SS&C | Blue Prism® Professional Developer

This accelerated Blue Prism® Professional Developer Certification represents the highest level of certification for a SS&C | Blue Prism® Developer. The exam is aimed at already certified SS&C Blue Prism developers with a broad range of SS&C Blue Prim's knowledge, experience, and skills.

The SS&C | Blue Prism® Professional Developer Certification represents the highest level of certification for a SS&C | Blue Prism® Developer. The exam is aimed at already certified developers with a broad range of SS&C Blue Prism knowledge, experience, and skills. It is an internationally recognized certification that identifies the individual as possessing the skills of a SS&C | Blue Prism® Professional Developer. Getting certified empowers the individual to distinguish themselves from the competition and increases marketability.

At the end of this course, you’ll sit the Bleu Prism exam, and achieve your Blue Prism® Professional Developer certification.

Through Firebrand’s Lecture | Lab | Review methodology, you’ll get certified at twice the speed of the traditional training and get access to courseware, learn from certified instructors, and train in a distraction-free environment.

Audience

This course is ideal for:

• Developers who already passed the SS&C | Blue Prism® Developer exam and have at least six months hands on experience and experience in building and configuring process automation and objects by using standard SS&C Blue Prism design principles and best practices.
• People who need to be able to problem-solve the running of SS&C Blue Prism processes and create and document test procedures and scenarios to support the operational team during the User Acceptance Testing and roll-out phases.
• People who hold a role in a robotic automation environment, including but not limited to, junior developer, developer, lead developer, technical support, ROM architect, and process analyst.

Module 1: Best Practice for Building Objects and Processes (12%)

SS&C | Blue Prism® Developers need to know the best approach for building Objects and Processes. Knowing the best approach helps to ensure that processes are granular, robust, and easy to control; while business objects are efficient, scalable, and re-usable.

• Understand Objects building - Application Modeller Read stages, Write stages, Wait stages, and Navigate stages.

• Understand Processes building – Input and Output data

• Identify naming elements in Application Modeller

Module 2: Browser Automation (10%)

The automation of web applications and pages requires integration with the SS&C | Blue Prism® Enterprise. To enable this integration, SS&C Blue Prism offers browser extensions to interact with the most used Modern Browsers like Edge, Chrome, and Firefox.

• Understand how to launch or attach to an existing browser session of a supported browser from SS&C Blue Prism Object Studio

• Be familiar with the SS&C Blue Prism Browser spy mode and how to use it when automating either Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Microsoft Edge

• Understand when to use the Browser spy mode and when to use a combination of spy modes

• Interface with pop-ups, and tables by utilizing SS&C Blue Prism Best Practice

 Module 3: Credential Manager (4%)

The SS&C | Blue Prism® Credential Manager provides a secure repository for login details used to access target applications. By encrypting and storing credentials securely, developers can log into applications in a secure runtime environment whilst preventing the credentials being re-used outside the production environment.

• Comprehend Encryption Scheme and how it is set up

• Understand how to use Credential Manager to secure credentials

Module 4: Exception Handling (6%)

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.

• Explain the concept of the Bubble Up Exception

• Understand the concept of Blocks and how to use them

• Understand how to implement retry logic

• Understand the difference between Business Exceptions and System Exceptions

Module 5: Java Automation (12%)

Java automation provides a series of specialised techniques for interfacing with applications written in the Java programming Language.

• Explain what the prerequisites are to use Java spy mode

• Explain what the best practice guidelines are when interfacing with Java Applications

Module 6: Login Agent (4%)

When executing an automated process on a SS&C Blue Prism runtime resource, it is necessary for the runtime resource to be running on a device which is logged in and not locked. Login Agent allows the SS&C Blue Prism process to operate under the context of that user and provides access to all the local applications and network resources it may need.

• Explain the uses of each Action within the Login Agent VBO

• Troubleshoot common issues when trying to work with Login Agent

Module 7: Mainframe Integration (2%)

Mainframe integration allows interaction with various terminal-based applications. These are typically legacy "green screen" applications which used to be accessed via a "dumb terminal". The applications run on a mainframe. On modern systems dumb terminals have been replaced by terminal emulators, which provide robotic automation capabilities.

• Understand how to interface with a mainframe emulator

Module 8: Object Design (4%)

SS&C | Blue Prism® Developers need to know the best approach for business object design. Knowing the best approach helps to ensure that business objects are efficient, scalable, and re-usable.

