Advanced OPA 10 Training

Overview

The Advanced OPA Training course is aimed at participants on the road to becoming OPA Rules Architects and wishing to take their Oracle Policy Automation (OPA) skills to expert level, beyond the required standard for Oracle certification as an OPA Implementation Specialist.

One of the highlights of the course is the large topic of Temporal Reasoning, OPA’s market leading feature for modeling changing rules and circumstances over time.  This complex topic is covered in great detail, complemented by our challenging hands-on exercises which ensure that the participants are confident modeling rules with a temporal element.  Other highlights include Advanced Data Modeling techniques such as Inferred Relationships and Inferred Entities (new in version 10.4).

After taking this course, the participant will have the skills to model virtually any type of rule or logic in OPA. They will start to progress from a Rule Developer towards a Rule Architect, where they should then be able to assist other Rule Developers.

Duration

Typically 3 days.  Monad can be flexible and may be able to spread the course over several weeks, but we recommend that the course is delivered in a single week to be most effective.

Prerequisites

  • OPM (10.3 or later) installed on participants’ machines;
  • Basic IT proficiency including MS Word and MS Excel;
  • Prior basic OPA training, e.g. obtained from Monad’s OPA Core Training course;
  • Practical OPA expertise obtained from OPA project work (desirable but not required).

Course Outline

Day 1

  • Temporal Reasoning:
    • Introduction and Theory
    • Changes in rates & ref data
    • Changes in policy & rules
    • Change in circumstances

Day 2

  • Temporal Reasoning:
    • Advanced Temporal Reasoning
    • Rule design
  • Shortcut Rules
  • Structural Elements
  • Decision Report Optimisation

Day 3

  • Advanced Entity Relationships:
    • Inferred relationships
    • Inferred entities (OPA v10.4)
  • Advanced Entity Reasoning

 

Progression

The following courses are recommended for participants wishing to progress in a specific area of OPA expertise: