How can additional information about a business term be stored in the dictionary (for example, by adding a phone number, location, or transaction code)?

Question

Options

• ACreate custom modelling conventions.
• BCreate sub-categories.
• CAdd custom attributes to the respective category.
• DAdd custom attributes to the associated diagram elements.

• A
  5% (1)
• B
  11% (2)
• D
  84% (16)

Explanation

Option D is correct because in business architecture dictionary tools, business terms are represented as diagram elements (such as entities or objects in a model), and the way to extend what data those elements can hold is by adding custom attributes directly to them - this is how you attach supplementary details like phone numbers, locations, or transaction codes to a specific term.

Option A (custom modelling conventions) defines how things are drawn or named in diagrams, not how data fields are stored against individual terms. Option B (sub-categories) organizes terms into groupings but does not create new data fields on a term - it only classifies it further. Option C (custom attributes to the category) is the most tempting distractor: adding attributes at the category level affects all terms in that category uniformly, whereas attaching them to the diagram element targets the specific term itself.

Memory tip: Think "store data where the data lives." The business term lives as a diagram element, so extra attributes belong on that element - not on its label, its folder (category), or the rules about drawing it (conventions).

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