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Appian Certified Associate Developer Cheat Sheet 2025
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At what point should personas be created? - correct answers ✔✔Sprint 0
What is the difference between the analyst and designer view of the process modeler? - correct answers ✔✔The analyst view is for drawing the flow whereas the designer view is for configuring the process flow to work
If youre unsure what application an object is located in, where would you go to find the object? - correct answers ✔✔Object view
Which of these attributes of a good demo? - correct answers ✔✔Systematic walkthrough, tell the audience what they'll see, starting with small features and ending with the most important
Which users can create groups in Appian? - correct answers ✔✔System Administrators
What should analysts do during testing phases? - correct answers ✔✔Run the testing procedures, identify high impact areas during testing, set up automated testing scripts
Which filter options are available for news - correct answers ✔✔All
What interfaces are created for designers? - correct answers ✔✔Appian Designer, Run Time data/designer, Admin Console
This represents something a user can do and covers functionality that needs to be built? - correct answers ✔✔Epic
Which of the following items can be an expression rule directly reference? - correct answers ✔✔All
When are local variables defined in the with() function refreshed? - correct answers ✔✔With each evaluation of the interface
Which of the following would best represent in a record? - correct answers ✔✔Item in Catalog
A company has just purchased Appian to replace their existing system. What should they avoid when choosing their first project? - correct answers ✔✔Requirements gathered by someone who is unfamiliar with the Appian platform, An exact replacement of the existing system
What is an application in Appian? - correct answers ✔✔A container for all of the objects that make a bussiness solution
Which of these are true about Appians recommended delivery methodology? - correct answers ✔✔Focus on small iterative releases, After each sprint the goal to have a possibly releasable piece of functionality
What is the highest number of pages a site can have? - correct answers ✔✔ 5
Which of the following can be configured in the internationalization settings page? - correct answers ✔✔All
Which of the following are ways to increase the number of tempo posts you see every day? - correct answers ✔✔Subscribe to more feeds, Follow other users
What is true about Appian application? - correct answers ✔✔You can reuse obects across applications, applications allow you to deploy a project from one environment to another, when creating an application that is similar to another, we recommentd creating 2 separate applications with separate unique objects
How can you pull up the functions library in the expression designer? - correct answers ✔✔typing fun
Why does appian recommend using Agile methodology when building an application? - correct answers ✔✔Deploying an application is relatively easy and can be automated, its easy to make changes in Appian which lends itself to frequent demos and feedback loops from the bussiness
Monitoring a process instance allows you to preform which of the following? - correct answers ✔✔All
This is the prioritized list of features and functionality that need to be delivered in the product? - correct answers ✔✔Backlog
The reports builder can be used to create charts and grids that query data from which object types? - correct answers ✔✔Data Store Entity
They should share a common naming convention within the same application
How can users be deleted? - correct answers ✔✔A user cannot be deleted only deactivated
Which groups are available in Appian by default? - correct answers ✔✔Process model creators, tempo message audience groups, application users
At a minimum, which of the following security priviledges does a user need to see an Action in Tempo? - correct answers ✔✔Viewer rights to the application that holds the action, Initiator rights to the process model the action calls
what functions are used to define local variables? - correct answers ✔✔with(), load()
What is the fastest way to query a database? - correct answers ✔✔a!queryEntity()
When should the fn! Domain prefix be used? - correct answers ✔✔When passing the function into a looping function
What can be used in expressions? - correct answers ✔✔All
These can be included in an expression rule - correct answers ✔✔All other answers are correct
Why use custom data types? - correct answers ✔✔Easier to save information in an external database via CDT, Better data organization
Which record is automatically created in Appian? - correct answers ✔✔User
Which of the following items are configurable for a Tempo System post? - correct answers ✔✔All
Mobile design considerations may include: - correct answers ✔✔Button placement, Grid vs Feed Record Lists, Multi- column design
In order for a user to be able to create new process models, the must be ___ - correct answers ✔✔In the process model creations group
What is the interface Designer? - correct answers ✔✔It is a tool that helps design SAIL interfaces
Which gateway node would you use if you wanted the process to continue down one or two more paths, based on logic you set? - correct answers ✔✔Complex
How can test values be defined in the expression rule designer? - correct answers ✔✔Within the rule input window
For a dropdown field, a radio button field and a checkbox field, which of the following determines what is displayed to the end user on the interface for each option in the list? - correct answers ✔✔Choice labels
Exceptions can be triggered by which of the following? - correct answers ✔✔A timer, a received message, a rule condition met
A dropdown uses a query rule that returns the desired labels and values into a CDT. What are the best location(s) to execute this query rule so the interfaces performs well? - correct answers ✔✔The query rule should be placed within the SAIL expression using the load() function.
