salesforce_winter13_release_notes

https://na1.salesforce.com/help/doc/en/salesforce_winter13_release_notes.pdf

Learning Infomatica

Developer Resource URL
https://community.informatica.com/community/developers

Dreamforce 2012

Welcome to Dreamforce 2012.Salesforce.com Dreamforce is a Nice Event To Understand power of Cloud Computing.Meeting lot a Salesforce partners watch live demo.It is an interesting event for developer/Manager/CEO's .To learn more about dreamforce follow the URL

http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/DF11/about/

Learn salesforce yours self

Hi Here is an URL you can teach yourself   force.com basics.It is an 3 year old Still works


http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/salesforce.com-training-certification/id325668840

Clould Types

In IT industry last 4 to 5 year a new buzz world is shaking the industry that is cake is called "CLOUD" from CEO to developer everybody at least thinking about it .Cloud computing  is growing there is  around 3 types of clouds .
Could Computing Wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
1.Public Could
2.Private Could
3.Hybrid Could

salesforce.com Helpers

Salesforce.com Developer Resources
Salesforce.com comuunity
Job Resources

salesforce.com itunes podcast URL by Chris

To attened salesforce certification for developers and administration Chris Itunes podcast will help little bit but won't help to take full exam need more extra preparation i think salesforcec provided 401exam pratical problems will help better then any other resource



Here is Chris i tunes podcast URL

Getting force.com environment for development or exploring the platform

Force.com is an web based platform ,to get environment you need an (web user id and password). according to force.com platform the user id must be in the form of an email id . like myaccount@domainname.com ,if you don't have any email id no problem maintain the user id string like email format but using an live email id is helpful for remembrance but in large team development environment maintain string is better.

To open an account you need a registration page  so the the following URL you get an free developer account

http://www.developerforce.com/events/regular/registration.php?d=70130000000EjHb  or in the following page http://developer.force.com/ look for Get a Free Developer Edition 

At the time of developer account creation ,yours account must be a email string format ,and you will notice a email colum there u need to give a valid email if it will useful to get authentication system validation string and security token for development so please give there a valid email id.


After clicking the page provide the details yours sales force account (environment is created ).

About force.com or sales force learning skills for developers , Admins and Managers

force.com platform is like any others software platforms like Java ,oracle ,SAP,etc..,.But it is one of the market leading could  platforms works using any supported browsers.

Any body want learn about force.com technologies ,there is very good documentation in http://wiki.developerforce.com/index.php/Documentation but here you have lot of documentation is there with out anybody guidance it is little bit difficult  to navigating the website  for experienced programmers also it gives starting trouble.
If you followed some blogs or spoke with somebody who know the platform  or watching related videos 5 min that is very easy learning things in the platform.But it is not that much difficult you need to know how to search things following blogs or  developer forum help which is properly maintained by force.com developers a very good resource http://boards.developerforce.com/sforce/?category.id=developers.

Right now you understand how to use sales force resources. Suppose I am  learning a new programming i will get lot for question like
                                  1.What is the advantage of this programming language  or platform ,how is it is different from other programming languages ,what are the components available in this programming languages how i can use this programming language like lot of questions am stopping this argument here. and explaining how to learn the skills.

Suppose if you want learning developer and admins points of view first you need environment.Here yours question is
how to get  force.com environment ?.
Getting force.com environment for development or exploring the platform

Salesforce.com sandboxes

force.com platform have three diff type of sanbox account which is use to develop and test and maintain the force.com platform applications.

Here am trying to mention i.e salesforce.com is a company name force.com is the salesforce.com company developed development platform.

Sandbox:
1.Developer sanbox
2.Configuration sandbox
3.Full copy sandbox.


1.Developer sandbox: It is just like configuration sandbox,it used for application development purpose.it is depends on existing application setup


2.Configuration sandbox: Used for for testing we can due production level testing on it with minimum data.

3.extract copy of production sandbox used for user level testing .

Salesforce Interview Questions

1.What is the difference between map and set in  Salesforce  collections.
Map:

A map is a collection of key-value pairs where each unique key maps to a single value. Keys can be any primitive data type, while values can be a primitive, sObject, collection type or an Apex object. For example, the following table represents a map of countries and currencies:

Country (Key)	'United States'	'Japan'	'France'	'England'	'India'
Currency (Value)	'Dollar'	'Yen'	'Euro'	'Pound'	'Rupee'

Similar to lists, map values can contain any collection, and can be nested within one another. For example, you can have a map of Integers to maps, which, in turn, map Strings to lists. A map can only contain up to five levels of nested collections inside it.

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/index.htm

Set:

A set is an unordered collection of primitives or sObjects that do not contain any duplicate elements. For example, the following table represents a set of String, that uses city names:

'San Francisco'

'New York'

'Paris'

'Tokyo'

To declare a set, use the Set keyword followed by the primitive data type name within <> characters. For example:

 http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/index.htm

 2. Why Use Triggers?   

 Triggers are used to perform immediate actions based on previous action e.g. field update. An apex language is used to write triggers

Eg: Account merges

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/Content/apex_triggers.htm

3. What are different types of Triggers?

 There are two types of triggers

a) Before trigger- is used before database operation

 b) After trigger-is used  to access field values that are set by the database (such as a record's Id or lastUpdated field), and to affect changes in other records, such as logging into an audit table or firing asynchronous events with a queue.

