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WorksheetsPrelim Exam - BPM
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
What do you called the art and science of performing in an organization to ensure consistent outcomes and to take advantage of improvement opportunities?
Business Process Management
Business Project Management
Business Process Manager
Which type of process is performed by a vendor when a customer submits an order to purchase a product or a service and ends when the product or service in question has been delivered to the customer and the customer has made the corresponding payment?
Quote to Cash
Order to Cash
Quote to Order
Which type of process encompasses activities related to
purchase order verification, shipment (for physical products), delivery, invoicing, payment receipt, and acknowledgment?
Quote to Cash
Quote to Order
Order to Cash
Which type of process starts from the point when a supplier receives a Request for Quote (RFQ) from a customer and ends when the customer in question places a purchase order based on the received quote?
Request for Quote
Quote to Cash
Quote to Order
Which type of process typically precedes an order to cash process?
Quote to Cash
Quote to Order
Order to Cash
Which type of process starts when someone in an organization determines that a given product or service needs to be purchased?
Procure to Cash
Procure to Pay
Procure to Order
It ends when the product or service has been delivered and paid for.
Procure to Pay
Order to Cash
Quote to Order
Which type of process starts when a customer raises a problem or issue such as a complaint related to a defect in a product or an issue encountered when consuming a service?
Order to Cash
Issue to Resolution
Procure to Pay
Which process wherein a variant can be found in insurance companies that have to deal with insurance claims?
Issue to Order
Issue to Quote
Issue to Resolution
Which type of process starts when someone applies for a benefit or privilege and ends when the benefit or privilege in question is either granted or denied?
Application to Approval
Issue to Resolution
Quote to Cash
Which process starts when a student applies for an admission into a degree program in a university?
Application to Approval
Issue to Resolution
Order to Cash
Which process continues until the customer, the supplier, or preferably both of them agree that the issue has been resolved?
Application to Approval
Quote to Cash
Issue to Resolution
Which corresponds to things that happen atomically wherein they have no duration?
Event
Activity
Task
Which is used to refer both fine grained or coarse grained units of work?
Event
Activity
Task
When an activity is rather simple and can be seen as one single unit of work
Event
Activity
Task
What do you call a decision that affects the way of process when executed?
Decision Diamond
Decision Point
Decision Process
Which ingredient of Business Process refers to a human actor, organization and can be a system or on behalf of the organization?
Actor
Customer
Participant
Which refers to tangible things that may use in the process?
Informational Object
Physical Object
Paper Documents
Which refers to intangible things that may use in the process?
Physical Object
Electronic Records
Informational Object
The execution of a process leads to one or several _______
Outcome
Output
Output Process
_______ is an approach that focuses on continuously improving and sustaining the quality of products and by extension also of services.
Operation Mgt
TQM
Lean
________ is a field concerned with managing the physical and technical functions of a firm or organization.
Six Sigma
Lean
Operation Management
_________ is a management discipline that originates from the manufacturing industry, particularly the Toyota Production System.
TQM
Lean
Six Sigma
_____ is another set of practices that originate from manufacturing, particularly from engineering and production practices at Motorola.
Six Sigma
Lean
Operation Mgt
________ was an Scottish economist and philosopher who was best known for his book “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”.
Adam Smith
Adam Taylor
Adam Von Smith
Which term is used in some organizations wherein every change program or improvement project was labeled BPR, even when business processes were not the core of these projects?
Over-radicalism
Concept Misuse
Support Immaturity
What discipline encourages managers to systematically compare the effects of improvement initiatives on the outputs?
Lean
Six Sigma
TQM
The elimination of waste, i.e., activities that do not add value to the customer is an example of what discipline?
TQM
Six Sigma
Lean
Who proposed a set of principles known as scientific management?
Frederick B. Talyor
Frederick W. Taylor
Frederick W. Smith
In _____, companies throughout the world assembled BPR teams to review and redesign their process.
1970
1980
1990
2000
It is a collection of inter linked processes covering the bulk of the work that an organization performs in order to achieve its mission in a sustainable manner.
Process Identification
Process Architecture
Process Performance
he BPM team has to start by at least identifying the processes that are relevant to the problem on the table, delimiting the scope of these processes, and identifying relations between these processes.
Process Identification
Process Architecture
Process Performance
It will be used to determine whether a process is in
good shape or in bad shape.
Process Architecture
Process Identification
Process Performance
It measures relate to cost, time, quality,
and flexibility.
Process Activity
Process Performance
Process Measures
Cost related measures are a recurrent class of performance
measures in the context of BPM.
Cycle Process
Cycle Time
Cycle Measures
What do you call the average amount of time elapsed between the moment an equipment rental request is submitted by a site engineer and the delivery of the equipment to the construction site?
Cycle Time
Average Cycle
Cycle Process
Which one represents symbols to showcase the flow of process and one of the oldest diagram?
Activity Diagram
Flowchart
UML
Which describes unit of work that may be performed by
humans or software applications, or a combination thereof?
Activity Node
Control Node
Event Node
Which captures the flow of execution between activities?
Activity Node
Control Node
Event Node
The arrival of message from a customer requesting the cancellation of purchase order is an example of _________.
Control Node
Activity Node
Event Node
In this phase, a business problem is posed. The processes relevant to the problem being addressed are identified, delimited, and interrelated.
Identification
Discovery
Analysis
________ is used to select which process or set thereof to manage through the remaining phases of the life cycle.
Analysis
Discovery
Identification
The current state of each of the relevant processes is documented, typically in the form of one or several as-is process models is called _______.
Discovery
Design
Analysis
In this phase, issues associated with the as-is process are identified, documented, and whenever possible quantified using performance measures.
Design
Identification
Analysis
In which phase prioritized the issues based on their potential impact and the estimated effort required to resolve them?
Analysis
Design
Discovery
In which phase identifies the change in process that would help to address the issues identified in the previous phase and allow the organization to meet its performance objectives?
Implementation
Design
Analysis
In this phase, the changes required to move from the as-is process to the to-be process are prepared and performed.
Implementation
Design
Analysis
In this phase, organizational change management refers to the set of activities required to change the way of working of all participants involved in the process.
Design
Implementation
Analysis
In this phase, once the redesigned process is running, relevant data are collected and analyzed to determine how well the process is performing with respect to its performance measures and performance objectives.
Monitoring
Analysis
Implementation
Which phase requires the cycle to be repeated on a continuous basis?
Monitoring
Analysis
Design
