Congruent Solutions Interview Questions and Answers

A Salesforce Developer interview question about relationships, whoid and whatid, global class, and Salesforce.

• Different relationships in Salesforce include one-to-many, many-to-many, and hierarchical relationships.

• Whoid and whatid are fields used in Salesforce to identify the related object in an activity record. Whoid represents a person, while whatid represents an object.

• A global class in Salesforce is a class that can be accessed from any Apex code in a Salesforce organiza...read more

Process builder is more powerful than workflow and can perform complex actions.

• Process builder can update related records, create records, and call Apex classes

• Workflow can only update the record it is triggered on

• Process builder has a visual interface for easier setup

• Workflow has been around longer and is simpler to use

• Both can be used to automate business processes

Aura components use events to communicate between components. There are three types of events: Component, Application, and System.

• Component events are used to communicate between components in the same hierarchy.

• Application events are used to communicate between components across the entire application.

• System events are used to communicate with Salesforce and other third-party systems.

• Events are fired using the $A.get('e.eventName') method.

• Events can also have attributes that...read more

Master Detail is a strict parent-child relationship where the child record is deleted when the parent record is deleted. Lookup is a looser relationship where the child record can exist without the parent record.

• Master Detail is a required relationship, while Lookup is not required.

• Master Detail relationship helps in maintaining data integrity by enforcing referential integrity, while Lookup does not enforce referential integrity.

• In Master Detail relationship, security and sh...read more

Scenario-based triggers are used to automate processes based on specific events or conditions.

• Create a trigger that sends an email notification when a new lead is created

• Create a trigger that updates the status of an opportunity when it reaches a certain stage

• Create a trigger that assigns a task to a specific user when a case is created

• Create a trigger that updates a custom field on a contact when a related account is updated