Data Modelling

Question 1

What does the data model contain?

Answer 1

Data elements or a collection of related data elements.

Question 2

What does the data model define?

Answer 2

The case type of data structure.

Question 3

What are a collection of related elements called?

Answer 3

A data type or data object.

Question 4

What are data elements called within Pega?

Answer 4

Properties or fields.

Question 5

What is a value model within Pega?

Answer 5

They describe a single piece of info such as total.

Question 6

What are page modes?

Answer 6

Describe a data object such as a customer

Question 7

What is a single value?

Answer 7

stores, text, numbers, dates, boolean values and amounts

Question 8

What is a value list?

Answer 8

acts as a container for an ordered list of single values

Question 9

What is a value group?

Answer 9

Acts as a container for an unordered list of single values

Question 10

What is a page?

Answer 10

A single entity

Question 11

What is a page list?

Answer 11

A numerically ordered list

Question 12

What is a page group?

Answer 12

An unordered list

Question 13

What should you consider before creating a user view?

Answer 13

what users need to see, how values will be entered and whether users can modify or only read values

Question 14

Where is each data element stored?

Answer 14

A page

Question 15

Where are pages stored?

Answer 15

On the Clipboard

Question 16

What is the purpose of an embedded page within pyWorkPage?

Answer 16

Stores data that describes a data type.

Question 17

What type of data does pyWorkPage store>

Answer 17

e.g. creation date or case ID

Question 18

Why is it important to include class information when you reference data on pyWorkPage?

Answer 18

As without it Pega cant obtain property values from the correct page.

Question 19

What is the purpose of the data transform?

Answer 19

for transforming data within an application

Question 20

What is an action in a date transform?

Answer 20

An action is the individual operation specified in each row on the definition tab of a data trasform

Question 21

How do you reference a property?

Answer 21

You use a dot and the property name for e.g. ‘.OrderDate’

Question 22

Describe two types of property modes?

Answer 22

Value mode properties store single strings of data such as text, numbers, or dates.

Page mode properties act as a container for value mode properties.

Question 23

Where do most data transforms occur in a process flow?

Answer 23

Between assignments

Question 24

What data transform feature do you use when you want to set a different default value for the same property within a hierarchy of subclass?

Answer 24

The superclass feature

Question 25

When you create data transforms in a class hierarchy and want to use the superclass feature, how do you name each data transform?

Answer 25

You give each data transform the same name.

Question 26

What is declarative processing?

Answer 26

Allows you to configure your application so that the system automatically updates property values such as a total order input.

Question 27

What is the primary benefit of using declarative processing?

Answer 27

System processes the relevant actions and sets of properties automatically.

They run automatically when a value is set of changes.

Question 28

What is procedural processing?

Answer 28

Dependent upon rules, such as data transforms, activities, or UI rules, to instruct the application when to look for trigger event.

Question 29

What technique should you use if you want to update values when the user submits a form?

Answer 29

Procedural processing by putting a data transform on a flow action.

Question 30

What technique should you use if you want the total price to update immediate when a quantity is changed?

Answer 30

A declare expression