Pega real time Scenario

Q) What Happen when Flow reach AssignMent on DB side?

If there are 2 rulesets, ruleset r1 is prerequisite of r2. How can we call an activity present in
r2 from activity present in r1.
We cannot call an activity present in a child ruleset from an activity present in its
prerequisite ruleset. Here Child activity can call a parent ruleset activity. This is the
reusability.
We can query database tables using Rdb-list, Rdb-browse, Rdb-open, Obj-Open, ObjBrowse, Obj-list.
Well are these built-in Pega activities successful in executing stored procedures?
Yes ofcourse we can execute stored procedures from Pega.
Use Obj-List like this.
In the browse tab you have to code as below if the stored procedure name is func1 with
one parameter Param1
then the line goes like this, you can add up to as many parameters you want. For example a
param to get the result of stored procedure execution.
CALL func1('{ASIS:Request.param1}')
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1. How do you connect to a soap service which is secure (https).
2. What is a stateful and stateless Soap service in Prpc.
3. If there are 2 rulesets, ruleset r1 is prerequisite of r2. How can we call an activity present
in r2 from
activity present in r1.
4. What is the best use of Declare pages.
5. Is the out parameter mandatory? Should we specify the out parameter to receive any
output value of an activity
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1. How to make any rule as a favorite to your manager
2. Where can i see the paramater values in the clipboard ( values ..) i am passing one
activity to other .
3. How to import rules using pzinskey
4. Difference between activity and utility
5. Difference between obj-open and obj-open-by-handled
6. Inheritance concept in the pega (rules, class)
7. Performance of our work in the pega is measured using?
8. How to connect to different pega applications?
9. How to store the instance of the class in a specific database

10. Difference between obj-list, rdb-list?

11. How to see values of the local variables of the activity.
12. how can i store the instance of the class in the data base
13. default data table where the instance of the class are store (how it will search ) pc_work
14. In Routing activity what is the default property used to route the object
15. In routing activity if i use workbasket name instead of work list name .. when can i know
it is wrong (run time, complile time)
16. Notify
17. ticket: explain any senarion u used
18. table used for add note
19. Default activity used to create work object
20. Different type of flows. Explain in scenario based where u used and worked
21. Covers and folders (question will be like scenario base. like I have one object A in it 10
test case objects .. if 10 test case are passed ..A should close how can I achieve this
functionality.
22. work object ID.. how to create.. activites ued to create, or methods Work ID:
23. how to send multiple correspondences at a time
24. How to call an Activity from Java Script?
25. how to end the workobject in the activity ( method used to kill the work object)
26. how to call an activity from the java, java script
27. How to pass parameters to the activity using the java, JavaScript?
28. How can I pass page as the parameter to the activity using java, JavaScript?
29. How to call an Activity from Java step?
30. How to get a property value from clipboard using Java step?
31. How to restrict the harness, section to particular user
32. List different functions used to call an activity from java script.
33. How a users ruleset list is formed ( the logic )?
34. How to connect external java application without using connect-java
35. Spinoff // split join explain
36. Privileges usage
37. Decision / fork usage Scenarios Decision:
38. How to expose the column in the blob of the database
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How do you expose a property?
2)

What is the need of exposing a property?

3)

About obj-open,obj-save?

4)

Difference obj-list, Obj-browse?

5)

rdb-open, rdb-save?

6)

What is a screen flow?

7)

Difference between screen flow and process flow?

8)

What is Split-ForEach?

9)

Difference between page and page list?

10) what is the work object?Where it is Stored?Can We Change The Table?

11) What is a class group?

_______________________________________________________________________1) What is the Flow Action? Explain about the FlowAction?

2) What is the Activity?
3) Explain Obj-open, Obj-Save?
4) What is the Model?
5) What is the Harness? Section?
6) What is Split-Join?
7) Types of inheritance?
8) What is the use of property-set Method?
9) Diff b/w Decision Table and Decision tree?
10)Declare expression and Declare constraints?
____________________________________________________________What are the fields in the properties panel of an assignment shape?
Where can we call the activities in a flow action?
What is Class structure of your Project? Explain about the project Flow?
What is the Rule availability?
What is the Final availability and how can change availability of Rule?
Can you Override Final rule?
What is the rule resolution Algorithm and can you tell me how it works or search?
How it works in the while in Inheritance rule?
Can you tell me the direct inheritance and Pattern inheritance?
What is the Work object?
Where is the work object stored?
Can you change the Work object table?
What are the standard properties?
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Differentiate Obj-Open and Rdb-Open methods
Differentiate Obj-Browse and Obj-List-View
Differentiate Obj-List-View and Obj-Summary-View
Which activity do we use in Obj-List-View to customize the search results
What is the use of pyDefault model?
Differentiate Decision table, Decision tree, Map value and Map value pair
Difference between forke and decision shape_
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HTML streams are subject to rule resolution. Is this statement true or false?

