Online Access Free ACD301 Practice Test

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

You are taking your package from the source environment and importing it into the target environment.
Review the errors encountered during inspection:
What is the first action you should take to Investigate the issue?

• A.Check whether the object (UUD ending in 7t00000i4e7a) is included in this package
• B.Check whether the object (UUID ending in 18028931) is included in this package
• C.Check whether the object (UUID ending in 25606) is included in this package
• D.Check whether the object (UUID ending in 18028821) is included in this package

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.Use Process Messaging to start the utility process.
• B.Use the Start Process Smart Service to start the utility processes.
• C.Start the utility processes via a subprocess synchronously.
• D.Start the utility processes via a subprocess asynchronously.

You need to generate a PDF document with specific formatting. Which approach would you recommend?

• A.Create an embedded interface with the necessary content and ask the user to use the browser "Print" functionality to save it as a PDF.
• B.Use the PDF from XSL-FO Transformation smart service to generate the content with the specific format.
• C.There is no way to fulfill the requirement using Appian. Suggest sending the content as a plain email instead.
• D.Use the Word Doc from Template smart service in a process model to add the specific format.

You are just starting with a new team that has been working together on an application for months. They ask you to review some of their views that have been degrading in performance. The views are highly complex with hundreds of lines of SQL. What is the first step in troubleshooting the degradation?

• A.Go through the entire database structure to obtain an overview, ensure you understand the business needs, and then normalize the tables to optimize performance.
• B.Run an explain statement on the views, identify critical areas of improvement that can be remediated without business knowledge.
• C.Browse through the tables, note any tables that contain a large volume of null values, and work with your team to plan for table restructure.
• D.Go through all of the tables one by one to identify which of the grouped by, ordered by, or joined keys are currently indexed.