APPIAN SENIOR DEVELOPER EXAM
2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Successful first projects deliver results that are: - ANS - 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 - ANS dummy slide
Project Factors- Project complications - ANS 1. Extensive Data ETL
2. Complex Data Visualization Across Systems
3. Complex Data Manipulation
4. Backend Process Management
Project Factors- Success factors - ANS 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)
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,Project Factors - First step to selecting a successful project - ANS 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? - ANS Break up large scope into smaller projects
Intergrations - HTTP Status code types - ANS 100 - Informational
200 - Success
300 - Redirect
400 - Client Side Error
500 - Server Side Error
Integrations - HTTP Status code 401 - ANS Unauthorised Access
Integrations - HTTP STatus Code 404 - ANS Not found
Integrations - Authendication - Two ways to configure authendication - ANS 1. Connected
Systems
2. Secure credentials Store
Integrations-Authendication - Where can Secure Credentials Store configured - ANS Appian
Admin Console
Integrations-Authendication - Expression function - Access Secure Credentials Store -
ANS a!scsField
Integrations - Node used to call integrations from process model - ANS Call Integration
Integration - Using in Expression - ANS Using an expression only works for querying data in
an integration.
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, Integration - Query Data - ANS Only works with Expression
Integration - Modifies Data - ANS 1. Works with "Call Integration" smart service in process
model
2. Submit from Interface
Integration - Modifies data - Additional parameters added to integration by default - ANS 1.
OnSuccess
2. OnError
Integration - Common methods of performing integration over HTTP - ANS 1. REST - "Call
Integration"
2. SOAP(WSDL) - "Call Webservice"
Three Anti Patterns to avoid - ANS 1. Custom Task Management
2. Custom User Interfaces (Third party UX)
3. Avoid Data only applications
(Extracting, Transforming and Loading)
Appian Task Plugins - ANS 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.
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2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Successful first projects deliver results that are: - ANS - 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 - ANS dummy slide
Project Factors- Project complications - ANS 1. Extensive Data ETL
2. Complex Data Visualization Across Systems
3. Complex Data Manipulation
4. Backend Process Management
Project Factors- Success factors - ANS 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)
1 Copyright ©2025 BRAINBARTER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,Project Factors - First step to selecting a successful project - ANS 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? - ANS Break up large scope into smaller projects
Intergrations - HTTP Status code types - ANS 100 - Informational
200 - Success
300 - Redirect
400 - Client Side Error
500 - Server Side Error
Integrations - HTTP Status code 401 - ANS Unauthorised Access
Integrations - HTTP STatus Code 404 - ANS Not found
Integrations - Authendication - Two ways to configure authendication - ANS 1. Connected
Systems
2. Secure credentials Store
Integrations-Authendication - Where can Secure Credentials Store configured - ANS Appian
Admin Console
Integrations-Authendication - Expression function - Access Secure Credentials Store -
ANS a!scsField
Integrations - Node used to call integrations from process model - ANS Call Integration
Integration - Using in Expression - ANS Using an expression only works for querying data in
an integration.
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, Integration - Query Data - ANS Only works with Expression
Integration - Modifies Data - ANS 1. Works with "Call Integration" smart service in process
model
2. Submit from Interface
Integration - Modifies data - Additional parameters added to integration by default - ANS 1.
OnSuccess
2. OnError
Integration - Common methods of performing integration over HTTP - ANS 1. REST - "Call
Integration"
2. SOAP(WSDL) - "Call Webservice"
Three Anti Patterns to avoid - ANS 1. Custom Task Management
2. Custom User Interfaces (Third party UX)
3. Avoid Data only applications
(Extracting, Transforming and Loading)
Appian Task Plugins - ANS 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.
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