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Senior System Architect

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21 Modules

18 Challenges

1 day 13 hrs 40 mins

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The Senior System Architect mission continues the journey to increase your knowledge of application development on Pega Platform™. The modules in this mission focus on tasks that a senior system architect performs to develop a Pega application.

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Creating a Pega Platform application

  • Module

    Creating a Pega Platform application

    Archived

    3 Topics

    50 mins

  • Developing new applications from the ground up can be an overwhelming task for any organization and developer. Every application should adhere to an...

Application versioning

  • Module

    Application versioning

    Archived

    3 Topics

    30 mins

  • Pega Platform™ provides the ability to preserve a version of an application. You can edit application functionality in a new version of the...

Skimming a Ruleset

  • Challenge

    Skimming a Ruleset

    Archived

    3 Tasks

    10 mins

  • For an upcoming release, your manager requests that you reconfigure the filing status field in the Payroll setup case type from a text entry to a...

Application Rulesets

  • Module

    Application Rulesets

    Archived

    3 Topics

    35 mins

  • Learn how to configure an application ruleset to package for distribution and learn about the impact the configuration has during development and run...

Configuring application Rulesets

  • Challenge

    Configuring application Rulesets

    Archived

    1 Task

    20 mins

  • The Human Resources (HR) department requests the ability to update rules that describe department and company policies in the HRApps application. Add...

Team application development

  • Module

    Team application development

    Archived

    5 Topics

    40 mins

  • Use branches that enable parallel development work to take place within an isolated ruleset without impacting other development teams.

Merging a development Branch

  • Challenge

    Merging a development Branch

    Archived

    4 Tasks

    30 mins

  • The Payroll Setup case type provides automatic tax withholdings calculated based on the selected filing status. The current version of the case type...

Circumstancing Case processing

  • Module

    Circumstancing Case processing

    Archived

    7 Topics

    1 hr

  • Create variations of a rule that can be executed in specific circumstances, to better tailor application behavior to variations identified by the...

Circumstancing Rules on a single variable

  • Challenge

    Circumstancing Rules on a single variable

    Archived

    2 Tasks

    30 mins

  • TGB sends an email to a candidate to extend an offer of employment. TGB company policy gives the candidate 72 hours to respond to the offer. However...

Circumstancing Rules on multiple variables

  • Challenge

    Circumstancing Rules on multiple variables

    Archived

    3 Tasks

    30 mins

  • As a part of the onboarding process, TGB sends an email that provides the employment start date to each new employee and contractor. This email also...

Rule resolution

  • Module

    Rule resolution

    Archived

    6 Topics

    50 mins

  • Learn about how rule resolution finds the best or most appropriate rule instance to apply in a situation.

Configuring Rule resolution

  • Challenge

    Configuring Rule resolution

    Archived

    3 Tasks

    25 mins

  • Human Resources (HR) business partners create benefits enrollment and employee evaluation cases on behalf of TGB employees. To ensure that each case...

Case Management Intermediate

  • Mission

    Case Management Intermediate

    5 Modules

    5 Challenges

    6 hrs 5 mins

  • Continue learning about case management using Pega Platform™.

Data and Integration Intermediate

  • Mission

    Data and Integration Intermediate

    8 Modules

    8 Challenges

    6 hrs 40 mins

  • Continue learning about data and integration using Pega Platform™.

Designing reports with multiple sources

  • Module

    Designing reports with multiple sources

    Archived

    6 Topics

    1 hr 5 mins

  • Learn three techniques to create a report that references data from multiple classes: combining data in a report by creating subreports, configuring...

Creating reports that combine data from multiple classes

  • Challenge

    Creating reports that combine data from multiple classes

    Archived

    2 Tasks

    30 mins

  • The business partners in the Human Resources (HR) department request two reports.

    The first report must track the progress of candidate cases...

Role-based access control

  • Module

    Role-based access control

    Archived

    5 Topics

    55 mins

  • Learn how to authorize users to define roles and assign privileges to members of an access group.

Securing an application using role-based access control

  • Challenge

    Securing an application using role-based access control

    Archived

    2 Tasks

    20 mins

  • In the Employee Evaluation case, TGB provides an optional, case-wide action to update an employee’s goals. The Human Resources (HR) department...

Attribute-based access control

  • Module

    Attribute-based access control

    Archived

    5 Topics

    1 hr 5 mins

  • Configure attribute-based access control to enforce security requirements for a specific case or data instance, based on case or session data.

Securing an application using attribute-based access control

  • Challenge

    Securing an application using attribute-based access control

    Archived

    4 Tasks

    30 mins

  • Each candidate case includes a Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) to identify the candidate. This information is considered sensitive personal...

