UiPath Associate Certification Guide

UiPath Associate Certification Guide

by Niyaz Ahmed, Lahiru Fernando, Rajaneesh Balakrishnan
Released June 2022
Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
ISBN: 9781801072731

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Book description

A practical syllabus-based UiPath Associate certification guide to confidently passing your UiPath RPA Associate certification examination, covering real-world business cases, mock tests, and more

Key Features

  • Get certified successfully with this detailed syllabus-oriented examination guide
  • Work with real-world business cases that will help you grasp RPA topics better using practical examples
  • Practice with quizzes and mock exam papers with answers to prepare for the exam confidently

Book Description

UiPath is the most popular vendor in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) industry. If you're an RPA enthusiast or citizen developer who wants to succeed in the industry, achieving this certification can help you get accredited and ready for real-world challenges using UiPath.

UiPath Associate Certification Guide offers complete, up-to-date coverage of the UiPath RPA Associate certification exam to help you pass on the first attempt and get certified. The book is written in a clear, succinct way with self-assessment questions, quizzes with answers at the end of each chapter, exam tips, and mock exams with detailed answers and explanations. You'll start by getting to grips with the basic concepts of UiPath RPA, and then progress to an in-depth discussion of all the concepts required for Associate certification. Finally, you'll develop UiPath skills by gaining the required knowledge and implement these skills using sample business cases.

By the end of this UiPath book, you'll have covered everything you need to pass the exam, gained the knowledge you need to work on real-world case studies, and learned how to apply the various concepts to build enterprise-level use cases.

What you will learn

  • Get to grips with the basic concepts of UiPath RPA
  • Equip yourself with every resource required to pass the Associate exam on the first attempt
  • Gain the ability to apply what you've learned using real-world use cases
  • Work on different use cases and test your knowledge by taking quizzes
  • Get a feel for the real exam with practice questions and mock exams
  • Understand the concepts used in building enterprise-level use cases

Who this book is for

This RPA book is for those in technical and semi-technical roles such as citizen RPA developers, junior RPA developers, RPA developers, solution architects, business analysts, system administrators, college or university students and graduates, and UiPath and partner employees in pre-sales, services, support, and so on. If you are looking to get certified and meet the industry standard with the largest RPA vendor, then this book is for you.