2. PegaRULES Process Commander standard harness activities and starting HTML

streams are meant to work as-is, with links to built-in processing capabilities. For this
reason, it is best not to overlay either the harness activity or the starting HTML stream. Is
this statement true or false?
3. A ___________ is a container for your application business logic, which is defined in
rules.
4. An Assignment is a task in a flow that requires user input and may assign the work object
to an individual work list or workbasket. Is this statement true or false?
5. Rule resolution dynamically selects the right rule by searching your profile Rule set list
across multiple dimensions, including purpose, class, rule set and version, date and time
range, circumstance and security. ( True /False)
6. For System architect after estimating the ROI and success factors what is the Step to do
next(check this)
7. In describing a Router, which of the following statement is false?
8. Can we give audit not in utility
9. Ticket shape represents ______ .
10. Related declarative rules can span Rule sets, but they must reside in the same class in
order to be invoked appropriately by PegaRULES Process Commander. Is this statement
true or false?
11. Which directive would you use to retrieve a property value from an instance not present
on the clipboard?
12. __________ control the user experience the forms and their appearance, content and
behavior.
13. The property for the purpose of handle i.e., pzInsKey (which serves the purpose of
primary key) is defined in following class
14. Users of the PegaRULES Process Commander system are defined by
15. Parameter Page can be referenced by which of the following keyword.
16. Utility activities cannot use which of the following methods.
17. Which rules automate the process of monitoring work completion and notifying the
appropriate person when additional scrutiny or action is warranted.
18. In the ReportWizard, what does Data Source field contains for a Rule-ObjSummaryView.
19. Class Explorer is a tool that is available to system architects and system administrators
only. Is this statement true or false
20. Which of the flow shapes are appropriate for defining the path of execution according to
complex ifthen logic?
21. When we use Page-Rename method what happens, if the new name that we specify
already exists in the clipboard
22. We know that if there are multiple instances with same visible key, rule resolution
algorithm determines which one to return. If I want to explicitly specify the version I want
(i.e. keeping the rule resolution algorithm aside), which of the following method need to be
used?
23. For most of the concrete classes, PRPC comes with a standard model called
24. Declarative rules such as Rule-Declare-Expressions and Rule-Declare-Constraints can
be specialized using circumstances.
25. Use a ___________ rule to convert one or two input values (text, numbers or dates) into
a single resulting value, where the decision criteria fits a table or matrix structure
26. What is the difference between activity methods Call and Branch?
27. There is property which stores the value of create date and time or create operator

(perhaps for a work object). What is the prefix for these kind of properties
28. Rules like Notify,Utility,Route belongs
29. We use Rule-HTML-Property
30. Which of the following type of standard properties cannot be tailored when you are
customizing application in your own rule set. In other words, which of the following type of
properties can not be saved as to our class/ruleset
31. For creating tabbed look,which rule is considered
32. Which tool is used by the user to check for the Parameter values in the flow?
33. Which of the following tools would you use to view the HTML associated with the
fragment?
34. According to SmartBuild, what is the appropriate order to design/develop the following
elements?
35. How many declarative standard rules are there in PRPC?
36. In a Declare-Expression rule, If I want to use an expression, which contains
expressions, function calls, constants etC. Which of the following to be used.
37. While using a Page-Copy method, what happens if system does not find the destination
page (copy into page) in the clipboard
38. What happens when we call Page-Remove followed by Commit method?
39. Given the Rule-Obj-WorkParties definition above, which of the following roles would
show up by default when a user creates a new work object?
40. Which of the following rules should not be maintained by business users/process
architects?
41. Correspondence fragments are __________?
42. A Process Flow has been designed that routes an assignment to a workgroup manager.
An additional requirement is that the manager be able to attach a budget spreadsheet to the
assignment before approving the assignment. This is best accomplished using a:
43. Where .PropertyName is the name of a property, which of the following is the correct
syntax for a property reference directive that would allow the user to assign the property
value?
44. __________ control the user experience the forms and their appearance, content and
behavior.
45. The portal layout for group of users can be generally controlled from which of the
following
46. Which of the following directives comments out authoring notes in a PegaRULES
Process Commander HTML object?
47. Which of the following statement best describes Directed Web Access?
48. Which of the following violates a SmartBuild best practice regarding flow design?
49. List some of the standard connectors that come with PRPC , which enable it to connect
to external systems?
50. User created using application accelerator will have default password as
51. Which of the following best describes Declarative constraints?
52. When we store an instance of process commander in database as a record, the
following suffices the purpose of primary key.
53. The purpose of table edit when we define a property is
54. The class of a work object cover must be in the same __________ as any associated
work object classes. (Pick the correct answer)
55. When an individual rule has an Availability setting of No/Draft (rather than Yes), the rule
is no longer usable in many situations. Which statement does NOT apply to rules with this
Availability setting?

