Associate Reactive Developer

Sample Exam

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Sample Exam Questions

1. What is required to create a many-to-many (N-N) relationship between the Entities

in the picture?

A. Create a third Entity that contains two attributes of types Order Identifier and
Product Identifier.
B. Create a third Entity with a primary key of type Order Identifier and an attribute of
type Product Identifier.
C. Create an attribute of type Order Identifier in the Product Entity and an attribute
of type Product Identifier in the Order Entity.
D. Create an attribute of type Product Identifier in the Order Entity.

2. Which of the following statements is true?

A. An Entity Identifier must have its Data Type set to Long Integer.
B. An Entity Identifier must be set to Auto Number.
C. An Entity Identifier can only be a single attribute.
D. An Entity Identifier is created automatically and cannot be modified.

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 3. The image below shows an Aggregate. What will the attributes of the
GetOrdersShippingState.List.Current record be?

A. The two aggregation attributes: ShippingState and Count.

B. The two aggregation attributes (ShippingState and Count) plus all the attributes of
the Source Entities.
C. Six attributes corresponding to the six visible columns in the Aggregate:
ShippingState, Count, Description, CreatedOn, ShippedOn and Priority.
D. The two aggregation attributes (ShippingState and Count) plus the columns used
to calculate these aggregations.

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 4. In the Aggregate below the Orders are fetched with their reviewers (Employees).
Which of the following options is correct?

A. The Aggregate only returns Orders with Priority, Status and Employee.
B. The Aggregate returns Orders without Employee and without Status.
C. The Aggregate returns Orders with Status and at least one Employee.
D. The Aggregate returns Orders with Priority and with zero or more Employees.

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 5. How would you change the following Aggregate to return the number of orders per
priority?

A. Change the Join between the Order and the Priority to Only With and create a
Count over the Priority.Id attribute.
B. Create a Group By over the Priority.Id attribute and a Count over the Order.Id
attribute.
C. Create a GroupBy over the Order.Id attribute and a Count over the Priority.Id
attribute.
D. Remove the Join between the Order and the OrderStatus and create a Count over
the Priority.Id attribute.

6. Which of the following sentences about the On Initialize lifecycle event is true?

A. The On Initialize event is triggered before the Screen or Block is rendered and
before fetching any data.
B. The On Initialize event is triggered after the Screen or Block has been rendered, so
you can use it to manipulate its structure.

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 C. The On Initialize event is triggered after an Aggregate finishes fetching data and
can be used to act upon the retrieved data before it's used in the Screen.
D. The On Initialize event is triggered after the input parameter of a Block changes.

7. The Screen below has two Dropdowns: one to select a Country and the other to
select a City. The GetCountries and GetCities Aggregates fetch the data displayed in
the dropdowns and both have the Fetch property set to At Start. Which of the
following options is not a valid step to only fetch the cities of the country selected in
the dropdown?

A. Set the Fetch property of the GetCities Aggregate to Only On Demand.

B. Refresh the GetCities Aggregate in the OnChange Action of the Country
Dropdown.
C. Filter the GetCities Aggregate by the selected country.
D. Call the GetCities Aggregate in the GetCountries' On After Fetch Event handler.

8. Regarding Blocks in OutSystems reactive apps, which of the following options is

correct?

A. Blocks can only be instantiated on Screens.

B. Blocks can be instantiated on Screens and other Blocks.
C. Blocks can be instantiated on Client Actions on the Screen.
D. Blocks can be instantiated on Screens and external HTML pages, using a special
HTML tag.

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 9. Which of the following options is a valid usage of the Trigger Event node?

A. The Trigger Event allows a Block to notify its parent (Screen or Block) that
something relevant occurred in the scope of the Block.
B. The Trigger Event allows a Screen to notify its children (Blocks) that something
relevant occurred in the scope of the Screen.
C. The Trigger Event allows a Block to notify its children (other Blocks) that
something relevant occurred in the scope of the Block.
D. The Trigger Event allows a Screen to notify its parent (Screen or Block) that
something relevant occurred in the scope of the Screen.

10. A Form has a Save button with the Built-in Validations property set to Yes. Which
validations are automatically performed when a user clicks the button?

