TOGAF Business Architecture Foundation Practice Test

TOGAF Business Architecture Foundation focuses on business architecture concepts inside the TOGAF ecosystem: capabilities, value streams, organization, information, business scenarios, and alignment to enterprise change.

These 12 original questions are a public preview, not official Open Group questions.

What these questions test

• capability maps, value streams, organization maps, information maps, and business scenarios
• how business architecture supports enterprise architecture, strategy, and portfolio decisions
• why business architecture is broader than documenting process steps

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Sample Exam Questions

Question 1

Topic: capability map

What does a business capability describe?

• A. One database table only
• B. A temporary project task
• C. What the business needs to be able to do, independent of one process or system implementation
• D. A server model number

Best answer: C

Explanation: Capabilities describe business abilities. They are stable enough to support planning across processes, systems, and organizational changes.

Question 2

Topic: value stream

What is the best use of a value stream in business architecture?

• A. To list every keystroke in a system
• B. To show how value is created for a stakeholder through major stages
• C. To replace all financial analysis
• D. To document only technical interfaces

Best answer: B

Explanation: Value streams show how value flows from trigger to outcome. They help connect capabilities, stakeholders, and change initiatives.

Question 3

Topic: process versus capability

Which statement best separates a process from a capability?

• A. A process shows how work flows; a capability states what ability the business needs
• B. A capability is always a project schedule
• C. A process never changes
• D. They are identical terms in all contexts

Best answer: A

Explanation: Capabilities are what the business must do; processes are how work is performed. Both are useful but not interchangeable.

Question 4

Topic: business scenario

Why use a business scenario?

• A. To choose a vendor without analysis
• B. To avoid stakeholder input
• C. To remove requirements
• D. To understand business need, actors, objectives, constraints, and desired outcomes before solution design

Best answer: D

Explanation: Business scenarios help frame business context and stakeholder needs before architecture decisions harden.

Question 5

Topic: information map

What does a business information map help clarify?

• A. Key business information concepts and relationships that matter to the enterprise
• B. Only physical storage locations
• C. Employee vacation balances only
• D. Source-code syntax

Best answer: A

Explanation: Business information maps describe meaningful business information and relationships, supporting alignment between business and data architecture.

Question 6

Topic: organization map

Why might an organization map be useful in business architecture?

• A. It replaces strategy
• B. It removes the need for governance
• C. It proves all departments have the same goals
• D. It helps identify roles, units, responsibilities, and stakeholders affected by change

Best answer: D

Explanation: Organization maps help architecture teams understand accountability, stakeholder impact, and structural change considerations.

Question 7

Topic: initiative alignment

A proposed initiative improves one process but does not support any target capability. What is the main concern?

• A. The initiative must be approved automatically
• B. Capability maps should be ignored
• C. The initiative may not align to business architecture priorities
• D. The process should never be improved

Best answer: C

Explanation: Business architecture helps prioritize change. Initiatives should connect to target capabilities, value streams, outcomes, or strategy.

Question 8

Topic: heat mapping

What is a common purpose of heat mapping capabilities?

• A. Measuring room temperature
• B. Highlighting capability areas by pain, maturity, investment, risk, or change priority
• C. Replacing business stakeholders
• D. Hiding weak capabilities

Best answer: B

Explanation: Heat maps make capability analysis visible. They help focus discussions on where investment or remediation is needed.

Question 9

Topic: stakeholder outcome

A value stream is complete only if it names what?

• A. Every line of code
• B. The stakeholder outcome or value expected from the stream
• C. Only the project manager
• D. The final invoice number

Best answer: B

Explanation: Value streams should be outcome-oriented. Without the stakeholder value, they become generic activity lists.

Question 10

Topic: business architecture and TOGAF

How does business architecture support broader enterprise architecture?

• A. It eliminates the need for data architecture
• B. It applies only after implementation
• C. It is unrelated to ADM work
• D. It connects strategy, capabilities, value, organization, and information to target architecture decisions

Best answer: D

Explanation: Business architecture provides the business context that guides downstream data, application, technology, and migration decisions.

Question 11

Topic: common trap

Which answer is the weakest business architecture approach?

• A. Treating business architecture as only a list of current software systems
• B. Starting with business outcomes and capabilities
• C. Mapping value streams to stakeholder outcomes
• D. Connecting initiatives to target capabilities

Best answer: A

Explanation: Business architecture is not just an application inventory. It should describe business abilities, value, organization, information, and change implications.

Question 12

Topic: roadmap use

How can business architecture improve roadmap decisions?

• A. By avoiding prioritization
• B. By removing all dependencies
• C. By showing which capabilities, value streams, and stakeholders are affected by each change
• D. By treating every initiative as equal

Best answer: C

Explanation: Business architecture provides a structured basis for sequencing and prioritizing change based on capability and value impact.