APPIAN SENIOR DEVELOPER QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Successful first projects deliver results that are: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- Quick, with a short time-
to-impact reducing the likelihood of losing momentum
- Measurable, giving leaders the confidence to approve further projects
- Contagious, with a compelling solution triggering rapid user adoption
Prioritize Project Opportunities - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅dummy slide
Project Factors- Project complications - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Extensive Data ETL
2. Complex Data Visualization Across Systems
3. Complex Data Manipulation
4. Backend Process Management
Project Factors- Success factors - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Automate complex business processes
2. Access data from or send data to legacy systems
3. Create unified user experience across systems
4. Deliver functionality rapidly
5. Support business processes across the organization
6. Enable target users to access multiple systems
7. Integrate pre-built or custom-built AI systems
8. Engage or inform multiple stakeholders across workflows
9. Perform mobile data entry (inclusive of review and approval)
Project Factors - First step to selecting a successful project - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Finding
oppertunities to address business processes
If your project has large scsope, what is a best practice you can use that will lead to a successfull
project? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Break up large scope into smaller projects
,Intergrations - HTTP Status code types - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅100 - Informational
200 - Success
300 - Redirect
400 - Client Side Error
500 - Server Side Error
Integrations - HTTP Status code 401 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Unauthorised Access
Integrations - HTTP STatus Code 404 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Not found
Integrations - Authendication - Two ways to configure authendication - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1.
Connected Systems
2. Secure credentials Store
Integrations-Authendication - Where can Secure Credentials Store configured - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Appian Admin Console
Integrations-Authendication - Expression function - Access Secure Credentials Store - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅a!scsField
Integrations - Node used to call integrations from process model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Call
Integration
Integration - Using in Expression - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Using an expression only works for
querying data in an integration.
Integration - Query Data - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Only works with Expression
, Integration - Modifies Data - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Works with "Call Integration" smart service
in process model
2. Submit from Interface
Integration - Modifies data - Additional parameters added to integration by default - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅1. OnSuccess
2. OnError
Integration - Common methods of performing integration over HTTP - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1.
REST - "Call Integration"
2. SOAP(WSDL) - "Call Webservice"
Three Anti Patterns to avoid - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Custom Task Management
2. Custom User Interfaces (Third party UX)
3. Avoid Data only applications
(Extracting, Transforming and Loading)
Appian Task Plugins - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Task Reassignments
Allow users to reassign multiple active tasks
2. Task Functions
Allow developers to retrieve most task details and attributes by using a set of functions with Task ID as
input.
3. Task Management Smart Services
Contains smart services to manipulating tasks in-process and custom functions for getting task
metadata.
Data-only processes can slow the system. Particularly if they are running during business hours when
most users are acitve - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Yes, True.
ANSWERS
Successful first projects deliver results that are: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅- Quick, with a short time-
to-impact reducing the likelihood of losing momentum
- Measurable, giving leaders the confidence to approve further projects
- Contagious, with a compelling solution triggering rapid user adoption
Prioritize Project Opportunities - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅dummy slide
Project Factors- Project complications - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Extensive Data ETL
2. Complex Data Visualization Across Systems
3. Complex Data Manipulation
4. Backend Process Management
Project Factors- Success factors - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Automate complex business processes
2. Access data from or send data to legacy systems
3. Create unified user experience across systems
4. Deliver functionality rapidly
5. Support business processes across the organization
6. Enable target users to access multiple systems
7. Integrate pre-built or custom-built AI systems
8. Engage or inform multiple stakeholders across workflows
9. Perform mobile data entry (inclusive of review and approval)
Project Factors - First step to selecting a successful project - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Finding
oppertunities to address business processes
If your project has large scsope, what is a best practice you can use that will lead to a successfull
project? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Break up large scope into smaller projects
,Intergrations - HTTP Status code types - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅100 - Informational
200 - Success
300 - Redirect
400 - Client Side Error
500 - Server Side Error
Integrations - HTTP Status code 401 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Unauthorised Access
Integrations - HTTP STatus Code 404 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Not found
Integrations - Authendication - Two ways to configure authendication - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1.
Connected Systems
2. Secure credentials Store
Integrations-Authendication - Where can Secure Credentials Store configured - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Appian Admin Console
Integrations-Authendication - Expression function - Access Secure Credentials Store - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅a!scsField
Integrations - Node used to call integrations from process model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Call
Integration
Integration - Using in Expression - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Using an expression only works for
querying data in an integration.
Integration - Query Data - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Only works with Expression
, Integration - Modifies Data - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Works with "Call Integration" smart service
in process model
2. Submit from Interface
Integration - Modifies data - Additional parameters added to integration by default - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅1. OnSuccess
2. OnError
Integration - Common methods of performing integration over HTTP - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1.
REST - "Call Integration"
2. SOAP(WSDL) - "Call Webservice"
Three Anti Patterns to avoid - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Custom Task Management
2. Custom User Interfaces (Third party UX)
3. Avoid Data only applications
(Extracting, Transforming and Loading)
Appian Task Plugins - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. Task Reassignments
Allow users to reassign multiple active tasks
2. Task Functions
Allow developers to retrieve most task details and attributes by using a set of functions with Task ID as
input.
3. Task Management Smart Services
Contains smart services to manipulating tasks in-process and custom functions for getting task
metadata.
Data-only processes can slow the system. Particularly if they are running during business hours when
most users are acitve - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Yes, True.
