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Lead System Architect

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The Lead System Architect mission is an advanced mission for senior system architects who have passed LSA readiness are ready to take on the lead system architect (LSA) role. The mission covers a broad range of modules and topics required to design a Pega solution that provides an optimal user experience, performs well, delivers value to the business quickly, and is built for change.

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Pega Platform setup

  • Modul

    Pega Platform setup

    Archived

    6 Themen

    45 Min.

  • Your application can be deployed on-premise or in a cloud environment. To set up Pega Platform optimally for the application, you need to understand...

Designing Pega for High Availability (HA)

  • Challenge

    Designing Pega for High Availability (HA)

    Archived

    2 Aufgaben

    10 Min.

  • Front Stage expects to provide users with 99.95 percent uptime of the application. Sales executives need to be able to access event booking...

The value of Pega applications

  • Modul

    The value of Pega applications

    Archived

    3 Themen

    20 Min.

  • Pega's customer engagement and industry applications can shorten the delivery time frame of your business application. By determining the differences...

Recognizing Pega application opportunities

  • Challenge

    Recognizing Pega application opportunities

    Archived

    2 Aufgaben

    10 Min.

  • You are having lunch with Scott Smith, the Facilities VP, when you learn that Front Stage's campaign management has yielded unpredictable results over...

Case structure design

  • Modul

    Case structure design

    Archived

    4 Themen

    40 Min.

  • The case structure is one of the most important considerations when designing an application. Designing the case structure encompasses identifying the...

Designing the case hierarchy

  • Challenge

    Designing the case hierarchy

    Archived

    2 Aufgaben

    10 Min.

  • Front Stage has analyzed their requirements regarding hosting outdoor events, also known as weather prep, as well as the need to issue requests to...

Designing the subcase hierarchy

  • Challenge

    Designing the subcase hierarchy

    Archived

    2 Aufgaben

    10 Min.

  • The Front Stage application will be constructed with a single event case and child cases for each service process. There are additional decisions to...

App Studio and collaboration

  • Modul

    App Studio and collaboration

    Archived

    4 Themen

    30 Min.

  • App Studio gives you the ability to collaborate with the business to quickly create new applications and, over time, build a library of assets that...

Creating the booking and FSG applications

  • Challenge

    Creating the booking and FSG applications

    Archived

    6 Aufgaben

    15 Min.

  • The Event Booking  application requirements have been analyzed. It was determined that implementing a subcase hierarchy is a better approach than...

Implementing case type life cycles

  • Challenge

    Implementing case type life cycles

    Archived

    3 Aufgaben

    20 Min.

  • The Booking application has been created. Front Stage’s requirements have been discussed regarding the customer quotation process and FSG’s internal...

Promoting reuse with relevant records

  • Challenge

    Promoting reuse with relevant records

    Archived

    2 Aufgaben

    10 Min.

  • Front Stage wants to see a demonstration proving that App Studio possesses the ability to accelerate development and encourage the reuse of previously...

Designing for specialization

  • Modul

    Designing for specialization

    Archived

    9 Themen

    58 Min.

  • Pega Platform™ provides various solutions for specializing applications to support ever-changing requirements. This module describes these...

Designing case specialization and extensibility

  • Challenge

    Designing case specialization and extensibility

    Archived

    2 Aufgaben

    10 Min.

  • Front Stage’s event booking needs are currently handled by a single application. Front Stage intends to pursue additional venues in the future. Front...

Designing an email application

  • Challenge

    Designing an email application

    Archived

    2 Aufgaben

    10 Min.

  • Front Stage employees need to be able to generate, and if necessary edit, emails that can be automatically or manually sent at a future date. It...

Leveraging the email component application

  • Challenge

    Leveraging the email component application

    Archived

    6 Aufgaben

    20 Min.

  • Front Stage would like to be able to send personalized emails to recipients at scheduled times and dates. Front Stage wants to reuse this capability...

Reuse

  • Modul

    Reuse

    Archived

    2 Themen

    13 Min.

  • When building application in the Pega Platform you should consider packaging certain assets separately by version to promote their effective reuse and...

Creating the hotel and hotel proxy applications

  • Challenge

    Creating the hotel and hotel proxy applications

    Archived

    6 Aufgaben

    20 Min.

  • Front Stage currently hosts outdoor events. Acquisition of a company that specializes in hosting indoor event would round out FSG’s service offerings...

Creating the REST integration interface

  • Challenge

    Creating the REST integration interface

    Archived

    6 Aufgaben

    20 Min.

  • You have created the Hotel and Hotel Proxy applications in the "Hotel and Hotel Proxy application" exercise. In this exercise you can practice...

Adding hotel as a built-on application

  • Challenge

    Adding hotel as a built-on application

    Archived

    5 Aufgaben

    20 Min.

  • A reusable Hotel application has been constructed. The current case design has a Hotel subcase "placeholder." The life cycle for the Hotel subcase was...

