OCEB Technical Intermediate Exam Preparation

Course review:

Business Process Management Awareness

Generic BPMS Tools and Suites. Characteristics and Capabilities; BP Center of Excellence.

Business Process Modeling with BPMN

Iteration/Repetition/Looping/Links/GoTos, Complex Event Types, Transactions and Compensation, Ad Hoc Processes, Exception handling, Complex activity inputs & outputs, Types of Activities, Activity Lifecycle, Choreography

Workflow Patterns

Workflow Patterns, as described in Chapter 10 of the BPMN specification and the Workflow Patterns Initiative.

Business Rules

Business Rules requirements; Structural Business Rules; Decision Models; Fact Models; Process Elements and Decision Points; Creating Business Rules based on business requirements.

Architecture Topics

SOA awareness; "fit" between SOA and process orientation; MDA awareness; MDA and Business Process; Modeling for execution.

IT Infrastructure and Business Process

Service-Level Agreements; Process Configuration Management; ITIL and COBIT-based technology management; Privacy and Security Standards and Enforcement.

Monitoring and Managing Processes

Types of available process data; Retrieving performance data from processes; Analytics & BAM tool setup awareness; Implementing BP analysis and simulation tools.