56. Which of the flow shapes can be used for a path execution in a situations like ifthen
logic?
57. Which of the following rule best describes the following needsThrough cascading
(where one rule calls another), this rule can provide an output based on three, four or more
inputs.
58. A _________ is a container for your application business logic, which is defined in rules.
59. Which rules automate the process of monitoring work completion and notifying the
appropriate person when additional scrutiny or action is warranted
60. PegaRULES Process Commander supports the assignment of work to four types of
destination. What are they?
61. Where .PropertyName is the name of a property, which of the following is the correct
syntax for a property reference directive that would allow the user to assign the property
value?
62. For most of the concrete classes, PRPC comes with a standard model called
68. Which of the following are usually designed to correspond to one database table in
Process Commander.
69. All the standard properties in process commander begin with______ .
70. What is the consequence of checking in the Special check box while creating a
property?
71. All the routing activities return its result in an output parameter called _______ .
72. Which of the following property / properties are not aggregate properties?
73. Which of the following are used to specify default values for properties associated with a
class ____ . .
74. Each record in (row) in relational database corresponds to one of the following in
Process Commander. In other words, one row in table is created whenever following of
process commander is created.
75. When we store an instance of process commander in database as a record, the
following suffices the purpose of primary key.
76. There is property which stores the value of create date and time or create operator
(perhaps for a work object). What is the prefix for these kind of properties
77. Which of the following is not the place where u can add rule sets as an access control
mechanism
78. Which of the following type of standard properties cannot be tailored when you are
customizing application in your own rule set. In other words, which of the following type of
properties can not be saved as to our class/ruleset
79. -Check box in Obj-Save method and -Check box in Obj-Delete method
facilitate immediate write into database, without actually waiting for Commit method
80. Goal and Deadline escalation is managed by
81. Local Flow Actions are added to which task form?
82. Flows and Assignments work together to ________?
83. What is a clipboard page in Pega RULES Process Commander?
84. What is the name of standard PegaRULES Process Commander models?
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The System Management application (SMA) is a Web application that developers can use
to monitor and control caches, agents, listeners, and other processing in your Process
Commander system. The URL name is prsysmgmt.
Using the System Management application, you can:
Review the memory used by the Java Virtual Machine on the server.
Review the most recent ServletRequest and HTTPRequest details.
Display the prconfig.xml file.
Access any requestor and view the clipboard, start the Tracer, examine performance
statistics, and terminate requestor processing.
View executing threads and their characteristics.
View, stop, cycle, or restart agents and listeners.
View open JDBC database connections.
View rule cache statistics, and empty the cache.
Force extraction and recompilation of the functions in a library.
Extract and compile one activity rule or model rule.
Start or stop remote logging.
Observe the utilization of requestor pools supporting stateless services.
Review the status of the Java class loader.
Tools > System Management Application
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_-Declare Expression: is an instance of Rule-Declare-Expressions/ is a declarative processing
which defines auto computation of property values based on expression. This implements
Backward Chaining.
What is Backward Chanining:

Backward chaining: is a technique which allows a computation in advance even the input
value or parameter is not present. BC uses Rule-Declare-Expression and Property-SeekValue method together finds the missing property value by using inter dependency network
such computations are called as Goal Seeking.
Two standard flowactions called VerifyProperty and VerifyPropertyWithListing are examples
of Backward Chaining.

Declare OnChange: Rule-Declare-OnChange/ is a declarative processing which

automatically run an activity when a value of the specified property changes. These
implements Forward Chaining.
What is Forward Chaining.

