Blue Prism Test Prep Questions

Blue Prism Test Prep Questions What is a tag? - ✔✔A tag is a keyword or term to a work queue item as a method of categorizing or grouping that item When can tags be used? - ✔✔Tags can be used when getting items (Using ...

Blue Prism Test Prep Questions What is a tag? - ✔✔A tag is a keyword or term to a work queue item as a method of categorizing or grouping that item When can tags be used? - ✔✔Tags can be used when getting items (Using Get Next Item) from the Work Queue. For example, by setting the Tag Filter to be "+Work Type1;+Customer Type2;-Work Source1" , what would be returned? - ✔✔the next item with the "Work Type1" and "Customer Type2" tags and without a "Work Source1" tag will be returned. When using a combination of tag filters, what do you use as a separator? - ✔✔A semicolon True or False: Each Work Queue item has a status - ✔✔True What is a Work Queue item's status used for? - ✔✔The status can be used as a method of recording what work has been done so far on a Work Queue item When is the priority set for a Work Queue item? - ✔✔Setting the Priority for a Work Queue item is done when the item is first added to the queue using the Add To Queue action True or False: The Priority of an item can be changed after it has been added to the queue - ✔✔False. The Priority of an item cannot be changed after it has been added to the queue Will an item with Priority 1 be worked before or after one set to priority 2? - ✔✔Before. Items are worked in order of lowest priority number first If priority is not set, what is the default value set to? - ✔✔0 In what order is the next item to be worked returned? - ✔✔first priority, then date loaded into the queue (oldest first) If there is no more working required on a case, how should it be tagged - ✔✔Completed, with a brief completion type Why should one use Blue Prism Process Templates? - ✔✔Using templates ensures processes are easy to configure and support, and how Work Queues are used is consistent across all processes that are created Multiple-Part Processes: - ✔✔where a case needs to be worked in multiple parts at different times Parent/Child Relationships: - ✔✔are where individual Work Queue items must remain linked in some way to other items in the same Work Queue to which they have a relationship. EX: multiple spreadsheets, each item on each spreadsheet on queue and tagged with which spreadsheet it comes from Using Workflow Systems: - ✔✔where work is driven from an external system rather than from a Blue Prism work queue Real-time work requests: - ✔✔where requests are added throughout the day and must be worked in a short SLA period True or False: Only one machine can work from a queue at one time. - ✔✔False. Multiple machines can work from the same queue at the same time, each retrieving different cases to work. How will an unworked or pending item be marked in the Control Room? - ✔✔With three blue dots How will an locked items be marked in the Control Room? - ✔✔With a padlock How will completed items be marked in the Control Room? - ✔✔With a green check mark How will exception items be marked in the Control Room? - ✔✔With a purple flag Which Business Object is used to interact with a work queue? - ✔✔The special "Work Queue - Internal" Business Object What happens when an item is being worked? - ✔✔It is locked so that no one else can work with it How is a lock on an item released? - ✔✔When it is marked as completed or an exception How is a work queue item referred? - ✔✔By its unique BP ID True or False: Each item has its own Collection to hold data. - ✔✔True What should Get Next Item be followed by and how should that be implemented? - ✔✔It should be followed by some sort of "Got Item?" Decision. An expression checking if the ID is blank is the best way to test if you have got an item. What is the encrypted option for? - ✔✔It is available to ensure any sensitive data held within the queue is encrypted in the Blue Prism database. What does deferral mean? - ✔✔Effectively the items are temporarily frozen. What is deferral used for? - ✔✔To make sure items don't get worked too soon Besides the option that there are no more unworked items in the queue, what is a reason that Get Next Item could fail? - ✔✔One reason could be that there are deferred items the queue is yet to release Can items be worked more than once if necessary? - ✔✔Yes If you wanna change the Max Attempts field, where would you do so? - ✔✔In System Manager When max attempts is greater than one, how does the work queue revive the exception? - ✔✔by cloning a new item and inserting it into the queue In what parameter can you override Max Attempts? - ✔✔The Retry input parameter of the Mark Exception action in the Internal - Work Queues Business Object If the Retry input parameter of the Mark Exception action