Appian Exam Questions

What is a correct representation of a dynamic process display name?

"Create or Update Record; " & pv!recordName

What is the batch size to retrieve all data

-1

What is the output of ("="(Len(HELLO,5)) ?

10

Daily scrum meeting for?

15 minutes

A form has 5 rule inputs, as follows: 1 CDT variable 3 Text variables 1 Integer variable According to best practices, how many process variables are required in the process model's user input task?

5

How many pages we can use in Sites?

5

Appian best practices, what is the naming convention for a Constant?

<app_prefix>_NEW_CONSTANT_NAME

Appian best practices, what is the naming convention for an Interface?

<app_prefix>_NewRuleName

In the life cycle of scrum master, what is the definition of ready?

A list of criteria that a user story needs to meet in order to be added to a sprint.

You are tasked with creating the group structure for a new application using the prefix ABC. Users of this application could have up to two roles. They could be Employees, and some Employees are Supervisors. Place the groups below in the correct order, from parent group to child group.

ABC All Users ABC Employees ABC Supervisors

In a process model, you want all outgoing flows lo start once all incoming flows have reached the node. Which gateway is most appropriate to use?

AND

During User Acceptance Testing (UAT), a tester operating in the test environment asks you to change a data point in one of the tables. In the development environment, you navigate to the database and adjust the data point that the tester described. What is the issue with the steps taken?

According to Appian best practices, changes should not be made directly in a database.

You want users to get back-to-back tasks, what will you apply in-process model?

Activity chaining

What is the lowest level of permission required to delete a folder?

Administrator

You are adding a new related action to a record, which statement is true about this task?

After selecting a process model the context section is used to populate process model parameters

What is Agile?

Agile is a Software development methodology

Which three objects can be a valid page in a Site?

B. Report C. News Feed E. Record type

In the scrum lifecycle of a project, when should the team agree on the requirements for the Definition of Done?

Before getting started on the project

At what stage are you most likely to regularly refine the backlog?

Build

During what stage of the Appian Delivery Methodology does story-pointing regularly occur?

Build

Which Appian's objects don't have any security?

CDTs and Group Types

You need to ensure that your interface is readable on different devices. How is this most commonly checked?

Click on the different preview options in the Interface Designer.

A client requested a feature that is exceptionally specific and uncommon. You begin by gathering research to help determine how such a feature could be implemented, but no documentation is available. What should you do next?

Create a Support Case.

CDT stands for?

Custom Data Type

What are the different data sources for Appian record types?

Database, Process, Salesforce, and Other Web Service

Which two filter types should you apply to limit the record list by default?

Default filters User filters

Which statement is true about the default behavior of local variables?

Default value is null

Every business process, whether inside or outside of Appian, requires which of the following?

Defined steps

Your team lead mentions that the environment has been performing very slow lately, and the reason is unclear. A process model is consuming a lot of memory, and this could be causing the slowness in the environment. What are two valid solutions to this issue?

Delete processes alter completion or cancellation by configuring the Data Management tab in the Process Model Properties. Archive processes after completion or cancellation by configuring the Data Management tab in the Process Model Properties.

Disabled

Determines if the field should be greyed out

Read-only

Determines if the field should display as editable

Visibility

Determines whether the field is displayed in the interface

Masked

Determines whether the value of the field is hidden behind asterisks

You need to create a record list that displays a link in one of the column cells which field property should you use for the link?

Display Value

User wants to select one particular color from a group of colors, what is the best approach?

Dropdown Component

You want to generate documentation for a process model which two security permission can achieve this?

Editor and Administrator

Interface cannot be reusable?

False

Primary key contains null values? T/F

False

We can use JavaScript and Bootstrap in the Appian? T/F

False

Existing record type, where do you go to select between a grid or a feed view?

In the list tab of the record

Life cycle of Appian Delivery Methodology?

Initiate, Build, Release, and Optimize

An end-user needs to trigger a process model and act on the user task assigned to them. What is the minimum security permission needed?

Initiator

Which function will add the new item in an array?

Insert()

What are the primitive data types in Appian?

Integer (Number), Integer (Decimal), Text, Boolean, and Date

By default, when is a local variable refreshed when using a!localVariables( )?

It never refreshes

What type of variable can only be used within the context of a particular expression, and can only be accessed within the function that defines them?

Local Variable

You are configuring a record type and utilizing data sync. Appian does NOT have write access to the source database table, and will not make updates. Which data sync option is most appropriate for your situation?

Manual Sync

Deployment rollback is possible in the Appian?

No

When creating a process model, you need an incoming path to continue down one or more paths based on the logic you set. Which gateway node should you use?

OR

A related action was created in a record. A Related Action Shortcut needs to be added in order to call this action. Where is this configured?

On the Record View

A client asks you to store work location information for their employees. The client mentions that multiple employees may be assigned to multiple work locations. Which type of database relationship is the client describing?

