APPIAN SENIOR DEVELOPER EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
According to the Appian UX Design Guide, what is the recommended icon type for
most user interface design patterns? - ANSWER-Rich Text Styled Icons
Which step should occur first when making changes to an existing schema? -
ANSWER-Analyze which objects will be affected.
Which three authentication methods are available when setting up a connected
system? - ANSWER-1) Basic
2) OAuth 2.0
3) API Key
When using "Manual export and import" to conduct a deployment. This deployment
includes environment-specific constants. Which two artifacts will be generated by the
export? - ANSWER-1) Application package zip file
2) Customization files
True or false: Process models inherit security from their parent folders. - ANSWER-
False
When nesting CDTs, a foreign-key relationship is established and the default
cascade behavior is what? - ANSWER-Refresh
Where would I go to see specific details of an individual item in an Appian Supply
Inventory Catalog? - ANSWER-A record summary view interface
According to the Appian UX Design Guide, which of these is a recommended label
position of read only fields? - ANSWER-Justified
What is the name of the pre-built application provided by Appian to automate data
extraction from documents? - ANSWER-Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)
Which component in the record type designer would allow users to list records by
category? - ANSWER-User Filter
Which parameters are required for the successful execution of the a!toRecord
Identifier() function? - ANSWER-Record Type and Identifier
Why is it best practice NOT to pass a CDT into a sub-process by reference? -
ANSWER-If the CDT is changed and there are running parent processes, any not-
yet activated sub-process nodes will pause by exception due to the type mismatch.
Which user interfaces can users interact with? - ANSWER-1) Tempo
2) Sites
, 3) Embedded
What is the most efficient way to ensure that unreferenced objects are NOT
deployed? - ANSWER-Navigate to Unreferenced Objects for the application objects
and remove them.
A CDT structure is defined in what language? - ANSWER-XML
What data type should be returned in the source expression of an Expression-
backed record? - ANSWER-Data Subset
You are looking at the tomcat-stdout.log to troubleshoot an issue reported by an end-
user. Which time zone is recorded on the log entries? - ANSWER-Greenwich Mean
Time (GMT)
In order to display tasks on an Appian Site for users, which object has to be created
for the source of the data? - ANSWER-Process Report
How should you scale a system with a high load average in system.csv? - ANSWER-
Add Hardware - Usually CPU or RAM (vertical scaling)
How should you scale a system with high Java work queue size in the engine
performance logs? - ANSWER-Add Application Servers (horizontal scaling)
How should you scale a system with high other time in engine call summary log? -
ANSWER-Add Engine Replicas (horizontal scaling via read-only replicas)
How should you scale a system with low idle time in the engine performance logs? -
ANSWER-Add Execution and Analytics Shards (horizontal scaling via
partitioning/sharding)
How should you scale a system with high execute time in
perf_monitor_rdbmd_slow.csv? - ANSWER-Optimize Your Queries and Applications
and External Data Sources
What are the key differences between a summary log and a detail log? - ANSWER-
Although both are enabled by default, summary logs are written to once every five
minutes and aggregate all the relevant events since the last line was logged into one
set set of metrics. Also one line is written per update, even if there are no events in
the given interval.
Detail logs are written to once every hour and they provide fine-grain aggregation by
type of event. Multiple lines can be written per update, but will only be written if
events occurred.
What are some key factors developers should take into account because they will
affect the memory footprint of a PROCESS? - ANSWER-All factors directly relate to
completion time. Short lived processes are best practice.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
According to the Appian UX Design Guide, what is the recommended icon type for
most user interface design patterns? - ANSWER-Rich Text Styled Icons
Which step should occur first when making changes to an existing schema? -
ANSWER-Analyze which objects will be affected.
Which three authentication methods are available when setting up a connected
system? - ANSWER-1) Basic
2) OAuth 2.0
3) API Key
When using "Manual export and import" to conduct a deployment. This deployment
includes environment-specific constants. Which two artifacts will be generated by the
export? - ANSWER-1) Application package zip file
2) Customization files
True or false: Process models inherit security from their parent folders. - ANSWER-
False
When nesting CDTs, a foreign-key relationship is established and the default
cascade behavior is what? - ANSWER-Refresh
Where would I go to see specific details of an individual item in an Appian Supply
Inventory Catalog? - ANSWER-A record summary view interface
According to the Appian UX Design Guide, which of these is a recommended label
position of read only fields? - ANSWER-Justified
What is the name of the pre-built application provided by Appian to automate data
extraction from documents? - ANSWER-Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)
Which component in the record type designer would allow users to list records by
category? - ANSWER-User Filter
Which parameters are required for the successful execution of the a!toRecord
Identifier() function? - ANSWER-Record Type and Identifier
Why is it best practice NOT to pass a CDT into a sub-process by reference? -
ANSWER-If the CDT is changed and there are running parent processes, any not-
yet activated sub-process nodes will pause by exception due to the type mismatch.
Which user interfaces can users interact with? - ANSWER-1) Tempo
2) Sites
, 3) Embedded
What is the most efficient way to ensure that unreferenced objects are NOT
deployed? - ANSWER-Navigate to Unreferenced Objects for the application objects
and remove them.
A CDT structure is defined in what language? - ANSWER-XML
What data type should be returned in the source expression of an Expression-
backed record? - ANSWER-Data Subset
You are looking at the tomcat-stdout.log to troubleshoot an issue reported by an end-
user. Which time zone is recorded on the log entries? - ANSWER-Greenwich Mean
Time (GMT)
In order to display tasks on an Appian Site for users, which object has to be created
for the source of the data? - ANSWER-Process Report
How should you scale a system with a high load average in system.csv? - ANSWER-
Add Hardware - Usually CPU or RAM (vertical scaling)
How should you scale a system with high Java work queue size in the engine
performance logs? - ANSWER-Add Application Servers (horizontal scaling)
How should you scale a system with high other time in engine call summary log? -
ANSWER-Add Engine Replicas (horizontal scaling via read-only replicas)
How should you scale a system with low idle time in the engine performance logs? -
ANSWER-Add Execution and Analytics Shards (horizontal scaling via
partitioning/sharding)
How should you scale a system with high execute time in
perf_monitor_rdbmd_slow.csv? - ANSWER-Optimize Your Queries and Applications
and External Data Sources
What are the key differences between a summary log and a detail log? - ANSWER-
Although both are enabled by default, summary logs are written to once every five
minutes and aggregate all the relevant events since the last line was logged into one
set set of metrics. Also one line is written per update, even if there are no events in
the given interval.
Detail logs are written to once every hour and they provide fine-grain aggregation by
type of event. Multiple lines can be written per update, but will only be written if
events occurred.
What are some key factors developers should take into account because they will
affect the memory footprint of a PROCESS? - ANSWER-All factors directly relate to
completion time. Short lived processes are best practice.
