APPIAN LEAD DEVELOPER EXAM AND CERTIFICATION EXAM NEWEST 2026 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 400 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+

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APPIAN LEAD DEVELOPER EXAM AND
CERTIFICATION EXAM NEWEST 2026 ACTUAL
EXAM COMPLETE 400 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH
RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A+


APPIAN LEAD DEVELOPER EXAM


What kinds of automation can you implement with Appian?
Select four options that apply.
A. Build unified business workflows
B. Integrate with external systems
C. Industrial automation
D. Enforce business rules
E. Automate routine tasks and data classification and extraction
- CORRECT ANSWER-A, B, D, E


When automating a workflow, how do you add a specialized
business activity to it?
A. Drop the workflow node into your process
B. Drop the gateway into your process

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C. Drop the smart service into your process
D. Code your activity - CORRECT ANSWER-C. Drop the
smart service into your process


What design object is used to capture business rules in Appian?
A. Process Model
B. Decision Object
C. Record Type
D. Interface - CORRECT ANSWER-B. Decision Object


T or F: Appian RPA is used to automate high-volume manual
tasks, and often the only solution when you need to connect to
legacy systems that lack APIs. - CORRECT ANSWER-True


T or F: Appian AI Skill is used to automate common business
tasks like document classification, email classification, and
document extraction. A developer only needs to create and
configure an AI Skill design object, and then add it to any
Appian process using the corresponding smart service. -
CORRECT ANSWER-True


Complete this sentence. Process mining is a capability that ... -
CORRECT ANSWER-Discovers patterns and bottlenecks in
your processes

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What does the process discovery method generate? (Done by
uploading an event log)
A. The target model that shows how a process should run
B. The discovered model that shows how a process runs in real
life
C. A chart of common deviations
D. A reporting dashboard - CORRECT ANSWER-B. The
discovered model that shows how a process runs in real life


What process mining method compares the discovered and
target models and identifies the deviations between them?
A. Process enhancement
B. Conformance checking
C. Process discovery
D. Regulatory compliance - CORRECT ANSWER-B.
Conformance checking


What are the for purposes for Process Mining? - CORRECT
ANSWER-- Discover patterns in real life
- Check for conformance and deviations
- Identify root causes for deviations
- Create and monitor key metrics

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What is Conformance Checking? - CORRECT ANSWER-This
is when Process Mining identifies deviations and uncovers root
causes in a Discovered Model. These deviations include:
Skipped events
Additional events
Event order switching
Alternative paths


Process Mining puts you in charge of the insight gained from
process mining. Process discovery reveals what your processes
are like in real life.
Conformance checking identifies deviations and their root
causes. Once you understand the issues you must do what two
things? - CORRECT ANSWER-1. Decide what must be
automated
2. Implement a monitoring dashboard


Define Persona - CORRECT ANSWER-A representation of a
group of people with similar needs who will work in the
application.