UiPath Associate Certification Guide: The go-to guide to passing the Associate certification exam with the help of mock tests and quizzes

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