ACD201 Appian Senior Developer Free Practice Exam Questions (2026 Updated)
Prepare effectively for your Appian ACD201 Appian Senior Developer certification with our extensive collection of free, high-quality practice questions. Each question is designed to mirror the actual exam format and objectives, complete with comprehensive answers and detailed explanations. Our materials are regularly updated for 2026, ensuring you have the most current resources to build confidence and succeed on your first attempt.
You have a Case record type with data sync enabled to retrieve submitted support cases.
What is the best approach to limit who can see which records in the record type?
You're creating an application which has integrations with multiple systems using different protocols.
Match each process model component or node to the appropriate protocol.
Note: Each protocol will be used once. To change your responses, you may deselect your response by clicking the blank space at the top of the selection list.

You're refining a story for a centralized distribution center that extends the current application by allowing inventory managers to review orders.
These orders are created through a record action that various workshops access from a shared Appian site.
Which consideration best suits this use case?
You're developing a functionality to manage transactions for an insurance company. Each transaction can have multiple items where respective item type and item amount can be entered. The amount entered can be either negative or positive, and is a decimal data type with a precision of 8 and a scale of 2.
A maximum of 10 items can be entered for a transaction. Once all the items are entered, you need to calculate and show the sum of all items' total amounts at the transaction level.
What is the best way to calculate and display the sum of all item amounts?
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.)
You’re establishing a Health Check schedule for your department.
Which two statements should you consider when implementing Health Checks? (Choose two.)
You need to create a read-only grid that displays support case information. Data for the support cases is mapped to the "Case" record type with data sync enabled.
Within the record, there are fields named "createdDateTime" and "resolvedDateTime". These two fields store the timestamps for when a case is created and resolved, respectively.
The grid includes a column indicating the number of hours between when the case was created and when it was resolved. This column must be sortable within the grid.
How should you calculate the hour value that will display in the column?
Which two items are configured in the Admin Console when you create a web API? (Choose two.)
You need to connect to an external system using OAuth 2.0: SAML Bearer Assertion Flow authentication type, which requests access to an API on behalf of a signed in user.
This standard has the several steps involved with the SAML Bearer Assertion Flow.
Which two steps should you perform? (Choose two.)
What should you use to create a predefined query in a database for ease of use?
You run a report on different employee transactions by using a View.
You encounter the following error: "a!queryEntity: An error occurred while retrieving the data."
What is the most likely root cause of this error?
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?
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.)
You're designing a report to show the total number of cases per month grouped by region. A synced record exists for the data source.
Which design pattern is most appropriate in this case?
You have a requirement to implement an audit trail for any modifications to a record.
You need to select the most efficient design option that has the least impact on your Appian application.
What should you do?
Which two options are correct regarding record relationships when using synced records in your application? (Choose two.)
Your client wants to configure user authentication using single sign-on (SSO) in their cloud environment.
Which two authentication types should you use to support this requirement? (Choose two.)
You need to configure the security for the synced record type Case.
Your requirements are:
Only users in the "Archive Management" group can access cases in the "Archived" status.
Cases in the status "Deleted" are accessible to no one.
Users in the "All Users" group can already access the record.
What should you do?
What are three ways to optimize the memory usage of a process model? (Choose three.)
A view is created with the primary table PERSON and is joined using a left join with the APPOINTMENT table on the column "PERSON_ID". There is a one-to-many relationship between the PERSON and APPOINTMENT tables.
A Custom Data Type (CDT) and a data store entity have been created based on this view, with the primary key being "PERSON_ID".
Review the data presented in the PERSON and APPOINTMENT tables:

Which two statements are true when the following query entity is executed? (Choose two.)

