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Unit 3 – Discussion Board (75 points)
Due: Thu, Jun 29 |Printer Friendly Version
Description
Primary Discussion Response is due by Thursday (11:59:59pm Central), Peer Responses are due by Saturday (11:59:59pm Central).
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Story
The Solar Group (TSG) is a small company, but the completeness of a networking enterprise architecture (EA) is an obvious requirement for building and maintaining the corporate network infrastructure. Having standardized the framework and customized its viewpoint definitions, a network “As-Is” analysis can begin. These viewpoints must be consistent and reused throughout the enterprise. TSG decided to create a library of views so the definitions and management of views are enterprise-wide views. The viewpoints in the views with the viewpoint metadata will be new entities added to the TSG data dictionary, which already exists for data resources. The data dictionary will include viewpoint definitions, ownership responsibility, history, and the stakeholders and modeling techniques. The demographic, process, and configuration data are now added to views.
EA data, information, and knowledge are powerful resources, and accuracy cannot be sacrificed. TSG resolved that the network EA is so critical, a gap analysis should be included in the EA development. For this, the Zachman model will be used for each view across the who, what, when, where, why, and how columns of the model.
Lessons Learned (Moral)
The “As-Is” views might be very enlightening to TSG. During the acquisition process, changes might be promised, but documentation must reflect current reality and not planned or promised changes. The network EA must be managed as an ongoing operations step that is integrated with change management, not as a periodic review project.
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Based on the TSG scenario and executive directions, what additional EA data relates to views (functional needs, capacities, or performance)? Discuss the following:
· Identify key data.
· Where should key data be maintained?
· Complete the Zachman matrix for TSG.
Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 200-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:
· What did you learn from your classmate’s posting? What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
· What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
· What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?
For assistance with your assignment, please use your textbook and all course resources.
Discussion Board Rubric
| Expectation | Points Possible | Points Earned | Comments |
| Application of Learning Material Content: Post demonstrates understanding of Learning Material content. | 25 | ||
| Application of Course Knowledge: Post contributes unique perspectives or insights gleaned from text/learning resources, or specified by assignment. | 25 | ||
| DB Responses: Responds substantively to two posts. Responses encourage interaction in the Discussion Board and classroom community. | 10 | ||
| Organization: Post presents information logically and is clearly relevant to discussion topic. | 8 | ||
| Professional Language: Posts contain accurate grammar, spelling, and/or punctuation with few or no errors. Any resources should be cited in APA format or style specified in the assignment. | 7 | ||
| Total Points | 75 | ||
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