In the batch job phase Process, what describes its behavior?

• A. It triggers the dispatch of all records in a single synchronized batch.
• B. Asynchronously processes the records, contains one or more batch steps.
• C. It reports the summary of records processed.
• D. It catches all exceptions and routes them to the default handler.

Answer: (B)

In batch processing, the phase that does the actual data work runs asynchronously and is built from one or more batch steps. This means the records are processed without blocking the main flow, with the framework splitting the input into manageable chunks and handling them in parallel where possible. Each batch step defines a unit of work—such as transforming records, validating them, or writing results to a destination—and multiple steps can exist within the same batch job to organize the processing pipeline.

This phase is separate from initialization, which prepares and distributes the data, and from completion, which aggregates results and generates summaries. It’s also not primarily about error reporting and routing, which are handled by error handling mechanisms or the completion phase. So, the description that it processes the records asynchronously and contains one or more batch steps best captures the behavior of the batch job phase Process.