Terminology-Week 2

Question 1

What are declare rules?

Answer 1

Declare rules are special rules that, once defined, never need to be invoked in order to run. Instead, they are managed by Pega’s declarative network.

Question 2

What is a Declarative Network?

Answer 2

A Declarative network is the interconnected set of Declare rules in a Pega application, updated by listening for and responding to events such as a property’s value changing

Question 3

What is a Calculated field?

Answer 3

a calculated field is a field in a view that is generated by evaluating some expression on load. It is not declarative.

Question 4

What is a Declare Expression?

Answer 4

A declare expression is a property that updates itself by listening for changes to source properties and then evaluating its expression

Question 5

What is a Validate Rule?

Answer 5

A validate rule is a rule which defines the criteria that a set of properties must meet in order to be considered valid

Question 6

What is Edit Validate Rule?

Answer 6

Edit validate rule is a Java-based rule which checks a string using the inputted code and considers the String valid if the code returns true

Question 7

What is a Constraint rule?

Answer 7

Constraint rule is a declarative way to do validation. It listens for certain events, then runs validation checks against given properties. Adds error messages to whatever assignment is currently being run.

Question 8

What is forward chaining?

Answer 8

forward chaining is when a listener listens for changes in property values or other events, and responds immediately. Can chain many listeners together.

Question 9

What is Backward chaining?

Answer 9

Backward chaining is when a listener only responds to changes in other property values or events when the final result is needed.

Question 10

What is a Section rule?

Answer 10

A section rule is a standalone UI module in Pega. It organizes a variety of elements and behaviors for those elements, including other Sections, layouts, controls, and so on.

Question 11

What is a layout?

Answer 11

A layout is a way to organize the display and arrangement of elements in a Section. A layout’s working areas is divided into cells.

Question 12

What is Control?

Answer 12

Control is an interactive feature of a Section, like a button or a text entry field.

Question 13

What is a Cell?

Answer 13

A cell is a single unit of working space inside a layout. It can contain a Section, a Layout, controls, or data displays.

Question 14

What is an Action set?

Answer 14

An action set is the behavior of a button or interactive item, broken up into events (what the user does) and actions (what the system does)

Question 15

What is a Portal rule?

Answer 15

A portal rule links access roles to a Harness. Called a channel in app studio.

Question 16

What is a Harness?

Answer 16

A harness is akin to a top-level Section. It contains all Sections, Layouts, etc for a portal.

Question 17

What is a Skin rule?

Answer 17

A skin rule unifies all style-related rules for an application.

Question 18

What are Mixins?

Answer 18

Mixins are Standard, reusable style rules for specific elements of an application. They can inherit from other mixins.

Question 19

What are formats?

Answer 19

Formats are based on mixins, and applied to things users actually see, like data displays, controls, Sections, etc.

Question 20

What is a Mobile channel?

Answer 20

A mobile channel is a channel dedicated to the creation of a mobile app.

Question 21

What is Pega Mobile App preview?

Answer 21

Pega Mobile App Preview is the official Pega app for seeing how mobile channels will look when deployed.

Question 22

What is a duplicate case?

Answer 22

A duplicate case is a case whose data matches data in another case - thereby meeting defined base conditions - and that meets enough weighted conditions to breach the defined threshold of a Search Duplicate Cases step.

Question 23

What are Basic Conditions?

Answer 23

Basic Conditions are expressions in a Search Duplicate Cases step that must be met to be a candidate duplicate case before it can be flagged

Question 24

What are Weighted Conditions?

Answer 24

Weighted conditions are optional conditions in a Search Duplicate Cases step that each have a numerical weight that is added to a running total when a particular condition is met

Question 25

What is a Threshold?

Answer 25

A threshold is the sum that met weighted conditions must add up greater than or equal to in order to be considered a duplicate case

Question 26

What is a Correspondence Rule?

Answer 26

A correspondence rule allows writing of templated text that properties can be inserted into, which can then be used in other places, such as a Send Email step.

Question 27

What is a Report?

Answer 27

A report is data from the Pega database or application that is formatted into a chart or table

Question 28

What is a Process Report?

Answer 28

A process report is a report that focuses on Pega metrics, like cases per month or time per case.

Question 29

What is a Business Report?

Answer 29

A business report is a report that focuses on user-defined metrics within an application, like unit sold or gross income.

Question 30

What are Decision Trees?

Answer 30

A decision tree is a series of If-Then logic that calculates a value from a set of test conditions organized as a tree structure

Question 31

What are Decision Tables?

Answer 31

A Decision Table is used to derive values that have one of a few possible outcomes, where each outcome can result from a test of a condition that includes multiple variables

Question 32

What is a Cascading Approval?

Answer 32

Cascading approval is when you configure a series of approvals