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Pegasystems PEGAPCDC87V1 Certified Pega Decisioning Consultant (PCDC) 87V1 Exam Practice Test

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Certified Pega Decisioning Consultant (PCDC) 87V1 Questions and Answers

Question 1

Through analysis of customer lifecycles, Next-Best-Action ________

Options:

A.

provides future sales reports

B.

provides fulfillment services

C.

anticipates retention issues

D.

identifies global sales targets

Question 2

Reference module: Testing engagement policy conditions using audience simulation

U+ Bank, a retail bank, recently implemented a project in which mortgage offers are presented to qualified customers when the customers log in to the web self-service portal. As one of the offers is not performing well, the business wants to understand how many customers qualify for the offer. As a Decisioning Consultant, which simulation do you run to check how many customers qualify for an action?

Options:

Question 3

U+ Bank, a retail bank, wants to include offer related images in the emails that they send to their qualified customers. As a decisioning consultant, what best practice must you follow to include images in the emails?

Options:

A.

Provide links to images in the email

B.

Host images on an external server

C.

Embed images in the email directly

D.

Attach images to the email

Question 4

As a Customer Service Representative, you present an offer to a customer who called to learn more about a new product. The customer rejects the offer.

What is the next step that Pega Customer Decision Hub takes?

Options:

A.

Sends a detailed email about the offer

B.

Reevaluates the Next-Best-Action

C.

Adds the customer to the potential churn list

D.

Stops presenting offers to the customer

Question 5

Reference module: Creating and understanding decision strategies

In a decision strategy, to use a customer property in an expression, you _____.

Options:

A.

define the property as a strategy property

B.

define the Customer page in Pages and Classes

C.

prefix the property with the keyword Customer

D.

use the property as defined without a prefix

Question 6

A financial institution wants to add a new tracking period to track its customers' response over 15 days in various channels. Once the response is tracked, they want to suppress the credit card actions if customers ignore it three times within 15 days.

Put the steps in the correct order to implement this task.

Question # 6

Options:

Question 7

U+ Bank has recently introduced a few mortgage offers that are presented to qualified customers on its website- The business now wants to prevent offer overexposure, as overexposure negatively impacts the customer experience.

Select the correct suppression rule for the requirement: If a customer has clicked on any of the mortgage offers a total of three times in the last 7 days, do not show any mortgage offers to that customer for the next 10 days.

Options:

A.

Suppress an action for 10 days if there are three clicks for any channel in the last 7 days.

B.

Suppress a group of actions for 10 days if there are three clicks on the web channel in the last 7 days.

C.

Suppress an action for 7 days if there are three clicks on the web channel in the last 10 days.

D.

Suppress a group of actions for 10 days if there are three clicks on the web channel in the last 10 days.

Question 8

Myco, a telecom company, uses Pega Customer Decision Hub™ to present offers to qualified customers. The business recently decided to send offer messages through the email channel. The Design department has designed an email treatment which includes dynamic placeholders.

As a decisioning consultant, what do you use in order to test the visualization and the rendering of the email content, including replacing of the placeholders with customer information?

Options:

A.

a list of customer email addresses from the Test Message tab

B.

schedule an outbound run with a limited number of customers

C.

preview section from the email content editor

D.

a seed list from the Test Message tab

Question 9

U+ Bank, a retail bank, does not want to annoy customers by offering them a mortgage refinance option if they have less than 5% to pay off on their loan, although it would be profitable for the bank. Which engagement policy condition best suits this requirement?

Options:

A.

Applicability

B.

Eligibility

C.

Suitability

Question 10

A bank wants to leverage Pega Customer Decision Hub’s Next-Best-Action capability to promote new offers to each customer on their website. What information does Pega Customer Decision Hub send back to the website in response to the real-time container request?

Options:

A.

Only the image location and its type

B.

Only the image location

C.

The treatment details and relevant action attributes

D.

Only the action name and description

Question 11

U+, a retail bank, does not want to offer a Gold card to customers who already have a Platinum card. Which engagement policy condition best suits this requirement?

Options:

A.

Eligibility

B.

Applicability

C.

Suitability

Question 12

Which two of these statements are true about creating segments? (Choose Two)

Options:

A.

In a segment you can reference customer properties OR another segment, but not both

B.

A segment run can be triggered by the Next-Best-Action outbound schedule

C.

