APPIAN EXAM GUIDE QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Sprint Retrospective - ANSWER-The team discusses what went well and what could
be better, and suggestions for the future.
Story Pointing - ANSWER-The development team estimates the difficulty of
developing features
Sprint Planning - ANSWER-Product owner and development team to meet and
review the product backlog
Sprint Review - ANSWER-The development team shows off what they've worked on
to stakeholders
Who is responsible for estimating the level of effort for Product Backlog items? -
ANSWER-Product Owner
A feature is being deployed to the test environment.
In which environment is unit testing performed for the feature? - ANSWER-Staging
During what stage of the Appian Delivery Methodology does story-pointing regularly
occur? - ANSWER-Build
In the scrum lifecycle of a project, when should the team agree on the requirements
for the Definition of Done? - ANSWER-Before getting started on the project
You need to query some data from the database using more than one filter.
Which parameter for a!query() should you use to define your filters? - ANSWER-
logical Expression
A client asks you to store work location information for their employees. The client
mentions that multiple employees may be assigned to multiple work locations.
Which type of database relationship is the client describing? - ANSWER-One-to-
Many
You need to update the table structure in the database, and then update the related
CDT in Appian to publish the data store entity.
Column names in the database and the CDT are implemented using different
naming conventions.
Which statement is appropriate in this scenario? - ANSWER-You can update the
CDT columns in Appian Designer, or update the CDT-related XSD and create a new
version from that.
Or
You must update the CDT-related XSD and create a new version from that. Depends
on what needs to be updated
, During User Acceptance Testing (UAT), a tester operating in the test environment
asks you to change a data point in one of the tables.
In the development environment, you navigate to the database and adjust the data
point that the tester described.
What is the issue with the steps taken? - ANSWER-According to Appian best
practices, changes should not be made directly in a database.
What is a Foreign Key? - ANSWER-The key that joins two tables together.
You need to edit data in a table. You ate currently using the following statement:
INSERT INTO product (productId, productName) VALUES (3, "App1e");
What is the issue? - ANSWER-You should be using an UPDATE statement.
You have data from two unrelated tables. Which Appian objects can easily relate
data from these two tables? - ANSWER-Record Types
An end-user needs to trigger a process model and act on the user task assigned to
them.
What is the minimum security permission needed? - ANSWER-Initiator
Which scenario would most commonly use a related action? - ANSWER-Starting a
company-wide annual performance review process that tasks every employee to fill
out a self-assessment
Your team lead mentions that the environment has been performing very slow lately,
and the reason is unclear.
A process model is consuming a lot of memory, and this could be causing the
slowness in the environment.
What are two valid solutions to this issue? - ANSWER-Delete processes alter
completion or cancellation by configuring the Data Management tab in the Process
Model Properties.
Archive processes after completion or cancellation by configuring the Data
Management tab in the Process Model Properties.
When setting the assignment of a User Input task, you need the task to be assigned
to the person who started the process.
Which option is appropriate to use to accomplish this goal? - ANSWER-pp!initiator
In a process model, you want all outgoing flows lo start once all incoming flows have
reached the node.
Which gateway is most appropriate to use? - ANSWER-AND
In addition to initiating the process model, what other permission is required to
execute the Write to Data Store Entity smart service? - ANSWER-Viewer permission
to the data store
When creating a process model, you need an incoming path to continue down one or
more paths based on the logic you set.
AND ANSWERS
Sprint Retrospective - ANSWER-The team discusses what went well and what could
be better, and suggestions for the future.
Story Pointing - ANSWER-The development team estimates the difficulty of
developing features
Sprint Planning - ANSWER-Product owner and development team to meet and
review the product backlog
Sprint Review - ANSWER-The development team shows off what they've worked on
to stakeholders
Who is responsible for estimating the level of effort for Product Backlog items? -
ANSWER-Product Owner
A feature is being deployed to the test environment.
In which environment is unit testing performed for the feature? - ANSWER-Staging
During what stage of the Appian Delivery Methodology does story-pointing regularly
occur? - ANSWER-Build
In the scrum lifecycle of a project, when should the team agree on the requirements
for the Definition of Done? - ANSWER-Before getting started on the project
You need to query some data from the database using more than one filter.
Which parameter for a!query() should you use to define your filters? - ANSWER-
logical Expression
A client asks you to store work location information for their employees. The client
mentions that multiple employees may be assigned to multiple work locations.
Which type of database relationship is the client describing? - ANSWER-One-to-
Many
You need to update the table structure in the database, and then update the related
CDT in Appian to publish the data store entity.
Column names in the database and the CDT are implemented using different
naming conventions.
Which statement is appropriate in this scenario? - ANSWER-You can update the
CDT columns in Appian Designer, or update the CDT-related XSD and create a new
version from that.
Or
You must update the CDT-related XSD and create a new version from that. Depends
on what needs to be updated
, During User Acceptance Testing (UAT), a tester operating in the test environment
asks you to change a data point in one of the tables.
In the development environment, you navigate to the database and adjust the data
point that the tester described.
What is the issue with the steps taken? - ANSWER-According to Appian best
practices, changes should not be made directly in a database.
What is a Foreign Key? - ANSWER-The key that joins two tables together.
You need to edit data in a table. You ate currently using the following statement:
INSERT INTO product (productId, productName) VALUES (3, "App1e");
What is the issue? - ANSWER-You should be using an UPDATE statement.
You have data from two unrelated tables. Which Appian objects can easily relate
data from these two tables? - ANSWER-Record Types
An end-user needs to trigger a process model and act on the user task assigned to
them.
What is the minimum security permission needed? - ANSWER-Initiator
Which scenario would most commonly use a related action? - ANSWER-Starting a
company-wide annual performance review process that tasks every employee to fill
out a self-assessment
Your team lead mentions that the environment has been performing very slow lately,
and the reason is unclear.
A process model is consuming a lot of memory, and this could be causing the
slowness in the environment.
What are two valid solutions to this issue? - ANSWER-Delete processes alter
completion or cancellation by configuring the Data Management tab in the Process
Model Properties.
Archive processes after completion or cancellation by configuring the Data
Management tab in the Process Model Properties.
When setting the assignment of a User Input task, you need the task to be assigned
to the person who started the process.
Which option is appropriate to use to accomplish this goal? - ANSWER-pp!initiator
In a process model, you want all outgoing flows lo start once all incoming flows have
reached the node.
Which gateway is most appropriate to use? - ANSWER-AND
In addition to initiating the process model, what other permission is required to
execute the Write to Data Store Entity smart service? - ANSWER-Viewer permission
to the data store
When creating a process model, you need an incoming path to continue down one or
more paths based on the logic you set.
