PEGACPDC88V1 Certified Pega Decisioning Consultant 8.8 V1 Questions and Answers

When you create a new trigger in the Next-Best-Action Designer, Pega Customer Decision Hub automatically generates a decision strategy for that trigger and channel. You do not need to create or modify any strategies manually. Verified References: Pega Academy - Decisioning Consultant - Creating triggers

To introduce a new group of offers called Tablets for all customers, you need to create valid actions that represent propositions that you want to present to your customers. In this case, two valid actions are Netflix subscription for 12 months and 5% discount on the price. These are examples of benefits or incentives that can attract customers to buy tablets from MyCo. Tablet serial number and tablet operating system are not valid actions because they are not propositions that can be offered to customers; they are attributes or features of the tablets themselves. Verified References: Pega Academy - Decisioning Consultant - Creating actions and treatments

Increasing stage upweighting is a feature that allows you to gradually increase the weight of a stage over time, making the offers in that stage more likely to be selected. This is useful for promoting offers that are time-sensitive or have a limited availability. In this case, the bank wants to actively increase offers promotion over time, so enabling increasing stage upweighting for the second stage of the journey, where the offers are presented, is the best option. Verified References: [Pega Decisioning Consultant | Pega Academy]

Aggregation components are used to perform calculations on a list of actions, such as sum, average, count, minimum, or maximum. For example, you can use an aggregation component to calculate the total value of all the actions in a group. Verified References: Pega Academy - Decisioning Consultant - Aggregating actions

The always-on outbound customer engagement paradigm relies on AI to select the best action for each customer at any given time, based on their profile, context, and behavior. You do not need to create separate segments or schedules for different offers or timings. You can configure the primary schedule to run daily and let the AI choose the best action based on engagement policies, such as contact policies, eligibility rules, suitability rules, and arbitration. The AI will also learn from the customer responses and optimize the action selection over time.

Pega Customer Decision Hub is a dynamic and adaptive system that constantly reevaluates the Next-Best-Action for each customer based on their interactions and feedback. If a customer rejects an offer, the system will update the customer profile and the offer performance, and then reapply the Next-Best-Action strategy to select and prioritize another offer that is more relevant and valuable for the customer. Verified References: [Pega Decisioning Consultant | Pega Academy]

Volume constraints allow you to limit the number of times an action is presented to customers across one or more channels. You can use volume constraints to implement the requirement that customers do not receive more than four promotional emails per quarter, regardless of past responses to that action by the customer. You can configure the volume constraint to limit the number of actions per channel per quarter and select the option to ignore previous responses. Outbound channel limits are used to limit the number of customers contacted per channel per run, not per quarter. Suppression policies are used to exclude customers from receiving an action based on certain conditions, such as opt-out preferences or recent purchases, not based on the number of times the action is presented. Suitability rules are used to determine whether an action is suitable for a customer based on their propensity, priority, or other criteria, not based on the number of times the action is presented. 

To access a property from an unconnected component, you use the component-dot-property construct. For example, if you want to access the property .Rank from an unconnected component named ActionRanking, you use ActionRanking.Rank. Verified References: Pega Academy - Decisioning Consultant - Accessing properties from unconnected components

A suppression policy allows you to define conditions that prevent customers from receiving an action or a group of actions. You can use a suppression policy to implement the requirement that customers do not see home loan offers on their account page if they have already received three home loan offers in the last two weeks. You can configure the suppression policy to suppress the home loan group based on the number of times the customer received any action from that group in the past 14 days. Applicability rules are used to determine whether an action is relevant for a customer based on their profile or context, not based on the number of times they received an action. Customer contact limits are used to limit the number of times a customer can be contacted per channel per time period, not based on the number of times they received an action. Volume constraints are used to limit the number of times an action is presented to customers across one or more channels, not based on the number of times they received an action. Verified References: [Certified Pega Decisioning Consultant | Pega Academy], Suppression policies

To implement this requirement, you need to select the Refresh the audience checkbox in the outbound run configuration. This option allows you to refresh the audience data before each run by executing a data flow that reads from your customer data source and updates your customer data set. This way, you can ensure that the outbound run always uses the latest customer information available in your system. Verified References: Pega Academy - Decisioning Consultant - Configuring outbound runs

To implement this requirement, you need to create an action and the associated web treatment, a real-time container, and a business structure. An action is a proposition that you want to present to a customer, such as a credit card offer. A treatment is the way you present the action to a customer, such as an image or a text message. A real-time container is a configuration that defines how to deliver actions and treatments to a specific channel, such as a website or a mobile app. A business structure is a hierarchy of business groups and business issues that organizes actions into meaningful categories. Verified References: Pega Academy - Decisioning Consultant - Creating actions and treatments, Pega Academy - Decisioning Consultant - Configuring real-time containers, [Pega Academy - Decisioning Consultant - Defining business structure]

To implement this requirement, you need to create an external email treatment and use an external tool to design the email. An external email treatment is a type of treatment that allows you to use a third-party email service provider to send emails to your customers. You can configure the external email treatment with the name of the provider, the authentication details, and the template ID that corresponds to the email content that you design using an external tool. This way, you can leverage your existing tools and processes for sending emails, while still using Customer Decision Hub to select the best actions and treatments for your customers. Verified References: Pega Academy - Decisioning Consultant - Creating external treatments

The business weight is a parameter that allows you to manually adjust the priority of an offer based on your business objectives and preferences. The business weight is multiplied by the business value and the propensity to calculate the final priority score of an offer. A higher business weight means a higher priority score, making the offer more likely to be selected and presented to the customer. Therefore, if you want to boost an offer, you can increase its business weight. Verified References: Pega Decisioning Consultant | Pega Academy

Pega Customer Decision Hub always selects and prioritizes the most relevant and valuable action for each customer at any given moment, regardless of whether the action is part of a journey or not. A journey is a way to group and organize actions that are related to a common business objective or customer need, but it does not override the Next-Best-Action strategy that determines the best action for each customer. Therefore, if a customer receives an offer that is not included in any journey, it means that the offer is more suitable and beneficial for the customer than any other offer in the journey. Verified References: Pega Decisioning Consultant | Pega Academy