Which statement best describes the primary goal of Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)?

• None of the above

• To support business process modeling with a comprehensive standard notation accessible to business and technical users

• To enforce strict technical semantics that only developers can interpret

• To restrict process modeling to a single software environment

BPMN was originally developed by which initiative before the Object Management Group took over in 2005?

• Enterprise Architecture Initiative

• Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI)

• Unified Modeling Language Consortium

• Extensible Markup Language Working Group

Which BPMN flow object is defined as a trigger that starts, modifies, or completes a process?

• Activity

• Gateway

• Event

• Artifact

Which connecting object depicts the order of activities to be performed within a process?

• Message flow

• Sequence flow

• Association

• Lane

Which BPMN element associates an artifact or text to an event, activity, or gateway without affecting flow?

• Sequence flow

• Message flow

• Association

• Pool

Which statement about Message flow is correct according to BPMN?

• It must connect events within a single pool

• It depicts messages that flow across pools

• It is used to associate text annotations

• It shows logical grouping of activities

In BPMN swimlanes, what does a Pool represent?

• A decision node controlling the process path

• Major participants in a process; pools may represent companies or departments.

• A data storage for activities; used to store information generated or required during a process.

• A logical grouping of artifacts; used to organize related elements within a process.

Which artifact shows the necessary data for an activity in BPMN?

• Group

• Data object

• Association

• Message flow

Which artifact provides a logical grouping of activities without changing the diagram’s flow?

• Gateway

• Group

• Pool

• Sequence flow

Events in BPMN can be classified based on their function as which of the following?

• Parallel or inclusive

• Throwing or catching

• Atomic or composite

• Synchronous or asynchronous