ACD201 Appian Senior Developer Questions and Answers

You're designing an integration object with JSON (application/json) as the content type.

Which two data types can be automatically converted to JSON in Appian? (Choose two.)

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?

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 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 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 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?

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 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 have a Case record type with data sync enabled to retrieve submitted support cases.

What is the best approach to limit who can see which records in the record type?

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?

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 section of the Interface Performance View explains the contribution towards the overall evaluation time of the current function, rule, or parameter?

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 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 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).

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.)

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?

Which two items are configured in the Admin Console when you create a web API? (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?

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 need to create a quality control (QC) review process for a factory that allows a QC technician to review each production line regularly.

You have the following requirements:

• Each technician has 45 minutes to complete their review.

• After 45 minutes, the review will expire.

• Expired reviews are flagged as 'Review expired.'

• 'Review expired' flags trigger an email notification to a supervisor, and the review data should not be saved.

• The technician can save a Draft copy of their review before submission and can come back to work on it later if necessary.

• Once a review is 'Submitted.' the review data is saved to the database

What should you implement?

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're conducting a code review and notice that some accessibility features are missing on the interfaces.

Which two UX best practices should be followed to align with accessibility requirements? (Choose two.)

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.)

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

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)

You have a requirement to implement an audit trail for any modifications to a record.

You need to select the most efficient design option that has the least impact on your Appian application.

What should you do?

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

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