Pegasystems PEGACPSA23V1 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 22,2026- Exam Code: PEGACPSA23V1
- Exam Name: Certified Pega System Architect
- Certification Provider: Pegasystems
- Latest update: Oct 22,2026
You want your application to have consistent styling across portals. You want the background color of all buttons in your application to be blue. You want the background color of the buttons to be easily updated in case corporate branding changes.
Which attribute do you modify to set the background color?
- A . The application skin
- B . The buttons format
- C . The controls format
- D . The background mixin
You are creating a case type to process job applications for a large corporation. Job applications for security positions require a physical assessment in addition to the standard criminal background check. The physical assessment can occur before or after the background check.
How do you configure a case type to achieve the required behavior?
- A . Create a process for the physical assessment that is followed by a process for the background check.
- B . Create a process for the physical assessment that is parallel to the background check process.
- C . Create a process on one stage for the background check and a process on another stage for the physical assessment.
- D . Create a process for the background check and an optional process for the physical assessment.
In a Credit Card Payment case type, you want to set the payment amount to the minimum amount due when a user creates a case.
How do you set the payment amount?
- A . Configure the pySetFieldDefaults data transform to set the default value.
- B . Configure a field validation on the payment amount.
- C . Configure the payment amount field to reference the minimum amount due.
- D . Configure the payment amount as a calculated field.
Which requirement is satisfied by configuring a service level agreement?
- A . Requests from customers with elite status go to a dedicated work group,
- B . A transaction review is completed within 24 hours.
- C . Users are notified when they receive an assignment.
- D . Transaction dispute cases are considered more urgent than address change cases.
DRAG DROP
Select each Use Case on the left and drag it to the appropriate Automation on the right.

A flow action calls a pre-processing data transform to initiate values. There are several flow actions available for the assignment. You want to make sure that the values are only initiated once for each flow action.
How do you implement a solution?
- A . Do nothing. The pre-processing data transform is only called once for each assignment.
- B . Make sure that the flow action does not have the highest likelihood since it will always be invoked.
- C . Configure the data transform as post-processing instead of pre-processing.
- D . Add logic to the pre-processing data transform to test if values were already initiated.
An organization has two lines of business: selling books for children and reselling college textbooks. The division selling books for children can use the same basic user interface (Ul) as the division reselling
textbooks with the exception of the payment methods.
How do you apply the Situational Layer CakeTM in this scenario?
- A . Place the Ul rules in the base layer, and create a new layer for the payment rules for both lines of business.
- B . Place the Ul rules and generic payment method rules in the base layer, and create a new layer for the division-specific payment rules.
- C . Place the Ul rules in the base layer, and create a parallel base layer for the payments rules.
- D . Place the Ul rules in the base layer, and create a new layer for the payment rule for each division.
A bookseller maintains a database of more than 10,000 book titles. You have been asked to configure a form that a allow users to select a book by title.
How do you configure the form?
- A . Add a drop-down control arid source the data from the property value used in the control.
- B . Add a drop-down control and Source the data using a data page.
- C . Add an autocomplete control and Source the data using a data page.
- D . Add an autocomplete control and source the data from the clipboard work page.
In which situation do you configure branched rulesets?
- A . One team creates a new patch for an application while another team creates a new major version of the application
- B . You need to delegate rules to process owners from the business
- C . Multiple teams need to work on the same application version
- D . A team needs to work on the next version of an application while preparing to migrate the current version.
Which piece of application content do you localize by using a Field Value rule?
- A . Labels and drop-down values on a section rule
- B . Logos or other images on a harness rule
- C . User instructions in a paragraph rule
- D . User-editable text in a correspondence rule