One-to-Many

You are creating an interface and need to pass data out to its parent interface. With type of variable is required to achieve this?

Parameterised process variable

Which option is most appropriate to assess the performance of a single interface?

Performance View

What purpose do default test values serve when creating an interface?

Pre-populated rule inputs give designers a representation of what end-user will see

Which statement regarding starting a process is true?

Process messaging must be used to start a new process from within a running process

Who is responsible for estimating the level of effort for Product Backlog items?

Product Owner

Who will prioritize backlog refinement?

Product Owner

Sprint Planning

Product owner and development team to meet and review the product backlog

Three roles of Agile?

Product owner, Scrum Master, and Developer

When designing a new interface, you have to create a table populated with record data. The table needs to link to the relevant record. With component should you use?

Read-Only Grid

What is the most appropriate interface component to display tabular data?

Read-only Grid

You have data from two unrelated tables. Which Appian objects can easily relate data from these two tables?

Record Types

An Appian user needs to update information for a case in the record list. Which three security or visibility settings will impact the visibility of a related action?

Record type security Related action visibility Process model security

Given a direct URL to access a record view which configuration would allow the user this access?

Record type security is all that is required

What does the recordType! domain do?

References data from a record

How to pass the input from the interface to the nested interface?

Rule Input

You are creating a new interface. You need to arrange the primary, top-level contents of the interface across the width of the page. According to best practices, which layout should be used in order to accomplish this?

Section

There is already data available outside the Appian. How do you get this data to Appian to create a record?

Service Backed

A product owner and some or all of the team are reviewing our planning to the product owner's feedback. Which Agile ceremony is being described?

Sprint Planning

A feature is being deployed to the test environment. In which environment is unit testing performed for the feature?

Staging

Which environment is most common for user acceptance testing?

Staging environment

Which scenario would most commonly use a related action?

Starting a company-wide annual performance review process that tasks every employee to fill out a self-assessment

Appian held a Product Announcement Webinar yesterday, but you had a conflicting client meeting and could not attend. Your team lead asks you to review the newest release notes. Where is the best place to keep up with the latest release notes?

The Appian Community

Story Pointing

The development team estimates the difficulty of developing features

Sprint Review

The development team shows off what they've worked on to stakeholders

What is a Foreign Key?

The key that joins two tables together.

A record type is using a process as its data source. Which statement is true?

The record has access to current values of process variables within process instances.

In a process model, a user input task is configured as a Quick Task. What happens when the process is started?

The task automatically has priority over other active tasks.

Sprint Retrospective

The team discusses what went well and what could be better, and suggestions for the future.

How do you restrict user access to Tempo?

Update the members and/or membership rules of the Tempo Users Group.

How to send alerts to user groups?

Use Custom error alert setting

You are designing an interface and selecting colors for the application. What is the Appian-recommended best practice?

Use a small, consistent color palette.

A record for Employees has been created. What is the correct use case for a record list action?

View the details at an Employee

In addition to initiating the process model, what other permission is required to execute the Write to Data Store Entity smart service?

Viewer permission to the data store

Most accurate reason to use database view?

Views definition automatically update when dependent data structure tables are changed

An organization has data spread across multiple platforms outside of Appian. They want to create an Appian application to leverage this data. Which record type data source should they use?

Web Service

When should you select the option to Create a new version of the XSD file?

When datatype (CDT) configurations are not acceptable through a datatype CDT designed

Process has multiple end nodes where each node is configured with the default, in which situation will this process be terminated?

When the system administrator manually terminated the process

Which smart service will you use to save the data in the database?

Write To Data Store Entity

Can we trigger a sub-process from the main process?

Yes

You need to update the table structure in the database, and then update the related CDT in Appian to publish the data store entity. Column names in the database and the CDT are implemented using different naming conventions. Which statement is appropriate in this scenario?

You can update the CDT columns in Appian Designer, or update the CDT-related XSD and create a new version from that. Or You must update the CDT-related XSD and create a new version from that. Depends on what needs to be updated

You need to edit data in a table. You ate currently using the following statement: INSERT INTO product (productId, productName) VALUES (3, "App1e"); What is the issue?

You should be using an UPDATE statement.

How to start a process model from an Interface?

a!startProcessLink

Which function allows you to trigger a process on interface revaluation and remain on the task?

a!startProcessLink

If you enable more than one language in the user input task

configure the form tab of the task in each language

Name some functions which have no parameters?

loggedInUser(), now(), today() etc

You need to query some data from the database using more than one filter. Which parameter for a!query() should you use to define your filters?

logicalExpression

Which function will you use to merge to array?

merge()

When setting the assignment of a User Input task, you need the task to be assigned to the person who started the process. Which option is appropriate to use to accomplish this goal?

pp!initiator