Appian Certified Lead Developer Sample Questions:

1. 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

2. You are running an inspection as part of the first deployment process from TEST to PROD. You receive a notice that one of your objects will not deploy because it is dependent on an object from an application owned by a separate team.
What should be your next step?

A) Halt the production deployment and contact the other team for guidance on promoting the object to PROD.
B) Push a functionally viable package to PROD without the dependencies, and plan the rest of the deployment accordingly with the other team's constraints.
C) Create your own object with the same code base, replace the dependent object in the application, and deploy to PROD.
D) Check the dependencies of the necessary object. Deploy to PROD if there are few dependencies and it is low risk.

3. An Appian application contains an integration used to send a JSON, called at the end of a form submission, returning the created code of the user request as the response. To be able to efficiently follow their case, the user needs to be informed of that code at the end of the process. The JSON contains case fields (such as text, dates, and numeric fields) to a customer's API. What should be your two primary considerations when building this integration?

A) The request must be a multi-part POST.
B) A dictionary that matches the expected request body must be manually constructed.
C) A process must be built to retrieve the API response afterwards so that the user experience is not impacted.
D) The size limit of the body needs to be carefully followed to avoid an error.

4. 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) Create a duplicate version of that section designed for the campaign record.
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) Provide guidance to the developer on how to address the issues so that they can proceed with their work.

5. You are tasked to build a large-scale acquisition application for a prominent customer. The acquisition process tracks the time it takes to fulfill a purchase request with an award.
The customer has structured the contract so that there are multiple application development teams.
How should you design for multiple processes and forms, while minimizing repeated code?

A) Create duplicate processes and forms as needed.
B) Create a Scrum of Scrums sprint meeting for the team leads.
C) Create a Center of Excellence (CoE).
D) Create a common objects application.

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