Appian Certified Lead Developer Sample Questions:

1. You have created a Web API in Appian with the following URL to call it: https://exampleappiancloud.com/suite/webapi/user_management/users?username=john.smith. Which is the correct syntax for referring to the username parameter?

A) httpRequest.queryParameters.users.username
B) httpRequest.formData.username
C) httpRequest.queryParameters.username
D) httpRequest.users.username

2. Your client's customer management application is finally released to Production. After a few weeks of small enhancements and patches, the client is ready to build their next application. The new application will leverage customer information from the first application to allow the client to launch targeted campaigns for select customers in order to increase sales. As part of the first application, your team had built a section to display key customer information such as their name, address, phone number, how long they have been a customer, etc. A similar section will be needed on the campaign record you are building. One of your developers shows you the new object they are working on for the new application and asks you to review it as they are running into a few issues. What feedback should you give?

A) Provide guidance to the developer on how to address the issues so that they can proceed with their work.
B) Ask the developer to convert the original customer section into a shared object so it can be used by the new application.
C) Point the developer to the relevant areas in the documentation or Appian Community where they can find more information on the issues they are running into.
D) Create a duplicate version of that section designed for the campaign record.

3. Your Agile Scrum project requires you to manage two teams, with three developers per team. Both teams are to work on the same application in parallel. How should the work be divided between the teams, avoiding issues caused by cross-dependency?

A) Group epics and stories by technical difficulty, and allocate one team the more challenging stories.
B) Allocate stories to each team based on the cumulative years of experience of the team members.
C) Group epics and stories by feature, and allocate work between each team by feature.
D) Have each team choose the stories they would like to work on based on personal preference.

4. You are designing a process that is anticipated to be executed multiple times a day. This process retrieves data from an external system and then calls various utility processes as needed. The main process will not use the results of the utility processes, and there are no user forms anywhere.
Which design choice should be used to start the utility processes and minimize the load on the execution engines?

A) Start the utility processes via a subprocess synchronously.
B) Use Process Messaging to start the utility process.
C) Use the Start Process Smart Service to start the utility processes.
D) Start the utility processes via a subprocess asynchronously.

5. You are the lead developer for an Appian project, in a backlog refinement meeting. You are presented with the following user story:
"As a restaurant customer, I need to be able to place my food order online to avoid waiting in line for takeout." Which two functional acceptance criteria would you consider 'good'?

A) The user cannot submit the form without filling out all required fields.
B) The user will receive an email notification when their order is completed.
C) The user will click Save, and the order information will be saved in the ORDER table and have audit history.
D) The system must handle up to 500 unique orders per day.

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