Certified Pega Senior System Architect v8.0 (2019) — Question 16

A health plan application includes a process for surgical procedure requests. Currently, there is an evaluation subprocess in which a physician reviews the diagnosis and enters the recommended procedure and its urgency. The request then advances to a medical director who analyzes the feedback and approves the appropriate procedure. The health care organization has created a new requirement, which states that three physicians can perform the evaluation independently.
Only two evaluations are necessary to advance the case to the medical director.
In order to allow the three physicians to review the orders in parallel, how would you configure the process?

Answer options

• A. Add a Split Join shape, add a list of physicians, and call the surgical procedure request process.
• B. Add a Split For Each shape, add a list of physicians, and call the evaluation process.
• C. Add a Split Join shape, add a list of physicians, and call the evaluation process.
• D. Add a cascading approvals shape that is called by the evaluation subprocess.

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is A because a Split Join shape allows multiple physicians to evaluate the surgical procedure requests simultaneously, which is necessary for the new requirement. The other options do not correctly configure the process to enable parallel evaluations, as B suggests a Split For Each which does not fit the requirement, C incorrectly calls the evaluation process instead of the surgical procedure request, and D does not facilitate independent evaluations by multiple physicians.