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🧪Question:You want to notify a user when a record
is approved — both in the app and mobile. How do
you implement it?
✅Answer:
Use Custom Notification API
Trigger via Flow or Apex
Users receive it in Bell Icon in Lightning UI and
Mobile app
apex
git add <file>
git commitMessaging.CustomNotification notification = new
Messaging.CustomNotification();
notification.setTitle('Approval Complete');
notification.setBody('Your expense report was approved.');
notification.send([UserId]);
⚠️Common Struggle:
Letting external vendors hit Salesforce directly
No sandbox gateway test before production
Poor error messaging on throttled APIs.
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🧪Question: Your enterprise wants to offload
historical data (10+ years) from Salesforce but still
allow access via reports. What’s your solution?
✅Answer:
Use Salesforce Data Cloud (formerly CDP) or
integrate with Data Lakehouse (e.g., Snowflake)
Archive using Big Objects, or stream data into
Amazon S3/Azure via MuleSoft or Heroku Connect
Use External Objects (OData) in Salesforce for
reporting
⚠️Common Struggle:
Storing historical data in standard objects (blows
up storage)
No strategy for external object reporting latency
Poor SOQL selectivity for archived records.
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🧪Question: How do you protect your Salesforce
APIs from overuse by 3rd parties?
✅Answer:
Deploy API Gateway (e.g., MuleSoft Anypoint, AWS
API Gateway)
Define rate limiting, IP whitelisting, and OAuth 2.0
policies
Use Named Credentials and JWT Bearer Flow
from the gateway
Monitor via Event Monitoring → API Event Logs
⚠️Common Struggle:
Letting external vendors hit Salesforce directly
No sandbox gateway test before production
Poor error messaging on throttled APIs.
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🧪Question: How do you manage feature releases
when some teams use clicks (Flows) and others code
(Apex)?
✅Answer:
Use DevOps Center with Work Items linked to
Feature Branches
Track declarative changes via Source Tracking
Use Merge Requests with pre-approval workflows
Group deployable metadata into logical units
(not massive change sets)
⚠️Common Struggle:
Committing entire org metadata (no change
tracking)
Not splitting declarative vs programmatic
ownership
Ignoring merge conflicts between admins and
devs
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🧪Question: Two users try to update the same
Opportunity at once. How do you prevent lost
updates?
✅Answer:
Use FOR UPDATE locking in SOQL (pessimistic lock)
Handle UNABLE_TO_LOCK_ROW error with retry
logic
For optimistic lock, store and check
LastModifiedDate
apex
Opportunity opp = [SELECT Name FROM Opportunity WHERE Id =
:oppId FOR UPDATE];
⚠️Common Struggle:
Committing entire org metadata (no change
tracking)
Not splitting declarative vs programmatic
ownership
Ignoring merge conflicts between admins and
devs
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🧪Question: How can you insert an Account, related
Contacts, and Cases in a single API call?
✅Answer:
Use Composite Tree API
Structure JSON with referenceIds and
relationships.
json
{
"records": [{
"attributes": { "type": "Account", "referenceId": "ref1" },
"Name": "Acme Inc.",
"Contacts": {
"records": [{
"attributes": { "type": "Contact", "referenceId": "ref2" },
"LastName": "Smith"
}]
}
}]
}
⚠️Common Struggle:
Incorrect JSON structure
Using regular REST POST for multi-object insert
Not handling partial failures.
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🧪Question: You want to automatically run unit tests
and notify Slack when a deployment is done. How?
✅Answer:
Use SFDX deploy hooks with Shell scripts or
Node.js
Hook 1: Run sfdx force:apex:test:run before deploy
Hook 2: On deploy success, call Slack Webhook
API with formatted message.
⚠️Common Struggle:
Hardcoding Slack credentials (instead of using
secrets manager)
Running tests after deploy (should be pre-check)
Not validating test code coverage thresholds
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