ACD201 Appian Senior Developer Questions and Answers

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 creating a process to update specific fields in a list of records and you save the updated records to the database.

You're given the following performance considerations:

Execution time

Process instance memory usage

Process execution engine load balancing

Based on these performance metrics, rank the options from best to worst.

Note: To answer, move all steps from the Options list to the Answer List area and arrange them in the correct ranking order (best at the top, and worst at the bottom).

What should you use to create a predefined query in a database for ease of use?

A view is created with the primary table PERSON and is joined using a left join with the APPOINTMENT table on the column "PERSON_ID". There is a one-to-many relationship between the PERSON and APPOINTMENT tables.

A Custom Data Type (CDT) and a data store entity have been created based on this view, with the primary key being "PERSON_ID".

Review the data presented in the PERSON and APPOINTMENT tables:

Which two statements are true when the following query entity is executed? (Choose two.)

You need to test a related action that updates record data.

Appropriate users must be able to access the form. You also need to ensure that the data is successfully updated.

Using Appian, which is the best testing method you should use?

You receive a warning about approaching the 2,000,000 row limit with synced records in your Production environment.

What are two ways to efficiently address this warning to prevent reaching the limit? (Choose two.)

You're developing a record view for a case management system that enables users to upload files to a specific location within an external records application.

Your requirements are:

In this record view, there should be a record action that allows the user to upload a file to the interface and configure the metadata (name, author, file size) before submitting.

If the file is larger than 250MB, the user will be notified that the file will be uploaded overnight.

Once the file has been successfully uploaded, the file will appear on the record view and the user can interact with the file.

Which two pieces of user-facing information must be captured from this business process so that you can develop this record view? (Choose two.)

You're creating a process model that will serve as the case creation workflow.

Your requirements:

This process captures input from the user before executing a series of unattended subprocess nodes.

Each subprocess performs extended data processing which is dependent on output from each of the previous nodes.

An activity chained task node is displayed asking the user if they'd like to create another case.

What should you do?

You're inspecting the items in a deployment package for issues you might have missed during package preparation.

Which two objects can be in your list of missing precedents for an application? (Choose two.)

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.

Your development team has selected Jenkins as a Continuous Integration (CI) system to integrate testing of Appian into your overall testing strategy.

What should you do to set up automated testing of expression rules using Jenkins?

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

You need to connect to an external system using OAuth 2.0: SAML Bearer Assertion Flow authentication type, which requests access to an API on of a signed in user.

This standard has several steps involved with the SAML Bearer Assertion Flow.

Which two steps should you perform to connect to the external system? (Choose two.)

You need to write an expression to retrieve a list of all account managers who don't currently have an active customer account.

Which code snippet should you use?

A)

B)

C)

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?

You need to configure a process model that runs every day at 10:00 AM. The process should start only at the specified time even when a newer version of the process model is published.

A Boolean type constant needs to be configured in the process model. The intended flow of the process should be executed only when the constant is True.

Which three steps should you perform? (Choose three.)

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 interface to display all the employees of a company on a staff list.

You decide to use a!gridField() to create a user grid to display information from the company's AAA_Employee record, which has 42 fields relating to various employee information. To avoid cluttering the grid, you want to show six (6) fields on the grid.

How should you optimize the interface?

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 point-of-sale (POS) system for a customer which can associate the items in a transaction to a customer based on a membership number. The item stock table and the customer sales record are hosted elsewhere and need to be written to via POST APIs from an Appian process model. This all occurs within a transaction process model that you're creating.

Which two steps should you perform to design your process model to improve process memory? (Choose two.)

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 executing a performance test of the client's application. You notice that server-side resources are at high-to-critical operating levels.

What should you do to troubleshoot this issue?

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

You're building a new application to track job applications for a local health club.

The owner wants to have one group of individuals perform the initial application review for completeness, a second group to manage the interview process, and a third group to make the actual hiring decisions.

Which design element should be implemented to best support a memory efficient application?

You have designed a three-step 'Wizard' form interaction using user input tasks in the process model. The second step of the Wizard must utilize another process model which contains a user input task inside.

Which two methods should be implemented for a seamless Wizard-like interaction for the user? (Choose two.)

A local variable is reevaluated every time a form loads and you notice subsequent slow performance of the form.

Which two steps could you perform to optimize this? (Choose two.)

Which two options are correct regarding record relationships when using synced records in your application? (Choose two.)

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.)