Table of contents

  1. UiPath Associate Certification Guide
  2. Contributors
  3. About the authors
  4. About the reviewers
  5. Preface
    1. Who this book is for
    2. What this book covers
    3. To get the most out of this book
    4. Download the example code files
    5. Download the color images
    6. Conventions used
    7. Get in touch
    8. Share your thoughts
  6. Part 1: Importance of RPA
  7. Chapter 1: The Automation Journey and Identifying Suitable Business Processes
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Understanding why automation is driving digital transformation
    3. Implementing RPA in business
      1. Payroll processing
      2. Client information management
      3. Invoice processing
      4. Financial statement reconciliation
      5. Call center automation
      6. Loan processing
    4. What can RPA automate?
    5. Identifying processes for RPA
    6. Understanding the stages of an RPA journey
      1. Discovery
      2. Build
      3. Manage
      4. Run
      5. Engage
      6. Measure
    7. Knowing the RPA resources and responsibilities in an RPA project
      1. RPA solution architect
      2. RPA developer
      3. BA
      4. Implementation manager
      5. Infrastructure engineer/manager
      6. RPA support
    8. Summary
  8. Chapter 2: UiPath Ecosystem
    1. Technical requirements
    2. An overview of the UiPath Enterprise RPA platform
      1. Discover
      2. Build
      3. Manage
      4. Run
      5. Engage
    3. Setting up UiPath Studio
      1. Exploring the different editions
      2. Installing UiPath Studio
    4. Exploring the UiPath Studio interface
      1. The Designer panel
      2. The Project panel
      3. The Activities panel
      4. The Properties panel
      5. The Variables panel
      6. The Argument panel
      7. The Output panel
      8. The Outline panel
    5. Summary
  9. Chapter 3: Introducing UiPath Orchestrator
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Creating your first cloud Orchestrator instance
    3. Introducing the UiPath Cloud platform
      1. Home screen and Resource Center
      2. Actions
      3. Apps
      4. Processes
      5. Data Service
      6. AI Fabric
      7. Admin
    4. Introducing UiPath Orchestrator
    5. Understanding the fundamental concepts of UiPath Orchestrator
      1. Robots
      2. Folders
      3. Environment
      4. Organizational units
      5. Packages
      6. Processes
      7. Job
      8. Triggers
      9. Assets
      10. Queues
    6. Summary
  10. Chapter 4: Create, Deploy, and Execute RPA Process on the UiPath Ecosystem
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Connecting a robot to Orchestrator
      1. Creating a machine template in Orchestrator
      2. Creating a Robot account
    3. Creating your first RPA process
    4. Creating your second RPA process
      1. Prerequisite
    5. Managing packages in Orchestrator
      1. Using the latest version of the published package
      2. Creating an automation process
    6. Running the process from UiPath Assistant
    7. Summary
  11. Part 2: UiPath Studio
  12. Chapter 5: Learning about Variables and Arguments
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Exploring variables
      1. Properties of a variable
      2. Creating variables in UiPath
    3. Practicing variable creation
    4. Exploring arguments
      1. Properties of an argument
      2. Creating arguments in UiPath
    5. Practicing argument creation
    6. Understanding data types
    7. Summary
  13. Chapter 6: Understanding Different Control Flows
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Overview of control flows
    3. What are sequences?
      1. Example of a sequence
    4. What are flowcharts?
      1. Example of a flowchart
    5. Exploring decisions and types of decisions
      1. Example of an If activity
    6. Exploring loops and types of loops
      1. Do While
      2. While
      3. For Each
    7. Summary
  14. Chapter 7: Manipulating Data Using UiPath
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Explaining the concept of data manipulation
    3. Understanding string manipulation
      1. Concat function
      2. Contains function
      3. Format function
      4. Replace function
      5. IndexOf function
      6. SubString function
      7. Split function
      8. Join function
    4. Understanding date and time manipulation
    5. Understanding list manipulation
      1. Declaring list variables
      2. Adding items to a list
      3. Merging list variables
      4. Removing data in lists
      5. Modifying data in lists
    6. Understanding numeric calculations
    7. Understanding dictionary manipulation
      1. Initialization of dictionaries
      2. Adding new items to a dictionary
      3. Extracting data from Dictionary variables
    8. Understanding pattern-based data extraction with regexes
    9. Summary
  15. Chapter 8: Exploring UiPath Selectors
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Tags and attributes of selectors
    3. Selector Editor
    4. UI Explorer
    5. Types of selectors
      1. Partial selectors
      2. Full selectors
      3. Dynamic selectors
    6. Summary
  16. Chapter 9: Learning the Uses of Data Tables and Exploring Excel Automation
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Exploring data tables
    3. Creating and customizing data tables
      1. Creating data tables
    4. Creating and customizing data table variables
    5. Interacting with Excel files
      1. Excel Application Scope
    6. Practicing Excel automation
    7. Summary
  17. Chapter 10: Exploring User Interfaces and User/Robot Interactions
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Introducing UI interactions
      1. Foreground versus background automation
      2. Activities
      3. Properties
    3. Methods of recording the GUI
      1. Basic
      2. Desktop
      3. Web
    4. When to use which types of recording?
    5. Advanced UI Automation tools
    6. Input actions and methods
      1. Default or hardware events
      2. SendWindowMessages
      3. SimulateType
    7. Output actions and methods
      1. FullText
      2. Native
      3. OCR
    8. Summary
  18. Chapter 11: Automating PDF Data Extraction
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Creating robots that read PDF files
    3. Extracting text from a PDF using the Extract PDF Text and Extract PDF with OCR activities
    4. Extracting PDF text using Screen Scraping
    5. Extracting single dynamic values from PDF files
    6. Extracting individual values using the Anchor Base activity
    7. Summary
  19. Chapter 12: Exploring UiPath Email Automation
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Exploring email activities
    3. Extracting email contents using Receive Messages
    4. Automating sending email messages
    5. Automating filter and download attachments from an email
    6. Summary
  20. Part 3: Use Case and Exam Preparation
  21. Chapter 13: Debugging
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Understanding the debugging actions
      1. Debug File
      2. Stop
      3. Step Into
      4. Step Over
      5. Step Out
      6. Retry
      7. Ignore
      8. Restart
      9. Break
      10. Focus
      11. Slow Step
      12. Execution Trail
      13. Highlight Elements
      14. Continue on Exception
      15. Open Logs
    3. Working with the debugging panels
      1. The Locals panel
      2. The Watch panel
      3. The Immediate panel
      4. The Call Stack panel
      5. The Breakpoints panel
    4. Testing activities
      1. Test Activity
      2. Create Test Bench
      3. Run to this Activity
      4. Run from this Activity
    5. Fixing the workflow
    6. Summary
  22. Chapter 14: Invoice Processing – Dispatcher
    1. Technical requirements
    2. The project overview
    3. Setting up the project
    4. Downloading the invoice
    5. Reading the invoice
      1. Extracting customer details
      2. Extracting invoice particulars
    6. Uploading the invoice data to the Orchestrator queues
    7. Assembling Main.xaml
    8. Summary
  23. Chapter 15: Invoice Processing – Performer
    1. Technical requirements
    2. Project overview
    3. Setting up the project
    4. Starting the CRM
    5. Processing the queue
      1. Retrieving data from the transaction item
      2. Entering the customer details
      3. Entering the invoice particulars
    6. Setting the transaction item status
    7. Closing and opening the CRM
    8. Assembling the Main.xaml file
    9. Summary
  24. Chapter 16: How to Prepare and What to Expect
    1. Introducing the UiRPA and its target audience
    2. Exam sections and topics
      1. Exam sections
      2. Exam topics
    3. Question types and available practice tests
    4. Exam details and exam registration
      1. Exam details
      2. Exam registration
    5. Managing your certification
    6. Summary
  25. Chapter 17: Mock Exam 1
  26. Chapter 18: Mock Exam 2
  27. Appendix
    1. Mock Paper 1 Answers
    2. Mock Paper 2 Answers
    3. Why subscribe?
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Product information

  • Title: UiPath Associate Certification Guide
  • Author(s): Niyaz Ahmed, Lahiru Fernando, Rajaneesh Balakrishnan
  • Release date: June 2022
  • Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781801072731