ACD101 Appian Associate Developer Question and Answers

According to best practices, what is Appian ' s recommendation for updating Test environments?

You are updating an interface that is used as part of a User Input Task. The associated process model has an activity chained flow that loops back to the User Input Task. The process follows this flow when the user clicks Save on the interface to submit the task.

You need to retain the user’s selection so that the value remains selected after the user clicks Save.

Review the following process model diagram:

What is the minimum set of variables and/or inputs that need to be configured to keep the user’s selection?

You want to add a script task in between two User Input Tasks assigned to the same user.

What needs to be configured so that the user sees the second form immediately after submitting the first?

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You are starting a process from a process.

Match each use case with the most appropriate method of starting this process.

Note: Each method can be used once or more than once.

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Match each a!refreshVariable configuration to the appropriate refresh behavior.

Note: Each refresh behavior will be used once, more than once, or not at all.

What is an Appian best practice for calling a query on your interface?

You want to calculate the deadline for a review, which is determined by applying a formula that takes the characteristics of the review into account. This formula for calculating a review deadline is standard across the organization according to policy.

An Appian object was used to apply the calculation on an existing interface 14 months ago.

What should you do to perform the same calculation on a new data collection form?

You are reviewing a timesheet submission on a form.

The buttons on the form are: “Cancel”, “Deny”, and “Approve”. Most of the time, users will approve the timesheet.

According to Appian best practices, which button styling is most appropriate on the button labelled “Approve”?

Match each node to the correct description for the node.

Note: Each description will be used once. To change your responses, you may deselect your response by clicking the blank space at the top of the selection list.

You have a Custom Data Type (CDT), ABC_book. This CDT is backed by a database table, abc_book, with data store entity, ABC_book. There is also a constant that refers to this data store entity, ABC_DSE_BOOK.

You need to write code to pull back entries from the abc_book table as CDT objects. You only want 10 entries, but you need to know the total number of entries in the table.

Which code snippet accomplishes this goal?

A)

B)

C)

Which use case is appropriate as a record list action?

You receive the following error message after creating a dropdown field:

What could be the problem?

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Review the following variables:

Match each expression rule to the expected output.

Note: Each output will be used once or not at all. To change your responses, you may deselect your response by clicking the blank space at the top of the selection list.

You need to create a record type of only active Products using an existing database table: PRODUCT.

The PRODUCT table consists of the following columns:

• ID(INT(11))

• NAME (VARCHAR(255))

• DESCRIPTION (VARCHAR(1000))

• IS_ACTIVE (BIT)

• CREATED_BY (VARCHAR(255))

• CREATED_ON (TIMESTAMP)

• MODIFIED_BY (VARCHAR(255))

• MODIFIED_ON (TIMESTAMP)

What is a valid way to create this record type?

You need to configure the database to have a one-to-many relationship between ACME_ORDER and ACME_ORDER_ITEM.

What is a valid method for configuring this relationship in the database?

You are creating a new application with the prefix ACM.

Which four default folders are created by Appian when you select " Generate groups and folders to secure and organize objects " ? (Choose four.)

An interface references an expression rule.

What are the relationships between these objects?

Which variable type is used to store data used within a single node of a process model?

How do you refer to metadata of a process model object within process model expressions? For example: the creator, name, or description.

You received a support ticket where the user claims that nothing happens when they click the button to complete a task. You confirm that the user is assigned to the task.

What is a possible reason for this problem?

You are making changes to a record type named Support Case which has an existing related action titled Update Case.

Your customer requests an enhancement to make the update case action easily accessible when viewing the summary of a support case record.

What should you do?

You need to start a process using an email trigger.

How should you configure this process model using the Process Model Properties dialog?

What are three ways to trigger a process from a process model? (Choose three.)

Which condition must be true in order to establish record type relationships?

You need to add the customer segment to your customer record type with data sync enabled. The customer segment is calculated based on age, creditworthiness, and order score. These are all present on the record type.

How do you ensure the customer segment is always up to date using features of synced record types?

Review the following expression rule:

union(ri!fruit, ri!vegetables)

The rule inputs are configured as text arrays.

What is the expected output?

The “Create Vehicle” process model writes a new vehicle to the database using the Write to Data Store Entity smart service. You provide a null value for the primary key, and the database manages the primary key id as an auto-incremented integer.

You need the value of the primary key for the new vehicle to use later in the process model.

How should you get the value?

Which types of objects can be called using the “rule! domain " prefix?

Which set of out-of-the-box features is only available when data sync is enabled on a record type?

Your customer wants to change the name of a field of an existing Custom Data Type (CDT) to match a renamed database field.

The CDT is backed by a database entity, whose data store has the Automatically Update Database Schema option disabled. The old column name was BIRTHDATE and the new column name is DATE_OF_BIRTH.

How should you proceed?

You need to create a record type with data sync enabled.

What are the supported data sources?

Review the following code snippet:

index({ " a " , " b " , " c " }, 1, " x " )

Which value is returned?

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