ACD201 Appian Senior Developer Questions and Answers

You need to relate two entities, Employee and Skill, in the data structure. You want to adhere to Appian best practices.

Employees can have multiple skills, and a single skill can relate to multiple employees.

What type of relationship do these entities represent, and what is the minimum number of tables required to implement the design?

You're creating an application which has integrations with multiple systems using different protocols.

Match each process model component or node to the appropriate protocol.

Note: Each protocol will be used once. To change your responses, you may deselect your response by clicking the blank space at the top of the selection list.

You need to configure your process model to store the result of an expression rule for every item in a list. Your design must have the smallest memory footprint.

What should you do?

You need to create a web API so that an external system can start a process in your app.

Which two statements are true about using a service account to authenticate the system? (Choose two.)

You need to display information for pending tasks for each individual in an application. The tasks may be for a single specific application.

Which context type should you select for the Task Report Type?

Which step should you perform to identify expression rules that have been causing or have caused performance issues in the past 30 days?

You're refining a story regarding a highly regulated form, where information needs to be sent to a regulatory body at the end of each month to ensure that the business complies with laws and legislation. The story only concerns the creation of the form.

You need to create a form that captures information to comply with the regulatory requirements.

Which two questions should you ask the business? (Choose two.)

The synced record Task has a self-referential relationship defined in the column parentTaskId. There is a many-to- one record relationship between the id and parentTaskId called parentTask.

For a given task ID, you need to return the task name and the parent task name.

What should you do?

The synced record type Customer has a one-to-many relationship with the Case record type.

You need to calculate the number of open cases for each customer.

What are two valid methods to accomplish this? (Choose two.)

You're reviewing the data store performance logs. You notice several items were logged in the generated slow query log file: perf_monitor_rdbms_slow.csv.

What is the default threshold value for a slow query to be included in this log file?

You need to create a new database schema using a connected data source system.

What should you do?

Note: To answer, move all steps from the Options list to the Answer List area and arrange them in the correct order.

What are two advantages of database normalization? (Choose two.)

You're configuring Health Check settings under the Admin Console.

Which section would you find the setting to indicate that the Health Check will run on a Production Environment?

You need to configure Appian user authentication against an external directory server. The requirement is to use the same corporate logon information without single sign-on (SSO).

Which authentication type should you use?

You run a report on different employee transactions by using a View.

You encounter the following error: "a!queryEntity: An error occurred while retrieving the data."

What is the most likely root cause of this error?

You need to create an expression rule that will be reused throughout your environment.

What are two reasons why you should include meaningful test cases when creating a new expression rule? (Choose two.)

You're developing a user input form for a financial services application.

One component of this form requires you to embed an external site (in the form of a URL) that can receive inputs from Appian and return updates as the user interacts with it.

What should you do?

You're redesigning user interfaces to achieve more efficient space usage.

Which layout component is the best choice for displaying an interface with a vertical meaningful order of components?

You're designing an expression rule that needs to retrieve employees from a database for a given department and display their full name concatenated with their role in a list for a dropdown field.

Which design approach should you recommend?

You need to implement a Gender dropdown, where the choice labels may need to be altered in the future. The transactional database tables rely on this data for reporting, so the data must be accurate.

What is the recommended action?

You're in the process of deploying a package to the client's TEST environment at the end of a sprint. This package is only relating to changes to a single application.

Which two statements best describes the practices you should follow for automated testing for expression rules either before or after deploying the package? (Choose two.)

You need to implement a field-level audit functionality on the application data, and then display a log of the changes made over time to the users.

What should you do?

You're creating a synced record type which will store read-only data from an external web service. Data in the external system is updated nightly, and the latest information must be available to users in the morning. Currently there are approximately 150,000 entries in the external system, and this number is not expected to change significantly.

There is an existing integration object and associated expression rule, which when called returns the complete dataset from the external system.

What are two configurations that you must apply to ensure that the latest and complete record set is available? (Choose two.)

You’re designing a file upload process that integrates with an external document management system.

Part of this process is to develop a start form with a file upload component, so that the user can upload multiple files.

The business has requested that the maximum file size that can be uploaded through this process is 1GB. Additionally, you’re aware that the integration's API can accept files with a maximum file size of 3GB, but recommends no larger than 1GB.

Can the process be more performant without straining the application or integration?

One of your expressions uses too much memory and has poor performance.

Which two steps should you perform to improve its memory efficiency and performance?

You’re making a POST request to the Appian web API. You need to include complex data structures, such as lists or objects, in the request body.

How should you design the API to accept those requests?

You're building an application with a review workflow.

Each submission must be approved by three users who can each approve or reject their request, and leave a comment. This action changes the status of the submission to 'Approved' or 'Rejected' correspondingly, and pushes the review to the previous or next assignee.

Which data model captures the workflow requirements appropriately?

You're conducting a design review.

You identify slow-performing expression rules querying a specific data store, and need to understand the "number of operations against data stores."

Which metric from the data_store_details.csv file is helpful to you?