Pega Robotics System Architect

Overview and Projects - 3%

- Identify the necessary architecture components for Pega Robotic Automations.
- Differentiate between the different architecture requirements for attended and unattended automations.
- Define the role of package storage in a Pega Robotic Automation.
- Communicate the role of Pega Robot Runtime in robotic automations and how it interacts with other applications.
- Describe the appropriate business use cases for Pega Robotic Process Automation.
- Explain what interrogation is in the context of a Pega Robotic Automation.
- Create a project through Quick Start.
- Describe the different project items in Pega Robot Studio.
- Navigate the Pega Robot Studio environment.
- Determine the correct Tool area of Pega Robot Studio based on development need.

Applications - 7%

- Recognize Pega Robot Studio application types.
- Recognize the most common applications used in Pega Robot Studio.
- Recognize the common Window application properties and values.
- Recognize the common Web application properties and values.

Interrogating and Recording - 15%

- Define the different types of step creation available in Intelligent Recording.
- Articulate the pros and cons of each type of step creation.
- Describe how to use the recording assistant after recording the steps for an automation.
- Describe interrogation within the context of a Pega Robotic Automation.
- Differentiate between the elements created during interrogation.
- Describe the purpose and use of the Interrogation Form.
- Differentiate between web and Windows interrogation.
- Restate the purpose of Global Web Pages during interrogation.
- Differentiate between different interrogation options on the Interrogation Form.
- Explain the purpose of performing application discovery.
- Describe when and how to use Microsoft Edge in IE compatibility mode.
- Restate the purpose of containers in a robotic project.
- Describe interrogating a single-page application.
- Articulate how to interrogate an HTML table.

Match Rules - 5%

- Restate how a robotic solution uses match rules during runtime.
- Relate best practices regarding match rules.
- Differentiate between the application of Windows and web-based match rules during interrogation.
- Differentiate between how web applications and IE compatible web applications match rules.
- Resolve common match rule situations and restate how controls can become unmatched.
- Explain the use of Xray Vision and its impact on application interrogation and automation development.
- Describe the purpose of UseKeys and how, once implemented, the UseKeys is applied within automation logic.

Automation Development - 20%

- Describe relationship between the Palette and automations.
- Describe the use of the Palette in automation development.
- Create an automation.
- Identify types of automation links and their relation to threading.
- Describe how automations are used with other automations and the project workflow.
- Create an automation as a sub-automation using the Label/Jump To components.
- Describe the importance of control availability in automation workflow.
- Describe how to access variable creation in a robotic automation.
- Restate the purpose of comparisons and expressions.
- Explain the expression input parameters.
- Describe the use of the utility components for strings, dates, times, and files.
- Differentiate the use and parameters of the Looping components.
- Describe the use and parameters of Wait components.

Advanced Automation and Best Practices - 15%

- Explain the use and development of Windows forms and application bars.
- Explain the scope and use of the Excel connector and other Microsoft Office connectors.
- Describe how to communicate with the user using messaging and notifications.
- Explain the importance and configuration of Assisted Sign-on.
- Differentiate between Start My Day and Assisted Sign-on.
- Recognize the uses for application methods and the Message Manifest feature.
- Describe the ways data flows between automation links and child blocks.
- Discover different approaches to working with data elements.
- Summarize the use of data elements on the automation surface.
- Identify how to add and switch between environments in your project.

Debugging and Diagnostics - 10%

- Recognize the reasons for using debugging for Pega Robot Studio.
- Implement the debugging process for the Run and Test modes.
- Use the keystrokes or toolbar options to step in, step over, and step out during a debugging process.
- Evaluate data values in an automation during debugging.
- Analyze the diagnostic settings to produce the necessary diagnostic log files.
- Implement a diagnostic log component to an automation to include specific text in a log file.
- Identify the new selections within the Tools menu to access the diagnostic log files.
- Use the project analysis feature to diagnose possible issues before deployment.

Pega Robotic Integration - 15%

- Differentiate the uses of attended and unattended uses and benefits.
- Differentiate between the architecture of how both attended and unattended automations function.
- Describe how and where to invoke automations.
- Recognize the which properties are available for data input/output for automations.
- Describe the statuses/messages returned by automations.
- Restate the necessary implementation options for messages for both attended and unattended automations.
- Configure the necessary settings for a robot activity to begin development of attended/unattended automations.

Deployment - 10%

- Identify the deployment package files.
- Define how to modify project properties for deployment.
- Recognize how to use the Project deployment dialog box to create and deploy packages.

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