1.What is Profile?
ANS: Profile contains set of permissions and access settings that controls what user can do with in the organization.
2. What are permission sets?
ANS: A set of permissions is given to the users without changing the profile.
3.What is OWD?
ANS: OWD'S are base line record level security for objects in the organization.
It is used to restrict access to data.
4.What is Roles?
ANS: A role controls the level of visibility that users have to an organization's data.
5.What is User?
ANS:The people who have authenticated username and password to login to the salesforce successfully.
6.What is Sharing Rules?
ANS:These are used to override the OWD permissions.
Sharing rules are two types
1.Based on record owner
2.Based on createria.
7.What is the role hierarchy?
ANS:Role Hierarchy states that higher hierarchy person can see lower hierarchy person records.
8.Can you override profile permissions with permission sets(i have defined some permissions in profile,i am trying to use permission sets for the same object,can i override permissions for a particular object in the permission sets over to the profile?
ANS:No. Permission Sets are used only to extend the Profile permissions. It never overrides.
9. I want to have read/write permission for User 1 and read only for User 2, how can you acheive?
ANS:Create a Permission Set with read/write and assign it to User 1.
10. I have an OWD which is read only, how all can access my data and I want to give read write access for a particular record to them, how can i do that?
ANS:All users can just Read the record.
Create a Sharing Rule to give Read/Write access with "Based on criteria" Sharing Rules.
11.What is the difference between role hierarchy and sharing rules?will both do the same permissions?
ANS:Role Hierarchy states that higher hierarchy person can see lower hierarchy person records.
Sharing Rule is used to extend Role Hierarchy.
12. Is it possible to delete the user in salesforce?
ANS:No, once we create an user in salesforce we cannot delete the user record. We can only deactivate the user record.
13.How to provide security for Meta-Data files (Schema)?
ANS:Using Profiles and Permission Sets.
13. How to give permissions to two fields for different users who belongs to different profiles?
ANS:Permission set
14. How many users are there in your project salesforce instance?
ANS:1000 (It will depends upon the number of licenses taken by the client, it will be like upto 4000 like that based on the client)
15.What is Grant Access Using Hierarchies?
ANS:In OWD we have Private but your higher position persons should see that time we go for Grant Access Using Hierarchies.
16. How we can change the Grant access using role hierarchy for standard objects?
ANS:Not possible.
17.What is manual sharing?
ANS:Manual sharing is to share a record to a particular user manually.
Go to detail page of record and click on manual sharing button and assign that record to other user with Read or Read/Write access.
Manual Sharing button enables only when OWD is private to that object.
18.Can you tell the difference between Profile and Roles?
ANS:Profiles are used for Object level access settings.
Roles are used for Record level access settings.
ANS: Profile contains set of permissions and access settings that controls what user can do with in the organization.
2. What are permission sets?
ANS: A set of permissions is given to the users without changing the profile.
3.What is OWD?
ANS: OWD'S are base line record level security for objects in the organization.
It is used to restrict access to data.
4.What is Roles?
ANS: A role controls the level of visibility that users have to an organization's data.
5.What is User?
ANS:The people who have authenticated username and password to login to the salesforce successfully.
6.What is Sharing Rules?
ANS:These are used to override the OWD permissions.
Sharing rules are two types
1.Based on record owner
2.Based on createria.
7.What is the role hierarchy?
ANS:Role Hierarchy states that higher hierarchy person can see lower hierarchy person records.
8.Can you override profile permissions with permission sets(i have defined some permissions in profile,i am trying to use permission sets for the same object,can i override permissions for a particular object in the permission sets over to the profile?
ANS:No. Permission Sets are used only to extend the Profile permissions. It never overrides.
9. I want to have read/write permission for User 1 and read only for User 2, how can you acheive?
ANS:Create a Permission Set with read/write and assign it to User 1.
10. I have an OWD which is read only, how all can access my data and I want to give read write access for a particular record to them, how can i do that?
ANS:All users can just Read the record.
Create a Sharing Rule to give Read/Write access with "Based on criteria" Sharing Rules.
11.What is the difference between role hierarchy and sharing rules?will both do the same permissions?
ANS:Role Hierarchy states that higher hierarchy person can see lower hierarchy person records.
Sharing Rule is used to extend Role Hierarchy.
12. Is it possible to delete the user in salesforce?
ANS:No, once we create an user in salesforce we cannot delete the user record. We can only deactivate the user record.
13.How to provide security for Meta-Data files (Schema)?
ANS:Using Profiles and Permission Sets.
13. How to give permissions to two fields for different users who belongs to different profiles?
ANS:Permission set
14. How many users are there in your project salesforce instance?
ANS:1000 (It will depends upon the number of licenses taken by the client, it will be like upto 4000 like that based on the client)
15.What is Grant Access Using Hierarchies?
ANS:In OWD we have Private but your higher position persons should see that time we go for Grant Access Using Hierarchies.
16. How we can change the Grant access using role hierarchy for standard objects?
ANS:Not possible.
17.What is manual sharing?
ANS:Manual sharing is to share a record to a particular user manually.
Go to detail page of record and click on manual sharing button and assign that record to other user with Read or Read/Write access.
Manual Sharing button enables only when OWD is private to that object.
18.Can you tell the difference between Profile and Roles?
ANS:Profiles are used for Object level access settings.
Roles are used for Record level access settings.
Very Neat and simple to understand.
ReplyDeleteCan you please add some scenario based questions on OWD ,sharing settings, roles and profiles.
ReplyDeleteVery excellent
ReplyDeleteThese are basics and very helpful. I would really appreciate if you could add some scenario based questions on OWD ,sharing settings, roles and profiles.
ReplyDeleteshould have been great if you explain more on some questions like 16th(should have explained why?)
ReplyDeleteHey, Thank you so much for this blog, I started to learn salesforce training online and it is about to complete glad to read this interview questions along with answers blog it is definitely very helpful for me. Thank you for this informative blog.
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