ACD101 Appian Associate Developer Questions and Answers

You need to add a new attribute to your database-backed synced Acme employee record.

What should you do?

According to Appian user interface best practices, which data type should be right-aligned on grids? Assume the use of the English language.

Match each Appian Design Object name to the most applicable use case.

Note: Each use case will be used once or not at all. To change your responses, you may deselect your response by clicking the blank space at the top of the selection list.

You are making changes to a record type named Support Case which has an existing related action titled Update Case.

Your customer requests an enhancement to make the update case action easily accessible when viewing the summary of a support case record.

What should you do?

You are reviewing a timesheet submission on a form.

The buttons on the form are: “Cancel”, “Deny”, and “Approve”. Most of the time, users will approve the timesheet.

According to Appian best practices, which button styling is most appropriate on the button labelled “Approve”?

You created and published a new process model.

The process model has a start form with two synchronous subprocesses with 40 and 66 nodes each. All nodes are chained from the start node through the subprocesses to the end node. After the tasks and subprocesses, there is a second User Input Task in which the user can confirm the entries and add a comment.

When testing as a normal Acme business user, you see that the confirmation screen is not shown to you.

What might be the reason for this behavior?

What is the impact of reordering fields in a record type backed by a database table?

Review the following variables:

Match each expression rule to the expected output.

Note: Each output will be used once or not at all. To change your responses, you may deselect your response by clicking the blank space at the top of the selection list.

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Review the following variables:

Match each expression rule to the expected output.

Note: Each output will be used once or not at all. To change your responses, you may deselect your response by clicking the blank space at the top of the selection list.

A user needs to navigate from a record summary to an external URL.

Which interface component can be used to support this goal?

After selecting a record, a user wants to initiate an activity in the context of that selected record.

You start by creating the process model that implements this activity.

What should you do next?

You are constructing an interface that is used as the form of a User Input Task in a process model.

The data entered on the form must be available in the process after the form is submitted.

Which domain prefix should be used for variables in the interface?

You are creating a new application with the prefix ACM.

Which four default folders are created by Appian when you select " Generate groups and folders to secure and organize objects " ? (Choose four.)

You are given a list of VM_Vehicles Custom Data Types (CDT).

Which smart service offers the best performance to write the values to the database?

Match each node to the correct description for the node.

Note: Each description 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.

Which step can be critical in passing information from a form back to a process model?

You are creating a form used to order a pizza. You use a radio button component for the selection.

The pizza selection labels include a list of toppings. You do not want the selection labels to be truncated.

Which layout should you choose?

You have a record type ABC_Author, backed by a database table.

You are using the Delete Records smart service to delete an author record.

What are the minimum parameters that need to be passed to the Delete Records smart service?

Where can you read the release notes for each Appian version?

You need to pass data into a process from other parts of your Appian application.

Which configuration is required in your process model?

What are three ways to start a process from an interface? (Choose three.)

Which Appian feature helps you access enterprise data quickly, define easily leveraged relationships, and establish custom fields based on available information?

A customer wants to display a small toolbar with three icons - a " sad face, " a " face with neutral expression, " and a " happy face " - on the bottom of every page in their application.

Users will be instructed to use the icon that best expresses their current experience using the application. This will allow the customer to collect valuable data about users.

Which object type should be called from each page to implement this feature?

You are working on an existing process model with three process variables:

1. pv!vehicleID (integer)

2. pv!vehicle(Custom Data Type (CDT)

3. pv!dealershipName (text)

You have a script task with an output variable, defined as rule!VIM_getVehicle(vehicleID: pv!vehicleID). The result is saved to pv!vehicle.

The rule VIM_getDealershipName() accepts the dealership ID, which is a field on the vehicle CDT, and returns the dealership name.

What should you update in the process model to set the value for pv!dealershipName?

You are configuring a Related Action for an entity-backed record type.

What is the proper domain prefix to reference the record data that will be passed into the Process Model as context for the Record Action?

You created a user interface that has a text field. After you type into the text field, you notice the text disappears when you click out of the text field.

What could be the issue?

You are creating a new interface object to display a pie chart.

The data for the chart is stored in a local variable in the parent interface object which references your child interface.

In terms of performance, what is the most efficient method to access the data required for the pie chart?

You are configuring a local variable on an interface to store the date and time that the username field was last modified. The local variables are currently configured as follows:

Which a!refreshVariable configuration should be added so that local!usernameLastModified stores the correct timestamp?

You want to prevent a user from submitting a form when an invalid value is entered.

What should you do?

Which statement about editing interfaces and expression rules is true?

You are creating a large, complex interface

Which statement describes a best practice for strategizing code organization?

The “Create Vehicle” process model writes a new vehicle to the database using the Write to Data Store Entity smart service. You provide a null value for the primary key, and the database manages the primary key id as an auto-incremented integer.

You need the value of the primary key for the new vehicle to use later in the process model.

How should you get the value?

Which statement reflects an Appian user interface design best practice?

You need to remove an unused field from an existing record type Product, which has data sync enabled and is backed by a database table.

What should you do?