Forward Chaining: is an internal technique which automatically finds the changes in one
property value to changes in other property values or indexes.
Declare Trigger: Rule-Declare-Trigger/ is a declarative processing which automatically run
an activity when an instance of specific class are created, updated or deleted in the DB.
These implements Forward Chaining
Declare Constraint- Rule-Declare-Constraint/ is a declarative processing which
automatically run validation when a specified property is touched. This implements Forward
Chaining

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harness rule defines a runtime form that supports application users as they enter, review,
update, and resolve work objects. Harnesses rules support the display of work object forms.
Developers define work object forms through harness rules (Rule-HTML-Harness rule type)
and section rules (Rule-HTML-Section rule type).
standard harness forms are New, Perform, Review, Confirm, Reopen, PrintReview
New Support initial entry (creation) of the object.
Perform Support users completion of assignments.
Review Display the work objects in display-only mode, with no fields changeable.
Confirm Accept a text note explaining a users reasoning about a recently completed
assignment.
Reopen Support reopening a previously resolved work object.
PrintReview Support printing of all the fields.
A section is a portion or area of a standard work object form that is incorporated on a
harness form. Sections may contain other sections, informally called subsections.
The appearance, behavior, and contents of a section are defined by a section rule (RuleHTML-Section rule type). Section rules are referenced in:

Harness rules
Other section rules
Flow action rules
Paragraph rules with SmartInfo pop-ups
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Clipboard: is a tool used for debugging and troubleshooting aid for application developers.
Is an temporary memory area on server. Its an hierarchy structure consisting of nodes
known as pages most of which have a name and an associated class.
Pages act as a buffers or temporary copies of object instance that are copied from, or may
later be stored into, the PRPC DB or another DB.
Clipboard tool is used for developing and debugging to:
Examine property values and messages
Quickly create, update, delete and modify pages using Action menu
Quickly execute activities and start flows using action menu
We can find pages and we can Refresh or only refresh current page.
The clipboard contains three broad categories of top-level pages:
1. User Pages
2. Declared pages
3. System managed pages: requestor page, process page, and application pages, Thread
page, Operator ID, organization, orgDivision.
User Page: is a top level clipboard page that an activity creates pages using the methods
like Page-New. All the user pages will appear here once we log off, all the user pages will
be removed from the memory i.e. will not be saved to Pega DB.
If your requestor session times out, user pages may be lost, or may be saved for up to 3
days
Thread pagepxThread page is a top level clipboard page known as Thread page. The
page has a class of Code-Pega-Thread
Process PagepxProcess page is a top level clipboard page known as Process page. The
page has a class of Code-Pega-Process. This page Contains information from the Data-

Admin-System instance.
Declare Page-is a clipboard page created by execution of a declare page rules (RuleDeclare-Pages rule type. The name of the declarative pages start with Declare_. The
content of these pages are visible but Read-Only to the requestors. Such pages are created
and updated only through activities identified in a Declare Pages rule.
Declarative pages can improve performance and reduce memory requirement issues when
all or many requestors in an application need to access static information or slowly
changing information.
Requestor Page- pxRequestor page is a top level clipboard page known as Requestor
page. The page has a class of Code-Pega-Requestor. The system creates a page during at
login time and contains information about our Access roles, Security, Ruleset list and HTTP
protocol parameters, Work pools available details, workbasket that we can access,
connection session, Login Date and Time details and previous login Date and time details
etc.
This page context is useful for troubleshooting and debugging.
Page Context is a property is a pageList or Page Group property reference
property has mode Single Value and appears directly on a page of the Applies To class, or if
creating a context-free expression.
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Decision Rule
A decision table is a rule defining a series of tests performed on property values to allow an
automated decision. Decision table are instances of the Rule-Declare-DecisionTable rule
type.
Decision tables can capture and present business logic in the form of one or more if
then else conditions.
A decision tree rule defines a series of tests that are performed on property values to allow
an automated decision. Decision trees are instances of the Rule-Declare-DecisionTree rule
type.
Decision trees can capture and present business logic in the form of one or more if
then else conditions.
A map value rule is a rule that converts one or two input values, such as latitude and
longitude numbers, into a calculated result value, such as a city name. The rule uses
ranges for the input value or values and a matrix to look up the result.

