SS&C | Blue Prism Technical Architect (TA03) Certification Sample Questions

01. Automations are to be tested against a copy of production data, because synthetic data has not reproduced the cases that fail. What must the architecture provide before that copy is created?
a) Access controls on the lower environment matching those applied in production.
b) An agreement with the business that the copy may be used for testing.
c) A retention rule removing the copy once testing is complete, together with a record of who held it meanwhile.
d) A masking arrangement applied as the copy is made, so the lower environment never holds the original values.

02. A client requests a separate Blue Prism environment for user acceptance testing before production deployment. What should the Technical Architect recommend?
a) An environment strategy that supports development, testing, user acceptance, and production governance.
b) Add further Runtime Resources to the existing environment instead of building a separate one.
c) Run acceptance testing in production, since only that environment holds representative business data.
d) Use environment variables to switch configuration between test and live behaviour within one environment.

03. The platform supplier asks for diagnostic output to progress a support case. The output available contains business data the automations were processing at the time. How should this be handled?
a) Reproduce the fault in a lower environment and send that output instead, whatever the delay.
b) Establish what the supplier actually needs, and provide it with the business content removed or replaced.
c) Decline to provide any diagnostic output, and ask the supplier to work from a description instead.
d) Provide the output as it stands, unaltered and in full, since the supplier is bound by the support agreement.

04. An architect is assessing whether a target application is a viable candidate for unattended automation. Which two properties must the application have?
(Select two.)
a) A test copy hosted on the same infrastructure as the automation platform.
b) A licence permitting an unlimited number of concurrent sign-ins.
c) An account model that lets the automation hold its own identity rather than borrowing a person's.
d) An interface the platform can drive whose identifying characteristics are stable between releases.
e) A published set of keyboard shortcuts covering every interaction the automation performs.

05. Work for a new automation arrives unpredictably through the day, and the business wants each item handled within a short time of arriving. The team has proposed running the automation on a frequent schedule. How should the architect assess that proposal?
a) A frequent schedule should be rejected, because a short interval will overload the platform whatever the volume.
b) A frequent schedule spends capacity whether or not work has arrived, so weigh it against having the arrival itself start the work.
c) A frequent schedule is the appropriate pattern, because an automation platform is designed to run work on schedules.
d) A frequent schedule should be accepted provided enough Digital Workers, and enough licensed capacity, are added to absorb the extra sessions.

06. Communication between the platform's components is secured with certificates. The architect is asked what operational provision the design must make for them. What should the design specify?
a) That the certificates be issued with the longest validity the issuing authority permits, so renewal is rare.
b) That the certificates be stored in Credential Manager, so the platform issues, renews and retires them centrally.
c) Ownership and a renewal process ahead of expiry, with monitoring that gives warning before the date.
d) That component communication fall back to an unsecured channel if a certificate expires, so that automations continue.

07. Unattended automations that drive application screens are to run on virtual machines outside business hours, and the client's standard desktop build locks the session after a period of inactivity. Why does the architect have to raise this before the design is signed off?
a) A locked session forces the automation to run in a different environment from the one it was released into.
b) A locked session removes the interactive desktop the automation needs to see and drive the screens.
c) A locked session prevents the Runtime Resource from maintaining its connection to the application server, and from reporting its state.
d) A locked session causes the automation's session log to be written to the local machine instead of the database.

08. An architect is limiting the damage an attacker could do after compromising a single Runtime Resource host. Which two controls most directly reduce that damage?
(Select two.)
a) Place the host in the same network zone as the applications it drives, to reduce connection failures.
b) Encrypt the communication between the host and the application server.
c) Increase the retention period for the host's own session logs.
d) Restrict which networks and accounts may reach the host interactively, and log every such connection.
e) Grant each automation account only the rights in the target applications that its own work requires.

09. Runtime Resource hosts are being built from the client's standard server image, which applies the corporate endpoint-protection and policy settings used across the estate. What should the architect ask for?
a) A build standard for these hosts agreed with the security and desktop teams, with the settings that interfere with automation identified and handled explicitly.
b) The hosts excluded from corporate policy management, so that the automation team controls their configuration.
c) Endpoint protection and policy enforcement disabled on the Runtime Resource hosts, since scanning and locking interfere with automation timing.
d) The automations written to tolerate the interference, to retry wherever it occurs, and to report each occurrence, so that no change to the host build is needed at all.

10. A delivery team asks the architect to approve an emergency change to production outside the normal process. Under which two conditions should the architect decline?
(Select two.)
a) The delivery team has not produced the design documentation the standard normally requires.
b) The change affects more than one automation, so its blast radius is wider than a single Process.
c) The urgency comes from a deadline rather than from a fault the estate is currently suffering.
d) The change was written by a developer who has not previously worked on production systems.
e) The change cannot be backed out, and no one has established what happens if it does not work.