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

2. You need to design a complex Appian integration to call a RESTful API. The RESTful API will be used to update a case in a customer's legacy system.
What are three prerequisites for designing the integration?

A) Understand the content of the expected body, including each field type and their limits.
B) Understand whether this integration will be used in an interface or in a process model.
C) Understand the business rules to be applied to ensure the business logic of the data.
D) Define the HTTP method that the integration will use.
E) Understand the different error codes managed by the API and the process of error handling in Appian.

3. You are reviewing the Engine Performance Logs in Production for a single application that has been live for six months. This application experiences concurrent user activity and has a fairly sustained load during business hours. The client has reported performance issues with the application during business hours.During your investigation, you notice a high Work Queue - Java Work Queue Size value in the logs. You also notice unattended process activities, including timer events and sending notification emails, are taking far longer to execute than normal.The client increased the number of CPU cores prior to the application going live.What is the next recommendation?

A) Add more engine replicas.
B) Optimize slow-performing user interfaces.
C) Add more application servers.
D) Add execution and analytics shards

4. Review the following result of an explain statement:

Which two conclusions can you draw from this?

A) The worst join is the one between the table order_detail and order.
B) The join between the tables order_detail, order and customer needs to be tine-tuned due to indices.
C) The worst join is the one between the table order_detail and customer
D) The request is good enough to support a high volume of data. but could demonstrate some limitations if the developer queries information related to the product
E) The join between the tables 0rder_detail and product needs to be fine-tuned due to Indices

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

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