Appian Certified Lead Developer Sample Questions:

1. You are tasked to build a large-scale acquisition application for a prominent customer. The acquisition process tracks the time it takes to fulfill a purchase request with an award.
The customer has structured the contract so that there are multiple application development teams.
How should you design for multiple processes and forms, while minimizing repeated code?

A) Create a Scrum of Scrums sprint meeting for the team leads.
B) Create duplicate processes and forms as needed.
C) Create a Center of Excellence (CoE).
D) Create a common objects application.

2. You are developing a case management application to manage support cases for a large set of sites. One of the tabs in this application s site Is a record grid of cases, along with Information about the site corresponding to that case. Users must be able to filter cases by priority level and status.
You decide to create a view as the source of your entity-backed record, which joins the separate case/site tables (as depicted in the following Image).

Which three column should be indexed?

A) site_id
B) status
C) modified_date
D) priority
E) case_id
F) name

3. You are required to configure a connection so that Jira can inform Appian when specific tickets change (using a webhook). Which three required steps will allow you to connect both systems?

A) Give the service account system administrator privileges.
B) Configure the connection in Jira specifying the URL and credentials.
C) Create a new API Key and associate a service account.
D) Create a Web API object and set up the correct security.
E) Create an integration object from Appian to Jira to periodically check the ticket status.

4. Users must be able to navigate throughout the application while maintaining complete visibility in the application structure and easily navigate to previous locations. Which Appian Interface Pattern would you recommend?

A) Use Billboards as Cards pattern on the homepage to prominently display application choices.
B) Include a Breadcrumbs pattern on applicable interfaces to show the organizational hierarchy.
C) Implement an Activity History pattern to track an organization's activity measures.
D) Implement a Drilldown Report pattern to show detailed information about report data.

5. Your Appian project just went live with the following environment setup: DEV > TEST (SIT/UAT) > PROD. Your client is considering adding a support team to manage production defects and minor enhancements, while the original development team focuses on Phase 2. Your client is asking you for a new environment strategy that will have the least impact on Phase 2 development work. Which option involves the lowest additional server cost and the least code retrofit effort?

A) Phase 2 development work stream: DEV > TEST (SIT) > STAGE (UAT) > PROD
B) Phase 2 development work stream: DEV > TEST (SIT/UAT) > PROD
C) Phase 2 development work stream: DEV > TEST (SIT) > STAGE (UAT) > PROD
D) Phase 2 development work stream: DEV > TEST (SIT/UAT) > PROD

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