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C0010800 IBM Certified Developer – Robotic Process Automation v20.12.x Practice Exam
Exam Number: 4364 | Last updated April 17, 2026 | 353+ questions across 5 vendor-aligned objectives
Process automation developers who build bots on IBM Robotic Process Automation v20.12.x target the C0010800 credential. The exam validates your ability to design, build, test, and deploy bots that automate repetitive desktop and browser workflows for business users. Candidates should be fluent with the IBM RPA Studio, bot-recording tools, web-automation commands, and the control room that orchestrates bot execution across environments.
Picking up 26% of the exam, Bot Design and Development covers the RPA Studio, command library, variable scope, and modular bot design. At 22%, Web and Desktop Automation covers element identification, browser-automation commands, and resilient selector patterns. A further 20% targets Integration and Data, covering Excel, databases, REST APIs, and email automation.
Clamping down the remaining domains, Exception Handling and Testing accounts for 18% and spans try-catch patterns, logging, and unit-testing approaches for bots. Deployment and Orchestration represents 14% and spans the control room, bot scheduling, and queue-based execution. Developer scenarios reward resilience — pick the answer that keeps bots running when the target application drifts slightly.
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Question #1 - Bot Design and Development
An RPA developer at Sandmoor Accounting is building a bot that processes invoices across multiple applications.
Which IBM RPA v20.12.x bot-design approach fits?
A) Skip variable-scope discipline and use global variables everywhere
B) Write the entire bot as one giant script with no modularization
C) Design the bot in the IBM RPA Studio as modular subroutines — one per application — with clear variable scope and parameter passing so each module can be tested and reused
D) Avoid reuse by duplicating the same logic across bots
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Correct answers: C – Explanation:
Modular subroutines with scoped variables and parameters is the IBM RPA v20.12.x bot-design reference. Monolithic scripts, global-everywhere, and duplication all fail design discipline. Source: Check Source
Question #2 - Bot Design and Development
An RPA command at Oldbridge Finance must run a sequence only if a condition is true.
Which IBM RPA v20.12.x command-library construct fits?
A) Spawn multiple bots and cancel the ones that should not run
B) Use the built-in conditional (If/Else) command with a clear expression and nested logic where needed, keeping decision logic in one place
C) Use a loop that iterates once and hope it approximates branching
D) Skip conditionals and run every step regardless
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Correct answers: B – Explanation:
IBM RPA v20.12.x If/Else commands with clear expressions is the conditional reference. Spawn-and-cancel, loop hacks, and unconditional runs all fail bot-design discipline. Source: Check Source
Question #3 - Web and Desktop Automation
An RPA bot at Cortwell Insurance automates a web form whose field IDs change between deployments.
Which IBM RPA v20.12.x selector pattern fits?
A) Don’t use selectors; guess which element to click
B) Use only raw screen coordinates
C) Select elements by random class names that change weekly
D) Use resilient selectors — prefer stable attributes (aria-label, name, stable classes) over brittle IDs, and fall back to XPath anchors if necessary
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Correct answers: D – Explanation:
Resilient selector patterns with stable attributes is the IBM RPA v20.12.x reference. Coordinates, random classes, and guessing all fail web-automation resilience. Source: Check Source
Question #4 - Web and Desktop Automation
A desktop-automation bot at Renmere Logistics must wait for an application window to appear before continuing.
Which IBM RPA v20.12.x command fits?
A) Skip waiting and click the window before it appears
B) Insert a fixed 30-second Sleep and hope for the best
C) Use a Wait-for-Window (or equivalent wait-for-UI) command with a timeout, so the bot waits deterministically rather than sleeping for an arbitrary number of seconds
D) Retry the click a thousand times with no delay
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Correct answers: C – Explanation:
Wait-for-Window with timeout is the IBM RPA v20.12.x desktop-automation reference. Fixed sleeps, premature clicks, and retry storms all fail the pattern. Source: Check Source
Question #5 - Integration and Data
An RPA bot at Mintfield Retail must read a spreadsheet, look up a value, and write it back.
Which IBM RPA v20.12.x integration approach fits?
A) Use the Excel integration commands to open the workbook, read the required cells into variables, process the lookup, and write the results back — closing the workbook cleanly
B) Screenshot the spreadsheet and OCR the values
C) Ignore the spreadsheet and prompt the user to type values each run
D) Copy the spreadsheet to clipboard and paste into a database manually
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Correct answers: A – Explanation:
Excel integration commands with clean open/close is the IBM RPA reference for spreadsheet workflows. OCR, user prompts, and clipboard workflows all fail integration. Source: Check Source
Question #6 - Integration and Data
An RPA bot at Ravenside Bank needs to call an internal REST API to enrich its data.
Which IBM RPA v20.12.x integration command fits?
