Appian ACD201 Practice Exam Questions & Answers
Appian ACD201 Exam Details
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- Exam Code
- ACD201
- Full Name
- Appian Certified Senior Developer
- Issuing Body
- Appian Certification Program
- Question Format (Our Bank)
- Multiple Choice, Hotspot, Drag & Drop
- Eligibility
- Appian Certified Associate Developer
- Full Question Set
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Free ACD201 Practice Questions
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Question 1 Domain 5 Performance & Scalability
You're creating a new record type with data sync enabled. Users in the "ACME Employees" group must be able to access the record list and start the New Case action.
What are two valid steps that you should perform to grant users the appropriate access? (Choose two.)
Adding the ''ACME Employees'' group as a Viewer on the record type allows them to access the record list.
Granting Initiator permissions to the process model for the New Case action enables group members to start that action.
Question 2 Domain 2 Data Management
You're building an application with a review workflow.
Each submission must be approved by three users who can each approve or reject their request, and leave a comment. This action changes the status of the submission to 'Approved' or 'Rejected' correspondingly, and pushes the review to the previous or next assignee.
Which data model captures the workflow requirements appropriately?
Using three tables - Review, Ref Status, and Review User - enables you to track each user's approval or rejection, comments, and status changes for each review, supporting a flexible, normalized workflow for multiple reviewers.
Question 3 Domain 5 Performance & Scalability
You need to implement a field-level audit functionality on the application data, and then display a log of the changes made over time to the users.
What should you do?
Creating audit tables and using triggers on each transaction table ensures that all field-level changes are automatically recorded at the database level, providing a reliable and consistent audit log for display to users.
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Question 4 Domain 5 Performance & Scalability
You need to configure your process model to store the result of an expression rule for every item in a list. Your design must have the smallest memory footprint.
What should you do?
Configuring a script task to use a!forEach() to iterate over each item in the list allows you to process all items within a single task, minimizing the memory footprint compared to multiple subprocesses or smart service loops.
Question 5 Domain 1 Platform and Application Management
What are three ways to optimize the memory usage of a process model? (Choose three.)
Passing data directly to activity nodes and smart services reduces unnecessary use of process variables, optimizing memory.
Configuring process variables as parameters limits their lifespan and persistence, saving memory.
Avoiding large blocks of text in process variables minimizes memory consumption within the process model.
Question 6 Domain 2 Data Management
You're reviewing the process model built by your team member.
Which two design decisions might cause performance issues? (Choose two.)
Having no target process for the Send Message event can cause unnecessary processing and delays.
Too many nodes in a process model increase complexity and processing overhead, leading to potential performance issues.
Question 7 Domain 5 Performance & Scalability
The synced record type Customer has a one-to-many relationship with the Case record type.
You need to calculate the number of open cases for each customer.
What are two valid methods to accomplish this? (Choose two.)
A real-time custom field in the Customer record type can aggregate and count related open cases.
A sync-time custom record field using a!relatedRecordData() can filter and count open cases, making the count available as a synced field.
What the Appian ACD201 Exam Covers
Exam domains verified against the Official Appian ACD201 exam guide, last checked November 2026.
Domain 1 Platform and Application Management
12%Configure the Administration Console and troubleshoot applications using logs, dashboards, and the Admin Console. Prepare for complex deployments through technical review, unit testing, and performance testing. Monitor platform health using Health Check, Process Monitoring, and the Admin Console.
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Domain 2 Data Management
20%Design data models that implement business requirements and document them properly. Recommend record types to connect, unify, optimize, and secure data. Read, translate, and transform relational data within Appian and maintain complex data models with supporting objects.
Domain 3 Application Design and Development
28%Convert business requirements into user stories and construct end-to-end applications using various objects. Implement and administer application object security while following design and development best practices. Apply user experience principles to achieve user-centric design.
Domain 4 Advanced Appian Concepts
18%Leverage Appian functionality to convert business requirements into user stories and construct complete applications. Implement and administer application security across objects. Apply design and development best practices and follow user experience principles for user-centric design.
Domain 5 Performance & Scalability
22%Design Appian components for performance and implement memory-efficient process models. Perform database load testing and configure automated testing tools. Identify performance risks using logs and monitoring while resolving user-facing performance concerns.
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