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Certification Exam

Pega Lead System Architecture Exam

60 Questions

2 hrs

Passing Score: 65%

 Applies to: Pega Platform '24.2

The Certified Pega Lead System Architect certification program is intended for Certified Pega Senior System Architects with at least 36 months of field experience. The Pega Architecture exam is the first exam in the Certified Pega Lead System Architect certification process.

The Pega Lead System Architecture version 24.2 exam focuses on the design and architecture of Pega applications.  This exam includes questions covering all Pega platform capabilities and best practices to be followed in implementing the Pega platform features. 

The Certified Pega Lead System Architect certification requires passing the Pega Lead System Architecture Exam followed by the application Design and Application Build exam.

Exam Code: PEGACPLSA24V1

Language: English

Retirement Date: N/A

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English

Prerequisites

Certified Pega Senior System Architect Lead System Architect

Exam topics (% of exam)

Pega Platform Design (15%)
Recognize the significance of Center-out business architecture and its importance in designing Pega enterprise applications.
Leverage Pega applications; Identify when to incorporate other Pega products.
Know about Multitenancy architecture and High availability features.
Awareness of features like Pega Process Fabric, and Process Mining.
Knowledge on Hazelcast, Containerization, and Cloud deployment architecture.
Aware of Agile Workbench and Agile Studio functionalities.
Apply production deployment best practices.
Define a release pipeline.
Modular deployment strategies.
Deployment responsibilities.
Pega Platform Design Extended (10%)
Adoption of App Studio in application development.
Understand Prediction Studio, and Admin Studio.
Reuse assets and relevant records, configuration sets.
UX design fundamentals, DX API, Constellation, Landing pages.
User experience and accessibility
Implementation of Pega GenAI Suite.
Pega GenAI Blueprint and Workflow design.
Application Design (15%)
Analysis of Microjourney in designing Pega applications.
Know about design approach in application structure
Pega Express best practices and design patterns.
Design an effective case structure, Design case hierarchy.
Object-oriented Pega development and SOLID principles.
Evaluate when to use circumstance, class, ruleset, and application specialization.
Understand how specialization layers can be designed.
Test Automation and Scenario tests.
Establishing quality standards and metrics.
Customization of Rule check-in approval.
Application Design Extended (15%)
Best practices in work assignment
Case participants and routing
Get Next work feature and customization
Understanding alternative ways to find the work
Handling flow changes for cases in-flight
Resolving flow issues by using problem flows
Handling processing using advanced background processing techniques
Designing asynchronous integration
Utilize Job schedules and Queue Processors
Know about Stream services and usage
Data flows and Data sets capability in Pega Infinity
Logs and Alerts
PDC and Log analysis tools
Resilience
Data Model Design (10%)
Data relationship fundamentals
Greenfield data modelling and extend existing data model
Usage of Pega data pages and Data virtualization layer
Design a case data model to support reuse and integrity
Maintain data integrity and best practices
Dynamic class reference and polymorphism in data modeling
Extend an industry foundation model
Know the benefits of using an industry foundation data model
Aggregated data
Basics of Common Data Model and Class structure
Reporting Design (10%)
Design appropriate reporting strategy based on business need
Design reports for performance
Reporting and data warehousing
Search and Reporting service
Identify and solve performance problems in reports
Produce queries based on generated or reformatted data
Database tunning and Reports databases
Inclusive and exclusive queries
Produce queries that include SQL Functions, Complex SQL
Use Associations, class joins, sub reports
Security Design (15%)
Determine the appropriate authentication model
Session management
Determine the appropriate authorization model
Role-based access vs. Attribute-based access
Basic Access Control
Identify and configure roles and access groups for an application
Establish dependent roles hierarchy
User management and advanced authentication service
Determine the rule security mode.
Security auditing, Security event logging, Security Alerts
Identify security risks and potential vulnerabilities
Detect and mitigate possible attacks
Content Security Policies and Rule Security Analyzer
Use security best practices
Interface Design (10%)
API design approach
API access control
API based CRUD operations
Externalization of services
Deploying and managing external services
Best practices in externalization of services

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