Blue Prism AD01 Blue Prism Accredited Developer Exam Practice Test

Answer : D

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.

Answer : C

Testing Best Practices:

To ensure that the process works correctly under all conditions, it is essential to test with both valid and invalid data.

Verification of Exception Handling:

Using a variety of data inputs allows the developer to verify that exception handling mechanisms are functioning correctly. This includes ensuring that the process can handle incorrect data gracefully and take appropriate actions.

Comprehensive Testing:

By testing with both correct and incorrect data, the developer can ensure that the process is robust and can handle real-world scenarios, leading to more reliable automation.

Blue Prism documentation on testing best practices for process development.

Answer : C

Excel VBO Workflow:

The correct order to perform operations using the Excel VBO involves creating an instance, opening the workbook, performing actions (like getting the worksheet as a collection), and then closing the workbook.

Correct Order:

Create Instance: Initializes the Excel application instance.

Open Workbook: Opens the specified Excel workbook.

Get Worksheet as a Collection: Reads the worksheet data into a collection.

Close Workbook: Closes the workbook after operations are completed.

Blue Prism documentation on Excel VBO and its actions.

Answer : A

Exception Handling Logic:

When using ExceptionType() and ExceptionDetail() functions, they must be used within the context of an active recovery stage. These functions retrieve details about the current exception.

Issue in Logic:

In the provided diagram, the Capture Exception Detail stage is executed as a multiple calculation stage but is not within a recovery block. Using these exception functions outside recovery mode can cause another exception.

Resulting Infinite Loop:

This causes a new exception each time the Capture Exception Detail stage is executed, leading to an infinite loop of exceptions as the process continuously tries to recover from the newly generated exceptions.

Blue Prism documentation on proper use of exception functions and recovery stages.

Answer : A

Data Items and Types:

Sign Up Date: 04-05-2023 (Date data type)

Current Date: 13-06-2023 (Date data type)

Expiry Date: 04-07-2023 (Date data type)

Status: Text data type

Output: Text data type

Decision Stage:

The decision checks if Current Date > Expiry Date.

13-06-2023 is not greater than 04-07-2023, so the decision evaluates to No.

Calc1 and Calc3 Execution:

Since the decision is No, Calc1 and Calc3 are executed.

Calc1 is not shown, but it must set Status to something other than 'Expired' (possibly 'Active').

Calc3 concatenates Status and Expiry Date to form the final output.

Expected Output:

If Calc1 sets Status to 'Active', Calc3 will produce the output:

Subscription Status = Active; Expiration Date = 04-07-2023

Final Output:

Given the logic and data provided, if Calc1 does not change Status from 'Expired' (it wasn't executed due to decision No path):

Subscription Status = Expired. Expiration Date = 04-07-2023

If the decision path was intended to show Expired status, then:

Subscription Status = Expired; Expiration Date = 04-07-2023.

Blue Prism documentation on decision stages and data type handling in expressions.

Answer : D

To retrieve items from a work queue tagged with 'Gas' or 'Electric' and exclude items tagged with 'Dual', you need to use a tag filter that excludes the 'Dual' tag. In Blue Prism, the correct way to exclude items tagged with 'Dual' is to use the '-' operator before the tag name, like -Dual. This ensures that only items tagged with either 'Gas' or 'Electric' but not 'Dual' are retrieved.

The Blue Prism documentation on work queues and tagging explains how to use the '-' operator to exclude specific tags.

Answer : C

Blue Prism Visual Business Objects (VBOs) are pre-built automation components that need to be imported into the environment. These VBOs are stored in the Blue Prism installation directory.

**[Root Directory]\Program Files\Blue Prism Limited\Blue Prism Automate\VBO**: This is the correct directory where the VBOs can be found. It contains the necessary VBO files that can be imported into Blue Prism.

Other options do not accurately represent the location of the VBOs:

Option A: Incorrect path format.

Option B: Refers to a training directory, which is not the standard location for VBOs.

Option D: Too general and does not specify the correct sub-directory for VBOs.

Reference Refer to Blue Prism installation documentation for the location of Visual Business Objects.