Designing the data model

  • Modul

    Designing the data model

    Archived

    6 Themen

    1 Std.

  • Every application benefits from a well-designed data model. A well-designed data model facilitates reuse and simplifies maintenance of the application...

Implementing an effective data model

  • Challenge

    Implementing an effective data model

    Archived

    3 Aufgaben

    15 Min.

  • The development team is preparing for the first sprint. Before starting, the team has been asked to review the current data model to help establish a...

Enhancing the pricing Data Model

  • Challenge

    Enhancing the pricing Data Model

    Archived

    4 Aufgaben

    30 Min.

  • The FSG-Data-Pricing data model has met FSG’s needs thus far. Currently the Recalculate Data Transform supports UNIT and VOLUME as values for the Pric...

Exposing integration by using a data type

  • Challenge

    Exposing integration by using a data type

    Archived

    11 Aufgaben

    20 Min.

  • Front Stage needs to know if the probability of precipitation equals or exceeds 40 percent during the an event. At present, the weather forecast...

Extending an industry foundation data model

  • Modul

    Extending an industry foundation data model

    Archived

    3 Themen

    20 Min.

  • Pega offers a foundation data model for each major industry, including financial services, healthcare, and communications. Similar to leveraging a...

Extending an industry foundation Data Model

  • Challenge

    Extending an industry foundation Data Model

    Archived

    1 Aufgabe

    10 Min.

  • The Human Resource department at Front Stage is working with the organization's healthcare insurance provider, MyHealth. MyHealth offers a web service...

Work assignment

  • Modul

    Work assignment

    Archived

    5 Themen

    57 Min.

  • A case is often assigned to a user to complete a task. For example, an employee expense requires approval by the manager of a cost center or a refund...

Routing weather cases to facility coordinators

  • Challenge

    Routing weather cases to facility coordinators

    Archived

    9 Aufgaben

    20 Min.

  • If the probability of precipitation is greater than 40 percent for any of the event days a process to make arrangements is started. A facility...

Designing Get Next Work

  • Challenge

    Designing Get Next Work

    Archived

    4 Aufgaben

    20 Min.

  • Front Stage (FSG) wants its facility coordinators to collaborate with each other to help meet the goal of completing work in eight hours. This goal...

Defining the authentication scheme

  • Modul

    Defining the authentication scheme

    Archived

    1 Thema

    10 Min.

  • In most cases, you want to authenticate users when logging into an application to establish who they are and that they are who they say they are. You...

Configurating SAML authentication

  • Challenge

    Configurating SAML authentication

    3 Aufgaben

    1 Std. 30 Min.

  • Front Stage is considering using SSO with SAML to Authenticate Operators. There are many Identity Providers available in the marketplace, and some are...

Configuring OpenID Connect authentication

  • Challenge

    Configuring OpenID Connect authentication

    Archived

    4 Aufgaben

    45 Min.

  • Front Stage is considering using OpenID Connect to authenticate Operators.

    Design and implement an OpenID Connect as a proof of concept.

    Pega now...

Defining the authorization scheme

  • Modul

    Defining the authorization scheme

    Archived

    6 Themen

    1 Std.

  • In most cases, you want to restrict authenticated users from accessing every part of an application. You can implement authorization features that...

Defining the authorization scheme

  • Challenge

    Defining the authorization scheme

    Archived

    9 Aufgaben

    30 Min.

  • Front Stage's organizational structure for event planning is displayed as in the image given below.

    The following requirements are provided with...

Mitigating security risks

  • Modul

    Mitigating security risks

    Archived

    6 Themen

    51 Min.

  • Securing an application and ensuring that the correct security is set up is important. Correct security entails making sure users are who they say...

Identifying and mitigating security risks

  • Challenge

    Identifying and mitigating security risks

    Archived

    1 Aufgabe

    10 Min.

  • Front Stage's Booking application is going live in the near future. Prior to promoting the application to production, a security review is required...

Analyzing security event logs

  • Challenge

    Analyzing security event logs

    3 Aufgaben

    20 Min.

  • Front Stage is concerned whether someone’s user name and password may have been compromised, perhaps through a phishing attack. FSG has decided to...

Defining a reporting strategy

  • Modul

    Defining a reporting strategy

    Archived

    2 Themen

    20 Min.

  • Defining a reporting strategy goes beyond creating reports in Pega. Many organizations use a data warehousing solution and have distinct requirements...

Defining a reporting strategy

  • Challenge

    Defining a reporting strategy

    Archived

    2 Aufgaben

    5 Min.

  • Front Stage has been experiencing issues tracking the equipment used to prepare for outdoor events. Equipment that is not recovered such as umbrellas...

Designing reports for performance

  • Modul

    Designing reports for performance

    Archived

    3 Themen

    22 Min.

  • Poorly designed reports can have a major impact on performance. A report may run with no issues in a development environment. When run with production...

