IPA IP 2024 Question 7
A question IPA Japan published in 令和6年度 ITパスポート試験 公開問題 問7, translated into English. ITPEC is based on the same exams.
Same question on ITPEC: Oct 2025 Q96
In the upstream processes of system development, which of the following is the most appropriate objective of performing business process modelling?
Explanation
To visualize the business process as the basis of system design and a shared understanding — the purpose of business process modelling upstream.
Before a system is designed, the business it will support is drawn as a model: the activities, their order, who performs them, and the information passed between them, using notations such as BPMN, DFDs or UML activity diagrams. The diagram shows which parts of the work the system must handle and gives users and developers one picture to agree on, so misunderstandings surface before the requirements are fixed.
Answer (b)
Why not others:
- •(a) — analysing large volumes of data with statistics and AI to find hidden correlations and patterns is data mining
- •(c) — sharing each employee's knowledge and know-how across the company to create new ideas is knowledge management
- •(d) — acquiring staff for a project and building them into a team is project resource management
Key rule: A business process model is a picture of how the work flows; in the upstream processes it tells the designers what the system must support and lets every party check the same understanding.
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