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1. For which criteria in workflow "time dependent workflow action" cannot be created?
Ans: created, and every time it’s edited

2. What is the advantage of using custom settings?
Ans : You dont have to query in apex (fire select query) to retrieve the data stored in custom settings.

3. What are the different workflow actions available in workflows?
Ans: 1. Field update 2. Email alert 3. send Outbound messages 4. Create new task

4. What is whoid and whatid in activities?
Ans: Whoid is the id of either contact or Lead. Whatid is the id of the related to record in activity record(standard or custom object)

5. What is the difference between a standard controller and custom controller
Ans: standard controller inherits all the standard object properties, standard button functionalities can be directly used. Custom controller defines custom functionalities, a standard controller can be extended to develop custom functionalities using keyword "extenssions"

6. Can you have more than one extenssions associated with a single page?
Ans : Yes we can have more than extenssions.

7. If page is having multiple extenssions and if two extenssions have methods of same name. Then which method out of these two will be called upon calling from vf page ?
Ans: The one which is present in the controller defined on the left side will be called.

8. What are governer limits ?
Ans: Governer limits are the limits imposed by salesforce so as to avoid monopoly by orgs in using salesforce shared resources.

9. how can we implement pagination in visualforce ?
Ans: use standardset controllers for implementing pagination.

10. What is the difference between force.com and salesforce.com
Ans: force.com is paas(platform as a service) and salesforce.com is Saas(software as a service)

11. What is a externalid in salesforce
Ans: It is a field which can be used to store a value that is used as a refernce for that record in other system. For example if you have a record in system 'xyz' where it is referenced by some value then that value can be used as external id in salesforce for that record. External id can be used for upsert operation in data loader

12. What happens upon lead conversion ?
Ans: When lead is converted a contact, account and optionally an opportunity is created.

13. What are different ways of deployment in salesforce ?
Ans: Change sets, eclipse and ANT

14. How can you override a list button with a visuaflorce page?
Ans: Visualforce page should be a list controller that is it should have "recordsetVar" attribute defined in page tag.

15. Is it possible to bypass Grant Access Using Hierarchies in case of standard objects ?
Ans : No. This is default and cannot be changed.