Certified Methodology Black Bel

Multiple choice based

Time
For certification: score over
Test Competencies

Approx no. of Q's

Methodology concepts

35

DCO tools including AP, AA, PMF, TMF

Grand Total

15
50

Certified Methodology Black Belt

50 questions
90 minutes
70%
Covering Modules
Module 1 to 8
Module 4,5,9,10

logy Black Belt

Note
Module 5,6,7 are important; Must know- Activities, deliverables and tools
used in each phase of SmartBPM methodology

Question
When you import an AP into PMF, the existing use cases in
PMF be deleted and overwritten by AP.
What are the characteristics of Whiteboard and review?
(Choose two)

In your project, you come across Performance Issues. In

which phase and with which team will you be working?
What are the artifacts of DCO session? (Choose One)
The artifact required to provide a traceability for Business:
(Chose Two)
What are the characteristics of Whiteboard and review?
(Choose two)

What are Change Management best practices? (Choose One)

How can connectivity between PMF and PRPC instance be

established?
DCO can be used with any other methodologies like
Waterfall, Agile and RUP methodology
When is Change control process enforced?
When migrating an AP to a new PRPC instance what is the
best way of doing it?
Which DCO tool can be used for earmarking the primary
path of a flow ?
Can TMF create test scenarios using a wizard?
When you import AP profile in PMF what do you import?
In Smart BPM what happens after elaboration phase?
What is the best practice for Governance meeting frequency
and time?
Which one of the following is performed in Iteration 1 of the
construction phase?

How early in the methodology should enablement training

begin for those who are going to participate in an upcoming
project? (Choose one)
A project participant would use the following tools in the
inception phase with the exception of: (Choose one)
When should alerts/logs be reviewed? (Choose one)
Which of the following factors influence a Go/No-Go decision
for the deployment of an application? (Choose 3)

The following items listed are benefits when using the

SmartBPM methodology with the exception of: (Choose one)

When can an AP be added to a PMF project? (Choose one)

Following are Pega Services EXCEPT: (choose one)
Use cases should be part of Set.
What is the unique qualifier of the Elaboration Phase?
(Choose one)
Which tool is used to manage changes?
SmartBPM suggests risk management using the following
tool:
Which of the following is true about TMF:
Which of the following is applicable throughout all phases in
SmartBPM:
Phase Readiness Checklist is not referred to:
Flow rules can be linked to the following (Choose four):
Which of the following is a not an objective of Governance:
The definition of DCO session is to include details on the req,
flows, use cases in AP during Inception phase:
SmartBPM advocates delivering small slivers infrequently.
The following benefits can be attributed to PMF (Choose
one):
What is the primary purpose of the AP sizing document:

What is the primary purpose of Pre-flight:

Which of the following is correct about TMF (Choose two):
Why is it important to collect existing artifacts:
The end product of DCO sessions is the completed flow & UI.
In TMF bugs can be attached to (Choose one):
What is the easiest way to open an existing AP profile?
Can you modify the base estimates in the effort sizing tool
which generates the automated effort estimates?
What is the key outcome from effort sizing tool?
You put description of use cases, requirements in Application
accelerator?
You use the following to manage your testing and QA
process?
Can TMF create test cases using a wizard?
Which is the last possible phase when you can get the
production, QA and development environment ready?
Which 2 artifacts need to be combined to allow business to
measure business value or benefit?
Segment is a set of steps performed by multiple actors?
Segment is a series of steps while scenario is a flow along a
particular path.
Is scenario contained within a segment? (dont remember
the exact wording)
Which of these is the core activity in Governance?
This artifact describes in business terms the capability the
business is looking for the application to provide: (Chose
one)
Which PRPC item can reference or be referenced by Use
Case Rules? (Choose one)Which of the following are objectives of DCO sessions:
(Choose one)

Why should the AP and the Pega Sizing artifacts be

reviewed? (Choose one)
While defining roadmap during Inception phase, roadmap
break down into _____ which divide into ____ and made up of
____? (Choose One)
Use cases are the part of Use Case Set.
What is the main objective of Elaboration Phase? (Choose
one)

What are the objectives DCO sessions? (Choose One)

What are the characteristics of Prep and review? (Choose

one)
Which PRPC rules can be linked to atomic use cases?
(Choose three)
What is the difference between TMF scenario and TMF
segment? (choose one)
Bugs can be associated to:
Issue describes a feature or function that does not
technically work as intended.
DCO can be used with any other methodologies like
Waterfall, Agile and RUP methodology.
When is Change control enforced?
Which one of the following is a must do for Governance?
Scribe manages the flow of the meeting.
The purpose of using iterative approach in SmartBPM
methodology is to release small slivers infrequently
PMF is installed in which of the following way
A flow rule can be linked with which FOUR of the below PRPC
components?
Entire scope of DCO includes building fully functional flow in
AP

Which best practice spans across entire project life cycle?

