Blue Prism Developer Certification AD01 2022

Explore data type conversions in Blue Prism by turning numbers into text, dates into text, and timespans into days, hours, and minutes, using built-in functions and practical examples.

Blue Prism debugging techniques for the exam, including step, step over, step out, breakpoints, recover, retry counts, resume, and bubbling up exceptions to the main page.

Master Blue Prism debugging with step, step over, and step out, use breakpoints and break on exceptions, and manage resume and retry logic across pages.

Use the is stop requested function to detect a safe stop in a Blue Prism process and safely stop the current work by finishing the current order.

Explore environment and session variables in blue prism, using environment variables for test versus production urls and session variables to adjust loop counts at runtime in the control room.

Explore how environment variables differentiate test and production settings with urls and credentials, enabling automatic migration, and how to edit session variables in the control room to cap loop counts.

Navigate Blue Prism process flow decisions by using the decision stage (true/false), the toy stage for multiple choices, the otherwise stage, and page stage, with input and output data items.

Learn to use wait stages in blue prism to delay actions until an element exists, optimize for already open Notepad, and handle timeouts with custom exceptions.

Learn the Blue Prism wait stages pattern by always using element action check exists within a timeout before proceeding, and throw an exception if the check fails, ensuring reliable automation.

Learn how to use the Blue Prism retry template with a three retry limit, handling exceptions by preserving details, recovering items, and marking failed items for manual review.

Explore building inputs in the Blue Prism application model, including a new order window and product code input. Use ancestors text, ordinal, wildcards, regex, and dynamic attributes to identify elements.

Explain global send keys versus global send key events in blue prism: sendkeys outputs keystrokes directly to the active app, while send key events mimic typing and can be unstable.

Configure and manage the orders queue with priority and tagging, then process items using tag-based filtering (plus and minus syntax) and track status and completion with item data.

Covers Blue Prism developer certification exam: 60 questions in 60 minutes with 70% to pass, focusing on date functions, object exposure, tag management, cheat sheets, and source code.