Which statement best describes process mining insights?

• A. You control insights by articulating questions and data sources; process mining reveals patterns
• B. Process mining automatically shows all possible outcomes without data
• C. Process mining reveals patterns based on the questions you ask and data you provide
• D. Process mining cannot identify patterns

Answer: (C)

Process mining insights come from the questions you ask and the data you provide. The tool analyzes the event logs you feed it and then surfaces patterns that answer the scope you set with those questions. In other words, what you look for and the data you include shape what patterns you’ll see—from bottlenecks and variants to compliance issues. Without clear questions or relevant data, insights aren’t meaningful, and you won’t discover the patterns you expect.

That’s why this option is the best: it explicitly ties the discovered patterns to the combination of questions asked and data supplied. The other ideas are less accurate because process mining needs data to uncover patterns and can’t reveal every possible outcome without that data, and it certainly isn’t unable to identify patterns.