Map value rules are instances of the Rule-Obj-MapValue rule type. This rule type is part of
the Decision category.
When condition rule: When rule defines a true-false test based on comparing on or more
property values with constant values or with other property values. A when condition rule is
an instance of the Rule-Obj-When rule type
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How to limit connections to Pega DB?
Open prconfig.xml file with XML editor (SMA)
locate pegarules DB username and password
add the following changes:

To limit size of the pool to 20 connections and if connection pool is empty for 30sec when a
requestor is waiting then java exception throws.
save the updated file and undeploy and redeploy to make changes effective.
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A blocked rule and a withdrawn rule are both invisible to rule resolution. Similarly, both
blocked rules and withdrawn rules prevent lower-version rules with the same RuleSet and
visible key from being selected by rule resolution. However, a blocked rule may block other
rules in any RuleSet, and a blocked rule stops rule resolution from finding rules in higher
Applies To classes. A withdrawn rule affects other rules only in one RuleSet and one Applies
To class.
When you skim a RuleSet version that contains a blocked rule, the resulting RuleSet
version does not contain the blocked rule or any rules that the blocked rule blocks. When
you skim a RuleSet version that contains a withdrawn rule, the resulting RuleSet version
contains the withdrawn rule.
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Diff b/w Blocked and Withdrawn Rules?
A blocked rule and a withdrawn rule are both invisible to rule resolution. Similarly, both
blocked rules and withdrawn rules prevent lower-version rules with the same RuleSet and
visible key from being selected by rule resolution. However, a blocked rule may block other
rules in any RuleSet, and a blocked rule stops rule resolution from finding rules in higher
Applies To classes. A withdrawn rule affects other rules only in one RuleSet and one Applies
To class.

When you skim a RuleSet version that contains a blocked rule, the resulting RuleSet
version does not contain the blocked rule or any rules that the blocked rule blocks. When
you skim a RuleSet version that contains a withdrawn rule, the resulting RuleSet version
contains the withdrawn rule.
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What is the difference between Page-Validate and Property-Validate methods?

Page-Validate method is used to validate all the properties present on a page. If a page
has embedded pages, this method works recursively to validate all the properties. This
method consumes lot of system resources and takes more time. If you want to validate
specific properties use Obj-Validate method with Rule-Obj-Validate rule.
Property-Validate method is used to impose restrictions on a property value. Use Edit
validate rule along with Property-Validate method to impose restrictions. You can validate
multiple properties using Property-Validate method.
What is difference between Edit validate and Edit Input rules?
Edit Validate : Use edit validate rule to validate the property value using java code. Edit
validate rules can be used property-validate, Rule-Obj-Validate and Property rules.
Edit Input : Edit input rules converts user entered data into required format. For example
is the user enters date MM/DD/YYYY format, edit input rule coverts this date into DD-MMMYYYY (required format). Again we need to write java code for this transformation.
Where assignments will be stored in pega rules database?
Work List related assignments are stored in pc_assign_worklist.
Work basket related assignments are stored in pc_assign_workbasket.
Where work objects will be stored ?
Work Objects are stored in pc_work table by default. however if you want to store the
work objects in a user created table, follow the below mentioned steps.
Create a schema similar to pc_work table. (The best thing is to copy the pc_work
schema and modify the table name and constraints name if any)
Change the class group mapping (Data-Admin-DB-Table) to the newly created table.
If I have 3 different work objects in my application, how to store them in three different
tables?
Open/Create the Data-Admin-DB-Table instance for each class and mention the table
name. By doing this the individual work objects will be stored in the new table you
mentioned in the Data-Admin-DB-Table instance. This is a best practice if there too many
object instances for each class.
What is StepStatusGood, StepStatusFail rules?
StepStatusGood is a when condition defined in @baseclass, this when rule checks
whether the value of pxMethodStatus property is Good.
StepStatusFail is a when condition defined in @baseclass, this when rule checks whether
the value of pxMethodStatus property is Fail.
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1)What is Access Group?

2)What is different types of inheritence?
3)What is the diifference between Abstract Class and Concrete class
4)What is work party?
5)What is a Product?
6)What Covers and Folders?
7)What is Split-Join?
8)What is Split-ForEach?
9)What is Ticket?
10)What is skimming?
11)What is clipboard?
12)What is pyWorkPage?
13)What is pz* properties?
14)What is py* properties?
15)What is declared page?
16)What is spin-off?
17)Types of inheritence
18)What is AES?
19)How do we use Tracer? Trace by rule
20)What is forward and backward chaining
21)What is BPM?
22)What is difference between BRE and BPM?
23)What is the difference between Folder and Cover?
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How did u call Activity B from Activity A(belonging to the same class) (CALL /Branch
Method )
Tell something about activities, step pages, clipboard(how to use it)
What is the may start option in the security tab of Activity
What do you find in Activity type
How do you able to view a group of activities of a class? (technical)
What are the step methods you used while creating Activity in your previous project.
Activities types used to notify the email correspondences.