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Skills this practice test covers
- Lay out a case lifecycle with stages, steps, statuses and task instructions.
- Set urgency, goals, deadlines and passed deadlines in a service level agreement.
- Route work to users, work groups and work queues, and send email correspondence.
- Model data objects and relationships, with calculated values and validation.
- Configure views, form visibility and portal content in App Studio.
- Describe the four Pega Express phases and how DCO captures objectives.
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PEGACPBA24V1 exam content
7 domains · 38 topics · 150 of 343 questions are written for PEGACPBA24V1
Pega Express10%15 questions
Pega Express is the delivery approach that Pega projects follow. Candidates describe its values and best practices, its four phases and their terms, and how Directly Capture Objectives (DCO) records requirements inside the application.
Skills tested
- Name the four phases of a Pega Express delivery and the work in each.
- Explain the Pega Express values and best practices framework.
- Describe how DCO sessions capture objectives with business users.
Questions by topic
- Directly Capture Objectives (DCO)4
- The four phases of a Pega Express Delivery and terminology4
- Pega Express values and best practices framework3
- Benefits and best practices of the Pega Express delivery approach4
Case Management30%46 questions
The largest domain covers how work moves through a case. Candidates design the lifecycle, add service level agreements, route assignments, send email, catch duplicate cases, add optional actions, and pause processing with wait steps.
Skills tested
- Build a case lifecycle from stages, processes and steps, and set case statuses along the way.
- Add a service level agreement with urgency, a goal, a deadline and a passed deadline.
- Route assignments to a user, a work group or a work queue.
- Detect duplicate cases with must-match and weighted conditions.
- Automate decisions with conditions, and skip a stage or process when it does not apply.
Questions by topic
- Skip a stage or process5
- Add a service level agreement; configure urgency, goals, deadlines, passed deadlines6
- Route assignments to users, work groups, work queues4
- Configure and send email correspondence3
- Identify duplicate cases4
- Pause and resume case processing; wait steps5
- Identify and add optional actions3
- Create and manage teams of users3
- Automate workflow decisions using conditions3
- Configure child cases4
- Design a case lifecycle, set case statuses, add instructions to tasks3
- Understand when to use automation shapes3
Data and Integration15%22 questions
Every case needs data. This domain covers data objects, data relationships and data records, fields and field types, views that capture data, calculated values, validation rules and data transforms.
Skills tested
- Configure a data object, its relationships and its data records.
- Choose field types and present fields in views.
- Create calculated values and validation rules from business logic.
- Set default values with a data transform.
Questions by topic
- Configure data objects, data relationships, and data records7
- Manipulate application data, set default property values, configure data transforms4
- Capture and present data; fields, field types, and views3
- Identify and create calculated values4
- Validate data; create and configure data validation rules by using business logic4
Security5%7 questions
This small domain checks two ideas: how personas, operators and access groups relate, and how authentication differs from authorization.
Skills tested
- Link a persona to its operators through an access group.
- Tell authentication, which checks a user's identity, from authorization, which grants or denies access to features.
Questions by topic
- Difference between authorization and authentication4
- Relationship between personas, operators, and access groups3
User Experience10%15 questions
This domain covers what users see. Candidates group fields into views, add and remove fields, set up portal content and other interface elements, and control form appearance and visibility.
Skills tested
- Group fields into a view for one step of a case.
- Show or hide a field with visibility settings.
- Configure portal content for a persona.
Questions by topic
- Configure form appearance, visibility settings, and controls7
- Configure user interface elements and portal content4
- Group fields to create views4
Application Development25%38 questions
Here the exam looks at the business architect's place on a project. It covers the role and its skills, project stakeholders, Center-out business architecture, App Studio, rules, rulesets and classes, generative AI, and the CI/CD pipeline with Deployment Manager.
Skills tested
- Describe what a business architect does and which stakeholders the role works with.
- Explain how Center-out business architecture keeps case logic apart from channels and systems.
- Explain how rules, rulesets and classes organize an application.
- Scope a project with the Case Type Backlog and the Estimator.
- Track user stories, feedback and bugs in Agile Workbench.
Questions by topic
- Role and skills required of a Pega Business Architect3
- Benefits of Pega's Center-out business architecture4
- Value of developing an application in App Studio5
- Role of rules, rulesets, classes4
- Manage application development; user stories, feedback, bugs4
- Articulate the value of generative AI4
- Describe Pega's CI/CD pipeline and Deployment Manager4
- Use the Case Type Backlog and Estimator tool to scope a Pega Platform project4
- Identify the stakeholders on a Pega project3
- Communicate using collaboration tools3
Reporting5%7 questions
Reporting shares the smallest weight with Security. It covers the benefits of Insights and building tables and charts with columns, filters and sorting.
Skills tested
- Create an Insight that shows case data as a table or a chart.
- Use columns, filters and sorting to focus a visualization.
