Oracle Unified Business Process Management Suite 11g Essentials

The process owner of a process has the authority to cancel a process instance. This means that they have the ability to stop the execution of a specific instance of a process. This could be necessary if there are errors or issues with the process, or if it is determined that the process is no longer needed. By canceling the process instance, the process owner can ensure that no further actions are taken and that the resources can be allocated elsewhere.

At run time the end-users see the Human Tasks as tasks in their inbox on which
they can do a set of actions, change data related to the Human Task, Approve/Cancel, add notes,
add documents, and a variety of actions such as Escalate and Reassign (the list of these actions
is determined at design time).

To reassign or delegate a task
1. From the Task Actions list, select Reassign
2.Select Reassign or Delegate.
Delegate differs from Reassign in that the privileges of the delegatee are based on the delegator's
privileges. This function can be used by managers' assistants, for example.

Reference: OracleFusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management,11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0),
30 Using Oracle BPM Worklist

The call activity allows you to call a reusable process from within the current
process. The process being called becomes a child process of the calling process. When calling a
reusable process, the call activity of the parent process waits until the child process completes
before continuing.
Reference: OracleFusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management,11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0)

The “Workload per process” dashboard displays the number of active instances
waiting for completion, by process.

When you drill down into a specific process, the right panel displays the total number of
instanceswaiting for completion in each of the activities in the selected process. The last drilldown
displays the instances waiting for completion for the selected activity and process.

Reference:Monitoring a Business Process in Oracle BPM 11g: Narration Script

Business Process Analytics enables you to monitor the performance of your
deployed processes. It measures the key performance indicators(KPIs)in your project and stores
them in a database. Process analysts can view the metrics stored in the Process Analytics
databases using WorkSpace dashboards or Oracle BAM, depending on the database you select
to store the information.

Note: Key Performance Indicators, also known as KPI or Key Success Indicators (KSI), help an
organization define and measure progress toward organizational goals.

Once an organization has analyzed its mission, identified all its stakeholders, and defined its
goals, it needs a way to measure progress toward those goals. Key Performance Indicators are
those measurements.

Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0), 11 Using Process Analytics

A complex user taskuses a complex routing flow that is defined within the human
task.

BPM Studio offers a number of human task patterns out of the box, to make it easy to implement
the most common types of human tasks. For example, the Simple pattern just assigns individual
users or groups. The Management pattern is used for a sequential list of approvers up the
management chain. Initiator is for the person who kicks off the process.For most of these,
swimlane roles are used to determine assignments. For the Complex task, however, the swimlane
is irrelevant, and routing and assignments are typically more complicated.

Note:Swimlanes are the horizontal lines that run across the process editor. All flow objects must
be placed within a swimlane.

Swimlanes can also be used to group flow objects based on the roles defined within your process.
Swimlanes that contain user tasks must have roles assigned to them. Swimlanes visually display
the role responsible for performing each flow object within your process. Additionally, you can
have multiple swimlanes that are assigned to the same role.

Swimlanes can make your process more readable when you must use the same role in different
parts of the same process.
Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0),6.1 Using Swimlanes to Organize
Your Process

Oracle Business Process Composer is a collaboration tool that enables process
analysts to easily interact with process developers. It provides a user-friendly interface for creating
process-based business applications based on project templates. These templates are created
using Oracle BPM Studio.

Business Process Composer also provides an environment for creating process blueprints.
Process blueprints are implemented as part of an Oracle BPM project and can easily be shared
with process developers who are using Oracle BPM Studio to implement business processes as
part of a business application.

Process blueprints are the first draft of a business process. They allow you to create abstract
definitions of your business processes. These processes are included within a basic Oracle BPM
Project that can be shared between Oracle BPM Studio and Business Process Composer.

However, process blueprints do not contain any of the implementation details required for an
Oracle BPM application. Process developers can use Oracle BPM Studio to add the required
implementation.

From Business Process Composer, you can publish the project to the Oracle BPM MDS partition
where process developers can add the required technical implementation using Oracle BPM
Studio.

Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0), 3.1.1 Oracle Business Process
Composer Use Cases

ActivationCount: Type INT.Specifies the number of tokens in the incoming sequence
flow of the gateway.Can be usedIn complex gateways.
loopCounter: Type INT.Specifies the number of times the engine ran this activity. The Process
Engine updates this variable each time it runs a new loop.Can be usedin In activities with loop
marker.

The message end event is used to send a message to another process or service
when the process is completed. The message end event is always used with either a message
start event or message catch event.

Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0), 6.2.10 Introduction to the Message
End Event

A: A transition advances the process from one flow object to another. In Business
Process Modeling Notation(BPMN), transitions are also known as connecting objects.
Transitions use directional arrows that display the direction of the flow. An instance flows through
a processby following the logic that applies to a transition.Oracle BPM provides many types of
transitions. The most common transitionsare: Unconditional, Conditional,
Due,Exception, andBusiness Rule.

A managed bean - sometimes simply referred to as an MBean - is a type of
JavaBean, created with dependency injection. Managed Beans are particularly used in the Java
Management Extensions technology. But with Java EE 6, the specification provides for a more
detailed meaning of a managed bean.
The MBean represents a resource running in the Java virtual machine, such as an application or a
Java EE technical service (transactional monitor, JDBC driver, etc.). They can be used for
collecting statistics on concerns like performance, resources usage, or problems (pull); for getting
and setting application configurations or properties (push/pull); and notifying events like faults or
state changes (push).

Note(see the business server layer):ADF Architecture

ADF follows the proven, industry wide accepted Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. ADF
extends this MVC to one more layer - Business Service. Each layer in ADF has distinct role and
specific responsibility.

*The view layer is the top most layer, that user sees and interacts with. It contains the UI pages
used to view or modify that data. We call this part as ADFv. This layer is developed using ADF
Faces Rich Client components that are built on standard JSF components with lot of built-in AJAX
and Web 2.0 like features. In addition to this, it also supports Apache myfaces Trinidad
components, Java and ADF Swing components. It also has ADF Mobile components that are
specifically built for Mobile applications.
*The controller layer processes user input and determines page navigation. With ADF, you do not
write any JSP re-directs or URL calls. It is all declarative, drag-and-drop supported. We call this
part as ADFc. ADFc provides an enhanced navigation and state management model on top of
JSF. JDeveloper allows you to declaratively creat flows where you can pass application control
between different types of pages and flows, conditionally using declarative case statements
*The model layer represents the data values related to the current view. Model is also responsibile
for binding the data to the view. We call this part as ADFm. It implementes JSR-227 service
abstraction called the data control. It abstracts the implementation of business service layer. In
addition to ADFbc, it also supports other technologies like EJB, Web Services, CSV, POJO etc.
*The business service layer handles data access between model and DB or any other data
storage. It encapsulates business logic and rules. You can use any technology for this layer. ADF
has its own technology for this and we call this part as ADFbc (ADF Business Components).
ADFbc facilitates backend service for query, create, update, delete operations and provide lot of
features to implement validations and business logic.

Incorrect answer:
A service side data control is used to bind data.
An EL script does not make much sense here.
A userinterface component would not handle validation logic.

Message, signal, and timer events offer a choice whether to be used as interrupting or non-interrupting.

The Oracle Business Rules Editor supports both IF/THEN rules and Decision
Tables. Each condition rowin a Decision Tabletests the allowed values of a data input to the
ruleset, called a fact. Each column represents a particular bucketset, an enumerated fact
value or range. The combination of all the condition tests in a column specifies an action,
typically setting the value of a data output. The complete Decision Table defines a ruleset,
deployed as a business rule component invoked from the process as a Business Rule task in
BPMN. The editor provides quick tools for resolving gaps and conflicts in the table.

Incorrect answer:
More than one rule can execute.
A rule can more than one action.
A rule cannot modify another rule.

Single Approver: Use this option for a single user to act on a task. If the task is
assigned to a role or group with multiple users, then one member must claim the task and act on it.

Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0), 30 Using Oracle BPM Worklist

You can configure human workflow notification properties, such as setting the
notification mode for messages and setting actionable addresses. These properties are used to
notify users of changes to the state of a task.

To configure human workflow notification properties:
Acess this page through one of the following options:
From the SOA Infrastructure Menu...
Select SOA Administration > Workflow Notification Properties
The Workflow Notification Properties page appears.

