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1. What is the focus of Business Modelling?
Question 1A. The business itself: how value is created, how work flows, who is involved and how decisions are madeB. The design of databases and tablesC. The choice of reporting toolsD. The physical storage of dataE. The network architecture of systems
2. What is the main goal of Business Modelling?
Question 2A. To define primary and foreign keysB. To choose a cloud platformC. To normalise transaction tablesD. To document ETL jobsE. To provide a complete and holistic view of the business
3. Which two questions does Business Modelling concentrate on?
Question 3A. The who and the whenB. The where and the whyC. The what and the how of the businessD. The cost and the benefitE. The input and the output
4. Where does Business Modelling usually sit in the sequence of modelling activities?
Question 4A. After physical data modellingB. Only after systems have gone liveC. Between logical and physical data modellingD. As the first step before information modelling and data modellingE. It is done last, as documentation
5. In the school example of Business Modelling, what does the description deliberately NOT include?
Question 5A. The teacher checking the answer sheetB. The head teacher reviewing resultsC. The principal looking at overall performanceD. Marks tables, student databases or report formatsE. The school office publishing grades
6. In the loan approval example, who decides whether to approve or reject the loan?
Question 6A. The loan officerB. The credit departmentC. The risk managerD. The finance teamE. The collections team
7. In the loan approval example, which team monitors repayments after funds are released?
Question 7A. The collections teamB. The credit departmentC. The loan officerD. The risk managerE. The sales team
8. Which of the following is an example of the analytical side that Business Modelling connects to daily operations?
Question 8A. A loan officer verifying documentsB. A customer submitting an applicationC. The finance team releasing fundsD. A student sitting an examE. Managers analysing approval and rejection rates, average loan amounts or repayment behaviour
9. Which statement describes the nature of Business Modelling?
Question 9A. It is detailed, technical and tool-specificB. It is high-level, strategic and independent of technology and toolsC. It is concerned mainly with database performanceD. It is a low-level description of individual tasksE. It is only used by IT departments
10. Why does Business Modelling act as the baseline for all other modelling techniques?
Question 10A. Because it defines the physical schema firstB. Because it tells the story of the business so information and data models are grounded in real needs rather than assumptionsC. Because it selects the database vendorD. Because it produces the final reportsE. Because it replaces the need for data modelling