Pega Certified Senior System Architect 80V1 v1.0
Question 1
The primary purpose of a production ruleset is to allow rules to be _____________________.
- A. reused in multiple production environments
- B. tested in a production environment
- C. updated in a production environment
- D. migrated to a production environment
Answer : C
Reference:
https://collaborate.pega.com/question/production-and-application-rulesets
Question 2
In which situation do you configure branched rulesets?
- A. Multiple teams need to work on the same application version.
- B. You need to delegate rules to process owners from the business.
- C. A team needs to work on the next version of an application while preparing to migrate the current version.
- D. One team creates a new patch for an application while another team creates a new major version of the application.
Answer : C
Reference:
https://community.pega.com/knowledgebase/articles/application-development/84/branches-and-branch-rulesets
Question 3
You want to create a new minor version of an application ruleset to add a new feature to your application. The new feature will be made available to users in a phased rollout.
How do you update the application to add the new ruleset version?
- A. Lock and roll the existing ruleset, and update the existing application version.
- B. Lock and roll the existing ruleset, and create a new application version.
- C. Create a new application version and add the new ruleset version as a production ruleset.
- D. Create a branch ruleset and a new application, and add the branch ruleset to the application.
Answer : A
Reference:
https://community.pega.com/knowledgebase/articles/how-use-lock-and-roll-feature-managing-ruleset-versions
Question 4
The following example shows the ruleset list for the logged-in operator. What is stored in the Admin@MyCo ruleset?
- A. Preferences for the operator
- B. Rules recently opened by the operator
- C. Rules delegated to the operator
- D. Rules checked out by the operator
Answer : C
Question 5
You are preparing to create a new major version of an application ruleset in which there are multiple minor and patch versions.
How do you create the new ruleset version?
- A. Use the Ruleset Maintenance wizard to merge the existing rules in the relevant ruleset versions to the new version.
- B. Use the Ruleset Maintenance wizard to skim the relevant ruleset versions to copy the highest version of existing rules to the new ruleset version.
- C. Create a new application ruleset using the appropriate version number, then copy the highest version of existing rules into the new ruleset version.
- D. Use the Application Structure landing page to lock and roll the existing ruleset versions to the new version.
Answer : B
Reference:
https://community.pega.com/knowledgebase/articles/how-skim-compress-merge-copy-and-delete-rulesets-ruleset-maintenance-wizard
Question 6
Several development teams work on different enhancements. The release date for each enhancement is uncertain.
Which two options allow each team to keep its work separate? (Choose two.)
- A. Set up branch ruleset for each team.
- B. Create a new application for each team.
- C. Create a new ruleset version for each team.
- D. Create a production ruleset for each team.
Answer : AC
Reference -
https://community.pega.com/knowledgebase/articles/how-support-parallel-development-and-deployment-two-separate-projects-one-application
Question 7
An application has the following application rulesets:
Expenses:02-01 -
TGB:02-01 -
TGBCatalog:02-01 -
A rule with an Apply to: class of TGB-Expenses-Work-Reimbursement references a rule named PopulateLineltems. The six instances of PopulateLineltems in the rules cache are shown in the following table.
Which rule is chosen by Rule Resolution?
- A. TGB-Expenses.PopulateLineltems (TGBCatalog:02-01-05)
- B. TGB-Expenses-Work.PopulateLineltems (TGBCatalog:02-01-05)
- C. TGB-Expenses-Work.PopulateLineltems (Expenses:02-01-05)
- D. TGB-Expenses-Work.PopulateLineltems (TGBCatalog:02-01-03)
- E. TGB-Expenses-Work.PopulateLineltems (Expenses:02-01-03)
- F. TGB-Expenses.PopulateLineltems (Expenses:02-01-03)
Answer : D
Question 8
You are analyzing application performance and notice one or more data transforms exceeding preferred performance parameters.
Which of the following performance tools do you use to help troubleshoot the issue?
- A. PegaRULES Log Analyzer
- B. Database Trace
- C. Performance Profiler
- D. Performance Analyzer
Answer : C
Reference:
https://archive.org/stream/SeniorSystemArchitectGuide/Senior%20System%20Architect%20Guide_djvu.txt
Question 9
A global application with infrastructure nodes located throughout the world requires certain operations to start executing at midnight GMT.
Select two possible designs for this use case. (Choose two.)
- A. Use the Run in background step in the case life cycle and design a dedicated queue processor.
- B. Use the Queue-For-Processing method in an activity and design a standard queue processor.
- C. Use the Queue-For-Processing method in an activity and design a dedicated queue processor.
- D. Use the Run in background step in the case life cycle and design a standard queue processor.
Answer : BD
Question 10
Which two rule types can you mark as a relevant record? (Choose two.)
- A. Property
- B. Decision table
- C. Skin
- D. Section
Answer : AD
Reference -
https://community.pega.com/knowledgebase/articles/application-development/relevant-records
Question 11
You have identified an activity that does not perform well. You need to find out exactly what steps are causing the problem.
Which tool do you use?
- A. Pega Log Analyzer (PLA)
- B. Performance Profiler
- C. Database Trace
- D. Performance Analyzer (PAL)
Answer : D
Question 12
The customer, a medium size toy maker, wants to fulfill orders received during the peak season in December and process them in batches multiple times a day.
How do you implement this use case?
- A. Create a queue processor that can process orders received by the company.
- B. Create one scheduled job and select its run schedule as multiple times a day.
- C. Create batches of orders and send each batch for processing when it gets full.
- D. Create scheduled jobs, one for each run, that can process accumulated orders.
Answer : D
Question 13
An application contains five instances of the same rule. The only differences between the instances are the circumstance settings and ruleset version. All the rulesets are in the same ruleset list.
Which ruleset version is chosen by rule resolution when .Country = Japan?
- A. MyCoSelfService:01-01-02
- B. MyCoSelfService:01-01-03
- C. MyCoSelfService:01-01-04
- D. MyCoSelfService:01-02-01
Answer : C
Question 14
You are troubleshooting a performance issue with a user interaction that exceeds the maximum time of five seconds. The elapsed time shown in the performance report indicates a total of two seconds.
Which tool do you use to determine what is adding the additional three seconds to the performance measure?
- A. Performance Profiler
- B. Database Trace
- C. Log Analyzer
- D. System Management Application
Answer : D
Reference:
https://community.pega.com/sites/default/files/help_v72/tools/performance/performanceanalyzer.htm
Question 15
In which two situations do you use the PegaRULES Log Analyzer to analyze application performance? (Choose two.)
- A. During User Acceptance Testing
- B. Throughout the application development life cycle
- C. Before migrating an application to a testing system
- D. After the application is deployed to a production system
Answer : BD
Reference:
https://community.pega.com/knowledgebase/articles/performance/understanding-pegarules-log-analyzer