Certify for the exam “Certified Senior System Architect”
Why take the CSSA certification exam?
- The most important use is that your market value increases
- You would be recognized well among others.
- If you have any plans to change your job, certification helps.
- If you don’t have any plans to quit, get a pay rise in the next appraisal
How must I prepare?
Understand the blueprint. To summarize:
- To take this test, you should have passed CSA (Certified System Architects)
- Take instructor led or e-learning classes (offered by Pega)
- CSSA exam is 70-question multiple response exam
General PRPC Architecture
PRPC and JEE architecture
WAR and EAR Deployments
Caching
– System Pulse
Interacting with the Database
– Persistence
– Transaction Model
– Deferred Operations Model
– Locking
– Threading Model
Agents
Services and Connectors
Architecture
– Service Architecture
– Connector Architecture
Web Services
Connect SQL
File Listeners
Rule Resolution and Achieving Reusability
Rule Resolution
Enterprise Class Structure
– Reasons for Building an Enterprise Class Structure
– Enterprise Class Structure Best Practices
– Types of Reuse
– Reuse Techniques
– Enterprise Class Structure Layers
– Application Accelerator
Reusability and Specialization
– Importance of Rule Specialization and Reuse
– RuleSets and Rule Specialization
– Circumstancing
– Improving Reusability
Security
Authentication
– Authentication Types
– Enterprise Identity Management and Single Sign On
– PRPC Authentication Types
– PRPC Managed Authentication
Authorization
– Access Groups
– User Profiles and Multiple Access Groups
– Access Roles
– Access Role Editor and Access Control
– Production Levels
– Access When and Access Deny Rules
– Privileges
Security and Encryption
User Interface
UI Theory
– Why UI is Important
– Human Factors
– UI Best Practices
– UI Design Decisions
PRPC UI Fundamentals
– Flow Design: Standard vs. Screen Flows
– Validation
– Basic UI Standards
– UI Implementation
Branding/Skinning Wizard
Widget Library
Implementation and Performance Tools
Implementation Tools
– Preflight
– Tracer
– Pega Log File and Alerts (including Log4J)
– Refactoring Tools
Performance Analysis Tools
– Preflight
– Performance Analyzer and Log Usage
– PRPC Alerts
– PegaRULES Log Analyzer
– Application Profiler
– DB Trace
PRPC Maintenance
System Management Application
Building for Performance
Reporting
Reporting Basics
– Reporting Using PRPC
– Table and Column Basics
– Exposing Data
– List View Features
– Summary View Features
OOTB Reports
– Standard Report Types and Categories
BPM
Case Management
Flow Shapes
Activities
SmartBPM
– Service Level Agreements
– Routing
– History
Correspondence
BRE
BRE Introduction
– BRE Basics
– Declaratives
Declarative Expressions
– Forward Chaining
– Backward Chaining
– Goal Seek
Triggers and OnChange
Declarative Pages
Rule Execution and Delegation Strategy
– Rule Delegation
– Function Alias
– BREs and Performance
Application Deployment
Creating a Rule-Admin-Product (R-A-P) File
RuleSet Versioning
Exporting and Importing a R-A-P File
Pega Log Files and Alerts