Appian Certified Lead Developer Sample Questions:

1. Your Appian project just went live with the following environment setup: DEV > TEST (SIT/UAT) > PROD. Your client is considering adding a support team to manage production defects and minor enhancements, while the original development team focuses on Phase 2. Your client is asking you for a new environment strategy that will have the least impact on Phase 2 development work. Which option involves the lowest additional server cost and the least code retrofit effort?

A) Phase 2 development work stream: DEV > TEST (SIT) > STAGE (UAT) > PROD
B) Phase 2 development work stream: DEV > TEST (SIT/UAT) > PROD
C) Phase 2 development work stream: DEV > TEST (SIT) > STAGE (UAT) > PROD
D) Phase 2 development work stream: DEV > TEST (SIT/UAT) > PROD

2. You are required to create an integration from your Appian Cloud instance to an application hosted within a customer's self-managed environment.
The customer's IT team has provided you with a REST API endpoint to test with: https://internal.network/api/api/ping.
Which recommendation should you make to progress this integration?

A) Set up a VPN tunnel.
B) Deploy the API/service into Appian Cloud.
C) Expose the API as a SOAP-based web service.
D) Add Appian Cloud's IP address ranges to the customer network's allowed IP listing.

3. 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 that ensure users can still successfully log into the platform
C) Internationalization testing of the Appian platform
D) Tests for each of the interfaces and process changes
E) Penetration testing of the Appian platform

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 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.
B) 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.
C) 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.
D) 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.

5. 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) Ask the developer to convert the original customer section into a shared object so it can be used by the new application.
B) 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.
C) Create a duplicate version of that section designed for the campaign record.
D) Provide guidance to the developer on how to address the issues so that they can proceed with their work.

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