must meet?

Driver

Which is an external or internal condition that motivates an organization to define its goals and implement the necessary change to achieve them?

Goal

Which is a high-level statement of intent, direction, or desired end state for an organization and its stakeholders?

Principle

Which is strongly related to the organization’s goals and requirements?

Principle

Which is considered a qualitative statement of intent that should be met by the architecture?

Outcome

Which is a result that has been achieved?

Value

Which is the relative worth, usefulness, or importance of a core element or an outcome?

1. Course of Action

2. Capabilities

3. Resources

List down the examples in Strategy Concepts:

Course of Action

Which represents what an enterprise has decided to do to realize its goals?

Course of Action

Which is an approach or plan for configuring capabilities and resources of an enterprise undertaken to achieve a goal?

Capabilities

What are considered the key building blocks of a business, unique and independent from each other, and tend to be stable over time?

Capabilities

Which are typically aimed at achieving some goal or delivering value by realizing an outcome?

Capabilities

Which are abilities that an active structure element, such as an organization, person, or system, possesses?

Resources

Which are assets owned and/or controlled by an individual or organization?

Resources

Which are structured elements that are assigned to capabilities?

1. Material

2. Facility

3. Equipment

4. Distribution Network

List down the examples of Physical Concepts:

Material

Which is a tangible matter or physical element that can be accessed by equipment?

Facility

Which is a physical structure or environment interconnected by distribution networks?

Equipment

Which is a physical machine, tool, or instrument that can create, use, store, move, or transform materials?

Distribution Network

Which is a physical network used to transport materials, data, or information?

1. Work Package

2. Implementation Event

3. Deliverable

List down the Implementation-Related Concepts:

1. Plateau

2. Gap

List down the Migration Planning Concepts:

Work Package

What is a series of actions identified and designed to achieve a specific goal or result within a clearly defined beginning and end date and resource constraints?

Implementation Event

What is the behavior element that denotes a state of change related to implementation or migration that can encompass a time attribute?

Deliverable

What is a precisely defined outcome of a work package?

Plateau

What is the relatively stable state of an enterprise architecture that exists during a specific period of time?

Gap

What is the statement of difference between two plateaus?

1. Business Actor

2. Business Role

3. Business Collaboration

4. Business Interface

5. Business Object

6. Representation

What are the Business Structure Concepts?

1. Business Service

2. Business Process

3. Business Function

4. Business Interaction

5. Business Event

What are the Business Behavior Concepts?

Business Actor

What is the business entity that is capable of performing behavior?

Business Role

Which is the responsibility for performing specific behavior, to which an actor can be assigned?

Business Collaboration

Which is an aggregate of two or more active business structure elements that work together to perform collective behavior?

Business Interface

Which is a point of access where a business service is made available to the environment?

Business Object

Which is used to model an object type in which several instance may exist within an organization?

Business Object

Which represents important information or conceptual elements within a particular business domain?

Representation

Which is a perceptible form of the information carried by a business object?

Business Service

Which is considered as an explicitly defined perceptible business behavior?

Business Service

Which is mainly used to manifest business functionality to the environment?

Business Process

Which is a sequence of business behaviors that achieve a specific outcome, such as a defined set of products and services?

Business Interaction

Which is a unit of collective business behavior collaboratively performed by two or more business roles?

Business Function

Which is a collection of business behaviors based on a chosen set of criteria closely aligned to an organization, but not explicitly governed by the organization?

Business Event

Which denotes an organizational state change?

Business Event

Which is instantaneous and does not have a specific duration?

1. Product

2. Contract

What are the Higher-Level Business Concepts?

Product

Which is a coherent collection of services and/or passive structure elements, accompanied by a contract or a set of agreements, which is offered as a whole to customers?

Contract

Which is a formal or informal specification of an agreement between a provider and a consumer that specifies the rights and obligations associated with a product and establishes functional and non-functional parameters for interaction?

1. Application Component

2. Application Collaboration

3. Application Interface

4. Data Object

What are the Application Structure Concepts?

Application Component

Which is an encapsulation of an application’s functionality that is aligned to the implementation structure, which is modular and replaceable?

Application Collaboration

Which is an aggregate of two or more application components working together to perform collective application behavior?

Application Interface

Which is a point of access where an application service is made available to users to another application component or a node?

Data Object

Which is the data that is structured for automated processing?

1. Application Service

2. Application Process

3. Application Interaction

4. Application Function

5. Application Event

What are the Application Behavior Concepts?

Application Service

Which is an explicitly defined and visible application behavior?

Application Service

Which is used to specify services provided by the business?

Application Process

Which is a sequence of application behaviors that realizes a specific outcome?

Application Interaction

Which is a unit of collective application behavior collaboratively performed by two or more application components?

Application Function

Which is an automated behavior that can be performed by an application component?

Application Event

Which refers to an application behavior that denotes a state of change?

1. Path

2. Artefact

3. Device

4. System Software

5. Node

6. Communication Network

7. Technology Collaboration

8. Technology Interface

What are the Technology Structure Concepts?

Path

Which is the link between two or more nodes through which the exchange of data or material happens?

Artefact

Which is a piece of data that is used and/or produced in a software development process or a system deployment and operation?

Devices

Which is a physical information technology resource wherein system software and artifacts can be deployed for execution?

System Software

Which is a software that supports a business environment in storing, executing, and utilizing applications, including the data deployed within the environment?

Node

Which is a computational or a physical resource that hosts, manipulates, or interacts with other computational or physical resources?

Communication Network

Which is a set of structures that connects computer systems or other electronic devices for transmission, routing, and reception of data or information?

Technology Collaboration

Which is an aggregate of two or more nodes that work together to perform collective behavior?

Technology Interface

Which is a point of access where technological services offered by a node can be accessed?

1. Technology Service

2. Technology Process

3. Technology Interaction

4. Technology Function

5. Technology Event

What are the Technology Behavior Concepts?

Technology Service

Which is an external visible unit of functionality, provided by one or more nodes accessible through well-defined interfaces?

Technology Process

Which is the sequence of technological behavior that achieves a specific outcome?

Technology Interaction

Which is a unit of collective technology behavior collaboratively performed by two or more nodes?

Technology Function

Which is a behavior element that groups infrastructural behavior, which can be performed by a node?

Technology Event

Which is the technology behavior element that denotes a state change?