in the Internal - Work Queues Business Object is set as True, what happens? - ✔✔the queue will generate another attempt if the limit of Max Attempts has not been reached. If the Retry input parameter of the Mark Exception action in the Internal - Work Queues Business Object is set as False, what happens? - ✔✔it will override Max Attempts and prevent any further attempts regardless of the number of retries available What input parameter works in conjunction with Retry Input? - ✔✔.Keep Locked When Keep Locked is True, what happens? Why? - ✔✔the new cloned item will become instantly locked. This provides the opportunity to carry on working on the new item. When Keep Locked is True, what happens? - ✔✔The Keep Locked input parameter works in conjunction with the Retry input. When Keep Locked is True, the new cloned item will become instantly locked. This provides the opportunity to carry on working on the new item. When Keep Locked False, any new item created is freely available as the "next" item. Do attempts apply to completed items? - ✔✔No. Attempts only apply to exceptions - items marked as complete cannot be reworked. What happens when a work queue is temporarily paused? - ✔✔it will not release items at all. True or False: The Queue Contents list can be exported as a basic report. - ✔✔True A _____________________ is an internal configurable list that enables a Process to manage its workload. - ✔✔work queue Can a process use multiple WQs? - ✔✔Yes Can a single WQ be shared by multiple processes? - ✔✔Yes How does one commit a change to the WQ after a calculation stage? - ✔✔add an Action using Set Data from the internal- work queues business object The tag search of an asterisk searches for what? - ✔✔used to search for 'any other characters', The tag search of a question mark searches for what? - ✔✔used to search for 'any single character'. How and when are active queues useful? - ✔✔Instead of creating sessions separately in Control Room and then moving to the queue management page to see the results, active queues allow you to set a target number of resources which should be working the queue, Blue Prism uses the active queue configuration to determine how to achieve that target. Active Work Queues are only useful when running dozens of sessions for one process. When this is not the case, the benefits of Active Work Queues will not be realised. What is a method of editing a collection that will provide storage for items in a queue? - ✔✔Providing empty fields in a collection when the item is created could provide storage for data collected while the item is being worked. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Exceptions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 - ✔✔ What is the convention for exception handling on the main page? - ✔✔The top main page generally uses an exception block to cover the layers beneath it. What is a good tactic for minimizing the time spent in Recovery Mode? - ✔✔It can be a good tactic to minimise the time spent in Recovery Mode by capturing the details of an exception in data items and then moving directly to the Resume stage. How does a work queue rework an item? - ✔✔Recall from the training course that a Blue Prism work queue can be set up to enable an exception item to be reworked. It does this by creating a clone of the item and injecting it into the queue at the same position as the original. If Exception expression functions are used outside of Recovery mode, what will happen? - ✔✔Note that the expression functions (found in the properties forms where an expression is required) must only be used during Recovery Mode and will themselves generate exceptions if they are used anywhere else. If a certain exception is happening repetitively, how should you handle that within Blue Prism? - ✔✔In the event of a serious problem with an application it may be better for a process to stop rather than carry on working. A better solution would be to count consecutive occurrences of an exception and bring the process to a stop when a sensible limit is reached. If you want to label items by exception type in order to facilitate MI reporting, what should you use? - ✔✔Tags. They are a useful way to facilitate MI reporting by labeling items by exception type. What does Blue Prism use work queues for? - ✔✔To manage its workload What is a work queue? - ✔✔It is a list of cases to be worked by a process What is queue data used for? - ✔✔To manage process performance and for generating Management Information True or False: A process will likely be able to complete every case. - ✔✔False. A process is unlikely to be able to complete every single case and some will be identified as exception cases Where should most exception handling take place? - ✔✔At the process (or component) level. If in Business object, should b