Config Kickstart Lessons

Question 1

Which entities below answer the business question of what is covered on the policy?

A) PolicyLine
B) Coverable
C) CoverableCov
D) Cost
E) Form
F) Job
G) UW Issue

Answer 1

A) PolicyLine
B) Coverable
C) Coverage
D) Cost
E) Form

Question 2

Assume a given instance of PolicyCenter has 2 policy lines, each with 3 coverables. How many entities are there that store:

1) Coverables?
2) Coverages?
3) Costs?

Answer 2

1) 6 coverables
2) 6 coverages
3) 2 costs

Question 3

What is the purpose of the UserRoleAssignment entity?

Answer 3

UserRoleAssignment is used to pair a user/group combination with an ownable object and a specific role on that object (such as “underwriter”).

Example - Assigning a review activity to UW Alice Applegate.

Question 4

When you navigate between locations in a location group, what changes? What remains the same?

Answer 4

The contents of the screen area changes. The menu links, menu actions, and info bar remain the same.

Question 5

What two things can a location ref point to?

Answer 5

A child location group or a page.

Question 6

What happens if a location group’s canVisit attribute evaluates to false?

Answer 6

The location group is not rendered in the UI.

Question 7

When viewing a location group PCF file in Studio, which Studio tab specifies how to navigate to a particular location group?

Answer 7

The Entry Points tab. The entry point identifies the “navigation name” of a location group as well as any objects needed when navigating to it.

Question 8

Name the plugin that maps the AccountContactRole to the PolicyContactRole in the default application.

Answer 8

ContactConfigPlugin

Question 9

Name the 4 types of contact patterns available that occur in the base configuration of PolicyCenter.

Answer 9

Normal
Singleton
Simple Details
Join Details

Question 10

What is LocationNum?

Answer 10

LocationNum is the field that stores the sequential location number for accounts and policies.

Question 11

How are locations numbered between account and policies?

Answer 11

Locations are numbered separately between accounts and policies using LocationNum field.

Question 12

Which LoBs in the base configuration have extendable location-related entities?

Answer 12

Inland Marine
Commercial Property
Businessowners

Question 13

What do EffDated entities do?

Answer 13

EffDated entities are created to track the state of an entity over effective time. They have an effective date and an expiration date.

Question 14

What is the difference between effective time and model time?

Answer 14

Model time is the actual real-world time when policies are created or jobs are bound.

Effective time is the time dimension of the policy itself within the policy period.

Question 15

What is underwriting authority?

Answer 15

Underwriting authority is a combination of underwriting rules and an underwriting infrastructure which user can modify or augment.

Question 16

What does the UW rule define?

Answer 16

A UW rule defines:

1) The UW issue type, and
2) The conditions to raise the issue in the base product.

Question 17

What is the UW rule context?

Answer 17

The UW rule context is the data supplied to the UW rule so that the objects in the context can be used to create rule conditions. It is defined in the context definition classes.

Question 18

What values should be used as IssueKey to raise UW issues?

Answer 18

Values that uniquely identify the issue and do not change over the lifetime of the policy should be used to raise underwriting issues.

Example of a good IssueKey: the FixedID.

Question 19

Should the IssueKey value be changed after a UW rule is in production?

Answer 19

No. Guidewire recommends that you do not change the algorithm for forming the key for an issue once that rule is in production.

Question 20

Name three blocking points for a UW issue.

Answer 20

Quote
Bind
Pre-quote
Issuance

Question 21

What is a checking set?

Answer 21

A checking set is a point in a job at which UW issues can be raised such as pre-quote, bind, or pre-issuance.

Question 22

What does an authority grant allow users to do?

Answer 22

Authority grants allow users to approve a specific issue defined in a UW rule.

Question 23

What is an authority profile?

Answer 23

Authority profiles are collections of authority grants and can be assigned to users.

Question 24

Name three policy-related objects in PolicyCenter on which class-based validation is performed.

Answer 24

PolicyContactRole
PolicyLocation
PolicyPeriod

Any LOB entities or any other policy-specific entities.

Question 25

True or false for validation?

A) All entities in PolicyCenter can be validated.
B) All validation classes must have a validateImpl or doValidate method.
C) The doValidate method should be the last method in a class.

Answer 25

A) True
B) True
C) False

Question 26

Name the validation context method that produces a string of methods that were visited as validation was performed.

Answer 26

showVisited()

This method shows a list of methods as a string that were visited as validation was performed.

Question 27

Define validation chaining.

Answer 27

Validation chaining is the process of one validation class calling another validation class to perform additional validation checks.

Question 28

Name the PCF attribute used to invoke class-based validation in a popup.

Answer 28

beforeCommit

Question 29

Name the PCF attribute used to invoke class-based validation in a job wizard.

Answer 29

beforeSave