You now configure Oracle User Messaging Service to send and receive notifications. During
configuration, you provide the addresses that are used by human workflow.

Reference:
Oracle® Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Business
Process Management Suite, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1), 21 Configuring Human Workflow Service
Components and Engines

You can configure the sampling point generation at the following levels:
Process
Project
Activity

Note: When the BPMN Service Engine runs the activity in the process it stores data about the
process to the BPM Cubes and Oracle BAM Data Objects. This data comes from the sampling
points defined in the project. You can configure which processes in your project, or which activities
in your project generate sampling points in these databases.

Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0), 11.3 Configuring Projects, Processes
and Activities to Generate Sampling Points

Each swimlane role in a BPM process is created during design time in Oracle BPM
Studio. It is then mapped to an application role that is created during deployment. This mapping
cannot be changed after deployment.

Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0), 8.3.4 Managing Roles in Process
Workspace

Approval groups are a statically defined or a dynamically generated list of
approvers. Approval groups usually are configured by the process owner using the worklist
application. Typically, they are used to model subject matter experts outside the transaction's
managerial chain of authority, such as human resources or legal counsel, that must act on a task
before or after management approval.

Static approval groups are predetermined lists of approvers, while dynamic approval groups
generate approver lists at run time.

Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0),26.3.6.3.1 How to Model an Approval
Groups List Builder

A:Human workflow supports declarative assignment and routing of tasks.These
tasks can be assigned with business rules.

C:BPMN processes are contained within an Oracle BPM project. BPM projects contain all of the
resources required for a functioning BPM application, including BPMN processes SOA artifacts,
such as business rules and human tasks.

D:Oracle BPEL Process Manager supports business rules and business rule engines.

Note:In Oracle Business Rules you define a function in a manner similar to a Java method, but an
Oracle Business Rules function does not belong to a class. You can use Oracle Business
Rulesfunctions to extend a Java application object model so that users can perform operations in
rules without modifying the original Java application code.

You can use an Oracle Business Rules function in a condition or in an action associated with a
rule or a Decision Table.

You can also use an Oracle Business Rules function definition to share the same or a similar
expression among several rules, and to return results to the application.

An Oracle Business Rules function includes the following:
Name: The Oracle Business Rules function name.
Return Type: A return type for the Oracle Business Rules function, or void if there is no return value.
Bucketset: The bucketset to associate with the Oracle Business Rules function.
Arguments: The function arguments. Each function argument includes a name and a type.
Function Body: The function body includes predefined actions. Using predefined actions Rules Designer
assures that an Oracle Business Rules function is well formed and can be validated.

Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0), 18 BPEL Process Integration with
Business Rules

Note (see the business server layer):ADF Architecture





ADF follows the proven, industry wide accepted Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. ADF extends this MVC to one more layer - Business Service. Each layer in ADF has distinct role and specific responsibility.



*The view layer is the top most layer, that user sees and interacts with. It contains the UI pages used to view or modify that data. We call this part as ADFv. This layer is developed using ADF Faces Rich Client components that are built on standard JSF components with lot of built-in AJAX and Web 2.0 like features. In addition to this, it also supports Apache myfaces Trinidad components, Java and ADF Swing components. It also has ADF Mobile components that are specifically built for Mobile applications.

Data objects store information related to each process instance you create. The
value of these data objects is different for every instance in the process. However the structure of
the data object is the same for all process instances.

From within a subprocess you can access process data objects and subprocess data objects. If
the name of a subprocess data object matches the name of a process data object, then when you
access the data object you obtain the value of the subprocess data object.

Incorrect answer:

C:You can define data objects for a certain subprocess. These data objects are available only
when the subprocess is running. When the instance leaves the subprocess the value of
subprocess data objects is lost.

Process Owner - Managing process flow, task assignments, policies, rules,
objectives,
and performance measurement, the Process Owner is responsible and accountable for
the performance of end-to-end business processes. The Process Owner owns a specific
process or processes, and is the primary authority for making decisions necessary to
resolve conflict or overlap between processes.