The list of customers in a segment can be viewed from within the segment

D.

When building the segment, if you want to know the count resulting from the criteria defined so far, the only way to do this is by running the segment

E.

The result of a criteria group can be combined with the result above it using AND and OR operators

Question 13

MyCo, a mobile company, uses Pega Customer Decision Hub™ to display offers to customers on its website. The company wants to present more relevant offers to customers based on customer behavior. The following diagram is the action hierarchy in the Next-Best-Action Designer.

Question # 13

The company wants to present offers from both the groups and arbitrate across the two groups to select the best offer based on customer behavior.

As a decisioning consultant, what do you configure to select the best offer from both groups based on customer behavior?

Options:

A.

Enable an action value in the prioritization formula.

B.

Ensure that the propensity is enabled in Arbitration tab.

C.

Create a prioritization decision strategy at the Group-level.

D.

Create an adaptive model rule at the Issue-level.

Question 14

Reference module: Creating and understanding decision strategies.

What does a dotted line from a Group By component to a Filter component mean?

Options:

A.

There is a one-to-one relationship between the Group By and Filter components

B.

The Filter component references a property in the Group by component

C.

Evaluate the Filter component first to evaluate the Group by component

D.

Information from the Group By component is copied over to the Filter component

Question 15

Reference module: Analyzing the effect of business changes using Pega Scenario Planner.

Myco, a telco, has recently implemented a project in which data plan offers are presented to qualified customers. Myco wants to understand the impact to revenue if the business introduces a new data plan offer. As a Decisioning Consultant, which simulation do you run to meet the requirement?

Options:

A.

Pega Value Finder

B.

Pega Scenario Planner

C.

Audience Simulation

D.

Distribution Test

Question 16

Reference module: Testing engagement policy conditions using audience simulation.

As a Decisioning Consultant, you are tasked with running an audience simulation to test the engagement policy conditions. Which of following statements is true when the simulation scope is Audience simulation with engagement policy and arbitration?

Options:

Question 17

U+ Bank decides to introduce a credit cards group by leveraging the Next-Best-Action capability of Pega Customer Decision Hub™ The bank wants to present the credit card offers through inbound and outbound channels based on the following criteria.

1 Customers must be above the age of 18 to qualify for credit card offers

2. The site offers credit cards only if customers do not explicitly opt-out of any direct marketing for credit cards.

3. The Platinum Card one of the credit card offers, is suitable for customers with debt-to-income ratio < 45

As a decisioning consultant, how do you implement this requirement? In the Answer Area, select the correct engagement policy for each criterion.

Question # 17

Options:

Question 18

A bank wants to sell more mortgages in the fourth quarter and is willing to offer mortgages even in situations where a credit card may have created more value. Which arbitration factor do you configure to implement this requirement?

Options:

A.

Eligibility

B.

Suitability

C.

Business levers

D.

Applicability

Question 19

Reference module: Adding more tracking time periods for contact policies

A bank is currently displaying a group of mortgage offers to its customers on their website. The bank wants to suppress the mortgage group for 15 days if a customer ignores three offers from the mortgage group. How do you define the suppression rule for this requirement?

Options:

A.

Suppress an action for 15 days if there are 3 rejects for web channel

B.

Suppress a group of actions for 15 days if there are 3 rejects for any channel

C.

Suppress a group of actions for 15 days if there are 3 impressions for the web channel without a click

D.

Suppress an action for 15 days if there are 3 impressions for any channel without a click

Question 20

U+ Bank, a retail bank, wants to begin promoting credit card offers via email to qualified customers. The business would like to ensure that the outbound run always uses the latest customer information.

What do you configure to implement this requirement?

Options:

A.

Trigger an external ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) process

B.

Select Refresh the audience

C.

Run the starting population segment daily

D.

Select different audience sample with similar profile

Question 21

When a customer is offered an action that they already accepted, this is because_________.

Options:

A.

the strategy is not customized to exclude previously accepted offers

B.

there are no suppression rules defined

C.

the actions are filtered based on eligibility

D.

the customer intent was captured incorrectly

Question 22

MyCo, a telecommunications company, wants to implement one-to-one customer engagement using Pega Customer Decision Hub™. Which of the following real-time channels can the company use to present Next-Best-Actions? (Choose Three)

Options:

A.

Traditional television advertisements

B.

A retail store

C.

