35 Salesforce Admin questions based on real company interview experiences shared on this site (EY, PwC, Cognizant, Accenture, TCS, Persistent, Infosys, Wipro, Deloitte and more). Click an option to instantly see if you got it right – no submit button needed.
Topics: Profiles vs Permission Sets, OWD, Role Hierarchy, Sharing Rules, Workflow vs Process Builder vs Flow, Record-Triggered Flows, order of execution, Platform Events vs CDC, Experience Cloud, integrations and deployment tools.
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Question 1 of 35
What is the main difference between a Profile and a Permission Set in Salesforce?
Question 2 of 35
Which of the following can a Profile control that a Permission Set generally cannot?
Question 3 of 35
Can a single user be assigned more than one Profile in Salesforce?
Question 4 of 35
What does OWD (Organization-Wide Default) control?
Question 5 of 35
If OWD for an object is set to Private, how can a user see records they do not own?
Question 6 of 35
What is the purpose of Sharing Rules in Salesforce?
Question 7 of 35
If OWD is set to Public Read/Write and a users profile only has View and Create object permissions, what can that user do to other users records?
Question 8 of 35
If OWD is set to Read-Only but a users profile has the Modify All permission on that object, can the user delete records they do not own?
Question 9 of 35
Two users have the exact same Profile, Permission Set, and Role, and OWD is Private with no sharing rules. Can they see each others records?
Question 10 of 35
A sharing rule grants a user Read/Write access to another users Opportunity, yet the user still gets Insufficient Privileges when trying to delete it. What is the most likely reason?
Question 11 of 35
In a deep, multi-level Role Hierarchy, what is a known side effect of adding many roles and subordinates?
Question 12 of 35
What is the key difference between Workflow Rules/Process Builder and Flow in current Salesforce orgs?
Question 13 of 35
When can a time-dependent action NOT be added to a Workflow Rule?
Question 14 of 35
Which of these is NOT a real Salesforce Flow type?
Question 15 of 35
What is a Record-Triggered Flow?
Question 16 of 35
What is the difference between a Scheduled Path inside a Record-Triggered Flow and a standalone Scheduled Flow?
Question 17 of 35
If two Record-Triggered Flows on the same object have identical entry criteria, how do you control which one runs first?
Question 18 of 35
In the standard Salesforce order of execution, which runs first on a record save?
Question 19 of 35
True or False: Field updates made by an Approval Process bypass standard Validation Rules but do NOT bypass Flow-based before-save validation logic.
Question 20 of 35
What is a common declarative technique to bypass Validation Rules for a specific user or during a data load, without disabling the rule for everyone?
Question 21 of 35
Which function converts a 15-character case-sensitive record Id into its 18-character case-insensitive version, often used in a formula or validation rule?
Question 22 of 35
What is the JWT Bearer Flow typically used for in Salesforce?
Question 23 of 35
What are Platform Events primarily used for?
Question 24 of 35
What is the key difference between Platform Events and Change Data Capture (CDC)?
Question 25 of 35
What do Dynamic Forms in Salesforce allow you to do?
Question 26 of 35
What is a key difference between a REST API and a SOAP API in Salesforce integrations?
Question 27 of 35
Which of these is a Salesforce deployment tool used to move metadata between orgs, in addition to Change Sets?
Question 28 of 35
What is the key difference between a classic Salesforce Site and an Experience Cloud Community site?
Question 29 of 35
What is the purpose of Sharing Sets in Experience Cloud sites?
Question 30 of 35
What is an Integration User typically used for in Salesforce?
Question 31 of 35
What is Financial Services Cloud (FSC)?
Question 32 of 35
A custom field already exists in production, and making it required at the database level fails to deploy because existing records have it blank. What is a practical workaround?
Question 33 of 35
What is a Custom Permission used for in Salesforce?
Question 34 of 35
What is the difference between Inbound and Outbound integrations in Salesforce?
Question 35 of 35
Why might a Flow work correctly in Debug mode but fail for regular users?
