Appian Certified Lead Developer Sample Questions:

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

2. The business database for a large, complex Appian application is to undergo a migration between database technologies, as well as interface and process changes. The project manager asks you to recommend a test strategy. Given the changes, which two items should be included in the test strategy?

A) A regression test of all existing system functionality
B) Tests for each of the interfaces and process changes
C) Internationalization testing of the Appian platform
D) Tests that ensure users can still successfully log into the platform
E) Penetration testing of the Appian platform

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

4. You add an index on the searched field of a MySQL table with many rows (>100k). The field would benefit greatly from the index in which three scenarios?

A) The field contains a textual short business code.
B) The field contains many datetimes, covering a large range.
C) The field contains long unstructured text such as a hash.
D) The field contains big integers, above and below 0.
E) The field contains a structured JSON.

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

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