Appian Certified Analyst 

Identify the purpose of each Appian object

- Identify commonly used Appian resources (i.e., Appian Community, playbook, help documentation)

- Recognize role-based application security

- Describe common Appian use cases (i.e., platform capabilities)

- Recognize different Appian user experiences

- Differentiate between Appian Designer, Appian Process Modeler, and Cloud Database

- Design the user experience (in collaboration with the development team)

- Identify use cases likely to require third-party components (e.g., DocuSign, Google APIs)

Identify the role of the analyst across all phases of the SDLC (initial, build, release, optimize)

- Recognize the roles and associated responsibilities of team members

- Differentiate between various stages of the Appian SDLC

- Describe the scrum lifecycle of a user story, including Definition of Done (DoD) and Definition of Ready (DoR)

- Explain the different agile scrum ceremonies

- Identity use cases for various environments

- Evaluate the test scenario before user acceptance testing (UAT)

Identify the purpose of requirement gathering

- Identify the characteristics of requirements gathering

- Explain how Appian features can address common business requirements

- Identify important elements when gathering initial requirements

- Translate customer requirements into user stories and Appian development plans

- Solve common challenges in requirements gathering

- Explain when common UI components should be used for Appian interfaces

Illustrate the standard user story format

- Categorize user stories and collect appropriate requirements based on categorization

- Work with the Product Owner in managing product backlog

- Identify the story status (e.g., Draft, Defined, Done)

- Explain the different components of a story (e.g., description, acceptance criteria of use case, dependency)

Identify different integration types (e.g., JSON REST, SOAP WS, Connected Systems)

- Illustrate the best method to clearly define user roles when creating a process model diagram

- Identify common Business Process Model Notation (BPMN) elements

- Specify which nodes would or would not be used in a given scenario

- Explain the most common gateway types in the Appian Process Modeler

- Describe the benefits of creating a future state process model with SMEs

- Identify automation opportunities from a given process