ACD201 Appian Senior Developer Questions and Answers

You need to create a read-only grid that displays support case information. Data for the support cases is mapped to the "Case" record type with data sync enabled.

Within the record, there are fields named "createdDateTime" and "resolvedDateTime". These two fields store the timestamps for when a case is created and resolved, respectively.

The grid includes a column indicating the number of hours between when the case was created and when it was resolved. This column must be sortable within the grid.

How should you calculate the hour value that will display in the column?

You're creating a new entity-backed record type without data sync enabled. Users in the "ACME Supervisors" group must be able to access the Delete Case related action on the record summary view.

What are two valid steps that you should perform to grant users the appropriate access?

You're designing a report to show the total number of cases per month grouped by region. A synced record exists for the data source.

Which design pattern is most appropriate in this case?

You need to configure Appian user authentication against an external directory server. The requirement is to use the same corporate logon information without single sign-on (SSO).

Which authentication type should you use?

Which two items are configured in the Admin Console when you create a web API? (Choose two.)

An energy company wants to allow the public to be able to report power outages directly and provide supporting documentation in the form of photos and/or videos. The company also requires the reporter's contact details.

How can a developer design and implement this requirement in Appian?

Which step should you perform to identify expression rules that have been causing or have caused performance issues in the past 30 days?

You’re making a POST request to the Appian web API. You need to include complex data structures, such as lists or objects, in the request body.

How should you design the API to accept those requests?

You're reviewing the data store performance logs. You notice several items were logged in the generated slow query log file: perf_monitor_rdbms_slow.csv.

What is the default threshold value for a slow query to be included in this log file?

Which two options are correct regarding record relationships when using synced records in your application? (Choose two.)

Your client wants to configure user authentication using single sign-on (SSO) in their cloud environment.

Which two authentication types should you use to support this requirement? (Choose two.)

You need to assign a user input task to three different groups of users: Group A, Group B, and Group C.

Each task form shares some common components with the following key differences:

Group B will receive a task that includes an additional section.

Group C will only view and enter data for one section.

What should you do?

Match each characteristic with the appropriate type of log file.

Note: Each type of tog file will be used once. To change your responses, you may deselect your response by clicking the blank space at the top of the selection list

You're developing a functionality to manage transactions for an insurance company. Each transaction can have multiple items where respective item type and item amount can be entered. The amount entered can be either negative or positive, and is a decimal data type with a precision of 8 and a scale of 2.

A maximum of 10 items can be entered for a transaction. Once all the items are entered, you need to calculate and show the sum of all items' total amounts at the transaction level.

What is the best way to calculate and display the sum of all item amounts?

You need to connect to an external system using OAuth 2.0: SAML Bearer Assertion Flow authentication type, which requests access to an API on of a signed in user.

This standard has several steps involved with the SAML Bearer Assertion Flow.

Which two steps should you perform to connect to the external system? (Choose two.)

You’re developing a case management application. Currently, users can view a list of all cases designed using a a!forEach() loop from a record query. Users can navigate to the case summary page which shows the case details in a two (2) column layout. Users are also able to update the case details.

During the last round of UAT testing, users reported that the tool was not intuitive to use.

Match each feedback comment to the suggested UI/UX improvements.

Note: Each UI/UX improvement will be used once, or not at all. To change your responses, you may deselect your response by clicking the blank space at the top of the selection list.

You're redesigning user interfaces to achieve more efficient space usage.

Which layout component is the best choice for displaying an interface with a vertical meaningful order of components?

You need to select a plug-in to meet a specific requirement and several plug-ins can do the job.

What are three key factors to consider? (Choose three.)

You need to create an expression rule that will be reused throughout your environment.

What are two reasons why you should include meaningful test cases when creating a new expression rule? (Choose two.)

You're creating an interface to display all the employees of a company on a staff list.

You decide to use a!gridField() to create a user grid to display information from the company's AAA_Employee record, which has 42 fields relating to various employee information. To avoid cluttering the grid, you want to show six (6) fields on the grid.

How should you optimize the interface?

You need to configure a process model that runs every day at 10:00 AM. The process should start only at the specified time even when a newer version of the process model is published.

A Boolean type constant needs to be configured in the process model. The intended flow of the process should be executed only when the constant is True.

Which three steps should you perform? (Choose three.)

You’re designing a file upload process that integrates with an external document management system.

Part of this process is to develop a start form with a file upload component, so that the user can upload multiple files.

The business has requested that the maximum file size that can be uploaded through this process is 1GB. Additionally, you’re aware that the integration's API can accept files with a maximum file size of 3GB, but recommends no larger than 1GB.

Can the process be more performant without straining the application or integration?

You need to create a quality control (QC) review process for a factory that allows a QC technician to review each production line regularly.

You have the following requirements:

• Each technician has 45 minutes to complete their review.

• After 45 minutes, the review will expire.

• Expired reviews are flagged as 'Review expired.'

• 'Review expired' flags trigger an email notification to a supervisor, and the review data should not be saved.

• The technician can save a Draft copy of their review before submission and can come back to work on it later if necessary.

• Once a review is 'Submitted.' the review data is saved to the database

What should you implement?

An insurance company's product details are currently distributed across numerous database tables, encompassing over 60 to 70 fields.

You need to implement a product comparison tool for business users to compare up to three insurance products simultaneously, with all the product details in a tabular format.

Refer to the following sample format:

Which object should be used to transform the data into the required format?

You're reviewing the process model built by your team member.

Which two design decisions might cause performance issues? (Choose two.)

You have set up SAML for single sign-on (SSO) in your cloud environment.

Which three options could you enable in the Attribute Mapping section of the Admin Console to sync with a user's profile in Appian? (Choose three.)

You're designing an integration object with JSON (application/json) as the content type.

Which two data types can be automatically converted to JSON in Appian? (Choose two.)

You're creating a process to update specific fields in a list of records and you save the updated records to the database.

You're given the following performance considerations:

Execution time

Process instance memory usage

Process execution engine load balancing

Based on these performance metrics, rank the options from best to worst.

Note: To answer, move all steps from the Options list to the Answer List area and arrange them in the correct ranking order (best at the top, and worst at the bottom).