BCS MBP18 Exam Questions

Freddie's Sandwich Shop makes sandwiches to order, using the finest locally sourced ingredients. Freddie gets his bread from Country Bakes and the fillings for his sandwiches from Belle View Farms. Freddie's local approach has proved popular and many people now get their lunch from his shop. rather than from a branch of Wholegram Foods, which used to be the town's most popular sandwich shop.

Freddie is expanding his business to provide catering for local organisations and has just won a contract to provide sandwich lunches for UK Systems Limited, the local headquarters of a highly successful computer company. However, Freddie is worried about the poor wheat harvest and the effect this might have on the cost of his bread. He has also heard that UK Systems Limited has lost a valuable contract to an overseas competitor

In Harmon's organisational model, which of the following would provide inputs to internal processes?

In order to identify potential improvements, a business analyst has been asked to document the current customer sales experience in a large, electrical superstore. Whilst shadowing a customer service advisor, a sale was lost because the advisor couldn't authorise a price discount for a customer, who had seen the product advertised at a lower price by a competitor. The customer advisor tried to discount the product to match the competitor's price but was unable to do so.

The customer service advisor explained that this discounting required management approval and. unfortunately, both managers authorised to do this were on their lunch break

What element of the POPII model had caused the sale to fail?

Freddie's Sandwich Shop makes sandwiches to order, using the finest locally sourced ingredients. Freddie gets his bread from Country Bakes and the fillings for his sandwiches from Belle View Farms. Freddie's local approach has proved popular and many people now get their lunch from his shop. rather than from a branch of Wholegram Foods, which used to be the town's most popular sandwich shop.

Freddie is expanding his business to provide catering for local organisations and has just won a contract to provide sandwich lunches for UK Systems Limited, the local headquarters of a highly successful computer company. However, Freddie is worried about the poor wheat harvest and the effect this might have on the cost of his bread. He has also heard that UK Systems Limited has lost a valuable contract to an overseas competitor

In Harmon's organisational model, which of the following would provide inputs to internal processes?

ACOMP buys in and then re-bands electronic products for various markets, including selling on to the selling on to other wholesales. It finds that business processes need to be adapted to new circumstances in multiple markets very quickly. Recently, ACOMP has investigated what might help it adjust its internal processes more quickly.

Which of the following would be MOST useful in helping ACOMP achieve this quick adjustment?

A sports club rents out its playing field, the name tor this business process is 'book playing field'. If the playing field is available, the booking is accepted and the following steps are immediately undertaken by a staff member

1. Details of the booking are recorded on the club's computer system;

2. A new hooking record is created (manual record).

3. The amount of the deposit taken is recorded on the booking record (manual record);

4. The staff member records the booking on a planning chart (manual record),

5. An electronic booking confirmation is automatically sent to the customer,

6. A copy of the booking record is sent to the club manager (manual record)

How SHOULD these steps be reflected on the swimlane for the business process 'book playing field?