The call center

D.

SMS

E.

Billboard on the company building

Question 23

U+ Bank wants to introduce a new group of offers called Credit cards for all customers. As a decisioning consultant, which two valid actions do you create? (Choose Two)

Options:

A.

Credit card status

B.

No annual fee credit card

C.

1% cashback credit card

D.

Credit card number

Question 24

U+ Bank has recently started using Pega Customer Decision Hub™ to display the first credit card offer, the Standard card, to every customer who logs in to their website.

Which three tasks do you need to perform to implement this requirement? (Choose Three)

Options:

A.

Set up business structure to Sales/CreditCards

B.

Define customer engagement polices

C.

Create and configure the real-time container

D.

Create the action and its web treatment

E.

Define customer contact policies

Question 25

You are a strategy designer on a next-best-action project and are responsible for designing and implementing decision strategies.

Select each component on the left and drag it to the correct requirement on the right.

Question # 25

Options:

Question 26

U+, a retail bank, has recently implemented a project in which credit card offers are presented to qualified customers when they log in to the web self-service portal. They have unit-tests in place using persona tests. The bank has recently added new engagement policy conditions to present credit cards to qualified customers and re executed the tests. They see failures in the tests. What do they do next?

Options:

A.

Accept that some of the tests are failing because of the changes

B.

Remove the failing tests to ensure everything is green

C.

Analyze test case failures, change them and re execute until everything is green

D.

Revert the engagement policy rules so that the persona tests not failing

Question 27

Myco, a telco, wants to present their customers with new 5G data plans – the Unlimited plan, the 500GB plan, and the 100GB plan – on their web portal. As a Decisioning Consultant, you want to test how the three new offers will be distributed by running a distribution test that only considers eligibility without arbitration. In this scenario, which report will test this requirement?

Options:

A.

Channel Report

B.

Bias Report

C.

Action Distribution Report

D.

Action Priority Report

Question 28

A volume constraint is configured to apply constraints to actions as a group rather than for each action individually. A customer qualifies for 3 actions, and the volume limit on the top-ranked action is above zero, the limits on the 2 lower-ranked actions have been reached. Given this scenario, how many actions will be selected for the customer in the outbound run?

Options:

A.

3

B.

0

C.

2

D.

1

Question 29

U+ Bank, a retail bank, presents offers on its website by using Pega Customer Decision Hub™. The bank wants to leverage Customer Decision Hub capabilities to present relevant offers to qualified customers. As a decisioning consultant, you are responsible for configuring the business requirements with the Next-Best-Action Designer, which involves several tasks. To accomplish these tasks, you might have to use auto-generated decision strategies, create new decision strategies, or edit existing strategies.

In the Answer Area, select the correct execution for each Task.

Question # 29

Options:

Question 30

Reference module: Analyzing customer distribution using Pega Value Finder.

Myco, a telco, is working on implementing a project in which post-paid offers are presented to qualified customers. In the build stage of the ideation, the business wants to look for new opportunities to improve marketing. As a Decisioning Consultant, which simulation do you run to meet the requirement?

Options:

A.

Distribution Test

B.

Audience Simulation

C.

Pega Value Finder

D.

Pega Scenario Planner

Question 31

A bank wants to leverage the Next-Best-Action capability of Pega Customer Decision Hub™ to promote new offers to each customer on their website. What information does Pega Customer Decision Hub send back to the website in response to the real-time container request?

Options:

A.

Only the image location and its type

B.

Only the image location

C.

Only the action name and description

D.

The treatment details and relevant action attributes

Question 32

Myco, a telecom company, has recently implemented Pega Customer Decision Hub™. Now, the company wants to move away from traditional marketing and leverage the always-on outbound capabilities.

What artifact do you configure to translate the traditional segments used to identify the target audience?

Options:

A.

Engagement policies and Arbitration

B.

Contact policies

C.

Segmentation

D.

Audience

Question 33

Reference module: Sharing action details with third-party distributors.

A bank has chosen an email service provider to deliver the offer messages selected by Pega Customer Decision Hub. The service provider prefers that the bank uploads a file per batch of customers to a cloud storage location, either on Microsoft Azure or Amazon S3. As a consultant working on the project representing the bank, what is your response?

Options:

A.

Action details can only be transferred via secure FTP

B.

Action details will be written to the local filesystem by default. But we will write an external process to transfer them to the cloud

C.

