Exactprep OMG-OCEB2-FUND100 Questions

In BMM,Influencersare factors—internal or external—that caninfluence an organization’s ability to achieve its Ends. They can be trends, events, conditions, or stakeholders.

The observation“Younger customers buying more Chilean wine”is a description of amarket trend/conditionin the environment.

That is exactly the role of anInfluencer: a situation or trend that may positively or negatively affect goals and strategies.

If the winery evaluates that trend (for example, calling it anOpportunity), that evaluation would be modeled as anAssessment. The raw trend itself is the Influencer.

Option A (Threat) is atypeof Assessment (negative evaluation of an Influencer).

Option C (Assessment) would be something like “The increased Chilean-wine preference among younger customers is an opportunity for our brand,” which adds judgment.

Option D (Course of Action) would be a response, such as “Launch a Chilean-style product line,” which is a Means, not the trend itself.

So the element“Younger customers buying more Chilean wine”is modeled as anInfluencerin BMM

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.

“Repeat for Each Customer” means thewhole sequenceof activities (Request → Receive → Update) must be executed once per customer. In BPMN this is modeled as amulti-instance activity/subprocess(the three vertical bars marker), which represents “for each element in a collection.” Option B shows exactly that. Option A is a simple loop, C loops each task separately, and D is just a manual cycle in the flow.

This question refers toMartyn Ould’sprinciple inBusiness Process Management: A Rigorous Approach, where he distinguishes between:

What people actually do– theconcreteview of the process, including all the messy, detailed activities (paper handling, phone calls, chasing, checking, etc.).

What they effectively do– theabstractorintentview of the process, i.e., what the process isreally aboutin terms of business purpose (for example: “extracting payment for goods and services supplied”).

Ould’s guidance is:

Donottry to “merge” or forcibly reconcile these into one model.

Recognize them astwo different but valid views of the same process:

Aconcrete model(what people actually do).

Anabstract model(what the process is effectively doing).

He explicitly says the answer isnotto reconcile them, but to model both views.

Therefore, the correct interpretation is:

An analyst should not try to reconcile them. These are two different views of the same thing.

So, the correct answer isD.