Process Owner is the subject matter expert (SME) for the business process(es). He is
the business primary contact for the Business Process Analyst. People in this role
however, specialize in a small number of processes and don't have the broader
perspective of other the business leadership across the enterprise.
Establishing the Process Owner role has emerged as a best practice for BPM since the
key business processes cross organizational boundaries and typically have no single
point of responsibility. Commonly, gaps (known as the white spaces) exist between
the departmental silos of business process activity where ownership is undetermined
and knowledge is sparse. The creation of the Process Owner role solves these problems
by identifying individuals to be the experts responsible for the end-to-end flow of key
business processes. While authority for departmental or divisional business process
activities remains with respective managers, the Process Owner is able to take a
holistic view and make better recommendations for enterprise-wide process
improvement.

Business process administration during runtime also requires considerable business
knowledge and the Process Owner should be expected to support this key operational
activity.

Group Vote: Use this option when multiple users, working in parallel, must act, such
as in a hiring situation when multiple users vote to hire or reject an applicant. You specify the
voting percentage that is needed for the outcome to take effect, such as a majority vote or a
unanimous vote.

Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0), 30 Using Oracle BPM Worklist

The even-based gateway enables you to branch your process flow based on the
possibility that an event may occur. Depending on the context, this may be one of several types of
events.

The event-based gateway enables you to anticipate the possibility that several types of events
may occur at a specific point in your process. It is similar to the exclusive gateway, but instead of
choosing a path based on expressions, the event-based gateway chooses a path based on the
occurrence of an event within your process.

Note:Gateways are flow elements that define the flow of your process. Gateways determine the
path a token takes through a process. They define control points within your process by splitting
and merging paths.

When possible, gateways are used for paths that are exceptions to or deviate from the default
path of the process.

Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0), 6 Modeling Business Processes with
Oracle BPM

The controller layer manages the applications flow and handles user input. For
example, when you click a Search button on a page, the controller determines what action to perform (do a search) and where to navigate to (the results page).

There are two controller options for web-based applications in JDeveloper: the standard JSF
controller or the ADF Controller which extends the JSF controller functionality. Whichever
controller you use, you will typically design your application flow by laying out pages and
navigation rules on a diagram.

With the ADF controller you can break your application's flow into smaller, reusable task flows;
include non-visual components such as method calls and decision points in your flow; and create
"page fragment" flows that run inside a region of a single containing page. This approach
encourages maximum reusability for user interface fragments and simplified integration into
portals and mashup applications.

The Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) is an end-to-end application
framework built on Java Platform, J2EE standards and open-source technologies. Oracle ADF and
JDeveloper 11g gives you an environment that covers the full development lifecycle from design to
deployment, with drag-and-drop and wizard driven development, visual UI design, and many more
features built in to ease large application development.

Reference:Oracle Application Development Framework Overview, Oracle White Paper

ADF Model implements the two concepts in JSR-227 that enable decoupling the
user interface technology from the business service implementation: data controls and declarative
bindings. Data controls abstract the implementation technology of a business service by using
standard metadata interfaces to describe the bean's operations and data collections, including
information about the properties, methods, and types involved. Using JDeveloper, you can view
that information as icons which you can drag and drop onto a page. Using those icons, you can
create databound HTML elements (for JSP pages), databound UI components (for JSF pages),
and databound Swing UI components (for ADF Swing panels) by dragging and dropping them
from the panel onto the visual editor for a page.

Note: ADF Model is a declarative data binding facility that implements the JSR-227 specification.
This specification provides an API for accessing declarative data binding metadata. The ADF
Model layer enables a unified approach to bind any user interface to any business service with no
code.

Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0), 2 Using ADF Model Data Binding in a
Java EE Web Application

The Oracle Business Process WorkSpace: Standard DashBoard Tab
The dashboard displayed here is the “Workload per process” dashboard.
In the BPMWorkSpace Dashboard Worklist view you can sort the task by, for example, priority.

Note 1: BPM WorkSpace Dashboard:

Note2:Oracle BPM WorkSpace and Oracle Process Spaces allow process participants to interact
with the applications you create using Oracle BPM. The Oracle BPM WorkSpace user interface
provides tabs for each of the following:

Process Instances: This tab enables process participants to view running process instances.
Task List: This tab enables process participants to view and work with their assigned tasks.

