Practice vocabulary for enterprise architecture governance including ARB, RFCs, architecture debt, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
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The body responsible for reviewing and approving significant architectural decisions in large enterprises is called the _____.
The Architecture Review Board (ARB) is a governance body that evaluates proposed architectural changes against enterprise standards before implementation is approved.
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'The RFC must be approved by the ARB before implementation' means that _____.
An RFC (Request for Comments) in enterprise contexts is a formal proposal document. ARB approval ensures architectural changes align with standards before work begins.
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When teams have accumulated architectural decisions that are inconsistent with enterprise standards, this is called _____.
Architecture debt refers to accumulated deviations from agreed architectural standards — decisions that worked short-term but create misalignment, complexity, or risk over time.
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The primary purpose of an architecture governance process is to _____.
Architecture governance ensures that individual project decisions remain consistent with the enterprise-wide architecture strategy, avoiding fragmentation and technical debt.
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An architecture governance review that finds a proposed system uses a non-standard database technology would likely _____.
When a proposal deviates from approved standards, governance processes typically require either a formal exception (with documented rationale) or a redesign to use the standard technology.