Cognizant Salesforce interview questions shared by candidates with 3.5 to 6+ years of experience across the first round, second round and BA/managerial rounds (updated Oct 2026). Questions are grouped by topic so you can revise triggers, LWC, security, flows and integration design one area at a time. Also read our earlier Cognizant Salesforce interview questions Feb 2026.
What's Covered
Topics covered in these interviews.
01Apex Triggers & Async Apex14
02Lightning Web Components9
03Security, Sharing & Service Cloud7
04Flows & Integration Design11
05Project, BA & Managerial Round12
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.
Apex Triggers & Async Apex
1What is an invocable method?
2How do you manage transaction control in Apex?
3Explain the Change Data Capture approach and how it differs from the normal trigger approach.
4What are the different asynchronous methods in Salesforce?
5What are the types of events in a trigger?
6Whenever the primary address on a Contact is updated, update the Account and the other Contacts under the Account.
7When do you get an error on a callout from scheduled Apex?
8Populate a value from account.pannumber__c to application.pannumber__c. In how many ways can you do it, and what is the trigger approach?
9Write code to get the count of Accounts whose name contains the input we pass.
10Throw an error if a user tries to create more than one Opportunity for an Account on a single day. Write the trigger.
11How do you make a callout from a trigger?
12When do we switch from a trigger to an async trigger approach?
13Whenever a Contact is created, updated or deleted, update a Total Contacts field on the Account. Write the trigger.
14If I want to update 700 records, how many times will the trigger run?
Lightning Web Components
15How can you open another record page on a button click, and pass a value between components?
16How do you pass parameters to an LWC through App Builder?
17What is LMS in LWC, and which method is used for unsubscribing?
18Which executes first: wire or connectedCallback?
19What is a promise in LWC?
20What are decorators in LWC?
21Can we change a property that is passed from the parent?
22A parent has two child components: one lists courses and the other shows the description of the selected course. Which approach do you use? Write the code.
23What are the different ways of calling Apex in LWC?
Security, Sharing & Service Cloud
24Agents cannot see the chat footer component even though the manager gave Chatter access. Why?
25Which Salesforce feature assigns Cases to agents automatically?
26100 users: 90 can read a record and 10 can edit it. How do you achieve it?
27What is the use of a custom permission?
28In Service Cloud, if a Case is not touched for X days, how do you notify the manager?
29What are Apex managed sharings?
30What is the difference between sharing rules, Apex managed sharing and manual sharing?
Flows & Integration Design
31What are the types of flows?
32What is bulkification in Apex?
33Salesforce has 200 to 300 Contacts but the external system (SAP) takes only one Contact per call. How do you structure the integration to reduce callouts, and what is the callout limit per transaction?
34Design a scenario to send customers a message about their appointment on the next day.
35Files in Salesforce must be stored in SharePoint. What design considerations apply, and what if the file size is large?
36Whenever a Quote record is updated it must be sent to external systems. How do you achieve it?
37How do you update multiple records in a flow at once, and how do you do bulkification in a flow?
38A batch class must send multiple messages to external systems. How?
39Explain a complex system integration scenario you worked on.
40When do you go with a flow instead of Apex, and how do you handle errors in a flow?
41What types of integration have you worked on, and what are the integration patterns?
Project, BA & Managerial Round
42What process do you follow for a BRD, and what do you do after it?
43Which tools are you comfortable with for project management?
44nCino: explain the data model of the nCino UI and document placeholder. Is configuring a placeholder for a custom object possible?
45Explain your role as Project Manager and Salesforce BA.
46What time zone do you work in, and are you ready for travel and overlapping work hours?
47Why do you want to change jobs?
48Draw a flow diagram for the given scenario on Draw.io.
49Explain your day-to-day activity and to whom you report daily.
50Which level of stakeholders do you interact with daily?
51Explain a user story and show how you classify it in an Excel sheet. What do you consider when making a user story?
52What documentation do you prepare from start to end?
53Explain the project you worked on in Consumer Goods Cloud.
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