ACD201 Appian Senior Developer Questions and Answers

You're designing a report to show the total number of cases per month grouped by region. A synced record exists for the data source.

Which design pattern is most appropriate in this case?

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?

Which two items are configured in the Admin Console when you create a web API? (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 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 The process should start only at the specified time even when a newer version of the process model is published.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.)

An insurance application has a dashboard in which all the cases with "Accident" case type and "Health Insurance" insurance type are displayed to the user, using the following query:

You need to update the query entity to display all the cases that are "Accident" case type and "Health Insurance" insurance type, or created in the last ten days.

What is the right configuration for the logical expression?

A)

B)

C)

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

You need to implement a requirement where a third-party system starts a process in Appian. The third-party system can invoke a service only through Web Services Description Language (WSDL).

What should you do to start the process in Appian?

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.)

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 application consists of a record type with sync enabled. This record type is used as a source to create a read-only grid.

A field "Number of days since created" is configured in the interface and a logic is implemented to calculate the number of days since a record is created in the application.

You need to implement sorting on this field.

What should you do?

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.)

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.)

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 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.)

Match each action you want to perform to the appropriate log type.

Each log type 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.

Your client wants to configure user authentication using single sign-on (SSO) in their cloud environment.

Which two authentication types should you use to support this requirement? (Choose two.)

Your client wants their customers to be able to schedule appointments directly from their website without going to an Appian user environment.

You need to build an embedded interface to be added to your client's web page. The style of the embedded interface should be consistent with the host web page.

Which three custom styling options can be configured in the Themes section of embedded interfaces? (Choose three.)

You need to select a plug-in to meet a specific requirement and several plug-ins can do the job.

What are three key factors to consider? (Choose three.)

Match each authentication type to the correct authentication characteristic description.

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.

In reviewing the process model metrics of your application, you notice a process model with a completion rate of only 10%.

What are two possible reasons for this low completion rate? (Choose two.)

You're the administrator of your insurance company’s case management system. You need to limit insurance agents to only those clients to which they have been assigned.

Which two statements must be true for one way to configure Record-Level security for the Customer record? (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 developing a functionality to manage transactions for an insurance company. Each transaction can have multiple items where respective item type and item amount can be entered. The amount entered can be either negative or positive, and is a decimal data type with a precision of 8 and a scale of 2.

A maximum of 10 items can be entered for a transaction. Once all the items are entered, you need to calculate and show the sum of all items' total amounts at the transaction level.

What is the best way to calculate and display the sum of all item amounts?

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 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.)