Mendix Intermediate Questions with Solved Solutions, Exams of Database Programming

A comprehensive set of intermediate-level questions and answers related to the mendix platform. It covers various aspects of mendix development, including data hub, sprint events, microflows, xpaths, app structure, styling, security, and more. The questions are designed to test understanding and provide practical insights into mendix development practices.

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Mendix Intermediate Questions with Solved Solutions
1.Where can published data be found: Data Hub Catalog
2.What is a piece of data from the data hub called?: External Entry
3.Why is the version number assigned to Odata service important?: There
can be multiple versions of a service and users can connect to a specific
one using it.
4.What is an external entity?: An entity that is connected to a dataset in
Data Hub.
5.What source type is used within Microsoft Excel to connect to a dataset
in Data Hub?: OData Feed
6.Where can you edit the properties (i.e. attributes, name, etc.) of an
External Entity?: In the domain model of the app where the External
Entity is defined.
7.What would you use to save changes to an external entity?: A Send
external object activity
8.Can you modify data in an External Entity?: Yes, if the
Updateable(write) property of its public resource settings is
checked.
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Mendix Intermediate Questions with Solved Solutions

1.Where can published data be found: Data Hub Catalog 2.What is a piece of data from the data hub called?: External Entry 3.Why is the version number assigned to Odata service important?: There can be multiple versions of a service and users can connect to a specific one using it. 4.What is an external entity?: An entity that is connected to a dataset in Data Hub. 5.What source type is used within Microsoft Excel to connect to a dataset in Data Hub?: OData Feed 6.Where can you edit the properties (i.e. attributes, name, etc.) of an External Entity?: In the domain model of the app where the External Entity is defined. 7.What would you use to save changes to an external entity?: A Send external object activity 8.Can you modify data in an External Entity?: Yes, if the Updateable(write) property of its public resource settings is checked.

2 / 23 9.What does the D in CRUD stand for?: Delete 10.How do you get the Data Hub Landscape?: Clicking the Landscape tab. 11.An app connected by a grey dotted line to your service in the Data Hub Landscape means what?: The app is consuming data from your service. 12.An app connected by a grey solid line to your service in the Data Hub Landscape means what?: The app is providing data to your service. 13.Which of the events is performed in the beginning of the sprint?: Sprint planning 14.What happens in the daily scrum?: Team members share their progress, plans, and issues. 15.Which of the following approaches needs to be used to sort items in the product backlog from top to bottom?: Based on the descending priority. 16.What do Story Points associated with a user story indicate?: Estimation of complexity of a user story. 17.During which of the Sprint Events the development team determines user stories that will be finished in the sprint?: Sprint Planning

4 / 23 deployment package. 26.Which function is used to merge a complete branch into the mainline and is only available on the main line?: Merge feature branch 27.Which of the below mentioned options can be used to merge revisions into and from all lines, main line or branch line?: Advanced merge 28.Where in Mendix Studio Pro can you configure XPaths?: Microflow Retrieve actions 29.Which Widget feature utilizes XPaths?: Selectable data constraints on Refer- ence Selectors 30.Where can you utilize XPaths in microflows?: In the 'Retrieve' action 31.How do you begin typing an XPath?: [ 32.If you want to open the XPath auto-complete menu, you need to press:: Ctrl

  • Space 33.Say you are writing an XPath in a Retrieve action for the VacationRequest entity in a Microflow. If you write in the XPath window [Status = 'Cancelled'], what will be returned?: A list of all the cancelled requests 34.Say you are writing an XPath in a Retrieve action on the

5 / 23 VacationRequest entity in a Microflow. If you write in the XPath window [VacationRequest.Va- cationRequest_Submitter='[%CurrentUser%]'], what will be returned?: A list of all vacation requests submitted by the current user 35.Which of the following options indicates a correct way of structuring resources within App Explorer?: Manually 36.When structuring the App Explorer, which of the following subfolders would be the best choice to store things like Enumerations and Regular Expressions?: Resources 37.When connecting a profile picture to an account of a team member, pro- viding that it should be possible to alter the picture, which of the following options would you choose?: Create a ProfilePicture entity and configuring Image entity in the System module as its generalization. 38.As Users by default always have multiple UserRoles, which of the following options can you put in place to ensure a user gets restricted to only one user role?: Adding the microflow logic. 39.Which widget from the listed below needs to be used inside of a List View for visualizing a dynamic image?: Image Viewer 40.Which of the following options can be used in Mendix Studio for

