Certified Lead System Architect (CLSA) 6.2V2 Practice Exam

The Certified Lead System Architect (CLSA) 6.2V2 certification from Pegasystems proves that someone is highly skilled in building and leading large-scale applications using the Pega Platform. This certification shows that a professional can design complex system architectures, guide development teams, and make sure projects follow best practices.

This certification means you can take a big business idea and plan out how the software should be built from start to finish using Pega. It shows you can lead projects, solve problems, and make systems that are fast, reliable, and easy to maintain.

 

Who Should Take This Exam?

This Pega CLSA certification is ideal for:

• Experienced Pega developers
• Senior system architects or technical leads
• Application designers and solution architects
• Project managers working on Pega projects
• Consultants focusing on enterprise-level system design

 

Skills Required 

• Strong understanding of Pega platform and its features
• Logical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of business process management (BPM) concepts
• Leadership and communication abilities
• Hands-on experience with designing large-scale applications

 

Knowledge Gained 

• Designing end-to-end architecture for enterprise applications
• Applying best practices and patterns for scalable systems
• Leading teams of developers and guiding design decisions
• Handling system performance, security, and maintainability
• Integrating Pega with other enterprise systems and data sources
   

Course Outline 

The Certified Lead System Architect (CLSA) 6.2V2 Exam covers the following topics - 

Domain 1 - The LSA mindset

• Explain the objectives of the Lead System Architect mission.
• Focus on developing an analytical approach while advancing through the mission.
• Use one of the available exercise systems to display the solution.

Domain 2 - Identifying and evaluating design options

• Identify the design options
• Evaluate design options
• Identify additional design options

Domain 3 - Pega Platform Design

• Recognize the significance of Center-out business architecture and its importance in designing Pega enterprise applications.
• Leverage Pega applications; Identify when to incorporate other Pega products.
• Know about Multitenancy architecture and High availability features.
• Awareness of features like Pega Process Fabric, and Process Mining.
• Knowledge on Hazelcast, Containerization, and Cloud deployment architecture.
• Aware of Agile Workbench and Agile Studio functionalities.
• Apply production deployment best practices.
• Define a release pipeline.
• Modular deployment strategies.
• Deployment responsibilities.

Domain 4 - Pega Platform Design Extended

• Adoption of App Studio in application development.
• Understand Prediction Studio, and Admin Studio.
• Reuse assets and relevant records, configuration sets.
• UX design fundamentals, DX API, Constellation, Landing pages.
• User experience and accessibility
• Implementation of Pega GenAI Suite.
• Pega GenAI Blueprint and Workflow design.

Domain 5 - Application Design

• Analysis of Microjourney in designing Pega applications.
• Know about design approach in application structure
• Pega Express best practices and design patterns.
• Design an effective case structure, Design case hierarchy.
• Object-oriented Pega development and SOLID principles.
• Evaluate when to use circumstance, class, ruleset, and application specialization.
• Understand how specialization layers can be designed.
• Test Automation and Scenario tests.
• Establishing quality standards and metrics.
• Customization of Rule check-in approval.

Domain 6 - Application Design Extended

• Best practices in work assignment
• Case participants and routing
• Get Next work feature and customization
• Understanding alternative ways to find the work
• Handling flow changes for cases in-flight
• Resolving flow issues by using problem flows
• Handling processing using advanced background processing techniques
• Designing asynchronous integration
• Utilize Job schedules and Queue Processors
• Know about Stream services and usage
• Data flows and Data sets capability in Pega Infinity
• Logs and Alerts
• PDC and Log analysis tools
• Resilience

Domain 7 - Data Model Design

• Data relationship fundamentals
• Greenfield data modelling and extend existing data model
• Usage of Pega data pages and Data virtualization layer
• Design a case data model to support reuse and integrity
• Maintain data integrity and best practices
• Dynamic class reference and polymorphism in data modeling
• Extend an industry foundation model
• Know the benefits of using an industry foundation data model
• Aggregated data
• Basics of Common Data Model and Class structure

Domain 8 - Reporting Design

• Design appropriate reporting strategy based on business need
• Design reports for performance
• Reporting and data warehousing
• Search and Reporting service
• Identify and solve performance problems in reports
• Produce queries based on generated or reformatted data
• Database tunning and Reports databases
• Inclusive and exclusive queries
• Produce queries that include SQL Functions, Complex SQL
• Use Associations, class joins, sub reports

Domain 9 - Security Design

• Determine the appropriate authentication model
• Session management
• Determine the appropriate authorization model
• Role-based access vs. Attribute-based access
• Basic Access Control
• Identify and configure roles and access groups for an application
• Establish dependent roles hierarchy
• User management and advanced authentication service
• Determine the rule security mode.
• Security auditing, Security event logging, Security Alerts
• Identify security risks and potential vulnerabilities
• Detect and mitigate possible attacks
• Content Security Policies and Rule Security Analyzer
• Use security best practices

Domain 10 - Deployment and Testing Design

• Release pipeline introduction
• Defining a release pipeline
• Assessing and monitoring quality

Domain 11 - Interface Design

• API design approach
• API access control
• API based CRUD operations
• Externalization of services
• Deploying and managing external services
• Best practices in externalization of services