Visit or study a large corporation or government agency in your area, and ask about its application architectures. See if you can obtain a copy of its IT architecture plan or an equivalent document.

a. Describe the organization you studied.

b. Describe its application architecture(s). What is its predominant application architecture?

c. What type of Internet-based computing architecture(s) does it use? How large a role does it play?

d. Does the organization still use mainframe or minicomputer technology? If so, describe how it is currently used.

e. What changes in application architecture technology does it envision will take place over the next five years. What is the organization’s strategy for dealing with these technological changes? Do you think its strategy will be effective?

f. Draw a high-level context diagram of its overall information system architecture.