ACD201 Appian Senior Developer Questions and Answers

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 designing an expression rule that needs to retrieve employees from a database for a given department and display their full name concatenated with their role in a list for a dropdown field.

Which design approach should you recommend?

You're developing a user input form for a government services application that includes a file upload component.

If the uploaded file is a multimedia file (for example: .MP4, .MOV or .WAV), the customer wants these uploaded to Microsoft SharePoint instead.

What is the best way to achieve this requirement?

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 refining a story for a centralized distribution center that extends the current application by allowing inventory managers to review orders.

These orders are created through a record action that various workshops access from a shared Appian site.

Which consideration best suits this use case?

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?

Your client reported that a form in the application is very slow to load.

You investigate and find a query entity which is nor performing well.

Which action should you perform to improve query performance for the query entity?

You need to configure the security for the synced record type Case.

Your requirements are:

Only users in the "Archive Management" group can access cases in the "Archived" status.

Cases in the status "Deleted" are accessible to no one.

Users in the "All Users" group can already access the record.

What should you do?

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 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'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).

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?

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.

You need to configure Appian user authentication against an external directory server. The requirement is to use the same corporate logon information without single sign-on (SSO).

Which authentication type should you use?

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'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 need to add test cases to an existing expression rule in the system. Expression rule gives a complex data type value as an output result.

The test case should pass only when a field in the resultant data matches with a specific value mentioned.

How should you configure the test case assertion?

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 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.)

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 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?

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

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 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?

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

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

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