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APPIAN DEVELOPER EXAM SCRIPT 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
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✔✔What does the process discovery method generate? (Done by uploading an event log) A. The target model that shows how a process should run B. The discovered model that shows how a process runs in real life C. A chart of common deviations D. A reporting dashboard - ✔✔B. The discovered model that shows how a process runs in real life ✔✔What process mining method compares the discovered and target models and identifies the deviations between them? A. Process enhancement B. Conformance checking C. Process discovery D. Regulatory compliance - ✔✔B. Conformance checking ✔✔What are the for purposes for Process Mining? - ✔✔- Discover patterns in real life
- Check for conformance and deviations
- Identify root causes for deviations
- Create and monitor key metrics ✔✔What is Conformance Checking? - ✔✔This is when Process Mining identifies deviations and uncovers root causes in a Discovered Model. These deviations include: Skipped events Additional events Event order switching Alternative paths ✔✔Process Mining puts you in charge of the insight gained from process mining. Process discovery reveals what your processes are like in real life. Conformance checking identifies deviations and their root causes. Once you understand the issues you must do what two things? - ✔✔1. Decide what must be automated
- Implement a monitoring dashboard ✔✔Define Persona - ✔✔A representation of a group of people with similar needs who will work in the application. ✔✔Define Groups - ✔✔A security that enables users to view and interact with different application components. Such as records, reports and processes. ✔✔What is used to primarily manage data in Appian? - ✔✔Record Types
✔✔T or F: CDTs help you define the data model used in your app. - ✔✔False. Record Types help define the data model. Users can view and take action on data using records. ✔✔What three ways can record type data be sourced from? - ✔✔- Relational Databases
- Appian Processes
- Web services ✔✔What Appian component drives actions performed in the application? - ✔✔Process Models ✔✔T or F: It's a good idea to create a planning document for the application. - ✔✔True. Do this by stating the application's purpose and goals. Add performance measures to define application success. After those are defined, you need to identify Groups and Personas; Data Design and Records; Process Models and Reports. ✔✔In Appian, how is a record defined? A. A record represents a row in a database B. A record tracks user activity in an application C. Record types help you define the data model used in your app. Users can view and take action on data using records. D. A record documents a transaction that occurred using an application. - ✔✔C. Record types help you define the data model used in your app. Users can view and take action on data using records. ✔✔What are the key components of application planning? A. Databases, web APIs, users, forms, process models, reports B. Personas, project budget, custom data types, records, reports C. Personas, records-based data design, custom data types, process models, reports D. Custom data types, records, forms, scheduling process models - ✔✔C. Personas, records-based data design, custom data types, process models, reports. Remember that this is planning. Planning drives development and should be half the work. ✔✔What are the most basic security groups? - ✔✔All Users Administrators Within these groups, other groups can be made to further specify responsibilities. ✔✔T or F: A security group can contain sub-groups but not individual user members. - ✔✔False ✔✔Define Permissions Matrix - ✔✔A graph that defines who may access application functions and records. You can define which groups have or are denied access to application functions and records.
