Salesforce Experience Cloud interview questions collected from real interviews (updated Oct 2026). Covers licenses, templates, sharing sets, guest user access, LWR sites and exposing LWC components to a community.
What's Covered
Topics covered in these questions.
01Experience Cloud Basics10
02Sharing & Guest Access7
03LWC & Customisation6
All Interview Questions
Every question listed one by one, in a fresh order. Answers are not included, so practise explaining each one in your own words.
Experience Cloud Basics
1What is the difference between member-based and login-based licenses?
2What are the different types of templates available?
3What is the process to set up users for community sites?
4What is the difference between Single Sign-On and Social Sign-On?
5What happens when there is higher than usual traffic on your site?
6What is Salesforce Experience Cloud?
7What are the different types of workspaces available?
8What are the common use cases of Experience Cloud?
9What are the different types of Experience Cloud licenses?
10What is Account Role Optimization (ARO)?
Sharing & Guest Access
11What are Sharing Sets and how are they different from sharing rules?
12What is external OWD in an Experience Cloud site?
13A guest user tries to update data in an LWC but cannot. What could be the issue?
14What is the profile of a guest user?
15A guest user visits my site but cannot view data displayed by an LWC. What could be the reason?
16What are share groups?
17How do you provide access to records for guest users?
LWC & Customisation
18How can I create configurable components for the community?
19What are the main limitations of an LWR community?
20An LWC placed on a record page in the community cannot get the record Id. What could be the issue?
21How can you expose an LWC to a community?
22What is the head markup for a community?
23What is moderation and gamification in a community site?
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