Oracle IT Architecture BPM 2013 Essentials Sample Questions:

1. Active leadership is the term used to describe the deep level of involvement of business and IT management in BPM. How is this practice most effectively developed in an organization that doesn't currently have It?

A) BPM governance is responsible for identifying new roles; In this case a "process owner" or "champion" should be identified with responsibilities to ensure adequate involvement by all members of BPM leadership.
B) When an organization does not have "active leadership" the only practical option is to set upa management group (such as a program management office) to provide an appropriate form of leadership for BPM rollout.
C) The BPM method recommends deferring this activity to other IT governance practices such as ITIL or COB1T.
D) A centralized governance group (such as a CoE) should be empowered and responsible for ensuring effective communication and involvement by all members of BPM leadership.

2. What elements typically make up the investment section of a ROI calculation?

A) Just the tangible/predictable fixed expenses: Software license, software support, hardware, and hardware maintenance
B) Just the operational expense: Software license and hardware
C) Software license, software support, consulting, training, hardware, and hardware maintenance
D) Software license, software support, consulting, training, hardware, hardware maintenance, process inefficiencies, lack of agility, and the absence of process visibility

3. When embarking on a first BPM project there is a tendency to do the easy things first. What is the best practice for getting started?

A) By starting out with a maturity/capability assessment across the enterprise, the first BPM project can be selected according to the strongest capabilities of the organization, thereby assuring the greatest chance of success.
B) The easiest processes are often selected by IT for the benefit of familiarization while typically providing no business benefit and risking loss of interest (or even funding) from the business stakeholders. For this reason a complex process should be tackled first, following extensive training, analysis, and other preparations.
C) Neither the most difficult nor the easiest processes are likely to be the most suitable for a first Implementation. Projects should be selected according to a pragmatic set of suitably weighted risk/benefit criteria.
D) It is important to start with the smallest and simplest (i.e. easy) process automation project* as these provide rapid-fire successes that can be quickly combined at a later stage in fulfilling the needs of most complex implementations.

4. A corporation established strategy, architecture, standards, metrics,and investment models early onbut these are not widely adopted. How can Oracle's approach to BPM governance help in this situation?

A) It uses operational governance to ensure the upkeep, relevance, and adoption of core governance assets.
B) It places outdated governance assetsintothe 8PM Governance Continuous improvement loop to ensure that they are current and effective.
C) It identifies, takes ownership, and replaces outdated andirrelevantassets to ensure effective compliance across the organization.
D) It uses vitality governance to ensure the upkeep, relevance, arid adoption of core governance assets.

5. The infrastructure must provide a unified repository to support coordinated modeling between business and IT, process lifecycle governance, and the generation of the executable model.
Which elements must a unified repository manage to support this capability?

A) The process graph and its metadata, diagram interchange, web services, and organization modeling
B) Process model syntax, semantics, and metadata; business rules; service definitions; and business motivation
C) BPMN 2.0, XPOL, BPEL, and SCA
D) BPMN 2.0, BPEL, and SCA

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