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WorksheetsBUSINESS ANALYSIS TOPIC 3
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 14mins
1. Which of the following is an open-source extension of the part of the UML system dealing with profiles?
a) UML
b) XMI
c) SysML
d) None of the mentioned
2. Point out the correct statement.
a) The UML standard is the work of the Object Management Group
b) SysML creates graphical representations of software systems in the form of a set of diagram types
c) UML diagrams are separated into four structural types and seven behavior types
d) All of the mentioned
3. Which of the following combines a modeling language with a graphical display of the various SOA components?
a) Business Process Modeling Notation
b) Service-Oriented Modeling Framework
c) Systems Modeling Language
d) All of the mentioned
4. Point out the wrong statement.
a) Star model is favored in orchestration processes
b) UML models often use XMI as their interchange format
c) XMI files are generally interchangeable between the different modeling languages that can use them
d) None of the mentioned
5. How many types of modeling topologies for message passing are used in SOMF?
1
2
3
None of the mentioned
6. Which of the following topology has a many-to-many relationship between services and their clients?
a) Circular
b) Hierarchical
c) Network
c) Star
7. Which of the following messaging protocol is used with XML in BPEL?
a) WS-Coordination
b) WS-Addressing
c) WS-Transactions
d) All of the mentioned
8. _______ is a methodology for representing business processes as a set of connected visual objects.
a) BPNM
b) BPMN
c) BPMM
d) BPNN
9. In Porter’s model, which of the following is not one of the five forces:
a) Suppliers
b) Customers
c) Liquidators
d) Substitute products and services
e) Potential new entrants
10. Real time BPM can achieve all of the following except:
a) Sense and respond to demand
b) Provide self-service that delights, while cutting costs
c) Automate the primary activities of the firm
d) Execute on innovation with great speed and agility
e) Ensure that every manual process in the organisation is automated
11. Which of the following is not classified as a generic activity undertaken by a process manager?
a) Planning work
b) Formulating strategy
c) Organizing work
d) Communicating
e) Controlling
12. Which of the following is not an example of globalisation?
a) Increased competition
b) Outsourcing manufacturing to other countries
c) Moving distribution to other countries
d) Partnering with national suppliers
13. The point at which ownership of material being shipped passes from one company to another is known as:
a) Delivery on board
b) Free on board
c) Documents on board
d) Imports on board
e) Exports on board
14. The increased use of information and communication technology to create, deliver, and use information, including the Internet and computer based information systems is referred to as:
a) The business process revolution
b) The computer revolution
c) The information revolution
d) The industrial revolution
e) The global revolution
15. Staff who perform routine, structured activities, typically in a repeated manner are called:
a) Knowledge workers
b) Task workers
c) Information workers
d) Project workers
16. Harmon suggests that an operational manager is responsible for five things. Which of the following does not fit within this list:
a) Identifying goals
b) Organizing activities
c) Communicating goals to employees
d) Diagnosing problems and fixing them
e) Ensuring employee work/life balance
17. In BPM, Harmon consistently refers to and recommends a __________ view of management:
a) Silo
b) Process
c) Functional
d) Hierarchical
e) Transparent
18. In the BPM discipline a ___________ __________ details how a company will create value for its customers. It defines the processes of the organisation.
a) Business architecture
b) Business process
c) Change program
d) Business plan
19. Which of the following issues is not typically considered under the industry based view of strategy:
a) Cost reduction
b) Retention of customers and suppliers
c) Economies of scale
d) Product differentiation
e) Administering Level 8 processes
20. Cost leadership, differentiation and niche specialisation are all examples of:
a) Project strategy
b) Competitive strategy
c) Internal strategy
d) Process strategy
e) Supply chain strategy
21. Product differentiation to gain strategic advantage means:
a) Diversity
b) Difference between revenues and expenses
c) Commoditisation
d) Uniqueness
e) Market research
22. A large scale process in which every activity or sequence adds some value to the final product is called a:
a) Strategy chain
b) Process chain
c) Business chain
d) Value chain
e) Activity chain
23. The term given to someone who has a vested interest in the process that we are trying to change is known as a:
a) Manager
b) Chief Executive Officer
c) Stakeholder
d) Process engineer
e) Project manager
24. ________ ________ include outbound logistics, inbound logistics, marketing, and sales and service:
a) Primary processes
b) Support processes
c) Competitive processes
d) Business processes
e) Process architecture
25. Another name for support processes is:
a) Management processes
b) Strategic processes
c) Enabling processes
d) Core processes
e) Primary processes
26. Product leadership, customer intimacy and operational excellence are all examples of:
a) External strategies
b) Process strategies
c) Positioning strategies
d) Re-engineering strategies
e) Project strategies
27. In the BPTrends process methodology, the value chain is normally designated as:
a) Level 5
b) Level 0
c) Level 4
d) Level 2
e) Level 1
28. BPM is about:
a) Aligning business processes to organisational strategy
b) Maintaining a process view of the organisation rather than a functional view
c) Establishing and maintaining an environment of continuous learning and development
d) Communicating effectively
e) All of the above