Process Dashboards: This tab provides out-of-the-box dashboards for monitoring process
performance, task performance and workload.

Custom Dashboards: This tab enables process participants to define and use custom dashboard
based on the measurement data generated by process instances.

You can use Oracle BAM to monitor the activity of the process in your project,
leveraging the capabilities of Oracle BAM while using Oracle BPM.

When you run a process that has Oracle BAM enabled the BPMN Service Engine populates
Oracle BAM database with information about the business indicators measured in that process.

The BPMN Service Engine generates this information based on the Sampling Points preference
you defined in your project.

Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0), 11.8 Enabling Oracle BAM in a
Project

Incorrect answer:

C: The send task is frequently paired with the receive task to invoke a process or service and
receive a response in return.

D:The message start event triggers a process instance when a message is received.

Signal events allow you to broadcast a message to all the processes in a BPM
project. Only the processes configured to listen to that signal react.
Oracle BPM uses Oracle Event Delivery Network (EDN) to send and receive signals.

Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0), 19.8 Introduction to Communication
Between Processes Using Signal Events

Reference: OracleFusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management,11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0),21.2 Configuring Human Workflow
Task Service Properties

When storing the value of a measure business indicator, the BPMN service engine
also stores the value of the dimensions you defined in your process. Later on, when you build the
dashboards to monitor your process, you can use these dimensions to group the values into
different categories. For example, inaSales example you might want to view the total number
ofSalesby region.

Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0), 6.11 Measuring Process
Performance Using Measurement Marks

The Throw Message Intermediate event in BPMN can be used to send a message
to another process.This has the same effect as the Send event.

The error start event is used as the start event of an inline handler. Using inline
handlers you can define a separate process flow to handle errors that occur within your process.

Reference: OracleFusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management,11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0),9 Creating the Task Display Form for
the ApprovalHumanTask Human Task

In Oracle BPM, subprocesses are embedded subprocesses. Subprocesses are
contained as part of the parent subprocess. Subprocesses must begin with a none start event and
must end with a none end event.

Reference: OracleFusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management,11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0),6 Modeling Business Processes with
Oracle BPM

A process can reply back to the calling process by using a Receive task followed by a Send task that implements a Service call to the calling process. This implementation allows the process to receive a message from the calling process through the Receive task, and then send a response back to the calling process using the Send task. By implementing a Service call, the process can establish a communication channel with the calling process and exchange messages in a request-reply manner.

Business process management (BPM) is a holistic management approach focused
on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients. It promotes
business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration with
technology. BPM attempts to improve processes continuously(C). It can therefore be described as
a "process optimization process." It is argued that BPM enables organizations to be more efficient,
more effective and more capable of change than a functionally focused, traditional hierarchical
management approach.

PM tools allow users to:
*Vision - strategize functions and processes
*Define - baseline the process or the process improvement
*Model - simulate the change to the process.
*Analyze - compare the various simulations to determine an optimal improvement
*Improve - select and implement the improvement
*Control - deploy this implementation and by use of User defined dashboards monitor the
improvement in real time and feed the performance information back into the simulation model in
preparation for the next improvement iteration.
*Re-engineer - revamp the processes from scratch for better results
This brings with it the benefit of being able to simulate changes to business processes based on
real-life data (not assumed knowledge). Also, the coupling of BPM to industry methodologies
allows users to continually streamline and optimize the process to ensure that it is tuned to its
market need.

Incorrect answers
Web Services Interoperability is not handled by BPM.

Decision tables help you design your multi-condition business rules with conflict and
gap analysis.

Note:The Oracle Business Rules Editor supports both IF/THEN rules and Decision Tables. Each
condition rowin a Decision Tabletests the allowed values of a data input to the
ruleset, called a fact. Each column represents a particular bucketset, an enumerated fact
value or range. The combination of all the condition tests in a column specifies an action,
typically setting the value of a data output. The complete Decision Table defines a ruleset,
deployed as a business rule component invoked from the process as a Business Rule task in
BPMN. The editor provides quick tools for resolving gaps and conflicts in the table.

