OCEB Fundamental Exam Preparation Training Course Outline

Business Goals, Objectives

Business Basics from the purely Business Point of View:
 

•     business fundamentals
•     strategy
•     planning and goal-setting
•     project management
•     marketing
•     staffing
•     finance

Business Process Concepts and Fundamentals

Fundamental aspects of Business Processes:
 

•     identifying (Discovering) business processes
•     characteristics of processes
•     As-Is process vs. To-Be process
•     levels of business process modeling
•     Tying Business Processes to Goals and Objectives

Business Process Management Concepts and Fundamentals

Fundamentals of Business Process Management:
 

•     Functional vs. Process-Centric Enterprise Organization
•     Styles of Process Management
•     Advancements in Process Management
•     Stakeholders' Roles and Responsibilities
•     Enabling Tools of Process Management

Business Modeling

Business Modeling Fundamentals- Elements of the Business Motivational Model:
 

•     Business Vision, Goals, Objectives
•     Means and Ends
•     Mission, Strategies, Tactics
•     Aspects of Business Modeling

Business Process Modeling Concepts

This section is based on OMG's Business Process Modeling Notation Specification (BPMN).

Business Process Modeling Fundamentals:
 

•     BPMN Basics
•     BPMN Diagram Elements
•     Control Flow and Message Flow
•     Activities and Decomposition
•     Events
•     Gateways
•     Data objects, Artifacts, and Associations
•     Grouping Elements of a Model
•     Difference between Sequential and Parallel flow

Business Process Modeling Skills

This section is based on OMG's Business Process Modeling Notation Specification.

Most questions in this section ask something about a brief scenario presented either as a BPMN diagram or in a few sentences. BPMN elements and modeling topics covered include:
 

•     Pools and Lanes
•     Activities and Subprocesses
•     Gateway logic
•     OR vs AND vs XOR
•     Start and End Events
•     Timers (e.g. simple Intermediate Event types)

Process Quality, Governance and Metrics Frameworks

Awareness of Industry Reference Models, and Quality, Metrics, and Governance Frameworks: This section covers its topics at an high level, allowing the candidate to demonstrate awareness of a range of industry frameworks that may prove either beneficial or, for regulatory frameworks, required by law in a project.

Covered frameworks include:
 

•     APQC Process Classification Framework
•     SCOR
•     Value Chain Reference Model
•     Business Process Maturity Model (BPMM)
•     Six Sigma
•     Balanced Scorecard
•     COBIT
•     Basel
•     Sarbanes-Oxley