OMG-OCEB2-FUND100 Exam Dumps : OMG-Certified Expert in BPM 2 - Fundamental

InBPMN, a rounded rectangle with adashed borderaround activities is aGroupartifact.

Key BPMN semantics for aGroup:

It ispurely documentary: used to visually group related activities (for example, labeling them “Process Payment” or “Deliver Product”).

Itdoes not affect execution semantics—sequence flow, data flow, and transaction behavior areexactly the same as if the group were not drawn.

Looking at the diagram:

The sequence is:Verify Credit → Process Payment → Deliver Product → Notify Customer, each connected by normal sequence flows.

The two dashed rectangles just visually cluster the first two and last two activities; there are no special events or gateways.

Now the options:

A. Activities that are in the dashed rectangle must exchange data.BPMN Groups say nothing about data exchange; this is incorrect.

B. The activities are executed as if the dashed rectangles do not exist.This matches the BPMN definition of a Group artifact and is correct.

C. Canceling "Notify Customer" will cancel the result of "Deliver Product".That would require atransaction subprocess with cancel behavior, not just a Group.

D. "Verify Credit" and "Process Payment" are executed in parallel. "Deliver Product" and "Notify Customer" are executed in parallel.Parallelism requires a parallel gateway or similar construct; here, a simple sequence flow shows they are executedsequentially.

Therefore, the correct statement is that thedashed rectangles have no execution effect: optionB.

Traditional (functional) work managementorganizes people and work bydepartments or specialties(e.g., Sales, Finance, HR, Operations). From an OMG BPM and value-chain perspective, the mainweaknessof this traditional model is that it:

Focuses onoptimizing individual functionsrather than optimizing theend-to-end processthat delivers value to customers.

Encourageslocal optimization(department KPIs) at the expense of global optimization (process performance, customer experience).

Createssilosand coordination issues across boundaries.

This is captured inOption D:

Lack of end-to-end focus

Why the other options are wrong:

A. Clear definition of roles and responsibilities– That is typically astrengthof functional management; roles are clearly defined within each department.

B. Functional excellence– Functional organizations often deliverstrong specialist expertise; again, that’s a strength, not a weakness.

C. Bad vision and mission– Vision and mission areenterprise-level strategic artifacts, not intrinsic to functional vs process structure.

Thus, the key structural weakness of traditional functional management is itslack of end-to-end focus, soDis correct.

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In the first diagram:

TheRequestorprocess sends a request message tomultiple switches(Switch 1, Switch 2, Switch 3), typically modeled using aparallel gatewayto broadcast the request.

EachSwitchlane has a process that:

Receivesthe request

Evaluates “Switch X available”

Sends areplymessage back to the Requestor if it is available

In the Requestor lane, anevent-based gateway(or similar construct) waits for thefirst replyindicating availability. Once one switch responds as available, the process assigns the work to that switch, and the other potential selections are effectively ignored or cancelled.

This structure—parallel requests out, first acceptable reply wins—is a classic“race for the first available resource”pattern in BPMN, where the goal is toroute the incoming request to whichever resource (switch) indicates availability first.

Evaluating the choices:

A.“Designate the unassigned switch…” – too vague and not specific to “first available”.

B.Emphasizes planning workloads, which is not modeled here.

C.Talks about a switch “allocated to a pending project,” which is not shown.

E.Focuses on status reporting back to the office, not on assigning work.

OnlyDcorrectly captures the intent of the process:assigning the incoming message to the first available switch.