Blue Prism AD01 Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 19

Tagging Exception Items:

By calling the Exception Stage details and tagging them to the item before marking it as an exception, it ensures that detailed information about the exception is captured and can be viewed later. This helps in identifying the cause of the exception and provides valuable context.

Stage Logging:

Enabling stage logging within each exception properties ensures that all exception details are logged. This allows the Process Controller to view detailed exception information from the session logs, providing a comprehensive view of what went wrong.

Benefits:

These two approaches ensure that exception details are both tagged to the work queue items and logged in the session logs, making it easier for the Process Controller to review and analyze exceptions from different interfaces within Blue Prism.

Blue Prism documentation on exception handling, tagging, and logging.

Pausing a Schedule:

Pausing the schedule is the best practice for temporarily stopping a process. This maintains the schedule's configuration and simply suspends its execution for the specified period.

Maintaining Configuration:

Pausing the schedule ensures that once the period is over, the same schedule can be resumed without needing to recreate it or adjust any start/end dates. This approach is simpler and minimizes the risk of configuration errors.

Reactivation:

After the required period, the schedule can be easily unpaused to resume its normal operation.

Blue Prism documentation on scheduling and best practices for managing schedules.

Process Definition Document (POD):

The POD captures the operational requirements of how the process is manually operated today and helps design how the process can be automated.

It includes detailed descriptions of the current manual process, the objectives for automation, and the steps needed to automate the process.

Role in Automation:

The POD serves as a blueprint for the developers, ensuring that all aspects of the current manual process are considered in the automation design.

It helps in identifying potential challenges and ensuring that the automated process meets the business requirements.

Blue Prism documentation on process documentation and the role of the Process Definition Document (POD).

Single Object Design:

According to Blue Prism best practices, it is generally recommended to minimize the number of objects and actions to keep the solution simple and maintainable.

Actions:

Get Account Details: This action retrieves account information from the screen.

Apply New Limit: This action applies a new limit to the account.

Decision-Making Logic:

The decision-making logic (checking for high-risk code) should be placed in the process, not the object. This separation ensures that the object focuses on interacting with the application, while the process handles the business logic.

Blue Prism best practices on object design and separation of concerns between objects and processes.

Operational Handbook:

An operational handbook provides detailed instructions and information on how to operate and maintain a Blue Prism process. It includes information on handling common issues, process flows, and roles and responsibilities.

Benefits:

A . Ensure business continuity: Provides clear guidelines to keep the process running smoothly even when team members change.

B . Faster resolution of issues: Contains troubleshooting steps and solutions for common problems.

D . Knowledge transfer: Helps in training new team members and transferring knowledge efficiently.

Not a Benefit:

C . Real-time analytics: The operational handbook is not intended to provide real-time analytics. This is typically achieved through monitoring tools and dashboards.

Blue Prism documentation on operational handbooks and their benefits.

Credential Retrieval:

The automation start-up page requires actions to retrieve the credentials from the Credential Manager to log in to the Blue Prism Portal.

Cause of Exception:

The exception is likely caused because there is no action to retrieve the username and password from the Credential Manager, leading to missing or incorrect credentials.

Steps to Fix:

Ensure that an action is included to retrieve the credentials from the Credential Manager before attempting to log in.

Blue Prism documentation on using the Credential Manager and best practices for secure credential handling.

Best Practices for Production Release:

A . Disable unnecessary stage logging: This is a best practice to reduce data storage and improve performance.

C . Alerting Mechanism: Including an alerting mechanism helps notify Process Controllers of critical issues, which is crucial for maintaining process health and quick issue resolution.

D . Zero Validation Errors: Ensuring there are no validation errors before deployment helps avoid runtime failures.

Handling Business Exceptions:

Using retry loops to handle business exceptions for work queue items is not recommended as it can lead to unnecessary retries and may not address the underlying issue causing the exception. Instead, business exceptions should be handled by sending them to an exception queue for further analysis and resolution.

Blue Prism documentation on best practices for process development and deployment.

Delivery Lifecycle Phases:

The typical phases in the delivery lifecycle of an RPA project include Define, Design, Build, Test, UAT (User Acceptance Testing), and Deploy.

Missing Phase:

The phase between Define and Build is Design. This phase involves creating detailed designs of the automation, including process flows, system interfaces, and data requirements.

Blue Prism delivery lifecycle documentation and project management best practices.