APPIAN LEAD DEVELOPER 2024
QUESTIONS UPDATED
Symptom: High load average in system.csv - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Solution: Add
Hardware
Symptom: High Java work queue size in the engine performance logs - CORRECT
ANSWER>>>>Solution: Add application servers
Symptom: high other time in engine call summary log - CORRECT
ANSWER>>>>Solution: add engine replicas
Symptom: low idle time in the engine performance logs. - CORRECT
ANSWER>>>>Solution: add execution and analytics shards
Symptom: high execute time in perf_monitor_rdbms_slow.csv - CORRECT
ANSWER>>>>Solution: optimize your queries and applications and external data
sources.
Two main hardware resources - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>CPU and RAM
Where to find work item completion time - CORRECT
ANSWER>>>>work_poller__summary.csv
How much CPU can each Appian engine instance use? - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Up
to 1 full CPU
How many execution/analytics engine shards does Appian run with by default? -
CORRECT ANSWER>>>>3 shards each
What is the max number of shards for the execution/analytics engines? - CORRECT
ANSWER>>>>32 each
What is the DevOps timeline? - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Plan, Implement, Build, Test,
Release, Deploy, Monitor
What are the three methods for deploying in Appian? - CORRECT
ANSWER>>>>Compare and Deploy, Via programmable APIs, and Manual export and
import.
What are the 6 main software components of Appian? - CORRECT
ANSWER>>>>Application server, in-memory database engines, search servers,
relational database(s), a data server for application data and metadata, an internal
messaging service.
, Reduce memory for process execution and analytics engines - CORRECT
ANSWER>>>>Run appian health check, identify processes that consume the most
memory, clean up processes and adjust archival settings, set timers for processes that
don't complete, optimize process model design, use the process monitoring view, use
the Process Management Services plug-in from the AppMarket.
Reduce memory for Content Engine - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>May indicate a high
number of PM versions: look into cleaning up PM versions either manually or using
Process Model Utilities plug-in from AppMarket.
Reduce memory for Notifications Engine - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Likely due to high
number of notifications and/or alerts. Have users log in and clear out alerts, tell Appian
Support to delete notifications for certain users.
Optimize database memory - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Cleanup unnecessary data in
tables. Look to make database commands more efficient.
When to upgrade RAM - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>If optimizing engine memory use in
all engines does not work.
Archived processes take up high disk space - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Auto-
compress archived processes, auto-delete archived processes (non-production
environment)
Process Execution engine high disk space - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Archive and
delete processes in the environment.
High disk space for Knowledge Center/Documents - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Delete
documents.
High Disk Space for MySQL - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Remove unnecessary data.
High disk space for logs - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Could indicate an error causing
many logs to be written - fix this error. Compress log files. Disable additional unneeded
loggers.
What does hot-deployable mean? - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Site restart is not
required upon deployment.
Bundled Plug-In - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Part of Appian system. Cannot be
changed.
Plug-in - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>JAR file. Contains Modules and supporting JAR
files.
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