ACD201 Appian Senior Developer Questions and Answers

You're designing a process used to notify multiple users of marketing campaigns. These campaigns occur infrequently, but are sent out to the hundreds of customers that are stored in your app.

How should you best design your process model to send the emails whilst using a common email process model (CMN_SendEmail), to be most performant?

The outputs of this node are not required for the main process.

You're creating a new entity-backed record type without data sync enabled. Users in the "ACME Supervisors" group must be able to access the Delete Case related action on the record summary view.

What are two valid steps that you should perform to grant users the appropriate access?

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?

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're reviewing the process model built by your team member.

Which two design decisions might cause performance issues? (Choose two.)

After reviewing the latest Expression performance logs, you notice you have several expressions contributing to slow interface or process performance.

Which two conditions will lead to a higher risk associated with slow-performing expressions? (Choose two.)

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 create a process workflow for employee background investigations. This workflow takes an average of six months from start to completion. There are multiple phases to the background investigation which must be completed by people in different departments. Each department is responsible for inputting a large amount of data as part of the workflow.

There is an emphasis on process memory management since thousands of these investigations will happen concurrently.

What are two best practices that you should employ when designing this process workflow? (Choose two.)

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 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’re establishing a Health Check schedule for your department.

Which two statements should you consider when implementing Health Checks? (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?

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 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.)

An energy company wants to allow the public to be able to report power outages directly and provide supporting documentation in the form of photos and/or videos. The company also requires the reporter's contact details.

How can a developer design and implement this requirement in Appian?

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 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 are reviewing application performance-related issues reported by users.

As part of this activity, you need to check interface performance, expression rules performance, and process model performance.

Match each statement to the option that best describes where you can view this information.

Note: Each object or view 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 update an existing Appian application.

The application needs to be responsive and compatible with a variety of screen widths. For example: phone/tablet browser, Appian mobile app, desktop monitor.

Which two functions/parameters should you consider when updating the interfaces? (Choose two.)

A recent Health Check report of your application indicates an increased risk of large context size in the interfaces.

What are two possible contributors to this risk? (Choose two.)

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

What are three locations to call an Integration that changes the source data? (Choose three.)

How can a user in the Appian environment prevent the uploading of documents without extensions?

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?

You’re developing a case management application. Currently, users can view a list of all cases designed using a a!forEach() loop from a record query. Users can navigate to the case summary page which shows the case details in a two (2) column layout. Users are also able to update the case details.

During the last round of UAT testing, users reported that the tool was not intuitive to use.

Match each feedback comment to the suggested UI/UX improvements.

Note: Each UI/UX improvement 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're designing a custom component rule!pagingComponent() to page through a list of items. The component must display the current page numbers being shown, as well as the total number of items. Users should be able to click arrows to increase or decrease the pagination.

Review the following:

Which two patterns should be used when calling the component in this scenario? (Choose two.)

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 notice that a process consumes a significant amount of memory. The process involves ingesting long strings from a web service and saving them to the database using a looping approach. The string output is saved to a process variable with data type Text.

Which two options will reduce the memory usage? (Choose two.)