Sharepoint 2013 Admin Interview Questions:

1) What are the three user authentication methods that SharePoint 2013 supports?

Windows claims
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)-based claims
Forms-based authentication claims

2) Out of the available authentication methods, which one would is considered the
recommend according to Microsoft?

Claims-based authentication methods are recommended.

3) What protocol does server-to-server authentication extend?

SharePoint 2013 extends OAuth.

4) SharePoint Store and App Catalog Access SharePoint resources on behalf of a user
using?

OAuth 2.0.

5) What Business Data Connectivity (BDC) connections types are supported in

SharePoint 2013?

WCF
SQL Server
NET assemblies
Open Data Protocol

6) What are some examples of technology that OData leverages?

HTTP
Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub)
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

7) What types of authentication does Business Connectivity Services support?

Anonymous
Basic
Windows
Custom authentication to OData services when it is used with the Secure Store
Service

8) What does a BDC model do?

Describes which tables to read, which items from those tables are of interest, and
which operations to perform on them.

9) How is the BDC model in SharePoint 2013 more streamlined than in SharePoint
2010?

Visual Studio 2010 is able to connect to the OData endpoint through Business
Connectivity Services and read the OData source. Visual Studio 2010 will then
automatically generate the BDC model.

10) How is the BDC model used after being built?

Imported into the Business Data Catalog as a farm-scoped external content type, or
be included in an app for SharePoint.

11) What Is An Event Listener in SharePoint 2013?

The event listener includes an event subscriber. The subscriber receives

notifications from the event publisher (on the external system side) on changes to
the data and then initiates predefined actions when changes occur.

12) How is an event listener useful?

Enables SharePoint users and custom code to receive notifications of events that
occur in an external system.

13) With an event listener, what are the supported connections for an external
system?

OData
SQL
WCF

14) What are apps for SharePoint?

Apps for SharePoint allow addition of functionality to a SharePoint site by using

the self-contained app for SharePoint.

15) What is the primary benefit of using apps for SharePoint?

Each app for SharePoint is isolated from the rest of the system.

16) How are BDC models and apps for SharePoint related?

BDC models can be scoped to apps for SharePoint and connection information is
defined and stored separately from the app-scoped BDC model in BDC connections.

17) What is eDiscovery in the context of SharePoint 2013?

Introduces a new site for managing discovery cases and holds. The site allows one
to access discovery cases to conduct searches, place content on hold, and export
content.

18) What are some examples of some things you can related to an eDiscovery case?

Sources
eDiscovery sets
Queries
Exports

19) What is an in-place hold?

Content that is put on hold is preserved, but users can still change it.

20) What the content can be included with SharePoint eDiscovery export?

Document
Lists
Pages
Exchange objects

21) In terms of enterprise-wide eDiscovery, what actions can be taken by an

authorized user?

Create a case, define a query, and then search SharePoint Server 2013,
Exchange Server 2013, and file shares
Export all of the content that was identified.
Preserve items in place in SharePoint Server 2013 or Exchange Server 2013.
Track statistics related to the case.

22) What are the different types of mobile views offered in SharePoint 2013?

Contemporary view
Classic view
Full screen UI

23) What is the Microsoft Push Notification Service?

Supports applications on mobile devices that should receive notifications from a

SharePoint site.

24) What field type would be used when working location specific SharePoint
applications?

Geolocation field type

25) What is Site-based retention?

You can create and manage retention policies in that will apply to SharePoint sites
and any Exchange Server 2013 team mailboxes that are associated with the sites.

26) What does a retention policy contain?

Generally what causes a project to be closed and when a project should expire.

27) What are some improvements in Excel Services in SharePoint 2013?

Field list and field well support

Calculated measures and members
Enhanced timeline controls
Application BI Servers
Business Intelligence Center update

28) What is the In-Memory BI Engine (IMBI)?

The In Memory multidimensional data analysis engine (IMBI), also known as the
Vertipaq engine, allows for almost instant analysis.

29) What does the Power View Add-in for Excel do?

Power View (“Crescent”) enables users to visualize and interact with modeled data
by using highly interactive visualizations, animations and smart querying.

30) Can PerformancePoint be displayed on iPads?

Yes.

31) What is the Analysis Services Effective User?

Eliminates the need for Kerberos delegation when per-user authentication is used
for Analysis Services data sources. By supporting Analysis Services Effective User
feature, authorization checks will be based on the user specified by the
EffectiveUserName property instead of using the currently authenticated user.

32) What are Community Sites in SharePoint 2013?

Community Sites offer a forum experience to categorize and cultivate discussions

with a broad group of people across organizations in a company.

33) What is the primary change with MySite document libraries in 2013?

Users can specify permissions for a specific document without having to understand
the inheritance model.

34) What are Image renditions?

Image renditions let you display different sized versions of an image on different
pages.

35) How are multilingual sites implemented?

Variations, integrated translation service, cross-site publishing

36) What is Cross-site publishing?

