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Pega Developer Interview Prep

The document contains questions about the business process management tool Pega and its features. It asks about Pega's classification as a BPM tool, how it differs from other tools and programming languages like Java, the differences between case types and cases, common ruletypes, situational layer cakes, inheritance, classes vs class groups, rule resolution, when to use data pages, report definitions, declarative processing rule types, symbolic indexes, decision tables vs decision trees, forward and backward chaining, process vs screen flows, personal vs production rulesets, circumstancing, debugging tools, rule availability, validation rules, clipboard page categories, database access methods, differences between Obj and RDB methods, deferred save, Obj-save with and

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Pega Developer Interview Prep

The document contains questions about the business process management tool Pega and its features. It asks about Pega's classification as a BPM tool, how it differs from other tools and programming languages like Java, the differences between case types and cases, common ruletypes, situational layer cakes, inheritance, classes vs class groups, rule resolution, when to use data pages, report definitions, declarative processing rule types, symbolic indexes, decision tables vs decision trees, forward and backward chaining, process vs screen flows, personal vs production rulesets, circumstancing, debugging tools, rule availability, validation rules, clipboard page categories, database access methods, differences between Obj and RDB methods, deferred save, Obj-save with and

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Pega Basic Questions

1. What type of tool is pega? Ans : Pega is BPM tool.

2. How Pega is different from other tools or programming language?

3. How can you correlate Pega with Java?(if had any knowledge on Java)

4. What is difference between case type and case?

5. What are the ruletypes you are familiar with.?

CSSA questions

1. What is Situational Layer cake?

2. What is Enterprise class structure?

3. How many types of Inheritance are present in Pega? What are they?

4. What is the difference between class and class group.? In which scenario you would go for class
and class group. Explain with an example.

5. What is Rule Resolution in Pega?

6. What is the scenario you would go for the concept of Data Pages?

7. What is Report Definition?

8. What is Declarative Processing and what are the types of rules that come under Declarative
Processing? (Declare Expression, Declare Index, Declare Trigger, Declare OnChange, Declare
Constraint).

9. What are symbolic indexes used while using the Aggregate Properties in DT's or in activities
(Prepend, Append, Insert, Last, Current)

10. What is Decision Table and Decision Tree? Which is the best one to choose for implementation?

11. What is Forward Chaining and Backward Chaining in Declare Expression rule.? Explain with a
scenario?

12. Differences between Process Flow vs Screen Flow.

13. What is Ruleset's List? (Operator Record > Profile) -- Personal rulesets, Production rulesets,
Application Rulesets

14. What is Personal Ruleset?

15. What is Circumstancing and different types of it?

16. What are different debugging tools you used in Pega?


17. What is Rule Availability and what are different availability modes present in Pega?

18. How the validation can be performed in Pega.? What are different types of validation rules
present?

19. Clipboard contains the data categorized in Pages? What are different Page categories in
clipboard? (User Pages, Data Pages, System Pages, Linked Pages)

20. How do you fetch the data from Database using an activity?

Ans : Obj methods or RDB methods

21. What are the different Obj methods you used with in activity?

22. Differences between OBj and RDB methods in Pega.?

23. What is Deferred Save in Pega?

24. What is difference between Obj-Save with and with-out "writenow" option checked?

25. What are agents? How are agents classified?

26. What is Email Listener and File Listener?

27. What are differences between SOAP and Rest Integration?

28. What are different performance tools available in Pega?

29. What do you mean by Aggregate sources in Data Pages? In which scenario would you go/opt for
it?

30. What are different types of shapes present in Pega Flows? (Basic Shapes, Advanced Shapes,
Smart/Automation shapes, Conversational shapes)

Scenario Questions

1. You opened a rule and unable to checkout the rule into your branch? How do you proceed
further?

Ans : Check whether rule checkout option is enabled/checked or not

Operator > Security > Allow rule checkout? □

Ruleset > Security > Use check-out? □

2. I don’t want to hit the database multiple times for fetching the same data, should hit the database
table only one and reuse the same data if data is not changing. In this scenario what ruletype would
you choose to fulfil this requirement?
Ans : Data Pages

3. You want to perform a task repeatedly with out any manual/human intervention. In this scenario
what are the ruletypes you would opt for?

Ans : Agents

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