Project data objects are data objects that you define in a project. All processes
within a project have access to the data object defined(A), though the value changes according to
the process using them(not B). In addition, the engine stores the value of those marked as
business indicators to the process analytics databases if the project is configured to use them.

As with other flow objects that accept data associations, you can use expressions to change the
values of data objects (not C, D).

Note:Data Objects are variables used to define the type of information used by your business
process. They are also used to store the value of this information.
Basic and complex data types can both be defined as either process or project data objects. This
determines the scope of the variable.

Process data objects are data objects that are defined for a specific process. In contrast, project
data objects are defined for an entire project.

Project data objects allow you to share data between processes. For example, the Purchase
Order process and the Request Approval process may both track the value of the employee that
created the request, or the priority of the request.

Project data objects ensure that all processes in a project use the same data. Each process must
assign and update the value of this data.

The main benefit of defining project data objects is that after publishing your project you can
configure Oracle BPM WorkSpace views to display the values of those variables. This is possible
only if you use project data objects.

Note2:
Although project data objects allow you to define data objects that are used by all processes in a
project, they are not "global" data objects. Each process within your project uses its own version of
the data object. Project data objects are not used to share data between processes.

Therefore, you can only use process data objects within the process where they are created, while
project data objects are applicable to the entire project. This is known as variable scope.

Reference: OracleFusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management,11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0),Working with Data Objects and
Expressions

The types of measurement marks you can define are:
Single measurement(D)
Interval start(A)
Interval stop(B)

Measurement marks are associated to a flow element. Measurement marks of type interval start
track the value of business indicators before running the flow elements thatproceeds them.
Counter marks, measurement marks of type interval stop and single measurement marks track the
value of business indicators after running the flow element that precedes them.

Reference: OracleFusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management,11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0),11 Using Process Analytics

A:Configuring the BPM project for BAMmonitoring
1. Open the BPM Project in JDeveloper (if not already open).
2. Navigate to theBPM Project Navigatorpanel (useView
menu if needed).
3. Right-click on the project,QuoteProcessLab, and selectProject Preferences
4.4. In theData Targetstab, selectEnable BAMas a data target forprocess analytics.
B:The Oracle BAM Adapter is a Java Connector Architecture (JCA)-compliant adapter that can be
used from a Java EE client to send data and events to the Oracle BAM Server.

Note:Business activity monitoring (BAM) is software that aids in monitoring of business activities,
as those activities are implemented in computer systems.Oracle Business Activity Monitoring
(Oracle BAM) gives business executives the ability to monitor their business services and
processes in the enterprise, to correlate KPIs down to the actual business process themselves,
and most important, to change business processes quickly or to take corrective action if the
business environment changes.

Oracle BAM is a component of both SOA Suite and BPM Suite
Oracle BAM provides a framework for
*Creating dashboards that display real-time data inflow.(D)
*Creating rules to send alerts under specified conditions.
*Designing Web applications with graphs displaying active data.

Business Indicators are project data objects you use to store the value of the key
performance indicators of your process. For your convenience business indicators have their own
entry in the structure window.

Key performance indicators represent relevant information in your process that can help you
determine if your process is running as expected.

The following are examples of common business indicators:

Order Amount
Product Stock
Elapsed Time
Shipping Status

You can use business indicators to store the value of an indicator you want to measure in your
process, or to store a category you want to use to group the values you measured in your process.

C:The BPMN Service Engine automatically stores the data in the dimension business indicators in
the pre-defined and custom sampling points defined for your process.
Measurement marks enable you to measure a business indicator of type measure at a certain
point in the process or in a section of the process.

Reference: OracleFusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management,11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0),11 Using Process Analytics

There are three typical use cases for Oracle Business Process Composer:
*Create, edit and deploy projects based on project templates.
*Create process blueprints.
* Edit business rules for in-flight processes

The Human Task editor enables you to create and edit human tasks that are stored as part of the
business catalog.

Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0), 3 Introduction to Oracle Business
Process Composer

Inline handlers are types of subprocesses that allow you to model conditions that
happen outside of a normal process flow.

Inline handlers can have the following start events:
*Error start
*Timer start
*Message start

Note:Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a graphical representation for
specifying business processes in a business process model. It was previously known as Business
Process Modeling Notation.

Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0), 6 Modeling Business Processes with
Oracle BPM

Capability Maturity Model (CMM) broadly refers to a process improvement approach
that is based on a process model.
A maturity model can be used as a benchmark for assessing different organizations for equivalent
comparison. It describes the maturity of the company based upon the project the company is
dealing with and the clients.

The Capability Maturity Modelincludes the concept ofMaturity Levels: a 5-level process maturity
continuum - where the uppermost (5th) level is a notional ideal state where processes would be
systematically managed by a combination of process optimization and continuous process
improvement.

There are five levels defined along the continuum of the CMM and, according to the SEI:
"Predictability, effectiveness, and control of an organization's software processes are believed to
improve as the organization moves up these five levels. While not rigorous, the empirical evidence
to date supports this belief.
1.Initial (chaotic, ad hoc, individual heroics) - the starting point for use of a new or undocumented
repeat process.
2.Repeatable - the process is at least documented sufficiently such that repeating the same steps
may be attempted.
3.Defined - the process is defined/confirmed as a standard business process, and decomposed to
levels 0, 1 and 2 (the latter being Work Instructions).
4.Managed - the process is quantitatively managed in accordance with agreed-upon metrics.
5.Optimizing - process management includes deliberate process optimization/improvement.

BPMN 2.0 models:
*collaborative (public) B2B processes,
*internal (private) business processes,
*a choreography – expected behavior between two or more business participants,
*collaborations, which is a collection of participants and their interaction and
*a conversation – the logical relation of message exchanges.

A:Oracle Business Process Management Workspace (Process Workspace) enable
process participants to interact with the applications you create using Oracle BPM. The Process
Workspace user interface provides tabs for each of the following:

Tasks: This page enables process participants to view and work with their assigned tasks.

Process Tracking: This page enables process participants to view running process instances.

Standard Dashboards: This page provides out-of-the-box dashboards for monitoring process
performance, task performance, and workload.

Custom Dashboards: This page enables process participants to define and use custom
dashboards based on the measurement data generated by process instances.

C:Business Process Composer is a Web-based application that enables business users to
collaborate with process developers and designers. It provides a user friendly environment for
editing processes and process templates created in Oracle BPM Studio.

Process developers can create a catalog of preconfigured components such as services, tasks,
and rules in Oracle BPM Studio. This catalog can be included in project templates that process
analysts can use to create new projects using Business Process Composer.

After creating a project based on a project template, process analysts can incorporate business
catalog elements and perform other required edits defined by the project template. Process
analysts can then deploy these project to theOracle BPM run time.

Business Process Composer also enables process analysts to create process blueprints. These
are initial drafts of a process that can be used by process developers who use Oracle BPM Studio
to add further implementation details and refinement to the project.

Business Process Composer also enables you to edit Oracle Business Rules at run time. This is
important because policies tend to evolve faster than business processes.

Reference: OracleFusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management,11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0),1 Oracle Business Process
Management Suite (Oracle BPM Suite) Overview

B: An ADF bounded task flow can represent a transactional unit of work. You can
declaratively specify options on the bounded task flow that determine whether, when entering the
task flow, the task flow creates a new transaction, joins an existing one or is not part of the existing
transaction.

C: A bounded task flow can call another bounded task flow, which can call another and so on.
There is no limit to the depth of the calls.

Bounded task flow: A specialized form of task flow that, in contrast to an unbounded task flow, has
a single entry point(not A)and zero or more exit points. It contains its own set of private control
flow rules, activities, and managed beans. An ADF bounded task flow allows reuse, parameters,
transaction management, and reentry.

Reference: OracleFusion Middleware Business Process Composer User's Guide for Oracle
Business Process Management,11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0),14 Getting Started with ADF Task
Flows

A Business Analyst is responsible for analyzing and improving business processes within an organization. They typically model and simulate business processes to identify areas of improvement and optimize efficiency. They also design and implement BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) dashboards to track key performance indicators and provide real-time insights. Therefore, the three activities most likely performed by a Business Analyst are modeling business processes, simulating and analyzing business processes, and designing and implementing BAM dashboards.