The test consists of six sections containing a total of approximately 52 multiple-choice questions. The percentages after each section title reflect the approximate distribution of the total question set across the sections.
Table of Contents
Section 2 - Modeling (31%)
Section 3 - Simulation (17%)
Section 1 - Industry and Tooling (10%)
- Understand business process management concepts
- Understand how WebSphere Business Modeler relates to the SOA lifecycle
- Understand the different business process modeling methodologies
- Understand critical success factors for business process modeling
- Model business processes and related attributes
- Model roles and related attributes
- Model resources and related attributes
- Document the flow of business items through a process
- Use modeling elements to accurately describe a business process
- Use WebSphere Business Modeler team support and publishing functionality to work in a collaborative environment
- Model business processes in Swimlane layout
- Define naming conventions to effectively manage a project
- Import artifacts
- Export artifacts
- Define simulation settings and attributes for running simulations
- Demonstrate the effects of simulation settings on simulation outputs
- Demonstrate the effects of varying combinations of modeling syntax on simulation outputs
- Understand how resources and roles are allocated during simulation
- Identify risks/benefits of a future process design based on simulation data and process design goals
- Understand how statistical distributions affect simulation behavior
Section 4 - Analysis and Validation (25%)
- Validate the process flow using WebSphere Business Modeler features
- Use static and dynamic results to validate process models
- Validate that a model meets requirements
- Apply comparative analysis to evaluate the impact of a change to a model
- Analyze process duration
- Analyze process costs
- Identify bottlenecks
- Identify process improvement opportunities
- Analyze resource allocation
