Salesforce Program Architect interview questions

Tech interview questions I prepared for 1. Explain something that you developed, and you are proud of, for Ex: an implementation end to end flow and some of the technical design involved in it. 2. Explain single-sign on. 3. How do you integrate between a cloud and an on-premise order application? How do you integrate between a cloud and an on-premise marketing application? How do you integrate between a cloud and another Salesforce org.? 4. Explain different integration patterns. 5. What are your considerations while designing a hybrid, native, HTML5 based vs a Cloud solution? 6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Cloud Vs. on premise? 7. CIO informed you about an application performance issue. How will you go about addressing that? What kind of tools you would use? 8. Why ESB Vs. ETL and when will you use ESB or ETL? 9. Why and when SOAP Vs. REST for Transactional integration? 10. How many SFDC Certifications do you have? 11. When did you start working on Salesforce? 12. Explain me the differences or when you would go with native app Vs. a HTML5 app? 13. Explain me the disadvantages of Cloud app Vs. on premise app? 14. Explain me about encryption at REST and encryption in transfer? 15. Explain the difference in software configuration management and version control? 16. Explain me about something that you did, a major work, that you are proud of and your involvement in various aspects of Program Architect role in that work? 17. What is the difference between authorization & authentication in SSO? 18. What is ESB? What is ETL? What are the different ESB's that you've worked with? What is Dell Bhoomi & Informatica - ESB or ETL? 19. REST API or Soap API and why? 20. Can you encrypt/secure when you are doing REST API integration? 21. Explain SSO in layman terms. 22. What is DMZ? 23. What are the constituents of Single Sign-On (SSO). Explain how to implement SSO and explain the key components of implementing it correctly? 24. What are the integration design techniques (OData-External Objects, Canvas, Middleware using SOAP/REST...etc.) and Pros, Cons of each approach. 25. What is Mashup? 26. Difference between SOAP and REST and when to use SOAP (edge case like WS-Encryption/Multi-Point Routing...etc. in SOAP compared to REST) 27. What is 3rd normalized form? 28. What's the differences between SSL one-way vs two way? 29. What's the difference between a native app and an HTML5 app. 30. What's Cloud Computing? 31. How does encryption work? 32. What is your experience in the Software development process? 33. The client informs you of performance issues. What is your process for troubleshooting and describe the various methods you use and recommendations to alleviate them? 34. Tell me about a time you were on a project and a major change occurred technically or in the organization that made you pivot or change course. What happened and how did you handle it. Panel Interview: Just questions about your experience, your brand, about your presentation - be prepared to know the solution, approach, problem, outcomes, metrics REALLY well

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