✔✔T or F: Data associated with key events that occur during your business operations can be captured, stored and accessed as record events in Appian. - ✔✔True. These make up the Event History. You can track activities, responsible parties and associated timestamps. ✔✔How does a Summary view differ from a List view? - ✔✔Summary view provides more details about a record. ✔✔What is the difference between Analyst view and Designer view? (Process modeler)
- ✔✔The Analyst view can be used during planning to simply draw a process model. The Designer view is used to create a working model. You can reference the drawing from the Analyst view. ✔✔What is the purpose of a swimlane? - ✔✔A swimlane gives a visual representation of what persona is responsible for the record and the actions they take. ✔✔What type of gateway nodes are available? - ✔✔And Complex OR XOR ✔✔When creating a process model, which of the following should you identify? Select all that apply. A. Data types B. Record types that will be linked through related actions C. Reporting requirements D. Interfaces used to enter data - ✔✔A, B, D. ✔✔What can be used for a source for Report Data? - ✔✔Appian's Internal analytics engine Relational Databases Synced Records External Systems through web services or other integrations ✔✔Which type of report focuses on key performance indicators, such as revenue or customer satisfaction? A. Business value B. Process metrics C. Gauges D. Pie chart - ✔✔A. Business value ✔✔Which type of report focuses on operational efficiency and bottlenecks? A. Business value
B. Process metrics C. Gauges D. Pie chart - ✔✔B. Process metrics ✔✔What is the most common description for the type of work Appian does? A. Business-to-Business and Business-to-Government B. Business-to-Government and Consumer-to-Consumer C. Business-to-Consumer and Consumer-to-Consumer D. Business-to-Business and Consumer-to-Consumer - ✔✔A. Business-to-Business and Business-to-Government ✔✔How can application users launch a process? (Multi select) A. Add a gateway to the process B. Use a record type's related action C. Create a task D. Submit a form from a site - ✔✔B and D ✔✔At what stage are you most likely to have a "Sprint 0"? A. Build B. Optimize C. Release D. Initiate - ✔✔D. Initiate ✔✔Following Scrum best practices, what is the maximum number of product owner(s) a delivery team should have? A. It varies based on the size of the team and project B. 3 C. 1 D. Product owners are not always required - ✔✔C. 1 ✔✔If your data lives in a relational database or a database table, how can the record type access your source data? (Multi Select) A. Through a cached copy of your database table (if data sync is enabled) B. Through a process model C. Through a web service D. Through a Data Store Entity (DSE) - ✔✔A and D ✔✔A user has Editor permissions to a record type. Which three actions can the user take? A. Update the record type definition. B. View the record type in Temp. C. View the record type definition and security. D. Update the record type security.
✔✔T or F: For object security, the Editor can Rename the rule, view the security and can run test cases. But they can't delete the rule or update the security. - ✔✔True. Editor has all permissions besides deleting and changing the security. The editor is the second highest permission level. ✔✔T or F: For object security, the Viewer can evaluate the rule, view the rule definition, run test cases and can even duplicate the rule. - ✔✔True. Viewers are the most basic permission level. They can use the rule and view everything but the security. They can't change or delete the rule object. This is the default permission level for all users. ✔✔T or F: For object security, the Deny permission level has no permissions and can't evaluate the rule. - ✔✔False. The Deny permission level CAN evaluate the rule, but they can't do anything else. The only permission level that has no access is called "No Access". This is the default permission level for Default users. ✔✔When creating a site, which is an appropriate display name? A. AA_SupervisorsSite B. Supervisors_Site C. Supervisor's Dashboard Site (Administrators Only) D. supervisorssite E. Supervisors Site - ✔✔E. Supervisors Site. The display name is visible to the users and should be concise, in title case (Pascal Case), and should not contain the application's abbreviation. ✔✔How many phases are in the delivery of an application? - ✔✔4. Initiate, Build, Release, Optimize. Build and Release are part of Agile where you build a small part of the application and release it when it's done. Each sprint has a build and release phase. ✔✔What happens during the Initiate phase of the delevery methodology? - ✔✔Initiate phase is where sprint 0 occurs. You do a fair amount of planning. You don't need to plan the entire app in detail. ✔✔What are the goals for the Initiate phase or sprint 0? - ✔✔Define Success Explore Scope Plan Releases Agree on a way of working ✔✔Define Definition of Ready (DoR) - ✔✔A list of criteria a unit of work (typically a story) must meet for development to start. Developers understand what needs to be done, external dependencies are identified, scope is clearly defined, etc.
