Appian ACD-301 Exam Syllabus Topics:

Appian Certified Lead Developer Sample Questions:

1. You are asked to design a case management system for a client. In addition to storing some basic metadata about a case, one of the client's requirements is the ability for users to update a case. The client would like any user in their organization of 500 people to be able to make these updates. The users are all based in the company's headquarters, and there will be frequent cases where users are attempting to edit the same case. The client wants to ensure no information is lost when these edits occur and does not want the solution to burden their process administrators with any additional effort. Which data locking approach should you recommend?

A) Add an @Version annotation to the case CDT to manage the locking.
B) Use the database to implement low-level pessimistic locking.
C) Allow edits without locking the case CDI.
D) Design a process report and query to determine who opened the edit form first.

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

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

4. You are selling up a new cloud environment. The customer already has a system of record for Its employees and doesn't want to re-create them in Appian. so you are going to Implement LDAP authentication.
What are the next steps to configure LDAP authentication?
To answer, move the appropriate steps from the Option list to the Answer List area, and arrange them in the correct order. You may or may not use all the steps.

5. You are running an inspection as part of the first deployment process from TEST to PROD. You receive a notice that one of your objects will not deploy because it is dependent on an object from an application owned by a separate team.
What should be your next step?

A) Check the dependencies of the necessary object. Deploy to PROD if there are few dependencies and it is low risk.
B) Halt the production deployment and contact the other team for guidance on promoting the object to PROD.
C) Push a functionally viable package to PROD without the dependencies, and plan the rest of the deployment accordingly with the other team's constraints.
D) Create your own object with the same code base, replace the dependent object in the application, and deploy to PROD.

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