My Notes

Question 1

The standard user ______ is a workspace that supports users and managers as they create, update, route, and resolve work items.

Answer 1

portal

Question 2

Portal rules reference _________ rules for content.

Answer 2

harness

Question 3

Harnesses frame the work areas in which users ________ cases.

Answer 3

process

Question 4

The standard user _____ is a workspace that supports users and managers as theycreate, update, route, and resolve work items.

Answer 4

portal

Question 5

Harnesses give users the ability to ______, _____, or _______ their work.

Answer 5

cancel, save, or submit

Question 6

A well-designed application UI provides end users with a better ___________ of what the application is intended to deliver.

Answer 6

understanding

Question 7

An __________ UI is a screen where the end users have no problem understanding what they need to do.

Answer 7

intent-driven

Question 8

An __________ is a business solution that automates work flows in your organization.

Answer 8

application

Question 9

A case is an __________ of a case type and is a primary unit of work in an application.

Answer 9

instance

Question 10

A _____ _____ represents work in your application that follows a life cycle, or path, to completion.

Answer 10

case type

Question 11

A ______ is a collection of rules or other objects.

Answer 11

class

Question 12

An _________ is a durable, potentially permament, saved representation of a concrete class that is stored in the database.

Answer 12

instance

Question 13

A ____ ____ is an abstract model of a business transaction, while a ____ is a specific instance of the transaction.

Answer 13

case type. case.

Question 14

A _________ is a work party, and typically, a case is initiated by or on behalf of a customer.

Answer 14

customer

Question 15

A ______ ______ is a collection of entities and attributes that describes the objects modeled in an application, and their relationship to each other.

Answer 15

data model

Question 16

A case type’s data model defines the data ________ for the case.

Answer 16

structure

Question 17

In Pega 7, data elements are called ________ or fields.

Answer 17

properties

Question 18

System architects typically work with two types of property modes: value modes and page modes. ______ modes describe a single piece of information such as a total. _____ modes describe a data object such as a customer

Answer 18

Value. Page.

Question 19

Use _____ mode for properties with no correlation to other properties. For example, the identifier and date in the purchase request are value mode properties.

Answer 19

value

Question 20

A ______ value property - stores text, numbers, dates, Boolean values, and amounts.

Answer 20

single

Question 21

A value _____ acts as a container for an ordered list of text values. The discount codes property is an example of a value list. Each code is a single piece of information, but a clear relationship exists between the codes.

Answer 21

list

Question 22

A value _____ acts as a container for an unordered list of text values. The customer’s phone numbers are defined as a value group identifying the contextual meaning of each number: home, work, or mobile.

Answer 22

group

Question 23

If you need to establish a __________ relationship between single value properties, you can use one of the three page-mode properties: pages, page lists, and page groups.

Answer 23

contextual

Question 24

A _____ is a single entity. The customer is an example of a page property.

Answer 24

page

Question 25

A page list is a _________ ordered list. The line items that make up the purchase request is an example of a page list.

Answer 25

numerically

Question 26

A page group is a ________ ordered list. The address property is an example of a page group.

Answer 26

semantically

Question 27

Use the ____ ______ to add or remove data types. Always check if a suitable data type is _______ before creating a new one.

Answer 27

Data Explorer. available.

Question 28

Use a _______ if you need to display a static list of options to the user.

Answer 28

picklist

Question 29

The _____ type (field control) allows you to provide the capability to upload an attachment, show a location on a map, or reference a user on the system.

Answer 29

fancy

Question 30

Use the _______ (field control) types to define page and page list properties. A field group is a page and a field group (list) is a page list.

Answer 30

complex

Question 31

The context of a page — by itself or as part of a page list or page group — acts as a _______ for the properties it contains. If you want the city in the work address, specify .Address(Work).City.

Answer 31

container

Question 32

You can call a data transform from a ____ _____ rule or from a connector.

Answer 32

flow action.

Question 33

You can use special data transform rules — pyDefault or pySetFieldDefaults — to _______ property values when creating a case.

Answer 33

initialize

Question 34

You can combine several data transforms using the _________ feature to set values at multiple levels of the class hierarchy.

Answer 34

superclass

Question 35

You can use the ________ feature in a data transform to set values at different levels in the class hierarchy.

