Appian Senior Developer Questions
and answers
Project Factors- Success factors ✔️✔️correct answ-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 answ-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 answ-Break up large scope into smaller projects
Intergrations - HTTP Status code types ✔️✔️correct answ-100 - Informational
200 - Success
300 - Redirect
400 - Client Side Error
500 - Server Side Error
Integrations - HTTP Status code 401 ✔️✔️correct answ-Unauthorised Access
Integrations - HTTP STatus Code 404 ✔️✔️correct answ-Not found
,Integrations - Authendication - Two ways to configure authendication ✔️✔️correct answ-1. Connected
Systems
2. Secure credentials Store
Successful first projects deliver results that are: ✔️✔️correct answ-- 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 answ-dummy slide
Project Factors- Project complications ✔️✔️correct answ-1. Extensive Data ETL
2. Complex Data Visualization Across Systems
3. Complex Data Manipulation
4. Backend Process Management
Integrations-Authendication - Where can Secure Credentials Store configured ✔️✔️correct answ-
Appian Admin Console
Integrations-Authendication - Expression function - Access Secure Credentials Store ✔️✔️correct
answ-a!scsField
Integrations - Node used to call integrations from process model ✔️✔️correct answ-Call Integration
Integration - Using in Expression ✔️✔️correct answ-Using an expression only works for querying data
in an integration.
Integration - Query Data ✔️✔️correct answ-Only works with Expression
Integration - Modifies Data ✔️✔️correct answ-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
answ-1. OnSuccess
2. OnError
Integration - Common methods of performing integration over HTTP ✔️✔️correct answ-1. REST - "Call
Integration"
2. SOAP(WSDL) - "Call Webservice"
Three Anti Patterns to avoid ✔️✔️correct answ-1. Custom Task Management
2. Custom User Interfaces (Third party UX)
3. Avoid Data only applications
(Extracting, Transforming and Loading)
Appian Task Plugins ✔️✔️correct answ-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 answ-Yes, True.
Mitigation strategies to reduce the impact of data-only processes on performance for other active
users. ✔️✔️correct answ-1. Data management (Delete the process instance immediately after the
process completed)
2. Make process variables "hidden" to limit data replication for reports
3. Avoid load bulk data to system during business hours
4. Do not store the data to process variables
Record Centric Design - Benefits ✔️✔️correct answ-1. Faster to build
and answers
Project Factors- Success factors ✔️✔️correct answ-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 answ-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 answ-Break up large scope into smaller projects
Intergrations - HTTP Status code types ✔️✔️correct answ-100 - Informational
200 - Success
300 - Redirect
400 - Client Side Error
500 - Server Side Error
Integrations - HTTP Status code 401 ✔️✔️correct answ-Unauthorised Access
Integrations - HTTP STatus Code 404 ✔️✔️correct answ-Not found
,Integrations - Authendication - Two ways to configure authendication ✔️✔️correct answ-1. Connected
Systems
2. Secure credentials Store
Successful first projects deliver results that are: ✔️✔️correct answ-- 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 answ-dummy slide
Project Factors- Project complications ✔️✔️correct answ-1. Extensive Data ETL
2. Complex Data Visualization Across Systems
3. Complex Data Manipulation
4. Backend Process Management
Integrations-Authendication - Where can Secure Credentials Store configured ✔️✔️correct answ-
Appian Admin Console
Integrations-Authendication - Expression function - Access Secure Credentials Store ✔️✔️correct
answ-a!scsField
Integrations - Node used to call integrations from process model ✔️✔️correct answ-Call Integration
Integration - Using in Expression ✔️✔️correct answ-Using an expression only works for querying data
in an integration.
Integration - Query Data ✔️✔️correct answ-Only works with Expression
Integration - Modifies Data ✔️✔️correct answ-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
answ-1. OnSuccess
2. OnError
Integration - Common methods of performing integration over HTTP ✔️✔️correct answ-1. REST - "Call
Integration"
2. SOAP(WSDL) - "Call Webservice"
Three Anti Patterns to avoid ✔️✔️correct answ-1. Custom Task Management
2. Custom User Interfaces (Third party UX)
3. Avoid Data only applications
(Extracting, Transforming and Loading)
Appian Task Plugins ✔️✔️correct answ-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 answ-Yes, True.
Mitigation strategies to reduce the impact of data-only processes on performance for other active
users. ✔️✔️correct answ-1. Data management (Delete the process instance immediately after the
process completed)
2. Make process variables "hidden" to limit data replication for reports
3. Avoid load bulk data to system during business hours
4. Do not store the data to process variables
Record Centric Design - Benefits ✔️✔️correct answ-1. Faster to build