• Understand the Best Practice for Object Design

• Understand the difference between the 3 run modes – Foreground, Background, and Exclusive

• Identify the advantages and disadvantages of a single-object design approach versus a multi-object design approach

Module 9: PDF Extraction (4%)

SS&C | Blue Prism® Developer should only extract data from PDFs if the structure of the documents is standard and predictable with no, or very limited number of variations. It is not a replacement for a dedicated OCR solution designed to extract data from large volumes of different format documents.

• Explain the three methods for extracting text from a PDF Document; using the Windows Clipboard, using “Read Text with OCR Read Stage and using Adobe Acrobat API

Module 10: Surface Automation (14%)

When the SS&C | Blue Prism® Application Modeller cannot be used directly to identify application elements (because, for example, the applications that need to be automated are not running on the same machine as SS&C | Blue Prism® Enterprise), a technique called surface automation can be used to create an image of the application screen. Such applications can be modelled by using screen regions, image matching, and character recognition.

• Explain when and how Surface Automation can be used

• Understand how to interface with regions

• Know the difference between Global Send Keys and Global Send Key Events

• Explain what the prerequisites to using Surface Automation area

Module 11: Web Services (6%)

SS&C | Blue Prism® Enterprise provides support for web services in two contexts: web services may be called as part of a process in the same way that other business objects are called, and SS&C | Blue Prism® Enterprise can expose processes as web services. Web services exposed by SS&C | Blue Prism® Enterprise can be called remotely.

• Understand how to expose a Business Object as a web service

• Understand how to expose a SS&C | Blue Prism® Enterprise as a web service

Module 12: Work Queues (10%)

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

• Describe working with Work Queue Item Tags, Status and Priority

• Explain how to encrypt data in Work Queues

• Identify Best Practice for using Work Queues

• Describe working with more complex Work Queue designs including deferring items, multiple queues, and parent/child relationships

Module 13: General Items (12%)

• Understand the relation between running sessions and SS&C Blue Prism robot licenses

• Understand the features and constraints of Control Room

• Know the rational when deciding between using Sub-processes or Objects

At the end of this accelerated course, you’ll sit the following exam at the Firebrand Training centre, covered by your Certification Guarantee:

Blue Prism® Professional Developer exam

• Duration: 60 minutes
• Number of questions: 50
• Passing score: 70%
• Languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese
• Domains:
  • Best Practice for Building Objects and Processes (12%)
  • Browser Automation (10%)
  • Credential Manager (4%)
  • Exception Handling (6%)
  • Java Automation (12%)
  • Login Agent (4%)
  • Mainframe integration (2%)
  • Object Design (4%)
  • PDF Extraction (4%)
  • Surface Automation (14%)
  • Web Services (6%)
  • Work Queues (10%)
  • General Items (12%)

Before attending this accelerated course, you should have:

• Pass the SS&C | Blue Prism® Developer exam for six months, Completion of the “SS&C | Blue Prism® Professional Developer Certification Learning Plan”
• Hands on experience during the 6 months is strongly recommended.

Your accelerated course includes:

• Accommodation *
• Meals, unlimited snacks, beverages, tea and coffee *
• On-site exams **
• Exam vouchers **
• Practice tests **
• Certification Guarantee ***
• Courseware
• Up-to 12 hours of instructor-led training each day
• 24-hour lab access
• Digital courseware **

* For residential training only. Accommodation is included from the night before the course starts. This doesn't apply for online courses.
** Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts.
*** Pass first time or train again free as many times as it takes, unlimited for 1 year. Just pay for accommodation, exams, and incidental costs.

Seven reasons why you should sit your course with Firebrand Training

• Two options of training. Choose between residential classroom-based, or online courses
• You'll be certified fast. With us, you’ll be trained in record time
• Our course is all-inclusive. A one-off fee covers all course materials, exams**, accommodation* and meals*. No hidden extras.
• Pass the first time or train again for free. This is our guarantee. We’re confident you’ll pass your course the first time. But if not, come back within a year and only pay for accommodation, exams and incidental costs
• You’ll learn more. A day with a traditional training provider generally runs from 9 am – 5 pm, with a nice long break for lunch. With Firebrand Training you’ll get at least 12 hours/day of quality learning time, with your instructor
• You’ll learn faster. Chances are, you’ll have a different learning style to those around you. We combine visual, auditory and tactile styles to deliver the material in a way that ensures you will learn faster and more easily
• You’ll be studying with the best. We’ve been named in the Training Industry’s “Top 20 IT Training Companies of the Year” every year since 2010. As well as winning many more awards, we’ve trained and certified over 135,000 professionals

*For residential training only. Doesn't apply for online courses
**Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts

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