Action details can be directly written to either of those cloud storage solutions

D.

Action details can be written directly to Amazon S3 but not Microsoft Azure

Question 34

As a decisioning consultant, you advise the board on the business issues for which they must use the Next-Best-Action strategy.

Which three business issues do you recommend? (Choose Three)

Options:

A.

Collections

B.

Service

C.

Retention

D.

Resource Planning

E.

Accounting

Question 35

U+ Bank, a retail bank, uses the Business Operations Environment to perform its Business changes. The bank carries out these changes in the Pega Customer Decision Hub portal by using revision management features or the 1:1 operations Manager Portal.

Customers see credit card offers based on various engagement policies on the U+ Bank website. The bank wants to update the underlying decision strategy of an engagement policy condition. In which portal do you create the change request to fulfill new business requirement?

Options:

A.

1:1 Operations Manager Portal

B.

Dcv studio portal

C.

Pega Customer Decision Hub Portal

D.

Development Manager Portal

Question 36

U+ Bank promotes credit card offers on its website and uses Pega Customer Decision Hub to personalize the offer for every customer. Now, the bank wants to lower the number of customers that leave the bank by showing a proactive retention offer to high churn risk customers instead. As an NBA analyst, you are tasked with creating a new applicability setting to comply with the new business rule. Which business issue or issues do you modify?

Options:

A.

The Sales issue

B.

The Retention issue

C.

No modification is required

D.

The Sales issue and the Retention issue

Question 37

U+ Bank, a retail bank, wants to show home loan offers to customers who log in to their website. U+ Bank decides to use the Pega Customer Decision Hub™.

What information does the U+ Bank website receive in response to the real-time container request by Customer Decision Hub?

Options:

A.

Only the action name and description

B.

Only relevant action details and its treatment details

C.

Only the image location

D.

Only the image location and its placement type

Question 38

U+ bank uses a decision table to return a label for a customer. Examine the above decision table and select which label is returned for a customer with a CLV score of 550 and a LOW propensity to leave

Question # 38

Options:

A.

B

B.

A

C.

D

D.

C

Question 39

Reference module: Creating and understanding decision strategies. Enrichment decision components provide the ability to ________.

Options:

A.

set a text value to a strategy property

B.

filter actions based on priority and relevance

C.

set customer properties

D.

enrich a decision strategy with comments

Question 40

MyCo, a telco, wants to offer a Fiber Optic Cable package only to customers who live in towns that have fiber optic cable available. Which engagement policy condition best suits this requirement?

Options:

A.

Applicability

B.

Eligibility

C.

Suitability

Question 41

U+, a retail bank, has recently implemented a project in which credit card offers are presented to qualified customers when they log in to the web self-service portal. To show the offers per the bank’s requirements, the bank added all existing contact policy conditions. What is the immediate next step they should take?

Options:

A.

Go live for all customers and check the performance on a weekly basis

B.

Add unit tests using persona testing before going live

C.

Conduct numerous what-if simulations before going live

D.

Go live for a limited number of customers and check the performance on a daily basis

Question 42

A marketer created a segment as the starting population for the outbound schedule. In Options and Schedule, she enabled the Refreshable Segment option. What does this option do?

Options:

A.

A refreshable segment is only populated when another segment refreshes it

B.

Refreshable segments must not be used as the starting population in an always-on outbound schedule

C.

It automatically refreshes all segments referenced by it

D.

It allows other segments to automatically refresh the current segment when the other segments that reference it are run

Question 43

The following decision strategy outputs the most profitable shoe a retailer can sell. The profit is the selling Price of the shoe, minus the Cost to acquire the shoe.

Question # 43

The details of the shoes are provided in the following table:

Question # 43

According to the decision strategy, what is the output of component in the blank space highlighted in red?

Options:

A.

Nike, Adidas, Puma, Reebok

B.

Reebok, Puma, Adidas, Nike

C.

Reebok

D.

Nike

Question 44

A bank is currently sending promotional emails related to credit card offers to qualified customers. Now the bank wants to prevent overexposure to these offers. As a part of this effort, the bank wants to avoid sending the same promotional offer email for the next 60 days if the email was rejected twice by the customer in the last 30 days. How do you define the suppression rule for this contact policy?

Options:

A.

Suppress an action for 60 days if there are 2 rejects in any channel in the last 30 days

B.

Suppress a group of actions for 60 days if there are 2 rejects in the email channel in the last 30 days

C.

Suppress an action for 60 days if there are 2 rejects in the email channel in the last 30 days

D.

Suppress a group of actions for 60 days if there are 2 rejects in any channel in the last 30 days

Question 45

The U+ Bank marketing department wants to leverage the next-best-action capability of Pega Customer Decision Hub™ on its website to promote new offers to each customer.

Place the events in the sequential order.

Question # 45

Options:

Question 46

MyCo, a telecom company, has a new requirement to track customer responses over a period of 20 days. What do you need to create to start tracking customer responses for the given period of time?

Options:

A.

Interaction History component

B.

Data Join component

C.

Interaction History summary rule

D.

Group By component

Question 47

Reference module: Testing engagement policy conditions using audience simulation

As a Decisioning Consultant, you are tasked with running an audience simulation to test the engagement policy conditions. Which of following statements is true when the simulation scope is Audience simulation with engagement policy and arbitration?

Options:

Question 48

MyCo, a telecom company, notices that when customers call to check on bill status, 80% of the time, they received the wrong offer promotion, leading to customer dissatisfaction. The company decides to boost customers' needs in the prioritization formula, to improve sales in the current quarter.

Which arbitration factor do you configure to implement the requirement?

Options:

A.

Context weighting

B.

Propensity

C.

Business weighting

D.

Action value

Question 49

A telco wants to add a contact policy that will suppress an action for 30 days if it was rejected twice in any channel in the last 15 days. How do you define the suppression rule for the contact policy?

Options:

A.

Suppress a group of actions for 30 days if there are 2 rejects in the web channel in the last 15 days

B.

Suppress a group of actions for 30 days if there are 2 rejects for any channel in the last 15 days

C.

Suppress an action for 30 days if there are 2 rejects in the web channel in the last 15 days

D.

Suppress an action for 30 days if there are 2 rejects for any channel in the last 15 days

Question 50

What is the name of the property that is automatically recomputed for each decision component?

Options:

A.

Rank

B.

Priority

C.

Order

D.

Propensity

Question 51

Reference module: Sending offer emails

U+ Bank currently uses Next-Best-Action Designer to manage 1:1 customer engagement in the web channel. The bank would like to promote the same offers in email. Which two additional configurations are needed in Next-Best-Action Designer to promote the offers in email? (Choose Two)

Options:

A.

Ensure that the email channel is enabled

B.

Configure the arbitration to boost prioritization of actions meant for email

C.

Define the primary schedule

D.

Create a separate issue and group business structure in the taxonomy that is specific to email actions

E.

Setup real-time container triggers to communicate with the email server

Question 52

Using Pega Customer Decision Hub, a mobile company transitions from a one-to-many to a one-to-one marketing approach.

The company is introducing a new data plan.

To offer the new data plan, what must the mobile company focus on when implementing the Next-Best-Action paradigm?

Options:

A.

Offer the new retention plan for all customers in a certain region

B.

Meet the quarterly targets regardless of customer needs

C.

Maximize customer churn for low-value customers

D.

Customer relevancy and business profitability

Question 53

A bank wants to leverage Pega Customer Decision Hub’s Next-Best-Action capability to promote new offers to each customer on their website. Which artifact do you need to configure to manage the communication between the Customer Decision Hub and external channels?

Options:

A.

Real-time Event

B.

Event strategy

C.

Real-time Container

D.

Real-time Containers manage communication between Pega Customer Decision Hub and external channels

Question 54

Which statement is true about email treatments?

Options:

A.

You must always embed the images in the email

B.

When you use a seed list to test an email, the personalization attributes do not appear in the received email

C.

You can personalize the email subject, for example, Dear

D.

When you design emails using external tools, you cannot include Pega-specific personalization tags

Question 55

U+ Bank, a retail bank, presents various credit card offers to its customers on its website. The bank uses artificial intelligence (AI) to prioritize the offers based on customer behavior. Since introducing the Gold credit card offer, the offer click through rate propensity has increased to 0.83.

What does the increase in the propensity value most likely indicate?

Options:

A.

Similar customers have ignored the offer.

B.

Similar customers have shown interest in the offer.

C.

Similar customers have rejected the offer.

D.

Similar customers have purchased other offers.

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