Exam topics 

(% of exam)
Enterprise Design (17%) Reporting (8%)
How Pega fits into the technical landscape of the Design appropriate reporting strategy based on
organization business need
Design for architecting Pega for the enterprise Identify need for custom SQL functions
Determine application infrastructure requirements Design reports for performance
Identify when to incorporate other Pega products Identify/solve performance problems in reports
Architect an environment with high availability Background Processing (10%)
Diagnose cause of an issue happening only in one Determine appropriate background processing
environment design option
Diagnose cause of an issue after weeks of Identify proper techniques to handle background
application running processing
Case Design (13%) Design for separate nodes; asynchronous
Design case hierarchy and relationships between processing
cases Optimize standard agents
Evaluate when to use subcase and subflow Asset Design and Reuse (8%)
processing Specialize an application by overriding rulesets
Define case locking strategy Assess need for extending an existing application
Design for case level and assignment level SLAs Identify opportunities for re-using assets
Recommend appropriate data propagation Refactor an application built in Pega Express
approach vs. shared data Deployment and Testing (15%)
Design Get Next Work algorithm Apply Production Deployment best practices,
Evaluate when to use push routing and pull including DevOps
routing Design and automate a Testing strategy
Evaluate when to use activities, APIs, and Assess and monitor application quality
functions Establish quality measures and expectations on
Data Model Design (8%) your team
Design and extend the application data model Customize the rule check-in approval process
Design data reuse layers and identify relevant
records
Define mapping between source systems and Pega
User Experience Design (8%)
Provide thought leadership in the area of UX
Determine where UX fits into the design
architecture
Identify application functionality that can impact
UX
Design the user experience to optimize
performance
Design for mobile and offline usage
Security (13%)
Determine the best authentication strategy
Determine the appropriate authorization model for
a given use
Perform a security assessment; identify and fix
issues
Use security best practices
Identify security risks
a. at are routine and highly manual.