A) Screen-scrape the API’s Swagger UI for values
B) Use the HTTP/REST integration command to call the API with appropriate authentication (OAuth or API key) and parse the JSON response into variables
C) Ask a human to read the API response aloud
D) Skip the API entirely and guess the values
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Correct answers: B – Explanation:
HTTP/REST integration with auth and JSON parsing is the IBM RPA v20.12.x REST reference. Swagger scraping, human readers, and guessing all fail API integration. Source: Check Source
Question #7 - Exception Handling and Testing
An IBM RPA v20.12.x bot must recover gracefully when a target application is temporarily slow.
Which exception-handling pattern fits?
A) Wrap sensitive blocks in Try/Catch with a documented retry count and backoff, and log failures with a correlation ID for later analysis
B) Rely on the bot crashing and someone restarting it
C) Catch every exception silently with no log
D) Disable error handling entirely
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Correct answers: A – Explanation:
Try/Catch with bounded retries and correlation-ID logging is the IBM RPA exception-handling reference. Crash-and-restart, silent catches, and disabled handling all fail resilience. Source: Check Source
Question #8 - Exception Handling and Testing
A developer at Gravenhurst Insurance wants to unit-test a reusable RPA subroutine before using it in multiple bots.
Which IBM RPA v20.12.x testing practice fits?
A) Create a dedicated test bot that invokes the subroutine with representative inputs, asserts expected outputs, and runs as part of the development cycle
B) Test only in production with real data
C) Skip testing because bots cannot be unit-tested
D) Run the subroutine once manually and declare it done
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Correct answers: A – Explanation:
Dedicated test bots driving subroutines with assertions is the IBM RPA testing reference. Prod-first, no-tests, and one-and-done all fail testing discipline. Source: Check Source
Question #9 - Deployment and Orchestration
An RPA deployment at Pelfrith Bank must run a bot on a schedule and retry if it fails.
Which IBM RPA v20.12.x orchestration feature fits?
A) Skip scheduling and rely on users to invoke the bot
B) Run the bot on a developer laptop on a timer
C) Start the bot manually every morning
D) Publish the bot to the IBM RPA Control Room, configure a schedule, and enable retry policy per the runtime’s queue-based execution model
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Correct answers: D – Explanation:
Control Room scheduling plus retry policy is the IBM RPA v20.12.x orchestration reference. Laptops, manual starts, and user-invoked runs all fail enterprise orchestration. Source: Check Source
Question #10 - Deployment and Orchestration
An IBM RPA v20.12.x deployment at Creyton Industrial must distribute work across multiple unattended bots.
Which orchestration mechanism fits?
A) Assign work to bots by hand for each item
B) Use the queue-based execution model in the Control Room so work items are distributed to available unattended bots, with completion and failure statuses tracked per item
C) Run a single bot even when the queue is deep
D) Skip orchestration and let bots pick work at random
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Correct answers: B – Explanation:
Queue-based distribution in Control Room is the IBM RPA v20.12.x reference. Manual assignment, single-bot bottlenecks, and random pickup all fail orchestration. Source: Check Source
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What the C0010800 rpa v20 developer exam measures
- Design and build RPA Studio workflows, command library, variable scope, and modular bots to ship maintainable bots that survive organizational change in the automated process
- Identify and interact elements, browser-automation commands, and resilient selectors to automate desktop and web UIs reliably despite small UI drift
- Integrate and exchange Excel, databases, REST APIs, and email to move data between systems without the fragile cut-and-paste that manual work produces
- Catch and log try-catch patterns, logging, and unit-testing approaches to produce bots that fail safely and provide diagnostics when things break
- Deploy and orchestrate the control room, bot scheduling, and queue-based execution to run bots at scale across servers, schedules, and business queues
How to prepare for this exam
- Review the official exam guide to understand every objective and domain weight before you begin studying
- Work through the relevant IBM Training learning path — ibm certified developer robotic process automation v20 12 x C0010800 — to cover vendor-authored material end-to-end
- Get hands-on inside IBM TechZone or a comparable sandbox so you can practice the console tasks, CLI commands, and APIs the exam expects
- Tackle a real-world project at your workplace, a volunteer role, or an open-source repository where the technology under test is actually in use
- Drill one exam objective at a time, starting with the highest-weighted domain and only moving on once you can teach it to someone else
- Study by objective in PowerKram learn mode, where every explanation links back to authoritative IBM documentation
- Switch to PowerKram exam mode to rehearse under timed conditions and confirm you consistently score above the pass mark
Career paths and salary outlook
RPA developers sit at the intersection of business and technology, attracting strong offers across industries:
- RPA Developer — $90,000–$130,000 per year, building and deploying automation bots (Glassdoor salary data)
- Automation Engineer — $100,000–$140,000 per year, scaling automation portfolios across business units (Indeed salary data)
- Process Automation Consultant — $110,000–$150,000 per year, advising clients on automation strategy and delivery (Glassdoor salary data)
Official resources
Work through the official IBM Training learning path for this certification, which bundles videos, labs, and skill tasks aligned to every objective. The official exam page lists the full objective breakdown, prerequisite knowledge, and scheduling details.