ATA02 Practice Exam Questions with Answers Designing a Blue Prism (Version 6.0) Environment Certification

Only the minimum specifications for the Blue Prism components are required

The Virtual CPU to Physical core ratio on the Virtual host may have an impact on performance

The resource requirements of the automated applications should also be considered

All runtime resources should have identical resource profiles

Virtual devices will perform exactly the same as physical devices with similar specifications

A type 2 hypervisor should be used for production grade environments

WCF: Soap with Message Encryption and Windows Authentication

WCF: Soap with Remote Encryption

WCF: Soap with Transport Encryption

.NET Remoting with Transport Encryption

HTTPS Connection mode

There may be additional implications to the overall complexity of the architecture, due to the additional components involved in the virtualization technology

It will only ever be possible to use Surface Automation to Automate these applications

The Login Agent application must be available prior to User Login

The mapping between virtualized applications and users is often 1:1. This needs to be considered when designing the credential management approach for the Runtime Resources

Customizations to the application may be lost after the user is logged out or the system is rebooted, unless additional mechanisms are used to preserve them

Surface Automation will always need to be used in these scenarios

Network latency is circumvented

There are more options for interacting directly with the applications which accelerates time required to build automations

Automations built using direct object level instrumentation are likely to be more robust

It is then possible to record an automation directly using the spying tools

This enables the use of Surface Automation, which is faster to develop

Blue Prism application natively provides fail over between multiple application servers for a Runtime Resource.

Consider deploying multiple Application Servers for each environment.

Consider the impact of maintenance schedules on the availability of the environment.

Deploy multiple instances of an application server service on a single VM.

Whether the Runtime Resource is online and appropriately connected to the relevant environment

The environment scheme (Inc. colour) configured for the environment

The clients and network access configured on the Runtime Resource

Whether the Runtime is a virtual device as processes cannot execute on physical devices

Providing high availability for the Runtime Resource will guarantee the SLAs for a business process.

External Load balancing solutions may be used to direct connections from a runtime resource to an appropriate application server.

DNS round robin with a low Time to live (TTL) setting may be employed as a simple mechanism for distributing connections between multiple application servers.

Set each Runtime Resource to point to at least 2 application servers in its configuration file.

Integration with Active Directory

The location of the credential store keys

Integration with an external LDAP service

The encryption method for the credential store

The encryption method for the operational communications between database server and runtimes

The separation of duties between roles and environments

Remote access to the Blue Prism components