7 / 23 48.From the buttons on a Data Grid widget that work with single select mode, which ones need to be configured with multi-select mode?: Edit, Delete 49.Where should you configure that only selected roles are allowed to see a container on a page?: In the Conditional visibility property of the container. 50.How is the size of popup windows set to fixed?: By setting the resizable property of the page to No. 51.How can you ensure that the buttons in the footer area of the relatively long and scrollable pop-up page are always visible?: By removing the outer layout grid. 52.What constraint can you use to show the most recently created items at the top of the page?: created Date (descending) 53.What are the default Mendix options for the popups?: Resizable with size determined automatically, with layout grid as the most outer layer of the page. 54.How to make the popup window always visible?: Remove the outer layer grid. 55.Which of the following options provides an easy way to limit access

8 / 23 rights for a given role to a specific functionality within an app?: By adding a separate module. 56.Where on the page can the Menu document be displayed in an app?: Any- where 57.What alternative to drawing an association between two entities can you use to connect two entities, each located in a separate domain model?: By right-clicking in an entity and selecting Add>Association. 58.Which of the following XPath constraints should be used to allow users to only see their own notifications?: [Notifications.Notification_Account='[%Curren- tUser%]'] 59.What can you use whenever you wish to display a navigation menu, but not the main navigation tree?: Menu 60.How many source and destination languages can you specify?: One source, one destination 61.What does default project language define?: The language which users will see when using your app. 62.When and how a default language of an app needs to be selected?: Auto- matically at the moment of app creation. 63.Where can you choose the development language?: In the toolbar of

10 / 23 74.You've replaced a microflow with newer functionality and want to test it. However, you don't want to delete the old microflow permanently in case something goes wrong. How can you do this?: Exclude it from the project. 75.How can you allow users to access parts of an app (like a login page) without needing to log in?: Set up anonymous users. 76.In a microflow, what is a token?: A system-generated value. 77.In a microflow expression, "to UpperCase" is an example of what?: A func- tion 78.In a microflow, what would be an example of a variable?: $Customer 79.You need to debug a microflow in production but don't want to impact your users. How can you trigger debugging only when you personally are running the microflow?: Set a breakpoint condition. 80.How can you have a microflow automatically run at a specific moment in time?: Create and enable a scheduled event. 81.What can you use to exit a loop early, instead of finishing the entire list of iterator objects?: A break event 82.You want to find the total number of objects in a list. What can you easily use to do this?: Use an aggregate list function.

11 / 23 83.What are batches used for?: Processing large amounts of data. 84.What is the list object in a loop called?: An iterator 85.What is another way of calling an association?: Reference 86.How many associations can you add between two entities?: Many associa- tions of various multiplicity. 87.What is a good reason to choose to use an Information Entity instead of multiple associations?: You want to display additional information about an association. 88.Which of the event handlers does always need to return a boolean return value?: The before commit. 89.Where do you define the "persistable" property of an entity?: In the domain model 90.For which of the following entity types does Mendix create a database table?: For persistable entity 91.What happens on commit of a non-persistable entity?: Current attribute values and association values are stored in memory.

  1. What would be a good situation to use a calculated attribute?: When a value changes more often than it is viewed 93.When connecting 2 entities of 2 different modules how do we typically

13 / 23 overview pages..." for all entities.

  1. How can you show data from multiple entities in the same data grid?: Add columns which use associations.
  2. Where do you connect User roles to Module roles?: App security
  3. What does your app need in order to import Excel data into a Mendix app?: The Excel Importer module from the Marketplace.
  4. What does the Mx Model Reflection module do?: It shows the configuration of your domain model in the client.
  5. Why shouldn't make changes to Marketplace modules?: Updating to a new version of the module erases your changes.
  6. What are JSON structures converted to in Mendix?: Objects
  7. What do you use to interpret XML or JSON into Mendix objects?: Import mappings
  8. How do you get REST data using a microflow?: Use a Call REST Service action.
  9. What are export mappings used to accomplish?: Converting Mendix ob- jects to XML or JSON
  10. What does a message definition do?: It defines the messages that are sent to and from your app