A. Check if the mandatory fields are filled in.

B. Check if the mandatory fields are filled in and if the non-mandatory fields that are
later used in the logic are also filled in.
C. Check if the mandatory fields are filled in and if the data submitted by the user
matches the data type expected in the input fields.
D. Check if the mandatory fields are filled in and if the data submitted by the user
matches the data type of the Form’s data source.

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 11. The CountriesDropdown will allow users to select a country. What should be set in
the Options Text property to make sure that the names of the countries appear in
the dropdown?

A. Country.Id
B. GetCountries.Country.Label
C. Country
D. Country.Label

12. Considering a Button in a Screen, which of the following options cannot be set as its
On Click property?

A. Screen.
B. Client Action.
C. Block.
D. External Site.

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 13. The Absolute Action returns an absolute value (abs) of a number N passed as Input
Parameter. When does the Action return 0?

A. Never.
B. When the input parameter (N) is less than zero.
C. When the input parameter (N) is zero.
D. When the input parameter (N) is greater than zero.

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 14. Consider the following Action. What happens if the GetEmployeeById Aggregate
does not return any record?

A. The DatabaseException flow is executed.

B. The RecordNotFound flow is executed.
C. No exception flow is executed.
D. The module’s global exception handler is executed.

15. Considering the Function property in Client Actions, which of the following options
is correct?

A. Setting the Function property to Yes restricts the Action to have only one Output
Parameter.
B. Setting the Function property to No ensures the Action can only be used in the
module where it is defined.
C. Setting the Function property to Yes is not possible, if the Action is exposed to
other modules as Public.
D. Setting the Function property to No ensures the Action can only be used in
Screen Expressions.

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 16. Michael is a user of the Orders application and only has the OrdersAdmin Role
assigned to him. Which of the following options is correct?

A. Michael has access to Screens with the Registered Role checked.

B. Michael does not have access to Screens with the Anonymous Role checked.
C. Michael has access to Screens that have the OrdersAdmin Role checked, but not
to Screens with the Registered Role checked.
D. Michael only has access to Screens that have the OrdersAdmin Role checked.

17. Which of the following options should not be a use case of Client Variables?

A. Username.
B. Password.
C. Search filter keyword.
D. ID of a user session.

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 18. The Action in the image calculates the square root (sqrt) of a positive decimal
number (N). Knowing that the function was called with N = 0, and that the debugger
is stopped at the Start node, what will happen when the developer selects the
Continue (F9) option highlighted in the picture?

A. The Action will end, with sqrt = 0.

B. The Action will throw an exception and sqrt will have no value.
C. The debugger will stop in the N < 0 If node.
D. The debugger will stop at the breakpoint in the End node.

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 19. The image shows a Pagination widget that is associated with a Table on a Screen
that was already implemented. There are no error messages in Service Studio, but
when the user selects a new page (in the Pagination widget) the results do not
change on the Table. What is the reason for that behavior?

A. The GetMovies Aggregate is not being refreshed in the OnNavigate Action.

B. The Max. Records of the Aggregate should be equal to the total number of movies
in the database.
C. The Table is not being refreshed on the OnNavigate Action.
D. The MaxRecords property of the Pagination should be set to GetMovies.Count
and the TotalCount to RecordsPerPage.

20. A Screen contains a Form to collect Customer data. The Form has a Save Button
with the On Click property set to a SaveOnClick Action, which sends the data to the
server to store it in the database. The developer must ensure that the Action will not
send the data to the server when the mandatory Customer data fields have not
been filled in. What is the best way to do that?

A. Set the Built-in validations of the Save button to Yes.

B. Perform custom validations for all inputs. If one fails, set the Valid property of the
Form to False.
C. Set the Built-in validations of the Save button to Yes and check if the Form's Valid
property is True.

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 D. Set the Built-in validations of the Save button to Yes and add an Exception
Handler flow to handle invalid inputs.

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Answers

1. A 11. D
2. C 12. C
3. A 13. C
4. D 14. B
5. B 15. A
6. A 16. A
7. D 17. B
8. B 18. D
9. A 19. A
10. C 20. C

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