Which statement is true about DCO
Which two are the change management best practice?
Which tool do we use for Change Management?
Bugs can be associated with
SmartBPM methodology can work with any other
Methodology (RUP, SCRUM, Waterfall)
Which one is NOT expert service offered by Pegasystems
Which are the correct statements about TMF
When using the Project Management Framework, what key
component is used to view relationships between tasks?
(Choose one)
When can an Application Profile be added to a Project
Management Framework project? (Choose one)
In the Test Management Framework (TMF), a segment
corresponds to a particular path down a flow. (true of false)
When should performance checks using PAL begin? (Choose
one)
Which Directly Capturing Objectives (DCO) tool should be
used in manage change?(Choose One)
This artifact describes a business terms capability the
business is looking for the application to provide: (Choose
One)
What happens in PRPC when requirements are imported
from excel

Option A

Option B
1

At the end of DCO session, team At the end of DCO session, team
will perform quick review of the will perform quick review of the
flow
captured process flow and UI

Transition / UAT Users

Transition / QA Users

Draft Flow, Draft UI, refined

requirement and use case

Draft Flow, fully functional UI,

requirement and use case

Project scenario

Requirement

At the end of DCO session, team At the end of DCO session, team
will perform quick review of the will perform quick review of the
flow
captured process flow and UI

Prioritize the requirements

Use DCO capabilities of PRPC

No need for configuration, directly

Via setting on development
connects to PRPC instance whenever
system which points to PMF.
installed.
1
GO LIVE
Cut copy paste

0
Project Initiation
Import using application
accelerator packaging tool

TMF

PMF

Yes

No

Task only

Task group only

QA, UAT, Transition to support,

Go-live

UAT,QA, Transition to support, Golive

Once a month for 1 hour

One every 2 weeks for 1 hour

Update testing strategy

Complete the primary flow

Inception

Transition

TMF

MAW

Transition

Construction

Sliver isnt sufficient size

Many enhancements requested

are outstanding

Users provide higher quality

requirements for follow-on releases
after experience has been gained

Rapid release cycles ensure

maximum value is obtained along
the way
When transitioning from the
elaboration to construction
Design Review

Only at the beginning of the project

Change Management Review
1

Build out the foundation of the

proposed application
AP

Define the scope of each

development effort
AC

In Elaboration phase using AP

In Inception phase using MS Excel

Scenario is a particular path

Segment is a specific path down the
down the flow and consists of
flow
one or more segments
DCO

Governance

In all phases

Beginning of phase

Entire Flows

Requirements

To ensure that desired Business ROI

is achieved

To review presented risk &

mitigation plans
1

Better quality of solution

Proper allocation & tracking of task

To ensure completeness of
requirements

Effort estimate for project

To ensure guardrail compliance

Facilitate proper capture of

requirements

Reduces development cost

leveraging DCO features

Reduced development cost since it

is a standalone product

Reuse helps if time & effort

reduction

Can be used as feed to AP

1

Projects & Task groups

Projects only

Typing AP Id in find bar

File -> Open

Yes

No

Provide effort estimates for the

various projects

XXXX
1

TMF

PMF

Yes

No

Initiation

Elaboration

Requirements

Objectives

Yes

No

Yes

No

Scenario is comprised of 1 or
more segments

Segment is comprise of 1 or more

scenarios

Review project artifacts

Review project status

Project scenario

Requirement

Entire Flows

Flow Actions

Ensure teams collaborate on a

process so that all aspects are
covered

To give the business and its

delegates an opportunity to clearly
articulate business needs

Because the AP and the Project

Sizing artifacts contain a high level
description of all the work that has
taken place so far

Because sometimes the SmartBPM

methodology is blended with other
methodologies

Slivers, Use Case, Project

Use Case, Project, Sliver

1

Build out the foundation of the

proposed application

0
Define the scope of each
development effort

Business and its delegates to clearly Questions regarding requirement

articulate the purpose of the
and use cases to be answered and
business
clarified

At the end of DCO session, team will Team performs high-level review of
perform quick review of the captured all documents in preparation for
process flow and UI
DCO session
Flow actions

