Deployment & System Maintenance Flashcards

A developer needs to ship a hotfix for a production application whose current ruleset version is 01-03-05. Which new ruleset version follows Pega's numbering convention for a patch?

Answer: 01-03-06

Hotfixes increment the patch (third) segment of the major-minor-patch version number.

Which rule type defines the rulesets, application rules, and data instances to include in an application archive for migration?

Answer: Product rule (Rule-Admin-Product)

A Product rule lists everything to package into a ZIP archive for export to another environment.

Before packaging an application for promotion to a QA environment, what is the recommended step for the ruleset versions being migrated?

Answer: Lock the ruleset versions

Locking ruleset versions prevents further changes so the migrated content stays consistent.

In Deployment Manager, what is a pipeline primarily used for?

Answer: Automating the movement of an application through environments such as development, QA, staging, and production

Deployment Manager pipelines automate CI/CD stages and tasks for promoting applications.

Which Pega tool records each SQL statement your requestor sends to the database so you can identify slow queries?

Answer: Database Trace

Database Trace captures SQL statements and their execution details for performance analysis.

A queue processor in Admin Studio shows a growing number of broken items. What does this most likely indicate?

Answer: Queued items failed processing after exhausting their retry attempts

Broken queue items are items that could not be processed successfully after configured retries.

An application must use a different external service URL in development, QA, and production without changing rules for each deployment. What is the best approach?

Answer: Use an Application Setting or Dynamic System Setting with environment-specific values

Application Settings and Dynamic System Settings hold environment-specific values outside of migrated rule logic.