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  1. What type of role should you make for your published REST services documents in security?: Module role
  2. You want to manipulate your data as you import it. Which of the following methods would be best suited to accomplish this?: The Excel Importer module
  3. For the Export to Excel button to properly function, what must be the source of its data grid?: XPath
  4. How can you export columns from your data grid without displaying them on the page for the user to see?: Use CSS to set the column to Display: none
  5. What do you need to generate to use the Email Service in your app?: Bind- ing Keys
  6. What is the information that you have to paste into the "Default Value"?- : SecretKey and UserName
  7. What are the required fields in the send email activity?: From, To, Subject
  8. If optional values are not provided, what values need to be filled in the send email activity?: Empty

16 / 23 plans you want to offer?: Enumeration

  1. Where can you set up speech recognition rules in the Microphone widget ?: Items in Voice to action
  2. Which one is the correct language format for American English?: en- US
  3. Where can you set up the data in the Audio Player widget ?: In the General tab, under Source
  4. What do you need to do before you can test your app?: Add page navigation
  5. Which step is necessary before your app goes live ?: Preview and test
  6. What can Cognitive AI do ?: Help you improve customer support
  7. What is the first thing you need to do to make the AI agent more powerful ?: Create a lot of possible questions
  8. What do you need to generate to use the Receipt Processing in your app?: Binding Keys
  9. Which Constants you have to set before you can start using

17 / 23 Receipt Processing?: Secret_Key, Access_Key, and Encryption_Key

  1. Which app template is best to use for automating request approval process?: Approval Template
  2. What is the aim of generating import mapping in your Receipt Processing app?: To map extracted data from Receipt images into non- persistent entities
  3. Where can you download the JSON structure for your Receipt Processing app?: In Document Model Training web app
  4. How do you add downloaded JSON structure to your app?: Right click on folder or module, add other, and select JSON structure
  5. What are the parameters that Receipt Processing Activity has?: Image List, Import Mapping, Task Queue, Output
  6. When do you use Loop activity in your microflow?: When we want to allow certain activities in our microflow to be executed repeatedly
  7. What would you do if you want to call a microflow on completion of commit operation of an entity?: Use Event Handlers
  8. Where can you download File Dropper widget for your app?: Marketplace
  9. How do you make sure that the file(s) uploaded into File Dropper will

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  1. Where do you need to go to configure binding keys?: InvoiceProcessing Module - Constants
  2. What is the most appropriate prefix for Import Mapping name?: ImM_
  3. What do you need a Model Id for when using Invoice Processing Service?- : To configure the Invoice Processing activity with the app
  4. What are the parameters that Invoice Processing Activity has?: Model Id, Image List, Import Mapping, Task Queue, Output
  5. The different microflows you need for Invoice Processing app are the microflows to:: Start invoice extraction and process invoice extraction
  6. Where can you find the Model Id for Invoice Processing Service?: Docu- ment Training Web
  7. What is the best alternative to process something immediately after an object is committed?: Event Handler
  8. Can you use Invoice model as soon as it is created in Document Training Web?: No, the model has to be published first
  9. How do you make sure that the file(s) uploaded into File Dropper will be correctly associated with Image Batch Invoice entity in your page?: By

20 / 23 assign- ing the right file entity and Association to context in the File Dropper edit window

  1. Which widget do you need to display the extracted data of the invoice?: - Data grid
  2. You want to allow the end-users to delete some extracted result. How can you achieve this?: Create a microflow which will delete selected rows and configure a delete button to call this microflow
  3. What is the sequence for publishing a model?: Create Model - Upload sample images - Add Marker - Publish Model
  4. What are the steps to follow to make the IDS work?: Train the model - Publish the model - Extract data
  5. What do you need a Model Id for when using Intelligent Document Ser- vice?: To configure the IDS activity within the app.
  6. Where can you find the Model Id of a trained Document Model for your instance?: Document Training Web App
  7. Can you use document model as soon as it is created in Training Web App?: No, the model has to be trained and published first.
  8. How do you make sure that the file(s) uploaded into File Dropper