MBP18: BCS Practitioner Certificate in Modelling Business Processes

When ordering goods from an online shop, a customer is given a choice of delivery methods. If the customer lives within certain qualifying locations, they can select same day delivery for an extra cost.

Request of location the customer can choose to have their order delivered to their home for a change of £2 select a weekend delivery to their home for £6, or choose to have their order delivered to a local store to collect, which is free.

Purchase of large products are dealt with by a separate delivery service, so customer are contacted once their order has been placed to arrange special delivery.

What are the input for the task select delivery type?

A village clerk receives bookings for the use of the village hall for events such as weddings and parties. Although the village hall has a website, bookings have to be made in an email request from a potential customer to the village clerk, giving the dates and times required. The event name is ‘’Email

An assessor for an examinations board has been asked to re-mark the examination script of a candidate who has appealed against a failing grade.

To remark the script, the assessor has to log on to the examinations board's secure examination marking system held on its server. Once in the marking system, the assessor enters the candidate number (given to her by the examinations board) and downloads the script. She then marks the script. annotating each question with comments and the marks gained. Once completed, she indicates that the script is fully marked and uploads the script back into the marking system. She raises an invoice for the re-marking and sends this to the examination board, who pay her one month later The following all describe actions:

a) Log on to marking system.

b) Download script

c) Mark script.

d) Upload script

e) Raise invoice.

Which of these actions are tasks in the scenario?

A record company is implementing a new system to replace an existing legacy system. The project has challenging as the new system must be implemented before support for the existing system is withdrawn. The business users have been involved throughout the project and their confidence in the new system is high.

Which implementation approach is the LEAST appropriate in this situation?

A business analyst has identified the following pattern of business activity in a process she has been asked to improve:

The following observations have been made. a) The handle-offs in the process are unlikely to be worthy of further investigation. b) The impact of bottlenecks in the tasks performed by Actor 2 should be explored. c) The first task of actor 1 should always be immediately after the trigger event d) The impact of bottlenecks in the tasks performed by Actor 3 should be explored.

Which of these observations are CORRECT?

Freddie's Sandwich Shop makes sandwiches to order, using the finest locally sourced ingredients.

Freddie gets his bread from Country Bakes and the fillings for his sandwiches from Belle View Farms.

Freddie's local approach has proved popular and many people now get their lunch from his shop. rather than from a branch of Wholegram Foods, which used to be the town's most popular sandwich shop.

Freddie is expanding his business to provide catering for local organisations and has just won a contract to provide sandwich lunches for UK Systems Limited, the local headquarters of a highly successful computer company. However, Freddie is worried about the poor wheat harvest and the effect this might have on the cost of his bread. He has also heard that UK Systems Limited has lost a valuable contract to an overseas competitor In Harmon's organisational model, which of the following would provide inputs to internal processes?

No Exit Suppliers has decided to implement a Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) inventory management solution to improve its stock (Inventory) control Before the solution is implemented, all current stock levels and stock locations will be migrated into a related database to ensure that the solution starts with accurate information. Once the system is implemented, all stock movements will be tracked via barcode scanning technology.

To ensure that the proposed solution is acceptable, which exceptional condition MUST be proved?

A business analyst has documented the following description for the task ‘Mark Script

Thomas is the secretary to the management board of a large oil company. He is preparing the papers and chasing up the actions from the last board meeting. Board meetings take place quarterly and always include the collation of monthly sales performance figures, an overview of operating costs and a review of market conditions.

As Thomas is pulling the sales figures together, he receives a phone call from the finance director who tells him that recent government changes to the export tax rate will mean that operating costs will need to be amended before they are presented to the board Which type(s) of business event is/are NOT present in this scenario?