03. Enterprise Architecture Languages

Business Process Modeling Notation

What does BPMN stands for?

BPMI, OMG

Who originally developed BPMN and who took over the initiative in 2005?

Business Process Management Initiative

What does BPMI stands for?

Object Management Group

What does OMG stands for?

Business Process Model and Notation

What is the other name of Business Process Modeling Notation?

BPMN

Its goal is to support business process modeling by providing a comprehensive standard notation to business users, while representing the complex process semantics for technical users.

BPMN

What is intended to be used by stakeholders who design, manage, and realize business processes?

BPMN

What has an easy to use flowchart-like notation that is independent of any particular implementation environment?

BPMN

What creates a standardized bridge for the gap between the business process design and process implementation?

XML

BPMN helps with communication leading to what?

Extensible Markup Language

What does XML stands for?

1. Flow Objects

2. Artifacts

3. Connecting Objects

4. Swimlanes

What are the Element Types in Business Process Diagrams?

1. Gateway

2. Activity

3. Event

What are the examples of Flow Objects?

1. Group

2. Annotation

3. Data Object

What are the examples of Artifacts?

1. Message Flow

2. Association

3. Sequence Flow

What are the examples of Connecting Objects?

1. Pool

2. Lane

What are the examples of Swimlanes?

Gateway

What is a decision point that can adjust the path based on conditions or events?

Gateway

What can be exclusive or inclusive, parallel, complex, or based on data or event (exclusive event based, parallel event based)?

Activity

What is a particular task performed by a person or system?

Activity

What does include sub-processes, loops, multiple loops, and compensations?

Event

What is the trigger that starts, modifies, or completes a progress?

Event

[…] types include message, timer, error, compensation, signal, cancel, escalation, link, etc.

Throwing or Catching

An event can be classified as either […] or […], depending on their function.

Group

What shows a logical grouping of activities, but does not change the diagram’s flow?

Annotation

Which provides further explanation to a part of the diagram?

Data Object

Which shows the necessary data for an activity?

Message Flow

Which depicts messages that flow across pools, or organizational boundaries such as departments?

Message Flow

Which should not connect events or activities within a pool?

Association

Which associates an artifact or text to an event, activity, or gateway?

Sequence Flow

Which shows the order of activities to be performed?

Pool

Which represents major participants in a process?

Pool

A different […] may be in a different company or department but still involved in the process.

Lane

Which is a sub-part of a pool?

Lane

Which shows the activities and flow for a certain role or participant, defining the accountability within a process?

1. Collaborative BP

2. Abstract BP

3. Private BP

What are the Sub-Models Within a BPMN Diagram?

Collaborative BP

Which shows the interactions between two or more business entities?

Abstract BP

Which occurs between a private BP and an external participant or process?

Abstract BP

What does not show the private BP itself?

Private BP

Which involves internal processes to a specific organization and do not cross pools or organizational boundaries?

Unified Modeling Language

What does UML stands for?

UML

What was created to establish a common, semantic, and syntactical visual modeling language for the architecture, design, and implementation of complex software systems both structurally and behaviorally?

UML

What is currently the most important industry-standard language for specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting software systems?

1. Booch Method

2. Object-Modeling Technique (OMT)

3. Objectory

UML emerged from the combination of three existing practices namely?

UML

What is commonly used by programmers, but not generally used by database developers?

OMG

Which oversees the definition and maintenance of the UML specifications, that provides engineers and programmers the ability to use one language for different purposes during all phases of the software lifecycle—for all system sizes?

1. Functional

2. Object

3. Dynamic

What are the Modeling Concepts Specified by UML?

Functional

Which concept involves use case diagrams, which describes system functionality from the point of view of a user?

Object

What concept involves class diagrams, which describes the structure of a system in terms of objects, attributes, associations, and operations?

Dynamic

Which concept involves interactions diagrams, state machine diagrams, and activity diagrams, which are used to describe internal behavior if the system?

1. Structural UML Diagrams

2. Behavioral UML Diagrams

What are the Types of UML Diagrams?

1. Class Diagram

2. Component Diagram

3. Composite Structure Diagram

4. Package Diagram

5. Object Diagram

6. Deployment Diagram

What are the examples of Structural UML Diagrams?

Class Diagram

Which describes the static structure of a system?

Component Diagram

Which describes the organization of physical software components, including source codes, run-time code, and executables?

Composite Structure Diagram

Which diagram shows the internal parts of a class?

Package Diagram

What is the subset of class diagram used to organize elements of a system into related groups?

Object Diagram

Which describes the static structure of system at a particular time, and can be used to test class diagrams for accuracy?

Deployment Diagram

Which depicts the physical resources in a system, including nodes, components, and connections?

1. Activity Diagram

2. Communication Diagram

3. Use Case Diagram

4. State Machine Diagram

5. Sequence Diagram

6. Interaction Overview Diagram

7. Timing Diagram

What are the examples of Behavioral UML Diagrams?

Activity Diagram

Which illustrates the dynamic nature of a system by modeling the flow of control from activity to activity?

Communication Diagram

Which describes the interactions among classes in terms of an exchange of messages over time?

Use Case Diagram

Which models the functionalities of a system using actors and use cases, and can be considered as a simplified version of a collaboration diagram introduced in UML 2.0?

State Machine Diagram

Which describes the dynamic behavior of a system in response to external stimuli?

Sequence Diagram

Which models the interactions between objects in sequence?

Interaction Overview Diagram

What is a combination of an activity and a sequence diagram, which models a more complex interaction?

Timing Diagram

What is an interaction UML diagram that focuses on processes that take place during a specific period of time, wherein time is shown to increase from left to right?

Architecture Description Language

What does ADL stands for?

ADL

What is the general term referring to different formal languages used in enabling formalization, description, specification, modeling and reasoning of software architectures?

ADL

A good […] must be capable of providing adequate abstractions in modeling large systems.

ADL

What has a wide variety, with several differences in the exact concepts it offer, and are mainly suitable for users with technical background?

1. UniCorn

2. Wright

3. Acme

What are some examples of ADL?

1. Ability to rep. components along w. interfaces, property assertions, implementations

2. Ability to rep. connectors along w. protocols, property assertions, implementations

3. Ability to accom. analysis tools openly

4. Ability to model dynamic archi-s

5. Ability to reason about causality and time

6. Ability to check conformance

7. Component, comm. abstraction, encap

8. Limit comm. to components connected to each other archi-ally

9. Hierarchical refinement support

What are the Important Properties of ADLs?