Activities

Scenario is a flow along a

particular path while segment is XXXX
a series of steps
Tasklist

Task and task group

1

GO LIVE

Project Initiation

Assign tasks to individuals

Review project status reports

1

By enabling communication via a By enabling communication via a

setting on PRPC dev system that setting on PMF pointing to PRPC
points to PMF
Dev system
Activities

Flow Action
1

Change Management

Governance

One of the basic step in DCO is

Prep and Crop

XXXX

Update the project plan with the

Capture the details in enough
change before approval with change
detail
control board
PMF
Project

AA
Task Group
1

Design Review

0
Code Review

It can work well with any other defect It has automated Test Case
management tool
feature
The project workbasket

Referencing tools

Only at the beginning of the project

When transitioning from the

elaboration to construction
1

Go-Live

Elaboration/Construction

Application accelerator

Project sizing tool

Project scenario

Requirement

Existing requirements are

deleted and imported ones are
displayed in PRPC

XXXX

Option C

Option D

Team performs high-level

DCO sessions need to be
review of all documents in
moderated closely to keep on
preparation for DCO session track.

Transition / Developers

Construction / QA Users

Flow, fully functional UI,

requirement and detailed
use case

Flow, UI, refined requirement and

detailed use case

Objective

Use Case

Team performs high-level

Team has more time to develop
review of all documents
mockups, digest the requirement and
in preparation for DCO
formulate questions
session
Document requirements with
All of the above
appropriate level of detail
Use an environment variable
in development system to
None of the above.
connect to PMF

Inception
Using MS excel
AP

Task and Task group

Elaboration / Construction
Import using application profiler
packaging tool
AA

Projects, Task, Task Group

Smoke Test, Regression Test, Smoke Test, Issue Tracking, Transition

Transition to support, Go-live to support, Go-live
Once every week for 1 hour

None of these

Complete interface
integration

Complete UI

Project Initiation

Elaboration

Project Plan Template

PMF

Elaboration

All the above

Performance problems

QA test results

Planning for many releases

Strict project management
establishes a framework for
planning and measurement using
continued flow of value gain
tollgate milestones
in the future.
When transitioning from
inception to elaboration
Transition Readiness
Must solve and meet
business objectives
PMF
In Elaboration phase using
MS Excel

At any time
User Experience Review
All of the above
TMF
In Inception phase using AP

Segments can be sequenced

to run in order and scenarios None of these
cannot
Quality Checks

All of these

End of phase

In Particular Phases

Flow Actions

Flow Shapes

To ensure scope, budget &

cost are controlled

To review timeline for resourcing

Use of single tool to develop,

All of these
track and fix defects
To kick start AA

None of these

Facilitate defect fix

All of these

Integrates with PMF for

defect fixes pertaining to Integrates with other testing tools
Project
Can be used to extract
information from TMF

Can be used to build new application

Task & Task Groups

Projects, Task, Task Groups

XXXX

XXXX

XXXX

XXXX

AA

AP

Construction

Inception

Use cases

Project scenarios

XXXX

XXXX

Allocate work for project

resources

XXX

Objective

Use Case

Requirements

All of the above

To provide a forum for IT,

testing and training
All the above
resources to validate use
cases that affect their areas

To ensure the ROI is

clearly articulated

None of the above

Project, Use Case, Sliver

Project, Sliver, Use Case

Must solve and meet

business objectives

All of the above

IT, testing and training

resource to understand the
requirement/use case that
may impact their areas

All of the above

Team has more time to

develop mockups, digest
None of the above
the requirement and
formulate questions
Requirements

Starting models

XXXX

XXXX

Only projects

Projects and specific task group

Inception

Transition

All of the above

None of the above

PMF is installed in PRPC Dev

Xxx
system
Use Case

Requirement

DCO

PMF

XXXX

XXXX

Prioritize the
requirements

Xxx

AP
Task

Use Case

Transition Readiness Review Change Management Review

XXXX

XXXX

The Project Tree

A user work list

When transitioning from

inception to elaboration

At any time

Inception

Transition

Application profiler

Project Management Framework

Objective

Use case

XXXX

XXXX

Option E

Construction /
Developers

Transition

Flow Generator

Option F

Option G

UAT test Results

None of the above

Starting Models

XXXX

None of the above

None of the above

Entire Flows

Entire Flows

Validation
Rules

SmartShap
es in the
Flow

User Experience Review

All of the above