Blue Prism Developer study guide
Blue Prism Developer · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Blue Prism Developer certification (also referred to as the SS&C Blue Prism Developer Certification) is a professional credential for automation practitioners who design, build, and support robotic process automation and agentic automation solutions on the Blue Prism platform. It suits developers, automation engineers, and technical consultants who move beyond recording simple macros and need to construct maintainable, governed processes that run reliably in production. Candidates typically come from RPA delivery teams, shared-service automation groups, or systems-integration roles where Blue Prism Enterprise or Blue Prism Cloud is deployed. The exam is organized around four equally weighted domains: Process Design and Build; Process Studio and Object Studio Development; Business Objects and Application Integration; and Exception Handling, Control Room Operations and Governance. The Blue Prism Developer study guide has 4 sections and about 1,613 words.
01Process Design and Build
Blue Prism development begins with a documented, atomised process definition. Before building, a candidate should understand the distinction between a Process (the orchestrating artefact that lives in Process Studio) and a Business Object (a reusable, application-specific component in Object Studio).
341 words, about 2 min02Process Studio and Object Studio Development
Process Studio builds the main flow and uses Action stages to call Business Objects. Object Studio builds the application-specific layer and exposes Actions (public methods) and Functions (internal helpers).
342 words, about 2 min03Business Objects and Application Integration
A Business Object is a reusable contract between the process and an application. Its public Actions should be business-meaningful (for example, "Create Case" rather than "Click Button 3"), and each action should have defined inputs, outputs, and a clear description.
313 words, about 2 min04Exception Handling
Blue Prism distinguishes System Exceptions (raised by the platform, for example when a stage fails or an element is not found) from Business Exceptions (raised deliberately when a business rule is violated, such as an invalid account number). Candidates must know how to raise each, and why the distinction matters for reporting and retry behaviour.
617 words, about 3 min