Answer 35

superclass

Question 36

You must select the ____ superclass data transform option to cause the system to invoke data transforms of the same name in parent and child classes before the data transform gets invoked itself.

Answer 36

Call

Question 37

In _________ processing, when a user enters a property value in a form, related values on the same form or on other forms can change as a result. The application must make the changes automatically so that users see the most current information.

Answer 37

declarative

Question 38

The primary benefit of declarative processing is that updates occur only when triggered in the application. You use declarative rules to define the ______ _____.

Answer 38

trigger event

Question 39

____________ processing depends upon rules, such as data transforms, activities, or user interface (UI) rules, to instruct the application when to look for a trigger event. When a user enters values, nothing changes until the user submits the form. The updates are not automatic.

Answer 39

Procedural

Question 40

You most often use _______ expressions to calculate and make immediate updates to property values on user forms.

Answer 40

declare

Question 41

________ chaining in a declare expression updates the target property value when a source property value changes. When you display a shopping cart where users add items to it and the cart should reflect the total based on the changes immediately, choose this method.

Answer 41

Forward

Question 42

By default, declare expressions use ________ chaining.

Answer 42

forward

(Declarative networks are commonly designed with declare expressions that are configured for forward chaining.)

Question 43

________ chaining in a declare expression means that a target property value is not automatically updated when other declare expressions in a network update their target values. An expression using this chaining only updates its target property when the application references the property by name.

Answer 43

Backward

Question 44

________ chaining can slow system performance if an expression uses many source properties that change frequently.

Answer 44

Forward

Question 45

To reduce the number of calculations in order to optimize performance, how would you configure the declare expressions?

Answer 45

backward chaining

Question 46

To update the calculation in a declare expression, you only update ___ ____ making the application easier to maintain.

Answer 46

one rule

Question 47

When using a declare expression, the system _______ input properties and determines when to update the target property value.

Answer 47

monitors

Question 48

A data transform uses _______ logic to determine which data should be propagated.

Answer 48

conditional

Question 49

Each data element in a Pega application is a pairing of two pieces of information: the ____ of the data element, and the _____ assigned to the data element.

Answer 49

name. value.

Question 50

A ____ is a structure for organizing data elements in an application. Some pages are created by the system to track user or session data. Other pages are created by system architects to describe a data object, such as a hotel reservation or a customer.

Answer 50

page

Question 51

All the data generated as you create and process a case is stored on ________, which is a specific page on the clipboard.

Answer 51

pyWorkPage

Question 52

Data that describes a data type is stored on an ________ page within pyWorkPage.

Answer 52

embedded

Question 53

When you open a child case, the clipboard also contains the page _________. This contains the case data for the parent case. This allows you to copy data between the parent case and the child case.

Answer 53

pyWorkCover

Question 54

The ____ Pages category contains pages created due to user action, either directly or indirectly. These pages contain data related to work being performed in the selected thread.

Answer 54

User

Question 55

The ____ Pages category contains read-only data pages defined by data page rules. These pages are persistent pages in memory, used to cache data. This data is often sourced from outside the application, such as from a third-party or a system of record.

Answer 55

Data

Question 56

The _______ Pages category contains pages that describe the current user session, such as the active user and the active application. For example, while a user is logged in to Pega, Pega maintains a clipboard page containing information about the user, such as their current time zone.

Answer 56

System

Question 57

A ______ page is a presentation of one or more tabs or tools. Each tab provides information or tools that assist a business analyst, system architect, or system admin in designing, building, and maintaining applications.

Answer 57

landing

Question 58

_______ are guidelines that help developers achieve project success, optimal performance, reuse, and maintainability for applications.

Answer 58

Guardrails

Question 59

________ ______ is a web-based integrated development environment that you use to build applications.

Answer 59

Designer Studio

Question 60

An __________ menu in Designer Studio, is identified by the name of the current application. This menu allows users to switch between applications, work pools, or create a new application.

Answer 60

application

Question 61

The _________ Explorer is a tool that you can use to quickly access records in the current and built-on applications that are available to your operator. These records are organized by work pool, case type, category, and record type.

Answer 61

Application

Question 62

An ______ group restricts access to functionality within your application.

Answer 62

access

Question 63

The ____ type is the class a rule belongs to, or is an instance of, and must be a concrete class derived from teh Rule- base class.

Answer 63

rule