Which statement is true of a rule project that has multiple BOM entries referenced and some of them have the same element name?

Question

Options

• AThere cannot be multiple BOM entries referenced to rule projects.
• BRule Designer will show the error of having same element name already exists.
• CIf there are several BOM entries, an element in the first BOM entry in the path overrides
• DIf there are several BOM entries with same element name, then the order of runtime

• A
  5% (1)
• B
  73% (16)
• C
  5% (1)
• D
  18% (4)

Explanation

When multiple BOM (Business Object Model) entries are referenced in a rule project and two or more share the same element name, IBM Rule Designer actively detects this naming conflict and raises a validation error, preventing ambiguity before the project can be used. This design-time enforcement ensures rules always resolve to a single, unambiguous element rather than silently picking one.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A is false - rule projects absolutely can reference multiple BOM entries; that's a core feature for organizing and reusing business object models across projects.
• C is false (and incomplete as written) - Rule Designer does not silently allow the first BOM entry to "win" by overriding others; it surfaces the conflict as an error instead.
• D is false - runtime ordering does not resolve the conflict because the error is caught at design time in Rule Designer, so it never reaches runtime.

Memory tip: Think of BOM naming like variable declarations in a strongly-typed language - duplicate names cause a compile-time error, not a silent override. "Same name = error at design time" is the key principle here.

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