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What is DCO? How is it used

What is PAL? If you want to analyze some process thats running at the back end, How do you
find it?
What is the difference between Direct and pattern(He is not looking for the pega perspective, He
needs to let us know what happens at the back end specifically)? Like in Java we have abstract
classes treated as pettern where as imports treated as direct
When do you go for direct and pettern inheritence
How many visio shapes(Thats a stupid question)(He should have asked us particularly for a
specific shape and use of it)

Its a Pega BA position

What is business analysis
Can you describe how we do analysis
Do you write the use cases
Have you worked on some frameworks

Have you worked as a system admin

How do you import rules
what do you mean by exporting rules by patch, product?
How do you know that a particular rule set is exported properly
what are all exported when you export a ruleset?
How do you find that a specific rule set is imported or not?
At the back end when a ruleset is imported, How does these files get save? It saves as java files
but not sure what he is exactly looking for?
How many declarative rules are there? What are they? Which will follow forward and backward
chaining?
He gave an example saying as if I have objects a,b,c.. Now explain about forward and back ward
chaining? how it occurs
How many decesion rules have you used so far(Numb question)
When do you use those decesion rules(Explain the scenarios)

About webservices

How do you create the web service?

How do you point that web servcie?
What type of parsers do you use?
When to you a particular parser? Any specific scenrio?

About UI

What is the difference between harness and section

How do you add a section to harness?

Application accelerator

What are all created using the application accelerator? Make sure that you know what are exactly
created using the application acceleration. He might ask you whether we can create a skill using
the application accelerator, such type of question you might come across
Whats the need of application accelerator?

Activities
We have 2 activities, for supporse a user has some login end date that expires at 12.00 pm but
we have some trigger job that was being performed by the same user and has to run at 12.00pm
which one might start first? Definitely trigger because user activities are treated as less priority.

Correspondance

How do you send a correspondence? Which shape do you use for correspondance? So far how
many ways of corresponding do you work?

Rulesets:

How many rulesets did you used in your project?

I have a scenario where one of the class group assume classgroup1 has some activity named
activity1 is being used in ruleset1. I need to use the same activity in the different ruleset? How do
you use? Simply add that ruleset

AIG Interview Questions:

