Salesforce Integration Interview Questions And Answers

1. Question 1. What Is Webservices ?

Answer :
Webservices is a functionality or code which helps to us to do integration.
2. Question 2. How Many Types Of Api’s Avaliable In Salesforce ?
Answer :
SOAP API, REST API, Bulk API and Streaming API.
3. Question 3. What Is Call In And Call Out?
Answer :
Call In is used to exposing our webservices to another users Call Out is
used to invoking or consuming our webservices to others.
4. Question 4. How Soap Can Be Accessed ?
Answer :
SOAP can be communicate through WSDL file, without WSDL file we can’t
do integration.
Message format in SOAP is XML.
5. Question 5. How To Do Callout Integration ?
Answer :
Generate WSDL code from class
Path: setup-develop -apex class.
6. Question 6. How To Read Root Element In Xml Dom ?
Answer :
getroot element.
7. Question 7. How To Read All Child Elements In Xml Dom ?
Answer :
getchild elements.
8. Question 8. How To Read Text Between Tags ?
Answer :
gettext
9. Question 9. How Soap And Rest Will Communicate ?
Answer :
SOAP will communicate through WSDL file
REST will communicate through HTTP file.
10. Question 10. What Are Methods In Rest?
Answer :
HTTPGET, HTTPPUT, HTTPPOST and HTTPDELETE.
11. Question 11. How Rest Can Be Accessed Or Which Message
Format Rest Supports ?
Answer :
REST supports both XML and JSON.
12. Question 12. What Is An External Id In Salesforce? Which All
Field Data Types Can Be Used As External Ids?
Answer :
An external ID is a custom field which can be used as a unique identifier in
a record. External IDs are mainly used while importing records/ data.
When importing records, one among the many fields in those records
needs to be marked as an external ID (unique identifier).
An important point to note is that only custom fields can be used as
External IDs. The fields that can be marked as external IDs are Text,
Number, E-Mail and Auto-Number.
13. Question 13. What Is Integration?
Answer :
Integration is a process of connecting two applications.
14. Question 14. How Many Callouts To External Service Can Be
Made In A Single Apex Transaction?
Answer :
Governor limits will restrict a single Apex transaction to make a maximum
of 100 callouts to an HTTP request or an API call.
15. Question 15. What Is Soql?
Answer :
A query language that allows you to construct simple but powerful query
strings and to specify the criteria that should be used to select the data
from the platform database. SOQL Stands for Salesforce Object Query
Language.
16. Question 16. What Are The Types Of Soql Statements In
Salesforce?
Answer :
Salesforce Object Query Language is used to query that records from the
database.com based on the requirement.
There are 2 types of SOQL Statements:
o Static SOQL
o Dynamic SOQL.
17. Question 17. What Is Wsdl?
Answer :
WSDL stands for Webservices Description Language.
It contains types, messages, port types, and Binding.
18. Question 18. What Is The Apex Trigger In Salesforce?
Answer :
Trigger is an Apex Code that executes before or after.
The following types of DML Operation:
o Insert
o Update
o Delete
 o Merge
o Upsert
o Undelete

19. Question 19. Limitations Of Wsdl File?

Answer :
File must be in .WSDL extension.
Multiple port types and binding will not be allowed
Import and Inheritance operations are not supported.
20. Question 20. How To Do Callout Integration?
Answer :
Generate WSDL code from class
Path: setup-develop -apex class.
21. Question 21. What Is Soap?
Answer :
A protocol that defines a uniform way of passing XML-encoded data. SOAP
Stands for Simple Object Access Protocol.
22. Question 22. How Soap Can Be Accessed?
Answer :
SOAP can be communicated through WSDL file, without WSDL file we can’t
do integration.
Message format in SOAP is XML.
23. Question 23. How Many Types Of Api’s Available In
Salesforce?
Answer :
SOAP API, REST API, Bulk API, and Streaming API.
24. Question 24. Difference Between Soql Vs Sosl In Salesforce?
Answer :
SOQL- Salesforce Object Query Language
o Using SOQL we can Search only on one object one time.
o We can query on all fields of any data type
o We can use SOQL in the Triggers and the classes.
o We can perform DML operation on SQL query results.
SOSL(Salesforce Object Search Language)
o Using SOSL we can search on many objects at one time.
o We can query only on fields whose data type is text, phone, and
Email.
o We cannot use in Triggers but can in classes.
o We cannot perform DML operation on search results.

25. Question 25. What Is Json?

Answer :
 JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. JSON is light weighted than
XML.
26. Question 26. What Is Remote Site Settings?
Answer :
Remote site settings is used to authorize the endpoint and allow us to
whom integrate(end user).
27. Question 27. What Is Protocal?
Answer :
Protocal contains a set of instructions or rules.
28. Question 28. How Many Ways To Xml Parsing?
Answer :
They are two ways of XML parsing:
o XML streams
o XML DOM
29. Question 29. How Soap And Rest Will Communicate?
Answer :
SOAP will communicate through WSDL file
REST will communicate through HTTP file.