Oracle IT Architecture BPM 2013 Essentials Sample Questions:

1. Which statement defines the term "business process"?

A) A business process is a set of linked activities performed by people and systems that delivers value to internal or external customers.
B) A business processisan automated sequence of human workflow activities, controlled by business rules, providing interfaces for human task management, escalation, and exception handling.
C) A business process is collaboration between systems and human participants that assesses, plans, implements, coordinates, monitors, and evaluates options and services to meet complex business needs.
D) A business process is a set of activities that are triggered in response to a change in any state that indicates a business opportunity, threat, anomaly, or Just a notification.

2. When the BPM roadmap process is described to a VP, the VP balks at the approach because the first step in the process is a current state analysis.From past experience the VP has seen current state assessments that took months to complete. The VPisnot willing to spend months on another current state assessment.
How is this issue best addressed by the BPM roadmap development approach?

A) The current state assessment l5 performed by evaluating the maturity and adoption of capabilities In the BPM Maturity Model. This narrow focus allows the assessment to be completed in approximately two weeks.
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B) The current state assessment is done by reviewing documents provided by the organization. Two weeks is sufficient to review the documents and determine the Current state.
C) The current state assessment is time boxed to two weeks. At the end of the two weeks, the current state assessment is deemed complete and the next step In (he roadmap creation process is begun.
D) The scope of the current state assessment is limited to one business unit at a time. This keeps the length of the assessment to approximately two weeks.
E) The scope of the current state Assessment Is restricted to the business processes that have been identified as top candidates by the Business Process Selection Framework. These few business processes can be assessed in approximately two weeks.

3. Whatismeant by the "Payback Period"?

A) In casesIn which capital investments are to be financed the Payback Period refers to the time over which a loan would be repaid.
B) In cases where resources are consumed from other business units (e.g. developers, hardware, etc.) the Payback Period refers to the stage In the program when the lender starts to see a benefited.
C) The Payback Period refers to the time during which an investment Is required to pay for Itself. After thePayback Period investments aresubject only to amortization.
D) The Payback Period refersto the length of time that Is required to recover the initial cost of an investment. In other words, it answerthe question. How long will it take for this to pay for Itself?"

4. In a large enterprise BPM Implementation a relatively new role, typically called "process owner", is vital to the success of the program, what is the significance of this role arid why is it so important to the success of the BPM program?

A) A process owner is responsible for the effectiveness of the end-to-end business process (or processes).
True business processes typically span multiple business units requiring an overall owner since line-of-business managers have little incentive to ensure enterprise wide effectiveness of the process as It crosses organizational boundaries.
B) During process engineering, it is important to assign special responsibilities to a lead process architect/analyst for each process to ensurecontinuity throughout the engineering lifecycle: this role is typically called "process owner".
C) Business executives are responsible for enterprise-wide, end-to-end business process, but are not subject matter experts, so it Is necessary to pass day-to-day process operations on to a new role - the process owner.
D) As an organization develops to become "process centric" the role of traditional process performers changes as the BPM system bestows more accountability to, them: in this way they become "process owners" rather than simple participants.

5. What is meant by "round-tripping in the zero-code environment" of the Business Process Management System in the process lifecycle?

A) The execution of a complete cycle of a business process without involving a single line of code
B) The exchange ofprocess models from business specialist to ITengineer to execution system and back again, while at each step refining details of their respective concerns and/or providing enhanced information
C) The process execution engine Interacts with the layers of the architecture spanning business rules, technical orchestrations, human workflow, system and apps integration, and back again to complete each process step
D) The execution of the business process passes through each distinct application to complete .in end-to-end cycle without executing code of its own

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