Which gateway allows one or more paths to be taken?

• A. Inclusive gateway
• B. Exclusive gateway
• C. Parallel gateway
• D. Event-Based gateway

Answer: (A)

In BPMN, gateways decide how the process splits into multiple paths. When you want the flow to continue along one or more paths based on conditions, you use the inclusive gateway. It looks at each outgoing path’s condition and activates every path whose condition is true. That means you can have multiple paths running at the same time if several conditions are met, and you can later merge them back together. This is different from an exclusive gateway, which picks only one path, a parallel gateway, which always activates all paths regardless of any conditions, and an event-based gateway, where the next path is determined by which event occurs first. For example, after a loan application, you might send notifications to several departments if their respective conditions are met; multiple notifications can be triggered simultaneously, which is exactly what an inclusive gateway allows.