Cross-site publishing lets you store and maintain content in one or more authoring
site collections, and display this content in one or more publishing site
collections.

37) What is Managed navigation?

Managed navigation lets you define and maintain the navigation on a site by using
term sets.

38) What are Category pages?

Category pages are page layouts that are used for displaying structured content
such as catalog data.

39) What is the Content Search Web Part?

Displays content that was crawled and added to the search index.

40) What are Refiners and faceted navigation?

Refiners are based on managed properties from the search index. With faceted
navigation you can configure different refiners for different terms in a term set.

41) What is the Analytics Processing Component?

Runs different analytics jobs to analyze content in the search index and user
actions that were performed on a site to identify items that users perceive as more
relevant than others.

42) What does the Workflow Manager do?

High Density and Multi-Tenancy, Elastic Scale, Activity / Workflow Artifact

Management, Tracking and Monitoring, Instance Management, Fully Declarative
Authoring, REST and Service Bus Messaging, Managed Service Reliability.
43) What is a ranking model in SharePoint 2013 search?

A ranking model determines recall (which items are displayed in the search results)
and rank (the order in which search results are displayed).

44) What actions can a query rule specify?

Add one or more result blocks

Change ranked results
Add Promoted Results (formerly called Best Bets) that appear above ranked
results

45) What are Result sources?

Result source allow you to restrict queries to a subset of content by using a query
transform.

46) What is a Continuous crawl?

Eliminates the need to schedule incremental crawls and automatically starts crawls
as necessary to keep the search index fresh.

47) How can you remove items from the search index?

Using the crawl logs.

48) How can you specify which entities to look for in the content in relation to
SharePoint search?

Create and deploy your own dictionaries

49) What does document parsing functionality do?

Document parsers extract useful metadata and remove redundant information.

50) Is Visual Upgrade available in SharePoint 2013?

No.

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Question 1. What Is Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server?

Answer :

MS SharePoint Portal Server is an integrated suite from server side, to help

improve organizational effectiveness with the help of providing

comprehensive content management

enterprise search
accelerating shared business processes
facilitating information sharing across boundaries
Provides platform which includes server administration, application
extensibility and interoperability for IT professionals.

Question 2. What Are Zones?

Answer :

Different logical paths (URLs meaning) of gaining access to the same SharePoint Web
application.

Five Zones :

Internet Zone
Intranet
Default
Extranet
Custom

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Question 3. What Are Web Application Policies?

Answer :

Enables security policy for users at the Web application level, rather than at the
site collection or site level. Importantly, they override all other security
settings.

Question 4. What Is A Site Collection?

Answer :

A site collection contains a top-level website and can contain one or more sub-
sites web sites that have the same owner and share administration settings.

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Question 5. What Are Content Databases?

Answer :

A content database can hold all the content for one or more site collections.

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Question 6. What Is A Site?

Answer :

A site in SharePoint contains Web pages and related assets such as lists, all
hosted within a site collection.

Question 7. How Is Sharepoint Portal Server Different From The Site Server?

Answer :

SharePoint Portal Server:

Web site creation for information sharing and document collaboration is treated
as services by SharePoint Portal Server.
 SharePoint server services are key information worker infrastructure that
provides additional functionality to the MS Office system applications. Site
Server:
Manages websites with multiple technologies
Content management, product management, order processing , advertisement
serving are some of the functionalities

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Question 8. How Is Security Managed In Sharepoint?

Answer :

Share point uses digital dashboard technology that provides an interface for the
purpose of creating web parts and making them appear them on dash boards. The
security is applicable throughout the organization.

Question 9. What Is Windows Sharepoint Services?

Answer :

Creation of websites for information sharing and document collaboration will be

enabled by Windows SharePoint Services. It provides additional functionality for MS
Office system and other desktop applications. It also supports like a platform for
the development of applications.

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Question 10. What Are The Hardware And Software Requirements For Sharepoint 2010 ?

Answer :

Hardware requirements :

Processor 64-bit, four-core, 2.5 GHz minimum per core.

RAM 4 GB for developer or evaluation use, 8 GB for single server and multiple
server farm installation for production use.
Hard disk 80 GB for installation For production use, you need additional free
disk space for day-to-day operations. Add twice as much free space as you have RAM
for production environments.

Software requirements :

The 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 Standard with SP2. If you are running
Windows Server 2008 without SP2, the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies
2010 Preparation Tool installs Windows Server 2008 SP2 automatically.

Question 11. What Has Changed With Ssp In Sharepoint 2010.?

Answer :

In SharePoint 2010 Shared Service Providers (SSP's) are replaced by Service

Applications. Services are no longer combined into a SSP. They are running
independent as a service application. The service application architecture is now
also built into Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010, in contrast to the Shared
Services Provider (SSP) architecture that was only part of Office SharePoint Server
2007.

A key benefit here is that all services are installed by default and there is no
SSP setup.