1.Class structures and layers(Shared,implementation.. etc)
2.Declarative pages
3.What are the reusable components and what is the criteria for the components to be reused.
4.What is clipboard and how it is used?(About primarypage,pyworkpage)
5.What is circumstance?
6.What is multivariate circumstance?
7.Difference between decision tree and decision table and explain with examples.
8.About assignment properties.
9.Spin off,Split join,Split for each
10.What are gaurd rails and name few.
11.About router,ticket
12.Difference between Worklist and Workbasket
13.Different Statuses of work objects till it is resolved
14.Differences between Py,px,Pz
15.Where is pega code saved?
16.About PAL,SMA.
Databases:
1.How to connect to external DB?
2.What are the services that you used to connect DB's.
Integration:
1.How did you integrate with other systems(you said you integrate with legacy systems)
2.What are different integration methods?
3.Do you know about Webservices?explain?
Deployment:
1.How do you deploy?
2.About deployment ?
Other important interview Questions:
1.What is agent?
Activities:
2.Tell some thing about activities,step pages,clipboard(how to use it)
3.What is the may start option in the security tab of Activity
4.What do you find in Activity type.
5.ise of application Accelerator
6.What are the step methods you used while creating Activity in your previous project.
Rules/RuleSets:
1.What is the difference between product,patch,ruleset version export?
2.To search a rule in pega,how a rule resolution helps?
3.Various types of inheritance?
4.Difference between concrete and abstract classes?
5.Do you know how to migrate from one version to other?What are the cares to be taken?
6.Rules Resolution,advantages.disadvantages
UI:
1.Difference between screen flow and normal flow
2.What is harness?
3.How are sections used in Harness?Difference between section & harness?
4.What are the common problems we find in perform harness?
**5.How will you implement this:
When the user hovers over a particular field in the screen that section field should be highlighted?
6.What is the use of HTML property
7.How i have used the customize Save in pega?
*8.What are the different types of UI related rule types that you have worked in PRPC?
Integration:
1,Tell me about webservices?
2.How to parse an xml?
3.What type of parsers do you use in pega?
4.prconfig,prlogging xmls ..idia on configuration.
5.pega configuration
6.How will you invoke a call to an external services from PRPC? the various connectors you have
used?
7.Idea on multinode?How do you use multi node>
8.How about JMS?
9.How do you create a JMS service explain?
10.How do you create a MQ service explain?
11.Did you wirk on integration?
12.What type of integration did you worked?
13.How did you migrate from one version to other?
what are the cares to be taken?
14.Sis you do any client side validations?If so can you please explain some examples?
15.Did you do any server side validations?Explain with some examples?
16.Cache machanism
17.Email and file listener
*18.How did you configura webservices
Database:
1.To what type of tables does these work objects get stored?
2.What type of objects does the PC_work table stores?
3.How do you move the pr_other table to your own DB?
4.How to connect to external DB?
5.About obj-open,obj-save,obj-list,rdb-open,rdb-save?
6.Pega DB schame..Pc_workmpr-other,pc-links etc..
7.Column exposing and the advantage of it
Reporting:
1.List view and summary view
2.Reports creation..character/graphs/list view & summary view
Security:
1.Access groups,portal,operators prohile.
2.Workbaskets,worklists,workmanages,class group
3.Roles,privileges..creation and manage.
4.Work,Embed and Data-classes
5.Authentication wizard
Testing:
1.Testing (unit) from developer prospective
2.Test cases generation using v5.4
Deployment:
1.Pega application deployment on various services like Dev/QA/Prod
Other:
1.Object-list,its parameters
2.Aggregate property and its related to which class type.
3.Declarative rules
4.Sub flow
5.Difference between flowaction/local action/harness

What is agent?

What are the rules you used?

How do you decide which decesion rule to be used at what time?

How did you configure the web services?

Whats the use of application accelerator?

What are all created using the application accelerator?

Tell some thing about activities?

What are step pages?

CTS Toronto Interview Questions

What is an activity?

In an activity, page classes tab , Whats the use of it?

On the security type what are the fields do you find?
What is the may start on the security tab used for?
In the activity type what do you find ( He is looking for onchange, bla bla bla)

Do you know the difference between screen flow and normal flow?

Whats the difference between section and harness

In the process flow how do you assign default to some user( He is speaking about liklihood)

What is the difference between Split for each, spin off, Does Spin off can create the objects in the
flow?

You should have the software infront of you in order to complete the CTS round.

Pega FAQ
What are the activities? What are the use of activities?

Did you work on integrations?

What type of integrations did you worked?

Tell me about web services?

How to parse an xml?

What type of parsers do you use in Pega?

How about JMS?

How do you create a JMS question, Explain?

How do you create a MQ series explain?

How does these files are stored in Pega?

To what type of tables does these work objects gets stored?

What type of objects does the pc_work table stores?

How do you move the pr_other table to your own database?

Idea on multinode? How do you use multi node?

What is meant by skimming? Explain?

What is about harness? what is meant by perform harness

How are the sections used in the harness?

Tell about the process flow?

What are the differences between the spin off, split for each and call process?

Whats the use of a ticket, router?

What are the common problems we find in the perfom harness?

What are the real time problems you faced in the pega?

What are the guard rails?

how many guard rails are we using?

Did you do any customization? (I mean any Java code) (Please make sure ans is NO, otherwise
you are rising some unncessary questions along with your "YES")

Did you do any client side validations? If so can you please explain some of them?

Did you do any server side validations? If so can you please explain some of them?

What versions did you worked on so far?

Do you know how to migrate from one version to other? What are the cares to be taken?

What is the main difference between product, patch and rule,ruleset version export?

What is a model, Where do we use the when condition? tell me how you use it to instantiate it?

What is meant by screen flow and normal flow

Did you get a chance to use the application accelerator? What all can we do with this?