Optimizing properties for report performance 

  • Challenge

    Optimizing properties for report performance 

    Archived

    8 Aufgaben

    5 Min.

  • Front Stage wants to determine if they should outsource parking services to an external vendor. Jake Schofield, the Senior Vice President of...

Using a database index for report performance 

  • Challenge

    Using a database index for report performance 

    Archived

    5 Aufgaben

    5 Min.

  • Front Stage wants to investigate the impact of expanding its address search capability to include filtering on street addresses that start with a...

Advanced query design

  • Modul

    Advanced query design

    Archived

    4 Themen

    25 Min.

  • It is not enough just to know how to configure reports. There can be multiple solutions to the same problem, one superior to the others. There can be...

Contacting hotels

  • Challenge

    Contacting hotels

    Archived

    3 Aufgaben

    5 Min.

  • FSG wants to ensure that each hotel with which it has agreements to book rooms for events is treated as equally as possible. FSG would like to...

User experience design and performance

  • Modul

    User experience design and performance

    Archived

    3 Themen

    20 Min.

  • Application performance and user experience are naturally related. If the application’s user interface (UI) is not responsive or performance is...

Conduct usability testing

  • Modul

    Conduct usability testing

    Archived

    2 Themen

    15 Min.

  • Usability testing is a method for determining how easy an application is to use by testing the application with real users in a controlled setting...

Advanced background processing

  • Modul

    Advanced background processing

    Archived

    3 Themen

    27 Min.

  • The design of background processing is crucial to meeting business service levels and automating process. Background processes must be carefully...

Designing background processing

  • Challenge

    Designing background processing

    Archived

    7 Aufgaben

    1 Std. 30 Min.

  • Front Stage plans to become an international company with offices in multiple countries. The company wants to send a Happy Equinox Day email to each...

Pega Platform for the enterprise

  • Modul

    Pega Platform for the enterprise

    Archived

    5 Themen

    42 Min.

  • Pega is enterprise-grade software designed to transform the way organizations do business and the way they serve customers. The Pega application not...

Designing Pega for the enterprise 

  • Challenge

    Designing Pega for the enterprise 

    Archived

    2 Aufgaben

    10 Min.

  • You plan to meet with the Enterprise Architecture team at the organization to discuss the architectural landscape at Front Stage and how the event...

Release pipeline introduction

  • Modul

    Release pipeline introduction

    Archived

    5 Themen

    42 Min.

  • Use DevOps practices such as continuous integration and continuous delivery to quickly move application changes from development through testing to...

Defining a release pipeline 

  • Challenge

    Defining a release pipeline 

    Archived

    2 Aufgaben

    10 Min.

  • The first delivery of the event booking application is targeted for production within 90 days. Front Stage wants to deliver new application features...

Assessing and monitoring quality

  • Modul

    Assessing and monitoring quality

    Archived

    5 Themen

    37 Min.

  • Coupled with automated unit tests and test suites, monitoring the quality of the rules is crucial to ensuring application quality before application...

Monitoring the guardrail compliance score

  • Challenge

    Monitoring the guardrail compliance score

    Archived

    4 Aufgaben

    10 Min.

  • The development team has completed and checked in their work for the day. Now you perform a design review to check the quality of the work by viewing...

Estimating hardware requirements

  • Modul

    Estimating hardware requirements

    Archived

    2 Themen

    14 Min.

  • Due to the number of users expected to be on the system at one time, the number of case types you expect to process on any given day, and other...

Handling flow changes for cases in flight

  • Modul

    Handling flow changes for cases in flight

    Archived

    4 Themen

    30 Min.

  • Business applications change all the time. These changes often impact active cases in a production environment. Without proper planning, these active...

Handling flow changes for cases in flight

  • Challenge

    Handling flow changes for cases in flight

    Archived

    10 Aufgaben

    15 Min.

  • Front Stage's Booking application has been in production for a while and the number of event approval requests has increased.Front Stage hired three...

Extending an application

  • Modul

    Extending an application

    Archived

    1 Thema

    10 Min.

  • Case specialization describes how an existing application can be transformed into a framework / model / template / blueprint application without...

Extending applications to new business areas 

  • Challenge

    Extending applications to new business areas 

    Archived

    10 Aufgaben

    5 Min.

  • Front Stage acquires a company named Opera. Both companies have similar business models of helping customers book and host guests for events. However...

AI and robotic automation

  • Modul

    AI and robotic automation

    Archived

    1 Thema

    10 Min.

  • Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic automation technology changes the way people work. AI and robotics both automate work, each in a different...

Leveraging AI and robotic automation 

  • Challenge

    Leveraging AI and robotic automation 

    Archived

    3 Aufgaben

    5 Min.

  • Front Stage competes with Bright Lights Booking Co. Jay Gerard, the VP of enterprise architecture, heard from a former employee that Bright Lights...

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