PEGACPLSA24V1 Certified Pega Lead System Architect (Infinity '24) Practice Questions
Prepare for PEGACPLSA24V1 with more than an answer.
- Exam fee
- $190 USD
- Level
- Lead/Expert
- Valid for
- No expiration (certification does not expire)
Domains covered on the exam 8
- Pega Platform Design15%
- Pega Platform Design Extended10%
- Application Design15%
- Application Design Extended15%
- Data Model Design10%
- Reporting Design10%
- Security Design15%
- Deployment and Testing Design10%
- 1
Which reporting architecture is recommended for high-performance searching and reporting on millions of case records where complex text-based queries are required, without impacting the transactional database performance?
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Correct answer: A
For full-text search and high-volume querying without hitting the DB, Pega leverages its internal Elasticsearch index. Configuring reports to use the search index offloads the query load from the transactional DB.
- 2
A security requirement states that only users with the 'Manager' role should be able to view the 'SSN' property in any report or form. If a user without this role exports a report containing SSN, the value must be masked. Which security feature should be implemented?
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Correct answer: D
ABAC allows for fine-grained control at the property level (Property Read). It supports masking configurations that apply everywhere the property is referenced (UI, Reports, Exports), which RBAC cannot do (RBAC controls Class/Rule access).
- 3
You are configuring OpenID Connect (OIDC) for single sign-on (SSO). The Identity Provider (IdP) returns the user's email address in the 'upn' claim, but Pega expects it in the 'email' property to provision the operator. Where do you map this transformation?
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Correct answer: C
The Authentication Service rule for OIDC contains a Mapping tab where you define how claims from the ID token (like 'upn') map to Pega Operator properties (like '.pyEmail').
- 4
Select TWO key benefits of using Deployment Manager over manual RAP import/export for application promotion. (Select TWO)
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Correct answer: C, D
It automates the packaging and deployment steps, reducing human error and ensuring that the exact same artifact is tested in QA and deployed to Prod.
Deployment Manager allows pipelines to block deployment if quality criteria (Unit tests, Guardrail scores, Security checks) are not met.
- 5
A developer has created a PegaUnit test case for a Flow Rule. To ensure this test is part of the Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline, what must the developer do?
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Correct answer: B
CI pipelines (like in Deployment Manager) execute Test Suites. Individual test cases should be grouped into Suites to be targeted for execution during the pipeline run.
- 6
A global financial institution is redesigning its loan origination system using Pega Infinity '24. The organization requires a 'Center-out' business architecture to ensure consistency across web, mobile, and API channels. Which design approach best aligns with this requirement?
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Correct answer: D
Center-out architecture focuses on defining logic (Stages, Steps, Policies) in the Case and Data layers, independent of the channel. Channels (Web, Mobile, API) map to this central logic, ensuring consistency regardless of the entry point.
- 7
You are architecting a solution involving multiple independent Pega applications (Claims, Policy, Billing) hosted on different Pega versions and clouds. The business requires a unified worklist for adjudicators to view and process assignments from all systems without logging into each individually. Which Pega capability is the optimal architectural choice?
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Correct answer: A
Pega Process Fabric is designed specifically to federate work from distributed Pega (and non-Pega) applications into a single unified worklist and dashboard, decoupling the worker experience from the underlying application versions.
- 8
A Pega Cloud application running on Kubernetes is experiencing 'Split-Brain' issues where nodes lose visibility of each other, causing duplicate agent processing. Which component's configuration should be investigated first to resolve this clustering instability?
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Correct answer: D
Pega uses Hazelcast for in-memory clustering and node-to-node communication. In a Kubernetes environment, misconfiguration of Hazelcast (e.g., incorrect service discovery or network policies blocking port 5701) is the primary cause of split-brain scenarios.
- 9
An organization plans to implement Pega GenAI to accelerate workflow creation. Which Pega tool allows architects to describe the application requirements in natural language and automatically generates the case lifecycle, data objects, and persona definitions?
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Correct answer: B
Pega GenAI Blueprint is the specific tool that leverages generative AI to transform natural language descriptions into a structural application design (Case Types, Data, Personas) which can then be imported into Pega Platform.
- 10
A Lead System Architect is designing a high-volume transaction system. The requirement is to process approximately 50,000 requests per minute. The LSA decides to externalize the Kafka configuration rather than using the embedded Pega Stream Service. What is the primary architectural justification for this decision?
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Correct answer: A
While embedded Kafka works for many use cases, high-volume/enterprise scenarios benefit from external Kafka to isolate resource consumption (CPU/Memory/Disk I/O) from the Pega nodes and to leverage enterprise-grade scaling and retention capabilities.
