IIBA CCBA Exam - Topic 4 Question 20 Discussion

Actual exam question for IIBA's CCBA exam

Question #: 20
Topic #: 4

You are the business analyst for your organization and you're creating a data flow diagram to show how information is input, processed, stored, and output from a system. Which element of a data flow diagram represents a process that transforms data by combining it with other data?

AData flow

BExternal entities

CData process

DConcatenation

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Suggested Answer: C

The data process describes the transformation of data in some way, either combining the data, reordering the data, converting the data, filtering the data, or other such activities.

Answer, B is incorrect. An external entity is a source or destination of data. It is represented as a labeled rectangle.

Answer, A is incorrect. Data flow identifies where data is being moved between a data process and an external entity, a data store or another data process.

Answer, D is incorrect. Concatenation isn't a valid component of a data flow diagram so this choice is not valid.

by Glen at May 07, 2022, 08:50 PM

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Daniel

10 months ago

I’m not so sure about that, could it be A instead?

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Stanton

10 months ago

C is correct, no doubt about it!

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Kallie

10 months ago

Wait, is D even a thing in data flow diagrams?

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Percy

10 months ago

I thought it was A at first, but C makes more sense.

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Marsha

10 months ago

Definitely C, that's the process element!

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Tawny

10 months ago

Surprised that people confuse this with data flow!

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Devora

11 months ago

I thought external entities might be involved too.

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Mike

11 months ago

Wait, isn't concatenation just combining strings?

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Octavio

11 months ago

Totally agree, C is the right answer!

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Doretha

11 months ago

It's definitely C, the data process!

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Carylon

11 months ago

I feel like I’ve seen this in our study materials, and C definitely seems to fit the description of a process. I hope that’s correct!

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Carmelina

11 months ago

I remember practicing a question similar to this, and I think external entities were more about inputs and outputs, not processes.

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Torie

11 months ago

I think the answer might be C, Data process, since it’s about transforming data. That sounds right, but I’m not completely sure.

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Colette

11 months ago

I’m a bit confused. Isn’t concatenation just a specific way to combine data? I’m not sure if that’s what they mean here.

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Josphine

11 months ago

I'm pretty confident the answer is Master-Detail. That relationship type allows the child records (Line Items) to inherit the security and sharing settings of the parent records (Orders), which is exactly what's needed in this scenario.

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Lorriane

11 months ago

I'm leaning towards Option D. Configuring the servers with service accounts and using those in the firewall rule might be a more robust solution than relying on network tags.

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Cathrine

12 months ago

This seems tricky. I'm not entirely sure what the right approach is here. I think I'd start by checking the interface settings on Router 2, as suggested, and then maybe look into the routing protocol configuration if that doesn't solve the issue. Definitely going to need to think this through carefully.

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