Questions by topic
- Describe the benefits of using Insights3
- Create visualizations using tables and charts4
Requirements
- No formal prerequisites: anyone can book the exam.
- Recommended: Pega Academy's Business Architect mission for '24.2, which works through App Studio, case management, data, UI and Pega Express.
About the PEGACPBA24V1 exam
PEGACPBA24V1 tests whether a business analyst can design a Pega application in App Studio for Pega Platform '24.2. The work is low-code: laying out case lifecycles, setting up data and views, and following the Pega Express delivery approach. Case Management is the largest domain, followed by Application Development. Passing earns the Pega Business Architect certification (CPBA).
Case Management leads the PlanetCert practice test too, with questions from service level agreements to child cases, duplicate cases and wait steps. Flashcard Mode suits the Pega Express terms and its four delivery phases. The explanations say why one setting fits a scenario and a close one does not, such as routing to a work queue rather than to one named user. Brainy AI Assistant can explain Center-out business architecture, or the difference between authentication and authorization.
How to earn the certification
- Earns
- Certified Pega Business Architect (CPBA)Beginner
The certification is tied to the Pega Platform version it covers, and Pega recommends keeping up with newer releases.
- After
- PEGACPSA25V1 Certified Pega System Architect '25
The next step for those who want to build Pega applications, not only design them.
- PEGACPDC26V1 Certified Pega Decisioning Consultant
The next step for those who move into Pega's customer decisioning work.
- PEGACPSA25V1 Certified Pega System Architect '25
How to prepare for PEGACPBA24V1
- 1
Complete the Business Architect mission
Pega Academy's Business Architect mission covers the same areas as the exam for Pega Platform '24.2. Do its exercises in App Studio instead of only reading the modules.
- 2
Model a full case type in App Studio
Create a case type with stages, steps, a service level agreement, routing to a work queue and an email. Then add a child case and a wait step that pauses the parent.
- 3
Drill the case management settings
Case Management is the largest domain. Practise duplicate case rules, optional actions and skipping a stage or process until each choice comes quickly.
- 4
Learn the delivery vocabulary
Pega Express phases, DCO, Center-out and the Case Type Backlog appear as terms rather than tasks. Use Flashcard Mode until each one can be explained in a sentence.
- 5
Sit full timed attempts
Take the PEGACPBA24V1 practice test in Timed Mode. For each scenario question missed, ask Brainy AI Assistant which App Studio setting gives the right result, then rebuild it.
Start a timed PEGACPBA24V1run
Pega Academy's Business Architect mission is Pega's recommended preparation for this exam.
Who PEGACPBA24V1 is for
- Business analysts who design case types, data and views for Pega applications.
- Business architects who work beside Pega developers on Pega Express projects.
- Newcomers to Pega who want a low-code first certification before Certified Pega System Architect.
Typical job titles: Pega business architect · Business analyst · Process analyst · Product owner · Solution consultant
PEGACPBA24V1 glossary
18 terms from the exam objectives and the vendor's official material, each defined in a sentence.
- Access group
- The Pega record that sets which applications and portals an operator can use.
- App Studio
- Pega's low-code workspace in which business architects build case types, data and views.
- Calculated value
- A field whose value Pega works out from other fields, such as a total from several line items.
- Case lifecycle
- The stages, processes and steps that a case moves through from creation to resolution.
- Center-out
- Pega's business architecture idea of putting case logic and decisions in a central layer that all channels and systems use.
- Child case
- A case created under a parent case, so related work can run on its own and still roll up to the parent.
- Data transform
- A Pega rule that copies or sets values in case data, such as default values when a case starts.
- Deployment Manager
- Pega's tool for running the CI/CD pipeline that moves an application from development to production.
- Directly Capture Objectives (DCO)
- Pega's practice of recording business objectives straight into the application during design sessions, instead of in separate documents.
- Duplicate case
- A case that Pega flags as a likely copy of an existing one, using must-match and weighted conditions.
- Insights
- Pega's reporting feature for exploring application data in tables and charts.
- Optional action
- An action that users can start at any point in a case or stage, outside the main flow.
- Pega Express
- Pega's delivery approach for building applications in short releases that focus on business value.
- Persona
- A type of user, such as a claims clerk or a manager, used to design the work and the portal each group gets.
- Ruleset
- A named, versioned container of rules that is packaged and moved between environments.
- Service level agreement (SLA)
- A Pega rule that sets goal, deadline and passed-deadline times for a case or an assignment, and raises its urgency as each one passes.
- Wait step
- A step that pauses a case until a set time passes or another case reaches a status.
- Work queue
- A shared list of assignments for a team, from which any qualified member can take the next item.
Related practice tests
- PEGACPBA25V1Certified Pega Business Architect
- PEGACPDS88V1Certified Pega Data Scientist
- PEGACPDC24V1Certified Pega Decisioning Consultant 24
- PEGACPDC25V1Certified Pega Decisioning Consultant '25
- CPLDACertified Pega Lead Decisioning Architect (Infinity '23)