Guidewire Associate Certification - InsuranceSuite Developer - Mammoth Proctored Sample Questions:

1. Which logging statement follows best practice?

A) If(_logger.InfoEnabled) { _logger.debug( " Adding ' ${contact.PublicID} ' to ContactManager " ) }
B) _logger.info(logPrefix + " [Address#AddressLine1= " + address.AddressLine1 + " ] [Address#City " + address.City + " ] [Address#State " + address.State + " ] " )
C) _logger.error(DisplayKey.get( " Web.ContactManager.Error.GeneralException " , e.Message))
D) If(_logger.DebugEnabled) { _logger.debug(logPrefix + someReallyExpensiveOperation()) }

2. An insurer wants to determine how many activities have been generated to review a denial decision with an Account Manager. A developer has written this query:
uses gw.api.database.Query
var queryResults = Query.make(Activity).select().toCollection().where(
\ act - > act.ActivityPattern.Code == " account_denial " )
This query does not perform as well as it should. Where should the results be filtered to follow best practices?

A) In the database
B) On the application server
C) In a block statement
D) In the application cache

3. The following screenshot displays a segment of the menu items in the sidebar on a Guidewire application:

[Financials, Notes, Documents, Plan of Action, Services, Litigation, History]. The business analysts have uncovered a requirement that the Documents, History, Litigation, and Notes pages should be grouped under a single heading, to be called Legal Records. What is the best practice for accomplishing this?

A) Click the gear icon in the UI, select user settings, select Sidebar, set preferences for the four pages according to the desired view
B) Place the views associated with those four pages onto a single screen named Legal Records, and place that screen on the sidebar, removing the individual pages from the sidebar
C) Create a location group named Legal Records, containing those four items, and add it to the sidebar, removing the individual pages from the sidebar
D) Rearrange the order of the sidebar so that the four pages are all together, set the indent property for all four pages, and insert a label above them, which reads Legal Records

4. A query is known to return 500,000 rows. Which two are recommended to process all 500,000 rows efficiently? (Select two)

A) Chunk the results into page sets.
B) Use Google Iterables.
C) Use setPageSize().
D) Sort the result by entity name.
E) Use a batch process for large result sets.

5. As a developer you are creating a new Gosu class for Succeed Insurance. According to the course material, which of the following statements define how you should implement logging in your new class? (Choose Two)

A) Checking the log level before logging is usually unnecessary, as logging typically has minimal impact on performance.
B) When logging at the debug level you should check to see if debugging in enabled first to minimize possible performance issues.
C) When logging Personal Identifiable Information (Pll), developers should log the information at least at the INFO level.
D) Providing context when logging errors is essential. However, developers should avoid excessive logging, as it can be costly to implement and maintain, and it may negatively impact performance.
E) Logging in the cloud can be provided in either a string format or JSON.
F) When logging an exception, provide details about the cause of the exception. Because you are providing a detailed description there is no need to log the exception message or stack trace.
G) All exceptions are errors, thus they should always be logged at the error level.

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