Mission
Lead System Architect
Archived
26 Modules
36 Challenges
1 day 1 hr 31 mins
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.
Pega Platform setup
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Module
Pega Platform setup
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6 Topics
45 mins
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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)
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Challenge
Designing Pega for High Availability (HA)
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2 Tasks
10 mins
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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
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Module
The value of Pega applications
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3 Topics
20 mins
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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
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Challenge
Recognizing Pega application opportunities
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2 Tasks
10 mins
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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
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Module
Case structure design
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4 Topics
40 mins
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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
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Challenge
Designing the case hierarchy
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2 Tasks
10 mins
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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
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Challenge
Designing the subcase hierarchy
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2 Tasks
10 mins
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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
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Module
App Studio and collaboration
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4 Topics
30 mins
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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
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Challenge
Creating the booking and FSG applications
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6 Tasks
15 mins
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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
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Challenge
Implementing case type life cycles
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3 Tasks
20 mins
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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
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Challenge
Promoting reuse with relevant records
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2 Tasks
10 mins
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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
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Module
Designing for specialization
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9 Topics
58 mins
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Pega Platform™ provides various solutions for specializing applications to support ever-changing requirements. This module describes these...
Designing case specialization and extensibility
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Challenge
Designing case specialization and extensibility
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2 Tasks
10 mins
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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
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Challenge
Designing an email application
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2 Tasks
10 mins
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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
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Challenge
Leveraging the email component application
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6 Tasks
20 mins
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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
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Module
Reuse
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2 Topics
13 mins
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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
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Challenge
Creating the hotel and hotel proxy applications
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6 Tasks
20 mins
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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
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Challenge
Creating the REST integration interface
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6 Tasks
20 mins
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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
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Challenge
Adding hotel as a built-on application
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5 Tasks
20 mins
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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
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Module
Designing the data model
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6 Topics
1 hr
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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
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Challenge
Implementing an effective data model
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3 Tasks
15 mins
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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
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Challenge
Enhancing the pricing Data Model
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4 Tasks
30 mins
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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
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Challenge
Exposing integration by using a data type
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11 Tasks
20 mins
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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
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Module
Extending an industry foundation data model
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3 Topics
20 mins
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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
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Challenge
Extending an industry foundation Data Model
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1 Task
10 mins
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The Human Resource department at Front Stage is working with the organization's healthcare insurance provider, MyHealth. MyHealth offers a web service...
Work assignment
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Module
Work assignment
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5 Topics
57 mins
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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
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Challenge
Routing weather cases to facility coordinators
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9 Tasks
20 mins
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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
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Challenge
Designing Get Next Work
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4 Tasks
20 mins
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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
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Module
Defining the authentication scheme
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1 Topic
10 mins
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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
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Challenge
Configurating SAML authentication
3 Tasks
1 hr 30 mins
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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
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Challenge
Configuring OpenID Connect authentication
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4 Tasks
45 mins
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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
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Module
Defining the authorization scheme
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6 Topics
1 hr
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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
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Challenge
Defining the authorization scheme
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9 Tasks
30 mins
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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
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Module
Mitigating security risks
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6 Topics
51 mins
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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
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Challenge
Identifying and mitigating security risks
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1 Task
10 mins
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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
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Challenge
Analyzing security event logs
3 Tasks
20 mins
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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
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Module
Defining a reporting strategy
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2 Topics
20 mins
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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
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Challenge
Defining a reporting strategy
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2 Tasks
5 mins
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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
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Module
Designing reports for performance
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3 Topics
22 mins
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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
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Challenge
Optimizing properties for report performance
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8 Tasks
5 mins
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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
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Challenge
Using a database index for report performance
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5 Tasks
5 mins
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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
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Module
Advanced query design
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4 Topics
25 mins
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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
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Challenge
Contacting hotels
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3 Tasks
5 mins
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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
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Module
User experience design and performance
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3 Topics
20 mins
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Application performance and user experience are naturally related. If the application’s user interface (UI) is not responsive or performance is...
Conduct usability testing
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Module
Conduct usability testing
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2 Topics
15 mins
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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
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Module
Advanced background processing
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3 Topics
27 mins
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The design of background processing is crucial to meeting business service levels and automating process. Background processes must be carefully...
Designing background processing
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Challenge
Designing background processing
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7 Tasks
1 hr 30 mins
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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
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Module
Pega Platform for the enterprise
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5 Topics
42 mins
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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
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Challenge
Designing Pega for the enterprise
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2 Tasks
10 mins
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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
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Module
Release pipeline introduction
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5 Topics
42 mins
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Use DevOps practices such as continuous integration and continuous delivery to quickly move application changes from development through testing to...
Defining a release pipeline
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Challenge
Defining a release pipeline
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2 Tasks
10 mins
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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
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Module
Assessing and monitoring quality
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5 Topics
37 mins
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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
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Challenge
Monitoring the guardrail compliance score
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4 Tasks
10 mins
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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
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Module
Estimating hardware requirements
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2 Topics
14 mins
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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
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Module
Handling flow changes for cases in flight
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4 Topics
30 mins
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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
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Challenge
Handling flow changes for cases in flight
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10 Tasks
15 mins
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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
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Module
Extending an application
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1 Topic
10 mins
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Case specialization describes how an existing application can be transformed into a framework / model / template / blueprint application without...
Extending applications to new business areas
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Challenge
Extending applications to new business areas
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10 Tasks
5 mins
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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
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Module
AI and robotic automation
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1 Topic
10 mins
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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
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Challenge
Leveraging AI and robotic automation
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3 Tasks
5 mins
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Front Stage competes with Bright Lights Booking Co. Jay Gerard, the VP of enterprise architecture, heard from a former employee that Bright Lights...