Appian Certified Lead Developer Sample Questions:

1. Your client's customer management application is finally released to Production. After a few weeks of small enhancements and patches, the client is ready to build their next application. The new application will leverage customer information from the first application to allow the client to launch targeted campaigns for select customers in order to increase sales. As part of the first application, your team had built a section to display key customer information such as their name, address, phone number, how long they have been a customer, etc. A similar section will be needed on the campaign record you are building. One of your developers shows you the new object they are working on for the new application and asks you to review it as they are running into a few issues. What feedback should you give?

A) Point the developer to the relevant areas in the documentation or Appian Community where they can find more information on the issues they are running into.
B) Create a duplicate version of that section designed for the campaign record.
C) Ask the developer to convert the original customer section into a shared object so it can be used by the new application.
D) Provide guidance to the developer on how to address the issues so that they can proceed with their work.

2. As part of your implementation workflow, users need to retrieve data stored in a third-party Oracle database on an interface. You need to design a way to query this information.
How should you set up this connection and query the data?

A) Configure a timed utility process that queries data from the third-party database daily, and stores it in the Appian business database. Then use a!queryEntity using the Appian data source to retrieve the data.
B) In the Administration Console, configure the third-party database as a "New Data Source." Then, use a!queryEntity to retrieve the data.
C) Configure an expression-backed record type, calling an API to retrieve the data from the third-party database. Then, use a!queryRecordType to retrieve the data.
D) Configure a Query Database node within the process model. Then, type in the connection information, as well as a SQL query to execute and return the data in process variables.

3. You are on a call with a new client, and their program lead is concerned about how their legacy systems will integrate with Appian. The lead wants to know what authentication methods are supported by Appian. Which three authentication methods are supported?

A) OAuth
B) CAC
C) API Keys
D) Active Directory
E) Biometrics
F) SAML

4. You are the lead developer for an Appian project, in a backlog refinement meeting. You are presented with the following user story:
"As a restaurant customer, I need to be able to place my food order online to avoid waiting in line for takeout." Which two functional acceptance criteria would you consider 'good'?

A) The user cannot submit the form without filling out all required fields.
B) The system must handle up to 500 unique orders per day.
C) The user will receive an email notification when their order is completed.
D) The user will click Save, and the order information will be saved in the ORDER table and have audit history.

5. Your team has deployed an application to Production with an underperforming view. Unexpectedly, the production data is ten times that of what was tested, and you must remediate the issue. What is the best option you can take to mitigate their performance concerns?

A) Create a table which is loaded every hour with the latest data.
B) Create a materialized view or table.
C) Bypass Appian's query rule by calling the database directly with a SQL statement.
D) Introduce a data management policy to reduce the volume of data.

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