✔✔Define Definition of Done (DoD) - ✔✔A list of criteria that a unit of work (typically a story) must meet in order to be considered complete. Testing passes, documentation written, etc. ✔✔Define Agile - ✔✔A series of values and principles that provide guidance for project management. This is a philosophy and not a methodology. ✔✔Define Scrum - ✔✔An approach to software development where you complete units of work incrementally for an application as a team. ✔✔What is the responsibility of the Product Owner? - ✔✔Responsible for defining and prioritizing all the user stories. They also address challenges developers face when there is conflicting or little direction for what needs to be built. ✔✔What is the responsibility of the Scrum Master/Team Lead? - ✔✔Guards agile practices and removes impediments. Primary point of contact. ✔✔What is the responsibility of the Developers? - ✔✔Deliver the application. making usable piece of software every sprint. ✔✔How long does a typical sprint last? - ✔✔2 weeks ✔✔What are the 5 events that Scrum revolves around? - ✔✔Sprint (Agile Ceremony) Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective ✔✔Define a User Story - ✔✔Software feature descriptions written in non-technical language, written from the perspective of the end users and results in a working piece of functionality. ✔✔What are the three stages of the Build phase? - ✔✔Planning, Disciplined Development, Inspect and Adapt ✔✔What happens in a backlog refinement session? - ✔✔The team reviews user stories and asks questions until 2 weeks worth of stories meets the DoR. ✔✔What are the three activities related to Agile planning? - ✔✔Backlog refinement Story Sizing Sprint Planning ✔✔When reading through user stories, break down the story into what 2 sub tasks? - ✔✔Security
C. PascalCase D. camelCase E. UPPER_CASE F. lower_case G. Pascal_Case H. camel_Case - ✔✔E. UPPER_CASE ✔✔Once a Record Type with the data source of DB is created, what case format do your properties use? A. UPPERCASE B. lowercase C. PascalCase D. camelCase E. UPPER_CASE F. lower_case G. Pascal_Case H. camel_Case - ✔✔E. UPPER_CASE ✔✔T or F: When creating a record type, the display name is always plural. - ✔✔True ✔✔When adding a relationship to the record type, which is not a relationship type: A. Many to Many B. One to Many C. Many to One D. One to One - ✔✔A. Many to Many ✔✔T or F: When adding a relationship to a record type, you can use any columns from either table. - ✔✔False. The one of the table's PK should be used to associate with one field from the other relationship. ✔✔T or F: When generating a Record Type summary view, the default naming convention is to use the word "Summary" before the description of the data. - ✔✔True ✔✔T or F: When creating an interface that summarizes a record types data, you should NOT use the word "Summary" in the object's name. - ✔✔False. The Appian naming convention is APP(3 letter acronym)RecordTypeSummaryDescription. Exe. For ther Buy And Large (BNL) app, a summary object name could be, BNLPurchaseHistorySummaryCustomerReceipt ✔✔When creating a table, which component do you use? A. a!gridField() B. a!table() C. a!gridColumn() D. fv!gridField() - ✔✔A. a!gridField()
✔✔When creating a table, which component do you use to create the columns? A. a!dataField() B. a!gridData() C. a!tableColumn() D. a!gridColumn() - ✔✔D. a!gridColumn() ✔✔When creating a table, what source types can be used for the data? A. Record Type B. SQL Query C. Report D. Process Report E. A and B F. All of the above - ✔✔F. All of the above ✔✔When creating a table, which is the proper syntax for displaying a Record Type property? A. a!gridColumn(value: fv!row.property) B. a!gridColumn(value: fv!row[RecordType!Record.property]) C. a!gridColumn(value: fv!row[RecordType!property]) D. a!gridColumn(value: fv!item.property) - ✔✔B. a!gridColumn(value: fv!row[RecordType!Record.property]) ✔✔When querying a record type, what is the appropriate query function? A. a!queryLogicalExpression() B. a!query() C. a!queryEntity() D. a!queryRecordType() - ✔✔D. a!queryRecordType() ✔✔a!queryRecordType() has all of these parameters EXCEPT for: A. recordType B. fields C. filters D. pagingInfo E. fetchTotalCount F. relatedRecordData G. aggregation - ✔✔G. aggregation is a parameter of a!query() ✔✔a!query() has all of these parameters EXCEPT for: A. selection B. aggregation C. logicalExpression D. filter E. pagingInfo F. fields - ✔✔F. fields is a parameter of a!queryRecordType()
Viewer Administrator ✔✔What can a user with Viewer permission levels do? - ✔✔View the rule folder ✔✔What can a user with Editor permission levels do? - ✔✔View the folder, create objects in the folder, view the security. ✔✔What can a user with Deny permission levels do? - ✔✔Nothing. No Access. ✔✔What can a user with Viewer Administrator levels do? - ✔✔View the folder, create objects in the folder, view the security, update the security and delete the folder. ✔✔What is the difference between the security privilege's of rule folders and process model folders? - ✔✔As an editor of a process model folder you can't view the security. As a viewer of a process model folder you can't create objects in the folder. ✔✔
