Pega Certified System Architect
This certification exam is intended for System Architects and Application Developers who are directly involved in the design and construction of applications built on Pega.
The Pega Certified System Architect (PCSA) certification is for developers and technical staff members who want to learn how to develop Pega applications. This certification provides a baseline measurement on your knowledge of Pega applications. The PCSA Version 8 exam includes scenario questions, multiple choice questions and drag/drop items.
Exam Topics (% of exam)
Pega Platform (5%)
- Situational Layer Cake™
- Application Development studios
- Roles on a Pega project
Case Management (26%)
- Designing a Case lifecycle
- Setting a service level
- Controlling the flow of a case life cycle
- Routing work to users; approval routing
- Configuring a case hierarchy
- Configuring and sending correspondence
Data Modeling (20%)
- Adding fields to a case type
- Defining user views
- Data in memory; clipboard, pyWorkPage
- Manipulating case data
- Calculating case values
Validation (7%)
- Validating case data
- Validate rules
- Edit Validate rules
Information Exchange (15%)
- Creating data types
- Managing data pages and views
User Interface (12%)
- Customizing user view layouts
- User forms; configuring sections, responsive UI behavior
- Creating dynamic content in user views
- Styling an application using skins