Interview Question: Salesforce Basics Flashcards
- What is Cloud computing?
Cloud Computing is a new trend in IT development, deployment, Delivery
module of business Products, Services that are provided over the internet that are used by the real time User
2.Expand CRM and briefly explain about CRM ?
CRM is “Customer Relationship Management. “ Companies and organization used CRM software to increase their revenues and profits by using application to automate sales and marketing function.
- List some CRM Software’s.
- Salesforce CRM.
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
- Oracle CRM.
- SAP CRM.
- Sage CRM.
- NetSuite CRM.
- Oracle CRM on Demand.
- Oracle Sales Cloud(Fusion CRM).
- SugarCRM.
- Nimble
- What are the Advantages of Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing services reduce the costs by a great extent by
making redundant the need to buy several software licenses, it also eliminates the huge costs required by an organization to maintain and upgrade existing software.
- What is the definition of Cloud Computing?
“Cloud Computing definition given by NIST (US National Institute of Standards and
Technology) : Cloud Computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can
be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction“
6.What are deployment modes of cloud computing?
Cloud computing services can be provided in four different deployment modes
depending on size and structure of an organization. Four deployment modes of cloud
computing are
1. Public Cloud.
2. Private Cloud.
3. Hybrid Cloud and
4. Community Cloud.
- What is PaaS?
PaaS means” Platform as a Service”. Here in “PaaS “ the cloud service providers provides hardware, OS(operating System), Storage, Network services over the cloud. It is the way like a rent. If there is no service like Platform and there will be no Applications. Which applications are build on a Platform.
- What is SaaS?
SaaS means Software as a Service. Through this Services all the software’s are distributes over the cloud. By using SaaS no need to install any software all software’s
are readily available over the internet.
- What is IaaS?
Full form IaaS is “Infrastructure as a Service”. Here in IaaS the cloud service providers
will provides infrastructure like servers, hosting services and storage. Servers and
storage’s are the basic services provide by Cloud Service Providers.
- Salesforce.com is based on which cloud computing Service ?
SaaS
- What are common factors on SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS?
SaaS, Paas and IaaS are the three types of services provided using “cloud”. Their
common factor for providing services to organization and customer is the “CLOUD” depending upon the types of the service they need. Saas provides Software service on cloud where PaaS provides Platform for application development and finally IaaS provides Infrastructure.
- What is Salesforce?
Salesforce is one of the best customer relationship management (CRM) tool. Salesforce
is among one of the best web based flexible and powerful database provider available
in the market.
13.Different Salesforce Editions?
Salesforce.com provides different types of editions and features depending upon the
cloud. For Sales cloud it provides four different types of editions. They are
1. Essential.
2. Professional.
3. Enterprise.
4. Unlimited.
- Number of Salesforce Editions released per year?`
Salesforce Releases e updates for every year. They are
1. Spring.
2. Summer.
3. Winter.
- Difference between Salesforce.com and Force.com?
Salesforce.com and force.com are relatively same but they are different in their
functionality. Salesforce.com is used to develop CRM functionality based application
where force.com is used to customize our data model, business logic and User
interface.