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 reviewing the Engine Performance Logs in Production for a single application that has been live for six months. This application experiences concurrent user activity and has a fairly sustained load during business hours. The client has reported performance issues with the application during business hours.During your investigation, you notice a high Work Queue - Java Work Queue Size value in the logs. You also notice unattended process activities, including timer events and sending notification emails, are taking far longer to execute than normal.The client increased the number of CPU cores prior to the application going live.What is the next recommendation?

A) Add execution and analytics shards
B) Add more application servers.
C) Optimize slow-performing user interfaces.
D) Add more engine replicas.

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

4. You are deciding the appropriate process model data management strategy.
For each requirement. match the appropriate strategies to implement. Each strategy will be used once.
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5. You need to design a complex Appian integration to call a RESTful API. The RESTful API will be used to update a case in a customer's legacy system.
What are three prerequisites for designing the integration?

A) Understand the business rules to be applied to ensure the business logic of the data.
B) Understand the different error codes managed by the API and the process of error handling in Appian.
C) Understand whether this integration will be used in an interface or in a process model.
D) Understand the content of the expected body, including each field type and their limits.
E) Define the HTTP method that the integration will use.

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