Oracle Business Process Management Suite 12c Essentials (1Z0-435) Practice Exam

The Oracle Business Process Management Suite 12c Essentials (1Z0-435) certification exam validates your knowledge and skills in working with the Oracle Business Process Management (BPM) Suite 12c.  Earning this certification demonstrates your ability to  understand, implement, and manage core functionalities of the suite for optimizing business processes within an organization.

Who Should Take This Exam

This mid-level certification is ideal for:

• Business analysts and process consultants seeking to implement Oracle BPM Suite 12c solutions.
• IT professionals who want to specialize in configuring and managing Oracle BPM Suite.
• Individuals aiming to validate their expertise in core BPM concepts and their application within the Oracle BPM Suite.

Prerequisites

While there are no formal prerequisites, a strong foundation in the following areas is recommended:

• Business process modeling concepts like BPMN
• Basic understanding of enterprise architecture
• Familiarity with relational databases (advantageous)

Roles and Responsibilities

• Process Modeling: Creating and analyzing business process models using BPMN notation within Oracle BPM Suite.
  
• Process Implementation: Configuring and deploying business processes within the Oracle BPM Suite environment.
• Human Workflow Management: Designing and managing human workflow tasks and user interactions within BPM processes.
• Business Rules Management: Defining and implementing business rules to automate decision-making within processes.
• Process Monitoring and Analytics: Monitoring the execution of business processes, identifying bottlenecks, and generating reports for process improvement.
• Security Administration: Understanding and implementing basic security measures to protect BPM Suite applications.

Course Outline

Fundamentals

• Explain the product architecture
• Describe key product features
• Describe the roles in a typical project
• Explain the purpose of the supported business architecture models
• Describe lifecycle management features
• Explain BPM integration points with content management

Process Modeling and Implementation

• Explain the ways to start and end processes
• Add conditional logic, parallel paths, and loops
• Implement event support and exception handling
• Use subprocesses
• Enable, initiate, and play a process using Process Player
• Configure service tasks
• Create a guided process
• Create business objects and data objects
• Invoke a process using call activities
• Create a script task
• Implement a model

Adaptive Case Management

• Compare and contrast adaptive case management and business process management
• Create and configure a case
• Describe the event model for case management
• Promote a BPMN process or a human task to a case activity
• Configure a case activity
• Describe the role business rules play in adaptive case management
• Configure rules for case management
• Describe how to configure a case to support content management
• Implement stakeholder and tag permissions

Simulation

• Explain the scope and objectives of simulation
• Create process simulation models and definitions
• Run simulations and analyze results
• Describe the round trip simulation capabilities

Business Rules

• Explain the architecture of the business rules component
• Create an if-then business rule
• Create a business rule using a decision table
• Test business rules
• Explain how rules are used with human workflow
• Describe the purpose of verbal rules and business phrases
• Design verbal rules and business phrases

Human Workflow

• Describe the architecture of the human workflow component
• Explain supported human task patterns
• Explain expiration and escalation policy options
• Create approval groups
• Set security and access controls
• Utilize human workflow APIs to create a custom workspace

Human Task Forms

• Describe how human task definitions use Web Form technology
• Create Web Forms using both data-first and form-first approaches
• Customize a Web Form using Web Form rules
• Describe how human tasks use ADF technology
• Identify the key components of ADF
• Create ADF Business Components and ADF task flows
• Auto-generate an ADF form for a task
• Build a custom form using ADF

Process Analytics

• Describe process analytics architecture and out-of-the-box metrics support
• Describe the purpose and benefits of process analytics
• Add business indicators, measurement marks and counters
• Enable Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
• Build and use dashboards
• Create BAM alerts

Business Process Workspace

• Describe the role and features of Business Process Workspace
• Organize work by creating and using views
• Delegate and reassign work
• Manage and track processes
• Manage users and roles

Security

• Describe the role and features of Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM)
• Describe identity propagation
• Attach security policies to end points at design-time and run-time
• Use virtualization to support multiple providers

Administration

• Manage roles and configure organization units
• Manage approval groups and use flex fields  
• Monitor business processes 
• Troubleshoot installation and runtime issues
• Install for both development and production configurations