Blue Prism - Associate Developer

Curriculum

Module 1: Basic Awareness (6%)

• A basic awareness of the SS&C | Blue Prism® Enterprise and understand the need for Intelligent Automation.
• Describe SS&C | Blue Prism® Enterprise key concepts

Module 2: Process Studio / Flow (19%)

The Process studio allows you to create, edit and test processes using a graphical drawing interface to create a flowchart using drag and drop process objects.

• Understand the purpose of a SS&C Blue Prism process
• Comprehend the different stage types in the Process Studio
• Construct common logic diagrams
• Understand outcomes from logic stages

Module 3: Object Studio / Business Objects (13%)

Object Studio facilitates the creation of business objects by providing a familiar flow chart interface, as used in Process Studio. Such business objects are known as Visual Business Objects. Along with web services, business objects provide the means of interacting with external systems from your process flow chart in Process Studio. Business objects provide a series of actions that can be called a process.

• Comprehend the different stage types in the Object Studio
• Understand element attributes and match types
• Compare techniques for dynamic attribute matching and best practices

Module 4: Data Types and Variables (13%)

SS&C | Blue Prism® Enterprise has a number of built-in data items used for storing data.

• Compare different types of data items used for variables
• Identify different data types

Module 5: Exception Handling (10%)

Exceptions occur during the running of a process for various reasons. Usually, when an exception occurs, the process stops, and its status in Control Room shows as Terminated. Sometimes, it is not desirable for the process to stop when an exception is encountered. In certain contexts, we can handle the exception and continue with processing.

• Identify System and Business exceptions and best practices for preserving exception details
• Employ Recover and Resume stages in Process Building
• Summarize SS&C Blue Prism approach to unhandled exceptions

Module 6: Work Queues (13%)

Work queues provide a mechanism for modelling the queuing, locking, and reporting of work items within a SS&C Blue Prism environment.

• Compare where work queues can be created & maintained
• Demonstrate the basics of Work Queues functionality

Module 7: Calculations and Functions (8%)

Expression can be created in a variety of ways. They can be typed directly into the expression editor or can be built in the Expression Function Builder and pasted to the expression editor.

• Understand SS&C Blue Prism expression fundamentals
• Demonstrate knowledge of basic Data and Text functions

Module 8: Debugging (6%)

The debugging facility can be used in multiple areas of SS&C | Blue Prism® Enterprise.

• Comprehend the importance of debugging
• Predict Debugging execution techniques outputs
• Outline Breakpoint functionality

Module 9: Credentials and Credential Manager (5%)

The SS&C | Blue Prism® Credential Manager provides a repository for login details.

• Summarize the credentials manager and its functionality

Module 10: General (8%)

Items under this Objective do not fall under any other objective and can range from items like Environmental Variables, Control Room, Templates, and the Application Modeler.

• Understand the Control Room’s functionality
• Summarize the importance of Templates