APPIAN SENIOR DEVELOPER 2026 CORE EXAM SET
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔You are investigating a slow-performing query entity which is mapped to a view and
you decide to look in the data_store_details.csv log to gain
more information. You see that the majority of the time is spent in the transform phase.
Which two actions can you take to reduce the time spent in the transform phase?
(Choose two.) - ✔✔B. Reduce the number of columns returned from the query.
D. Lower the batch size parameter of the query.
✔✔Application users are seeing long wait times between two forms they need to
complete for a case.
While reviewing the process model, you identify that activity chaining has been used
throughout the process model, including unattended nodes.
Which three actions can you take to make the process model more efficient? (Choose
three.) - ✔✔B. Shorten long process chains by combining transactions into the smallest
number of nodes.
C. Avoid chaining system nodes like Integrations.
D. Move transactions that can be done asynchronously outside of the chain.
✔✔A user is uploading a document in the Appian environment and wants to restrict the
uploading of documents without extensions.
How can this be done at the environment level? - ✔✔Enable File Upload > Block files
without an extension, under Administration Console.
✔✔You are troubleshooting a process model instance with an error in a node.
Which two options will allow you to obtain more information about the error? (Choose
two.) - ✔✔B. View the Process Details dialog
D. View the properties dialog of the affected node.
✔✔You need to build a process model that transforms a large data set.
Which two things should you ensure to include in your process model? (Choose two.) -
✔✔B. An XOR gateway is added before the transformation node, to check for
empty/null values.
D. The transformation is applied with an expression rule that takes the data set as an
input, and loops through the dataset using a looping
function, such as foreach.
✔✔You are investigating a slow-performing expression rule and want to analyze this
rule's historical performance.
Which performance log should you look at to see the mean evaluation time of this rule
every hour? - ✔✔expressions_details.csv
, ✔✔What should you use to create a virtual relation in a database to query the data? -
✔✔View
✔✔Was an image - ✔✔Easy question though
✔✔An organization has decided to integrate with a third-party to scan incoming
documents and capture the details in a table called [appian].
[document]. Each document will form a new case in Appian to be displayed on a Record
List.
The record needs to show data from both [appian].[document] and [appian].[caseData],
which holds additional case information.
What is the most efficient way to achieve this? - ✔✔Create a view between both the
[appian].[document] and [appian].[caseData] tables to feed the record.
✔✔another image - ✔✔Customer to purchase transaction: One-to-many
Edition to book: Many-to-one -
Book to ISBN (Unique identifier): One-to-one
Author to book: Many-to-many
✔✔What is the lowest permission required on the data store in order to query, write,
and delete data? - ✔✔Viewer
✔✔You need to insert the deleted row of a table into a history table for audit purposes.
What is the most efficient method to achieve this? - ✔✔Trigger
✔✔You need to display the profile picture of each employee inside an employee grid,
alongside their names and phone numbers.
According to Appian best practices, what is the preferred style and size for the images?
- ✔✔style: "AVATAR"
size: "SMALL"
✔✔You are required to display information for pending tasks for each individual in an
application. There will be tasks for a single specific application.
Which context type should you choose for the Task Report Type? - ✔✔Tasks attributed
to user
✔✔You have been asked to produce a Tempo report, with the following requirements:
The report should display in Appian.
The data is held in a business database, but performance in Appian is a key
requirement.
Which three actions can you take to minimize the performance impact of your report?
(Choose three.) - ✔✔B. Limit the number of series values and categories in the report.
C. Use local variables in your report interface to avoid redundant database queries.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔You are investigating a slow-performing query entity which is mapped to a view and
you decide to look in the data_store_details.csv log to gain
more information. You see that the majority of the time is spent in the transform phase.
Which two actions can you take to reduce the time spent in the transform phase?
(Choose two.) - ✔✔B. Reduce the number of columns returned from the query.
D. Lower the batch size parameter of the query.
✔✔Application users are seeing long wait times between two forms they need to
complete for a case.
While reviewing the process model, you identify that activity chaining has been used
throughout the process model, including unattended nodes.
Which three actions can you take to make the process model more efficient? (Choose
three.) - ✔✔B. Shorten long process chains by combining transactions into the smallest
number of nodes.
C. Avoid chaining system nodes like Integrations.
D. Move transactions that can be done asynchronously outside of the chain.
✔✔A user is uploading a document in the Appian environment and wants to restrict the
uploading of documents without extensions.
How can this be done at the environment level? - ✔✔Enable File Upload > Block files
without an extension, under Administration Console.
✔✔You are troubleshooting a process model instance with an error in a node.
Which two options will allow you to obtain more information about the error? (Choose
two.) - ✔✔B. View the Process Details dialog
D. View the properties dialog of the affected node.
✔✔You need to build a process model that transforms a large data set.
Which two things should you ensure to include in your process model? (Choose two.) -
✔✔B. An XOR gateway is added before the transformation node, to check for
empty/null values.
D. The transformation is applied with an expression rule that takes the data set as an
input, and loops through the dataset using a looping
function, such as foreach.
✔✔You are investigating a slow-performing expression rule and want to analyze this
rule's historical performance.
Which performance log should you look at to see the mean evaluation time of this rule
every hour? - ✔✔expressions_details.csv
, ✔✔What should you use to create a virtual relation in a database to query the data? -
✔✔View
✔✔Was an image - ✔✔Easy question though
✔✔An organization has decided to integrate with a third-party to scan incoming
documents and capture the details in a table called [appian].
[document]. Each document will form a new case in Appian to be displayed on a Record
List.
The record needs to show data from both [appian].[document] and [appian].[caseData],
which holds additional case information.
What is the most efficient way to achieve this? - ✔✔Create a view between both the
[appian].[document] and [appian].[caseData] tables to feed the record.
✔✔another image - ✔✔Customer to purchase transaction: One-to-many
Edition to book: Many-to-one -
Book to ISBN (Unique identifier): One-to-one
Author to book: Many-to-many
✔✔What is the lowest permission required on the data store in order to query, write,
and delete data? - ✔✔Viewer
✔✔You need to insert the deleted row of a table into a history table for audit purposes.
What is the most efficient method to achieve this? - ✔✔Trigger
✔✔You need to display the profile picture of each employee inside an employee grid,
alongside their names and phone numbers.
According to Appian best practices, what is the preferred style and size for the images?
- ✔✔style: "AVATAR"
size: "SMALL"
✔✔You are required to display information for pending tasks for each individual in an
application. There will be tasks for a single specific application.
Which context type should you choose for the Task Report Type? - ✔✔Tasks attributed
to user
✔✔You have been asked to produce a Tempo report, with the following requirements:
The report should display in Appian.
The data is held in a business database, but performance in Appian is a key
requirement.
Which three actions can you take to minimize the performance impact of your report?
(Choose three.) - ✔✔B. Limit the number of series values and categories in the report.
C. Use local variables in your report interface to avoid redundant database queries.
