APPIAN DEVELOPER STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Appian Data Design - Appian recommended approach - Bottom Up - ✔✔Bottom up
design make it easier to
- Annotate your CDTs with conventional table and column names.
- Select non-default data types
- Annotate null constraints
✔✔Appian Data Design - Table Relationship Type - Recommended approach - ✔✔One-
to-One Nested
Many-to-One Nested
One-to-Many Flat
Many-toMany Flat
✔✔Appian Data Design - JPA Annotations - ✔✔JPA annotations give you more control
over the design of your database entities in Appian.
✔✔Appian Data Design - Modifying an XSD provides - ✔✔- Advanced configuration
- Better support for design preferences
- Additional data type options
✔✔Designers can create web APIs to expose Appian data and objects to external
systems - ✔✔True
✔✔Appian Architecture - user Interfaces - ✔✔1. Sites and Tempos
2. Embedded UIs
3. Designer interface
4. Admin Console
✔✔Appian Architecture - Appian Engines - ✔✔* Real time in memory data bases
* Stored meta data for appian design objects
* Stores run-time data for process instances
* Each engine has in-memory data base to stores data about objects
✔✔Appian Architecture - How many appian engines are there? - ✔✔1. totally 15
engines
2. 9 Individual engines
3. 3 pairs of process execution and process analyticcs engines (scales upto 32 pairs
based on performance requirement)
✔✔Appian Architecture - CO - Content Engine - ✔✔* This engine stores meta data and
security settings for documents and their organisational structure. like communities ,
knowledge centres and folders.
* It also stroes the def of
, - roles, constants, Application and data stores
* The actual content of the document stores in file system not in Content engine.
✔✔Appian Architecture - CS - Collaboration Statistics - ✔✔contains statistics on
document usage and storage
✔✔Appian Architecture - NO - Portal Notifications - ✔✔Stores various information about
notifications including system notification settings
✔✔Appian Architecture - NE - Email Notification - ✔✔* Responsible for tracing who
should receive email notifications
✔✔Appian Architecture - PE - Personalization - ✔✔* Stores information about
- Users
- Groups
- Group Membership
- Group Types
✔✔Appian Architecture - PD - Process Design - ✔✔Stores all information about process
model design information
✔✔Appian Architecture - PO - Portal - Older feature - ✔✔supports older features like -
App's portal interface like pages
✔✔Appian Architecture - CH - Channels - older feature - ✔✔Supports older features like
- App's portal interface - including portal types displayed on portal pages
✔✔Appian Architecture - DF - Forums - older feature - ✔✔Supports older features like -
App's portal interface - like topics, messages posted discussion forms - this not includes
discussions in Tempo interface
✔✔Appian Architecture - PX - Process Execution - ✔✔Process execution engine
responsible for executing and running process instances
✔✔Appian Architecture - PA - Process Analytics - ✔✔Process analytics engine
responsible for keeping all relevant information may be used for process reports
✔✔Appian Architecture - Check pointing with Appian engines will create the following
type of the file - ✔✔kdb format
✔✔Appian Architecture - Search Server using elastic search - ✔✔true
✔✔Appian Architecture - What are all the web servers are used - ✔✔Apache and Ms IIS
server
WITH ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Appian Data Design - Appian recommended approach - Bottom Up - ✔✔Bottom up
design make it easier to
- Annotate your CDTs with conventional table and column names.
- Select non-default data types
- Annotate null constraints
✔✔Appian Data Design - Table Relationship Type - Recommended approach - ✔✔One-
to-One Nested
Many-to-One Nested
One-to-Many Flat
Many-toMany Flat
✔✔Appian Data Design - JPA Annotations - ✔✔JPA annotations give you more control
over the design of your database entities in Appian.
✔✔Appian Data Design - Modifying an XSD provides - ✔✔- Advanced configuration
- Better support for design preferences
- Additional data type options
✔✔Designers can create web APIs to expose Appian data and objects to external
systems - ✔✔True
✔✔Appian Architecture - user Interfaces - ✔✔1. Sites and Tempos
2. Embedded UIs
3. Designer interface
4. Admin Console
✔✔Appian Architecture - Appian Engines - ✔✔* Real time in memory data bases
* Stored meta data for appian design objects
* Stores run-time data for process instances
* Each engine has in-memory data base to stores data about objects
✔✔Appian Architecture - How many appian engines are there? - ✔✔1. totally 15
engines
2. 9 Individual engines
3. 3 pairs of process execution and process analyticcs engines (scales upto 32 pairs
based on performance requirement)
✔✔Appian Architecture - CO - Content Engine - ✔✔* This engine stores meta data and
security settings for documents and their organisational structure. like communities ,
knowledge centres and folders.
* It also stroes the def of
, - roles, constants, Application and data stores
* The actual content of the document stores in file system not in Content engine.
✔✔Appian Architecture - CS - Collaboration Statistics - ✔✔contains statistics on
document usage and storage
✔✔Appian Architecture - NO - Portal Notifications - ✔✔Stores various information about
notifications including system notification settings
✔✔Appian Architecture - NE - Email Notification - ✔✔* Responsible for tracing who
should receive email notifications
✔✔Appian Architecture - PE - Personalization - ✔✔* Stores information about
- Users
- Groups
- Group Membership
- Group Types
✔✔Appian Architecture - PD - Process Design - ✔✔Stores all information about process
model design information
✔✔Appian Architecture - PO - Portal - Older feature - ✔✔supports older features like -
App's portal interface like pages
✔✔Appian Architecture - CH - Channels - older feature - ✔✔Supports older features like
- App's portal interface - including portal types displayed on portal pages
✔✔Appian Architecture - DF - Forums - older feature - ✔✔Supports older features like -
App's portal interface - like topics, messages posted discussion forms - this not includes
discussions in Tempo interface
✔✔Appian Architecture - PX - Process Execution - ✔✔Process execution engine
responsible for executing and running process instances
✔✔Appian Architecture - PA - Process Analytics - ✔✔Process analytics engine
responsible for keeping all relevant information may be used for process reports
✔✔Appian Architecture - Check pointing with Appian engines will create the following
type of the file - ✔✔kdb format
✔✔Appian Architecture - Search Server using elastic search - ✔✔true
✔✔Appian Architecture - What are all the web servers are used - ✔✔Apache and Ms IIS
server
