[Pega Platform Architecture]
A multinational financial institution is contemplating the deployment of a high-availability architecture for its online banking platform to guarantee seamless service for its clientele. The institution acknowledges the potential financial repercussions and reputational harm linked with application downtime. Which principle should the institution prioritize in the design of its high-availability system to mitigate the risk of a single point of failure?
[Application Design]
What is the best approach for implementing limited-availability-and-concurrency design patterns?
[Integration]
Every day at 1 AM, all the ATM transactions at ABC Bank from the previous day are shared with the head office of the bank. All ATM machines perform this data sharing. ABC Bank uses this information to validate transactions and balance all the ledgers. If any discrepancy is identified, a dispute resolution flow initiates to investigate the root cause and resolve the dispute. ABC Bank has 1 million ATMs for which transactions need to be analyzed for discrepancies. Which one of the following is the optimal solution for gathering the transaction information from all the ATMs?
[Pega Platform Architecture]
You are a Pega developer working on a large-scale application. You need to manage different settings that control the behavior of your application. These settings need to be easily configurable by production users, should be able to vary between different environments, and should be packaged with the application when it is migrated. Which Pega feature is the most appropriate to use in this scenario?
[Reporting Design]
In a retail inventory management application, the system captures and stores product sales data in the backend database to manage inventory levels effectively. The organization requires a comprehensive report to analyze product sales trends over the past 5 years, including details on which products sold the most and least, and their corresponding profit margins. As a Lead System Architect, which well-designed solution do you suggest for implementing this requirement?