How hard is blue prism developer certification?

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I have the highest level of certification for a Blue Prism developer, Blue Prism Accredited Professional Developer. The Blue Prism Accredited Developer Exam is a prerequisite to the Professional exam as well as the Accredited Solution Designer.
The exam is by far the easiest in comparison to the other two I mentioned. The exam is timeboxed at 60 minutes with 60 multiple choice questions randomly selected from a pool. The pass mark is 70%, 80–89% is merit and 90% and above is a distinction.
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You should have a good grasp of Blue Prism and according to the Blue Prism (BP) portal the exam will be centred around these (scope):
  • Detailed understanding of Blue Prism native functions and their correct application.
  • Date Functions: DateAdd() DateDiff() FormatDate() MakeDate() Now() Today() • Environment Functions: IsStoprequested()
  • • Text Functions: Concatenate() EndsWith() Mid() Left() Len() Right() StartsWith() Trim()
  • • Datatypes: different datatypes and casting data of one type to another type using a calculation stage.
  • Debugging: stepping in, stepping out, to breakpoints, what happens when exceptions are thrown when stepping over or stepping out of subpages.
  • Environment and session variables: when to use them, where they are created, how can they be amended, how are they assigned and when is a change affected in a process.
  • Exception handling: throwing exceptions and correct use of recover, resume stages. Exception types, detail and preserving detail. Correct use of blocks.
  • Process flow through decision, choice stages and sub-pages.
  • Wait stages: how to use them, when to use arbitrary waits.
  • Correct use of action retrying from a process as per Blue Prism standard template. (See portal template and process creation tutorial).
  • Knowledge of Blue Prism process templates and their structure and flow.
  • How to keep sensitive data out of session logs and Control Room
  • Process exposure to Control Room. How to control exposure and under what conditions will processes not be exposed?
  • Correct use of attributes to ensure consistent identification of elements. Which attributes are best for helping make element attributes unique? And which are not? Causes of previously spied elements suddenly not being found. Use of dynamic attributes, correct setting in application modeller and how to set attribute parameters from Blue Prism stages. Use of regular expressions to identify elements.
  • Correct use of Global Send Keys and Global Send Key Events.
  • Object exposure: correct understanding of the differences between background, foreground and exclusive modes and their effect when attempting to create sessions in Control Room
  • Collections and Loops; correct flow, correct syntax in decisions and calculations, nested collections and nested loops
  • Work queues; creation and administration. Functionality in the Control Room. All work queues internal business ob
To fully prepare for this exam, you need to study/master these areas (from the bp portal)
  1. Exception Handling Guide
  2. Work Queues Guide
  3. Developer Best Practice
  4. Lifecycle Orientation
  5. Object Layer Design
  6. Blue Prism Guide - Environment and Session Variables
The exam is scored against these sections
  • Process Flow
  • Objects
  • Datatypes variables
  • Exception Handling
  • General
  • Work Queues
  • Calculations Functions
  • Debugging
Where each section is totalled over 100.

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