Appian Certified Lead Developer Sample Questions:

1. Users must be able to navigate throughout the application while maintaining complete visibility in the application structure and easily navigate to previous locations. Which Appian Interface Pattern would you recommend?

A) Implement an Activity History pattern to track an organization's activity measures.
B) Use Billboards as Cards pattern on the homepage to prominently display application choices.
C) Include a Breadcrumbs pattern on applicable interfaces to show the organizational hierarchy.
D) Implement a Drilldown Report pattern to show detailed information about report data.

2. On the latest Health Check report from your Cloud TEST environment utilizing a MongoDB add-on, you note the following findings:
Category: User Experience, Description: # of slow query rules, Risk: High Category: User Experience, Description: # of slow write to data store nodes, Risk: High Which three things might you do to address this, without consulting the business?

A) Optimize the database execution using standard database performance troubleshooting methods and tools (such as query execution plans).
B) Reduce the size and complexity of the inputs. If you are passing in a list, consider whether the data model can be redesigned to pass single values instead.
C) Optimize the database execution. Replace the view with a materialized view.
D) Use smaller CDTs or limit the fields selected in a!queryEntity().
E) Reduce the batch size for database queues to 10.

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

4. You need to connect Appian with LinkedIn to retrieve personal information about the users in your application. This information is considered private, and users should allow Appian to retrieve their information. Which authentication method would you recommend to fulfill this request?

A) API Key Authentication
B) Basic Authentication with dedicated account's login information
C) Basic Authentication with user's login information
D) OAuth 2.0: Authorization Code Grant

5. 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

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