Ravi Kumar Blog Posts

Though it was my 3rd PegaWorld visit in Las Vegas, NV but this time I have some special updates to share in this post. All my earlier PW visits in 2013(Orlando) & 2014(Washington DC) through Hartford insurance were to understand the way of conducting the event,how the other customers feel about Pega usage etc etc. Similarly, this PW event was also following the same footsteps of earlier events. But, the response from this PW is amazing and the speaker notes from CEO was really good. The best part of PW event which I feel is the announcement from CEO on the courses in PDN are FREE 😊. The main focusing areas from Pega in this event is AI/Robotics and some of the cool features of V7.3 along with improving CRM side to compete SF. These are all just my understanding points 😊. Let's not worry about Pega strategies, road-maps, etc for now. My memories in this PW'17: 1) For the first time, I have got selected in lottery for FREE entry pass ($1095) to register myself. Pega sent...

In a nut shell – “Big Data is the problem and Hadoop (FW) is one of the solutions to solve the problem using HDFS, MapReduce”.   Big data is a term that describes the large volume of data – both structured and unstructured – that inundates a business on a day-to-day basis. But it’s not the amount of data that’s important. It’s what organizations do with the data that matters. Big data is a large set of the data that is generated through the FACEBOOK,YOUTUBE, and many social sites. That is in the form of video, image, text, graphics, sensors, and many other things. Big data has divided in to 3 types Structured, Semi Structured, Unstructured data.     Big Data has also been defined by the four “V”s: Volume, Velocity, Variety, and Value . a)       Volume: The amount of data. b)       Velocity: A fast rate that data is received and perhaps acted upon c)        Varie...

Brief about exam: This exam is a scenario based test after finishing the foundation exam (P-1). For more info on how I did prepare for P-1, follow this post - TOGAF 9 Foundation Exam Preparation There are 8 scenarios in the exam ans each correct scenario has 5 marks and 3 marks for the second best and 1 for the so-so answer. The distractor or false answer gets 0 marks. The pass mark for this exam is 60%. That means 24/40 is needed to clear the exam. This exam is an open book exam and the TOGAF study book (PDF file) is available for each question. You can just click on REFERENCE button under the question and that opens up the book to refer and answer the question. This font of this book was very small and searching was horrible for me to locate the content. I got many network failure or exam reboot issues while opening the book while answering the questions. May be the prometric center has some problems in their machines. My way of preparation: Coming to the way of preparation fo...

An architecture framework  is a set of tools which can be used for developing a broad range of different architectures. It must: have a list of compliant products that can be used to implement the building blocks provide a common vocabulary or language have a set of tools have a method for defining an information system in terms of a set of building blocks TOGAF is one of such an architecture frameworks available in the market.  The Open Group Architecture Framework  ( TOGAF ) is a framework  for enterprise architecture  which provides an approach for designing, planning, implementing, and governing an enterprise information technology architecture.  TOGAF is a high level approach to design. It is typically modeled at four levels: Business, Application, Data, and Technology . It depends heavily on modularization, standardization, and already existing, proven technologies and products. Still TOGAF has its own view, which may be specified as either...

Pega CLSA is a dream for every technical guy who is working in Pega for quite some years. But the dream comes to true only if the proper hard work is in place. Along with proper hard work, there should be a solid plan on how to clear the exam. We all know that CSSA is a pre-requisite for CLSA exam and some of the CSSA topics are used in deeper level. Of course, there should be a end-to-end project execution in Pega is much needed. Conceptual wise also, it is necessary to work on all technical areas using Pega in one single project. For example, class structure design, DCO, reports, security, integration etc. CLSA exam has mainly 2 parts and each part has to be cleared with 70% of marks. The first part of exam is multiple choice type and there are 50 questions to be asked. All questions are framed based on the blue print given by Pega. All topics from the blue print are given with certain % of weitage and we need to make sure to read all the topics and the sub topics given in the ...

After I finished CSSA V62 exam, I had some of the useful pointers for the people who are going to attend for the exam. I did not find much difference in the preparation of V62 when compared with V55 but I felt little difficult in understanding new concepts, topics from V62 exam stand point. I did prepare for 2 weeks on V62 and during this 2 weeks I had planned in such a way that I want to complete all the blue print topics without fail. There are some new features in V62 added and I did spend more time on understanding the new concepts/features with the help of PDN and Help. I did get a student version of V62 from Pega to practice myself in understanding new features of it. This practical exposure helped me in attempting some of the practical scenario questions while attempting the exam. Throughout my preparation I did discuss with my colleagues on all my doubts and clarifications. As a daily preparation during these 2 weeks of my preparation, I had spent > 1 to 2 hours a...

I would like to give an OOTB activity which allows us to debug on any of the final rules (eg: SaveAttachment ). The name of that utility is " pzPrivateCheckOut " and this requires a parameter of pzInsKey of the selected final rule.Once after running the utility, we see the status as Good to go ahead and open the final rule in checkout mode and add the debugging stuff to it for testing purpose. Once after we completed the debugging, we will revert back the changes on that final rule by click on delete checkout.Hope this helps us in our day to day development situation. Utility: Run with below value for a final rule:SaveAttachment See the below status for proceeding further Open the checkout version of the final rule Add the Log-Message or whatever debugging stuff you want to to add this rule After testing/debugging done, click on delete checkout like below   As I am not aware of the disadvantages of ...