01. A bank needs a background routine that runs every night at 2:00 AM to purge expired sessions and email an operations summary. There is no incoming queue of items — it is a recurring, time-based batch.
Which background rule fits?
a) A job scheduler, which executes recurring work on a defined schedule with no queue of items
b) A queue processor, presented here as the standard rule for any recurring nightly batch job
c) A service-level (SLA) rule, which is claimed to drive the nightly schedule from case urgency
d) A legacy agent, presented as still mandatory for scheduled work in Pega Platform '25
02. A firm's case-type class MyCo-HR-Work-Onboard must reuse Pega's standard Work- rules (standard flows and utilities), but walking its own name segments only reaches MyCo-HR-Work, MyCo-HR, and MyCo.
How should the class reach the standard Work- rules?
a) Set directed inheritance so the class chain resolves to Work-, giving access to the standard work rules
b) Rename the case-type class to begin with Work- so pattern inheritance walks straight to the standard rules
c) Rely on pattern inheritance alone, which is assumed to eventually reach Work- from the class name segments
d) Add a circumstance to the class so rule resolution redirects the chain to the standard work rules
03. A shared foundation ruleset marks a security-critical activity as Final. A downstream application team then tries to save a modified copy of that activity into their own higher application ruleset.
What happens?
a) The foundation version becomes Withdrawn automatically as soon as the higher application copy is saved
b) The higher application copy resolves instead, on the assumption that a higher-ruleset rule always wins
c) Both versions resolve and Pega merges their steps together at runtime into one activity
d) The override is prevented, and the Final foundation version continues to resolve for everyone
04. A team is reasoning about how the availability setting on a rule affects rule resolution.
Which statements are correct?
(Choose two.)
a) A Blocked rule stops resolution and raises an error if execution is attempted, rather than falling through to a lower version
b) A Final rule can be freely overridden by a copy saved into a higher application ruleset that supersedes it
c) An Available rule is excluded from resolution until an administrator explicitly enables it in the ruleset
d) A Withdrawn rule is skipped during resolution, so a lower-ranked version can resolve instead
05. A utility company sources a data page from a Connect REST call to a billing microservice that intermittently times out. The team must keep case processing resilient when the call fails.
Which are appropriate ways to handle the connector failure?
(Choose two.)
a) Rely on a field-value rule to substitute a default billing amount whenever the service is unreachable
b) Check the connector's status after invocation and route to exception handling when it reports a failure
c) Configure the connector's error handling to invoke a connect error flow so processing can branch when the call fails
d) Leave error handling unconfigured and assume rule resolution will pick a working version of the connector
06. An insurer's Connect SOAP call returns policy details as XML whose element names differ from the Pega property names the case uses.
Which connector artifact maps the returned XML onto the correct clipboard properties?
a) A field-value rule, which enumerates the allowed captions the returned response is permitted to contain
b) The request data transform, which shapes and maps the outbound values sent to the SOAP service
c) The response data transform, which maps the returned XML values onto the target Pega properties
d) An edit-validate rule, which checks each returned XML value against a regular-expression pattern
07. At a hospital network, several care coordinators frequently open the same patient-onboarding case to read it, but the platform must let them open it simultaneously and only flag a conflict if two of them try to save changes over each other.
Which locking approach fits this requirement?
a) Set exclusive locking with a short lock timeout so the held lock auto-releases quickly and the next user can open the case.
b) Keep the default exclusive locking so the first user to open the case holds the lock until they save or release it, blocking the others.
c) Enable optimistic locking on the case type so the lock is taken at save time and a stale-update conflict is detected on commit.
d) Disable locking on the case class entirely so no lock is ever acquired and every save writes straight to the database.
08. For a flow-action rule named ReviewClaim, three instances exist in the application's ruleset list, with the ruleset order ClaimApp (highest) then ClaimShared:
ClaimApp:01-03-01 — Availability: Withdrawn
ClaimApp:01-02-05 — Availability: Available
ClaimShared:02-01-01 — Availability: Available
For a request with no circumstances, which instance does rule resolution select?
a) ClaimApp:01-02-05, because the higher 01-03-01 is Withdrawn and skipped, and the next available candidate in the top ruleset wins
b) No rule resolves, because the top instance is Withdrawn and rule resolution stops walking the candidates at that point and fails
c) ClaimApp:01-03-01, because it is the highest version number and availability is ignored when rule resolution ranks the candidate instances
d) ClaimShared:02-01-01, because it carries the highest major version number across all three candidate instances and that outranks ruleset order
09. Over a long project many minor versions of rules have accumulated in a ruleset, including several Withdrawn rules. Before release, the team wants a clean new version that keeps only the highest version of each rule and drops the Withdrawn ones, to reduce assembly overhead.
Which operation accomplishes this?
a) Exporting and re-importing the ruleset via a product rule archive to strip out the old rule versions
b) A minor-version skim, which copies the highest rules to a new minor version and carries the Withdrawn rules along
c) Locking the ruleset at its current version, which is claimed to automatically delete the Withdrawn rules
d) A major-version skim, which copies the highest version of each rule to a new major version and excludes Withdrawn rules
10. When a retailer's order is placed, the team wants to kick off a loyalty-points update for that order asynchronously and immediately, decoupled from the user's thread, one item per order as events arrive.
Which background rule fits this requirement?
a) An activity run inline on the user's thread so the loyalty points post before the screen returns
b) A queue processor, which processes queued items asynchronously as they are enqueued per order
c) A job scheduler, which runs the loyalty update on a fixed recurring clock schedule instead of per event
d) A legacy agent, still presented as the required mechanism for background processing in Pega Platform '25