Blue Prism Pro Developer study guide
Blue Prism Pro Developer · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Blue Prism Pro Developer credential (also listed as SS&C Blue Prism Professional Developer) is an advanced certification for automation developers who already build and support Blue Prism processes and objects in production environments. It is aimed at developers moving beyond foundational stage work toward solution design, integration, exception handling, queue-driven operations and governed delivery. The Blue Prism Pro Developer study guide has 6 sections and about 2,514 words.
01Process Design and Solution Architecture
Blueprinting is the heart of this domain. Before touching Process Studio, a Pro Developer can explain the business process in plain language, split it into a main process and reusable sub-processes, and decide which work belongs in Process Studio (business logic, orchestration) versus Object Studio (application interaction).
341 words, about 2 min02Process Studio Development (Stages, Decisions, Loops, Collections)
You must know the standard stages and when each is appropriate: Start, End, Action (calls an object action), Decision, Calculation, Multi-Calculation, Choice, Data Item, Collection, Loop, Block, Note, Anchor, Page (sub-page call), Exception, Recover, Resume, and Alert. Understand that links carry data via the stage's output properties, and that a Decision stage routes flow based on a boolean expression.
377 words, about 2 min03Object Studio and Application Integration (Spying, Web, Citrix, APIs)
Object Studio wraps a single application. You must know the application types (Windows application, Web, Java, mainframe/terminal, Citrix/virtualised) and the spy modes: Win32, Accessibility, UIA, HTML, Region, and Active Accessibility.
352 words, about 2 min04Error Handling, Exception Management and Recovery
Know the distinction between System Exceptions (technical failures - element not found, application crash, timeout) and Business Exceptions (the data or business rule says stop - customer not found, validation failed). This distinction drives everything: System Exceptions are usually retried or recovered; Business Exceptions are usually marked as failed work and not retried.
352 words, about 2 min05Work Queues
Work Queues decouple data acquisition from processing and give you load balancing, status tracking, and retry semantics. Know the item statuses: New, In Progress, Completed, Exceptioned, and Deferred.
385 words, about 2 min06Control Room and Scheduling
Control Room is the operational console. Know that a Resource (a digital worker machine) runs Sessions of a Process.
707 words, about 4 min