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Appian ACA-100 Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | Appian |
|---|---|
| Exam Name: | Appian Certified Analyst |
| Exam Number: | ACA-100 |
| Available Languages: | English |
| Real Exam Qty: | 50 |
| Exam Price: | $250 |
| Exam Duration: | 60 minutes |
| Related Certifications: | Appian Certified Associate Developer Appian Certified Senior Developer Appian Certified Lead Developer |
| Exam Format: | Multiple-select, Multiple-choice |
| Certificate Validity Period: | 2 years |
| Passing Score: | 70% |
| Sample Questions: |  |
| Exam Way: | Online proctored exam via Meazure Learning |
| Pre Condition: | None |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://community.appian.com/learn/certifications/p/certified-analyst |
Appian ACA-100 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Topic 1: Requirements Gathering | 20% | - Describe techniques for eliciting requirements (interviews, workshops, observation) - Document and validate business requirements - Translate business needs into Appian-specific requirements - Identify and manage requirement dependencies and constraints - Identify key stakeholders and their roles in the requirements process |
| Topic 2: Introduction to the Appian Platform | 24% | - Recognize role-based application security - Identify use cases likely to require third-party components (e.g., DocuSign, Google APIs) - Identify commonly used Appian resources (Appian Community, playbook, help documentation) - Differentiate between Appian Designer, Appian Process Modeler, and Cloud Database - Describe common Appian use cases (platform capabilities) - Design the user experience (in collaboration with the development team) - Identify the purpose of each Appian object - Recognize different Appian user experiences |
| Topic 3: User Story Creation | 14% | - Explain the different components of a story (e.g., description, acceptance criteria, dependency) - Identify the story status (e.g., Draft, Defined, Done) - Work with the Product Owner in managing product backlog - Illustrate the standard user story format - Categorize user stories and collect appropriate requirements based on categorization |
| Topic 4: Business Process Modeling | 20% | - Illustrate the best method to clearly define user roles when creating a process model diagram - Specify which nodes would or would not be used in a given scenario - Identify common Business Process Model Notation (BPMN) elements - Identify different integration types (e.g., JSON REST, SOAP WS, Connected Systems) - Describe the benefits of creating a future state process model with SMEs - Identify automation opportunities from a given process - Explain the most common gateway types in the Appian Process Modeler |
| Topic 5: Appian Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) | 22% | - Recognize the roles and associated responsibilities of team members - Differentiate between various stages of the Appian SDLC - Identify the role of the analyst across all phases of the SDLC (initial, build, release, optimize) - Evaluate the test scenario before user acceptance testing (UAT) - Explain the different agile scrum ceremonies - Identify use cases for various environments - Describe the scrum lifecycle of a user story, including Definition of Done (DoD) and Definition of Ready (DoR) |
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The Appian Certified Analyst practice questions are organized around the official exam objectives. Key topics include:
- Introduction to the Appian Platform (24%)
- Requirements Gathering (20%)
- Business Process Modeling (20%)
Studying topic by topic helps you find the weak areas that cost you points last time.
This package includes 52 practice questions for the Appian Certified Analyst exam, with verified answers reviewed by an experienced team of IT experts and certified professionals.
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Appian Certified Analyst Sample Questions:
You are translating a user requirement into a user story and need to ensure that the desired functionality will be delivered as expected.
What needs to be written into the user story to ensure it will meet the requirement?
- A. Test Script
- B. Estimation of effort to develop
- C. Business value
- D. Acceptance criteria
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
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You are part of a project team building an application for organizing and automating an approval process for purchase orders.
Each purchase order requires approvals from multiple users within the application, and these approvals are sequential (for example, User B receives an approval task after the completion of User A's approval task). Your team is responsible for showing the approval step of each purchase order on its purchase order record.
Which Appian interface component should you use to best display the completed, current, and future approval steps for each purchase order?
- A. Org Chart Component
- B. Gauge Component
- C. Progress Bar Component
- D. Milestone Component
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
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During the "initiate" phase, what are two key benefits of successful requirements gathering?
- A. Less rework after the "test" phase
- B. Adherence to the business stakeholders' goals
- C. Fewer test cases required
- D. Better performance of the application
Correct Answer: A,B 🗳️
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The order management team receives orders via different channels, including email. Emails are accompanied by attachments containing the details of the order information. The team reviews the emails and attachments for clarity. Then, they extract the order specifics to create a customer record in their Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform and an order in their Order Management System (OMS).
What is the most effective form of automation to help increase fulfillment efficiency in this process?
- A. Prompt the order management team members with a task to create an order in the CRM platform
- B. Have an auto-reply "Thank You" email sent back thanking the customer for sending in their order request
- C. Provide a task after the order email was received asking the team to check the order status and select the next step option
- D. Review the emails and attachments using trained artificial intelligence to extract order data information
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
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A case management tool needs intelligent and automated routing of many different complex case types, based on free text descriptions from external users.
What is the best way to implement this requirement?
- A. Use the find functions to search for certain keywords in the text body and route accordingly
- B. Build in a review task for a user to evaluate and route accordingly
- C. Integrate with a translation service to route accordingly
- D. Integrate with a natural language processing system to categorize the user's needs and route accordingly
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
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