4. Why Use Visual Force?

 Visual force is a Sales force UI markup language using visual force we can construct   WebPages. In Sales force MVC architecture Visual force represents View.

5. How do you handle errors?

 Error handing is done directly displaying in Visual force page using Apex Pages methods   to end users or displaying in debug logs.

 http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/pages/Content/apex_methods_system_apexpages.htm?SearchType=Stem

6. What is a Component?

In sales force component is a reusable piece of code developed using Visual force and Apex controller.

7.Tell me about a project with Salesforce in which you led the architecture that was not explicitly limited to the Salesforce infrastructure.


8.How long ago did you work on the above mentioned project?



9.Tell me about inner-department communications and your approach to communicating with non-technical team members.


10.What measures have you taken to make your software products more easily maintainable?

11.What development processes have you used in your recent projects? Were any tools used to support these processes? If so can you name some of the advantages and short comings of the tool/ tools?

12.What is an junction object?.

13.What is the difference between master detail relationship and look up relationship. ?
https://login.salesforce.com/help/doc/en/overview_of_custom_object_relationships.htm

14.How will you handle 10001 SOQL  problem in apex?


15. Define force.com and Salesforce.com?


16.Explain some examples  for work-flow rules?


17.What is the use of  future method?
http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/Content/apex_classes_annotation_future.htm

18.What is abstract class?.

19.Explain object oriented concepts in sales force how will you implement this?

20.How will you import and export data between two systems eg: SFDC and SQL? 


21.What is appexchange?


22.Explain about cloud?.


23.Explain about validation rules in salesforce?.


24.What is the difference between roles and profiles?.


25.What is the difference between record level ,field level, object level security?


26.How will you use web services in sales force.com?.


27.Can you explain about limitation why this limitation placed in sales force.


28.what is view state in sales force?.It there is any limitation after winter11?

29.What is the difference between Role and Profile?

30.How you handle part of page refresh using VF?

31.How you can define a trigger is executed successfully?

32.Explain about yours current project?

33.How do you rate yours self in apex,VF?

34.How you can  deal with project dead lines?

35.How you can use external WSDL files in Sales force?

36.What is difference between rest full and soap API?

37.What is yours Strong point Sales force?
38.How you can with SQL injections in Sales force?
39.Can you explain test methods in salesforce?
40.How did you display error messages in salesforce? On VF Pages?
Apex.Pages
41.Can you explain relationships in salesforce?
42.What are SOQL limitations?
43.How can bypass SOQL statement to fetch more 1000 records? 
44.What job did you like more in your carrier?
45.Can you explain a scenario integrating login method to third party application.
46.Can you explain about SFDC controllers?
47.Can you explain about sales process? 
48.What is a set in salesforce deployments?
49.How many ways you can invoke an work flow? 
50.What are governor limits can you explain about it?
51.East Sales Team can't access west sales team data how do you configure it?
52.What is Role,Profile,Security?
53.I have an contact .It phone number field is empty how you can get phone number from an related account?
54.How do you handle SOQL problem in Trigger?
55.How you can access JQuery in VF page?
56.What is change set in salesforce?
57. What is transient variable in salesforce?
58.How you can measure trigger performance?
59.What is the difference between s-controls and VF Pages?
60.How do you size the sales force user License to your Organization?
61.Can you compare Java vs sales force platform?
62.What is the diff between Rendering and Re-Rendering tags?

renderAs	String	The name of any supported content converter. Currently PDF is the only supported content converter. Setting this attribute to "pdf" renders the page as a PDF. Rendering a Visualforce page as a PDF is intended for pages that are designed and optimized for print. Standard components that aren't easily formatted for print or contain form elements like inputs, buttons, any component that requires JavaScript to be formatted, shouldn't be used. This includes but is not limited to, any component that requires a form element. Verify the format of your rendered page before deploying it. If the PDF fails to display all the characters, adjust the fonts in your CSS to use a font that supports your needs. For example, add the following style definition to your page's styles: body { font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; } Note that the pageBlock and sectionHeader components don't support double-byte fonts when rendered as a PDF.		13.0	global
rendered	Boolean	A Boolean value that specifies whether the page is rendered. If not specified, this value defaults to true.		10.0	global

 http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/pages/Content/pages_compref_page.htm

63.What is  diff between Action tag and JavaScript remoting?
64.What is the use of Sharing keyword in in Apex Language ?
65.Waht is the use of asynchronous keywaord in salesforce?
66.What is the use of future method?
67.when data loading what is the use of unique id and external id?
68.What is the diff between Architect and Programmer?
69.What is the diff between before and after triggers?
70.Explain MVC in salesforce?
71.What is VF page?
72.Explain Apex?
73.What is an Object?
74.What is wrapper or container class is a class in salesforce?
http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Wrapper_Class
75.what is the limitations of  import wizard salesforce?
76.What are the permissions needed  to export data using data loader?
77.What is the diff between java and apex?

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/Content/apex_classes_java_diffs.htm

78.what are different type of saas service available?

79. can you explain about forcast in salesforce.com?

80.What is the diff between role and territory hierarchy ?

81.apex support compiler or interpreter ?

82.what is diff cloud application and bank of america applications?.Bank of America application is cloud or not?

What is Salesforce.com?.How it works.

Salesforce.com is software company focusing the area in Clouding computing.Before repeatedly using the term first we need to understand what is cloud computing how it is evolved and history of cloud computing.