Appian Certified Lead Developer Sample Questions:

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

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

3. An existing integration is implemented in Appian. Its role is to send data for the main case and its related objects in a complex JSON to a REST API, to insert new information into an existing application. This integration was working well for a while. However, the customer highlighted one specific scenario where the integration failed in Production, and the API responded with a 500 Internal Error code. The project is in Post-Production Maintenance, and the customer needs your assistance. Which three steps should you take to troubleshoot the issue?

A) Ensure there were no network issues when the integration was sent.
B) Send the same payload to the test API to ensure the issue is not related to the API environment.
C) Analyze the behavior of subsequent calls to the Production API to ensure there is no global issue, and ask the customer to analyze the API logs to understand the nature of the issue.
D) Send a test case to the Production API to ensure the service is still up and running.
E) Obtain the JSON sent to the API and validate that there is no difference between the expected JSON format and the sent one.

4. You have an active development team (Team A) building enhancements for an application (App X) and are currently using the TEST environment for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
A separate operations team (Team B) discovers a critical error in the Production instance of App X that they must remediate. However, Team B does not have a hotfix stream for which to accomplish this. The available environments are DEV, TEST, and PROD.
Which risk mitigation effort should both teams employ to ensure Team A's capital project is only minorly interrupted, and Team B's critical fix can be completed and deployed quickly to end users?

A) Team B must communicate to Team A which component will be addressed in the hotfix to avoid overlap of changes. If overlap exists, the component must be versioned to its PROD state before being remediated and deployed, and then versioned back to its latest development state. If overlap does not exist, the component may be remediated and deployed without any version changes.
B) Team B must address the changes directly in PRO As there is no hotfix stream, and DEV and TEST are being utilized for active development, it is best to avoid a conflict of components. Once Team A has completed their enhancements work, Team B can update DEV and TEST accordingly.
C) Team B must address changes in the TEST environment. These changes can then be tested and deployed directly to PROD. Once the deployment is complete, Team B can then communicate their changes to Team A to ensure they are incorporated as part of the next release.
D) Team A must analyze their current codebase in DEV to merge the hotfix changes into their latest enhancements. Team B is then required to wait for the hotfix to follow regular deployment protocols from DEV to the PROD environment.

5. You are required to configure a connection so that Jira can inform Appian when specific tickets change (using a webhook). Which three required steps will allow you to connect both systems?

A) Give the service account system administrator privileges.
B) Create a Web API object and set up the correct security.
C) Configure the connection in Jira specifying the URL and credentials.
D) Create an integration object from Appian to Jira to periodically check the ticket status.
E) Create a new API Key and associate a service account.

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