Securing and auditing data

  • Module

    Securing and auditing data

    Archived

    7 Topics

    55 mins

  • Data is an important asset that must be protected from unauthorized access and use. Client-based access control manages how data is used to comply...

Organizing and managing access to case attachments

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    Organizing and managing access to case attachments

    Archived

    3 Topics

    25 mins

  • Cases may require that users upload documents required to process and resolve the case. To organize attachments, developers can create attachment...

Using RBAC to organize and manage access to case attachments

  • Challenge

    Using RBAC to organize and manage access to case attachments

    Archived

    4 Tasks

    30 mins

  • Applicants for an open position at TGB must submit a resume as part of the application process. To ensure the security of resumes attached to a...

Activities

  • Module

    Activities

    Archived

    3 Topics

    40 mins

  • Learn how to configure activities when appropriate to automate system tasks in Pega Platform™ applications.

Background processing

  • Module

    Background processing

    Archived

    10 Topics

    1 hr 5 mins

  • Learn how the background processing capabilities in Pega Platform™ allow you to offload tasks to help improve throughput and efficiency. Students...

Queuing a task for background processing

  • Challenge

    Queuing a task for background processing

    Archived

    1 Task

    30 mins

  • To reduce errors and complaints with payroll processing, the Human Resources department allows employees of TGB to enroll in direct deposit. When...

Automating actions when a property value changes

  • Module

    Automating actions when a property value changes

    Archived

    2 Topics

    20 mins

  • Automate actions whenever the value of a property changes to implement more sophisticated case automations.

Automating actions when a property value changes

  • Challenge

    Automating actions when a property value changes

    Archived

    2 Tasks

    15 mins

  • The Payroll Department at TGB reports that some employees enter an incorrect bank name when enrolling in direct deposit. The payroll department...

Reviewing log files

  • Module

    Reviewing log files

    Archived

    6 Topics

    45 mins

  • Pega Platform™ provides logs that record system events such as application errors and performance and security issues. Use log files to identify and...

Reviewing log files

  • Challenge

    Reviewing log files

    Archived

    2 Tasks

    15 mins

  • During the employee evaluation process, employees undergo an evaluation period to regularly assess their performance as new hires. To check the status...

Measuring system performance

  • Module

    Measuring system performance

    Archived

    5 Topics

    1 hr 25 mins

  • Pega Platform™ provides tools to evaluate application performance through performance statistics and events. Performance statistics help you...

Debugging system performance

  • Module

    Debugging system performance

    Archived

    4 Topics

    1 hr 15 mins

  • Diagnosing performance issues requires understanding the root cause of an issue. For example, a user might report that an application takes a minute...

Assessing application performance

  • Challenge

    Assessing application performance

    Archived

    2 Tasks

    10 mins

  • The Human Resources (HR) department has noticed that the open positions screen of the candidate case type has been loading the list of positions...

Promoting rule reuse with relevant records

  • Module

    Promoting rule reuse with relevant records

    Archived

    3 Topics

    25 mins

  • Developers designate rules as relevant records to promote rule reuse by other developers. Leveraging relevant records helps developers build high...

Designating a relevant record

  • Challenge

    Designating a relevant record

    Archived

    6 Tasks

    30 mins

  • The Human Resources (HR) department wants to allow HR business partners to update the start date for an employee while the onboarding case is open. If...

Application migration

  • Module

    Application migration

    Archived

    5 Topics

    40 mins

  • An application is typically packaged and exported to move it to another system. For example, you package and export an application to migrate among...

Exporting an application

  • Challenge

    Exporting an application

    Archived

    2 Tasks

    30 mins

  • Development of the HRApps application is complete. You are asked to migrate the application to a testing system. Quality assurance (QA testers)...

Pega Web Mashup

  • Module

    Pega Web Mashup

    Archived

    3 Topics

    40 mins

  • Pega Web Mashup enables you to embed a Pega Platform™ application in another web application. You can create a mashup to display information about a...

Creating a Pega Web Mashup

  • Challenge

    Creating a Pega Web Mashup

    Archived

    4 Tasks

    15 mins

  • GoGoRoad is a roadside assistance application owned by Uplus Auto. GoGoRoad stakeholders want to give customers the ability to create a new assistance...

Mobile apps for Pega applications

  • Module

    Mobile apps for Pega applications

    Archived

    3 Topics

    25 mins

  • Learn how to configure delivery options for a mobile app for a Pega Platform™ application.

Deploying a mobile app for Pega Platform

  • Challenge

    Deploying a mobile app for Pega Platform

    Archived

    2 Tasks

    30 mins

  • The HR department wants to allow new employees to enroll in a health insurance plan on their first day of employment. To ensure that new employees can...

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