What does the with() function allow designers to do? - correct answers ✔✔Refresh local variable values with each evaluation, Define local variables that can be used further in the expression
If a process has been paused or cancelled by exception, where should you first look to see the error? - correct answers ✔✔Monitoring view in the Appian Designer.
Which statements are true about from fields? - correct answers ✔✔They can handle many data types, They can include custom validations, they can be shown or hidden based on an expression, they can save a different value than the one displayed
What fields are required in Post Event to Feed smart service?
Related Actions are visible: - correct answers ✔✔On the Related Actions view of a record, as ashortcuts on aditional record views, as shortcuts on the record summary
Which smart services require the EntryId of an existing post in order to add in an update? - correct answers ✔✔Post
When a task is assigned to a group, how does Appian decide to which user it gets assigned? - correct answers ✔✔The first person that accepts the task gets assigned the task
If I wanted to ass a number to an array at a specified position, what function would I use? - correct answers ✔✔insert()
Regarding Application security, what can an administrator do that an editor cannot? - correct answers ✔✔Delete
What is the purpose of Appian Community? - correct answers ✔✔To collaborate with Appian Practitioners in an online community, to share application templates and components, to inform the Appian community of best practices
Who can delete news posts? - correct answers ✔✔System Aministrators
Which of the following security rights must Designers have if the wish to save changes to a process model? - correct answers ✔✔Editor
Which domain prefixes would you use in the process modeler? - correct answers ✔✔pv!, ac!, rule!
Which of the following Appian objects don't have explicit security settings? - correct answers ✔✔CDT
When troubleshooting issues with your design/process model where should you look for information about the issue? - correct answers ✔✔Alerts, Monitor process instances, Application server logs
Which is a quick way of testing the performance of your interface (as a designer)? - correct answers ✔✔Performance view within the interface Designer
Under what conditions should Activity chaining NOT be used? - correct answers ✔✔There is no business need for the same user to complete forms consecutively, a large amount of system processing must be done between User input nodes, for system nodes that are not placed between two user input nodes in a process flow
If I wanted to give users the ability to quickly see more information by clicking on a link within a grid, which function should I use? - correct answers ✔✔a!dynamicLink
Site visibility can be controlled by: - correct answers ✔✔Expression for each page, security set on the site object, underlying sources for each site page
Which of these are NOT true about interfaces viewed in Tempo or Sites? - correct answers ✔✔You can have different fonts for different fields
Which filter options are available for news? Select all that apply: - correct answers ✔✔starred, participating, updates, kudos
Select all that apply. Which of the following are true about sites? - correct answers ✔✔Designers build sites that expose parts of an application to a set of users.
What nodes represent flows diverging or converging based on logic? - correct answers ✔✔Gateways
Which of the following can you access from within a record? Select all that apply: - correct answers ✔✔News, Related Actions, Additional Views
If an HR employee is filling out a form from their corporate portal, where are they probably doing their work? - correct answers ✔✔An HR Appian site
Users can ___. Select all that apply. - correct answers ✔✔Star actions that they take often
Actions are grouped by ___. Select all that apply. - correct answers ✔✔starred, application name
Select all that apply. When planning the data for an application, which of these statements is true? - correct answers ✔✔determine what data you already have, determine where the data will be going once its collected, plan the data before you plan reports, plan where the data is coming from
At which record level will you see a summary view? - correct answers ✔✔Record view
Where would I go to see details of an individual item in my Supply Inventory Category? - correct answers ✔✔record types
Select all that apply. Which of these are true about Appian's recommended delivery methodology? - correct answers ✔✔afer each sprint the goal is to have a possibly releasable piece of funcitonality, focus on small iterative releases
What nodes represent a form assigned to a person? - correct answers ✔✔User Input Tasks
when building a quick app, what field is automatically added and not configurable? - correct answers ✔✔title
taking the scenario of a CRM system, identify which tab you would use to accomplish the following: add a new customer?
this represents something a user can do and covers functionaity that needs to be built. - correct answers ✔✔user story
this is the prioritized list of features and functionality that need to be delivred in the product. - correct answers ✔✔backlog
this appian role is responsible for architecting the solution that meets the requirements from the analyst. - correct answers ✔✔lead designer
what interface is created for administrators? - correct answers ✔✔admin console
who can access the admin console? - correct answers ✔✔system admin level users
where do deadlines sho up out-of-the-box? - correct answers ✔✔tasks
select all that apply. Which of these are available appian interface components? - correct answers ✔✔editable grid, milestone field
in which tab can you see the social tasks you've sent? - correct answers ✔✔news
this represents a large feature that is completed across multiple sprints - correct answers ✔✔epic
who creates quick apps? - correct answers ✔✔business users
knowledge centers are used to: - correct answers ✔✔create a level in a content management hierarchy
to act upon existing data, from which ta would you start a process? - correct answers ✔✔record
this is a visual representation of the user stories and generaly how they are categorized. - correct answers ✔✔story map