Reference Architecture Development

Ideally, when you are working on a project, you would search your reference architecture framework and find a suitable reference architecture to use. But what happens if you cannot find one or if it would be too difficult to customize one?

In this case, you would have to create a new reference architecture. You would then catalog this new reference architecture in your organization’s reference architecture framework for future use.

Once you have a reference architecture, you would identify standards and related vendor product components that will help implement it.

In this Assignment, write a 4- to 6-page paper that addresses the following:

1.            Develop and populate a reference architecture for the Adopt-A-Farm virtual business, based on your blueprints in the previous Units 3 and 4. Note that those blueprints focused on high-level Analysis/Design, and will aid in the creation of a high-level reference architecture.

2.            Next, identify suitable vendor products for at least three elements of the reference architecture. Be sure to include the business capabilities of the products in your evaluation. Explain how you chose and evaluated each one.

3.            Finally, develop implementation level blueprints that incorporate these products for the artifacts you previously created.

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