OCEB Certification Guide: Business Process Management - Fundamental Level [Versión Kindle]

This book is a good start to prepare yourself to the exam but I feel it is not sufficient. Approximately only 65% of its contents is useful text (the rest of a book consists of appendix, index and other not-reading-worth material).

On the other hand, book allows you to grasp through fields of OCEB examination very fast - that is a good thing. This gives you feedback on what you should study more & as other reviewers spotted you should read specification.

One of big cons is that sample exam questions don't have explanations, just answers (like a or c). Explanations would be very helpful.

To sum up, I think for that price it should provide more details.

In my opinion the book serves its purpose, i.e. passing the OCEB Fundamental exam. Nonetheless I strongly encourage reading the BPMN, BMM and BPMM specifications as priority number 1 as well as some of the other references provided in the coverage map. That way one will get the real benefit of studying for the exam and applying the theory into practice later on.

Congratulations to Tim Weilkiens, Christian Weiss and Andrea Grass for contributing this valuable guide to the BPM community. It was long anticipated and they've done it well!

While reading it I spotted some minor errors which I will mention below:

1) Figure 5.6 - "Goals, Objectives and Means (Metamodel)" the multiplicity at Desired Results says 0..1 instead of 0..* as per BMM 1.00
2) Organization Unit logical links and BMM are specified below Figure 5.15 "BMM Area Organization unit". The one that says "An organization unit Defines strategies" should be read as "An organization unit IS Defined by strategies".
3) Regarding the description of Figure 6.40 "Deadlock", i.e. "Because either condition A, B, or C is met, only one token arrives at the parallel gateway.". I see A, B and C as Tasks rather than conditions, while "b, c and d" look like the conditions meant.
4) Figure 6.52 "Intermediate Event on the Boundary of the Activity" is better to say "Intermediate Event on the Boundary of the Task" as the subprocess in Figure 6.51 is also an Activity.
5) Regarding the Business Process Maturity Model, just below the table with Levels: "Maturity level 2, for example, includes requirements and configuration management, and maturity level 7 comprises further process areas." . There is no Level 7 in BPMM, I guess it's a typo.
6) Regarding the ISO 9000 - "ISO 9004 is a guideline for improving a quality management system, and ISO 9011 is a guideline for auditing quality management systems." - instead of ISO 9011 should be ISO 19011.
7) In the Glossary Chapter - regarding the description of "END" its written to be part of BPMN, instead of BMM.

For all of you who are going to the exam - Good Luck! ;-)

it helps me to pass the exam, althought I have to say that I used the book as a second source of information, Having the standart papers as first source.