Additional improvements for the service application model include:

The services architecture is extensible, allowing third-party companies to

build and add services to the platform.
Services are managed directly in Central Administration (rather than a separate
administration site).
Services can be monitored and managed remotely.
Services can be managed and scripted by Windows PowerShell™.
Shared services communications take place over HTTP(S). Shared services do not
directly access databases across farms.
Most new services are built on the Windows Communications Framework. They have
optimization built into their protocol, using binary streams instead of XML for
data transfer. Test results show improvements in network throughput with this
change.

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Question 12. Can We Create A Single Set Of Services That Will Be Shared Across The
Farm?

Answer :

Similar to the SSP model in Office SharePoint Server 2007, a single set of services
can be shared by all sites in a farm. By publishing a service application (from the
sharing group, under Service application tab), you can share it across server
farms. This capability does not apply to all service applications, and some
services can be shared only within a single server farm.

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Question 13. What Are Managed Accounts?

Answer :

To reduce the load of managing various service accounts in Microsoft SharePoint

Server 2010, the concept of managed accounts has been introduced. Much like managed
accounts in Windows Server 2008, they allow SharePoint Server to take control of
all the service accounts you use. After SharePoint Server has control of these
accounts, it can either manage their passwords — automatically changing them as
necessary — or it can notify you when an accounts password is about to expire,
allowing you to make the change yourself.

Question 14. What Is Linq. How Is It Used In Sharepoint ?

Answer :

LINQ is a feature of the programming languages C# 3.0 and Visual Basic .NET. LINQ
allows you to query in an object-oriented way, supports compile-time check, gives
you intellisense support in Visual Studio and defines a unified, SQL like syntax to
query any data source. But unlike other languages and query syntaxes which vary
from one type of data source to another, LINQ can be used to query, in principle,
any data source whatsoever. Hence, developers may find that it is the only query
syntax that they ever need to know. It is commonly used to query objects
collections, XML and SQL server data sources.

LINQ to SharePoint is officially being supported with the 2010 release.It works
similar to LINQ to SQL or LINQ to Entity.
The LINQ to SharePoint Provider is defined in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Linq
namespace. It translates LINQ queries into Collaborative Application Markup
Language (CAML) queries.The gateway class for the LINQ to SharePoint provider is
Microsoft.SharePoint.Linq.DataContext which represents the data of a SharePoint
Foundation Web site.

Question 15. How To Move Content Databases Using Powershell ?

Answer :

To attachdetach an existing content database

use Mount-SPContentDatabase "<ContentDb>" –DatabaseServer "<DbServer>" –

WebApplication http://webapplicationname/

<ContentDb> is the content database to be attached.<DbServer> is the name of the

database server.

http://WebapplicationName is the name of the Web application to which the content

database is being attached.

To detach a content database:

Dismount-SPContentDatabase "<ContentdBName>"

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Question 16. How To Export A Site Or List In Sharepoint 2010?

Answer :

SharePoint Server 2010 provides several new features that provide a granular level
of backup for various components of site content. This includes content at the
site, subsite, and list level.

Through Central Administration(Granular level Back-up) a SharePoint Administrator

can configure a backup of a subsite or list. An Administrator can choose a site and
a specific list to be exported.The administrators can also choose to export
security and select the different versions that will be exported with the list.

Question 17. What Is Enterprise Metadata Management?

Answer :

Enterprise metadata management (EMM) is a set of features introduced in Microsoft

SharePoint Server 2010 that enable taxonomists, librarians, and administrators to
create and manage terms and sets of terms across the enterprise.

The managed metadata service: is a service application that enables the use of
managed metadata and allows you to share content types across site collections and
across Web applications. The service publishes a term store and content types, and
the metadata is consumed via the managed metadata connection. A managed metadata
service and connection are created when the metadata service application is
created.

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Question 18. What Are Web Applications In Sharepoint?

Answer :

An IIS Web site created and used by SharePoint 2010. Saying an IIS virtual server
is also an acceptable answer.

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Question 19. What Is An Application Pool?

Answer :

A group of one or more URLs that are served by a particular worker process or set
of worker processes.

Question 20. Why Are Application Pools Important?

Answer :

They provide a way for multiple sites to run on the same server but still have
their own worker processes and identity.

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Question 21. What Are My Sites?

Answer :

Specialized SharePoint sites personalized and targeted for each user.

Question 22. What Is The Difference Between Classic Mode Authentication And Claims-
based Authentication?

Answer :

As the name implies, classic authentication supports NT authentication types like

Kerberos, NTLM, Basic, Digest, and anonymous. Claims based authentication uses
claims identities against a against a trusted identity provider.

Question 23. When Would You Use Claims, And When Would You Use Classic?

Answer :

Classic is more commonly seen in upgraded 2007 environments whereas claims are the
recommended path for new deployments.

Question 24. What Is Business Connectivity Services In Sharepoint ?

Answer :

SharePoint 2010 provides a new set of technologies known as Business Connectivity

Services for retrieving, editing,updating, and deleting data from external
systems(for e.g. data from ERP or CRM database). BCS enhances the SharePoint
platform’s capabilities with out-of-box features, services and tools that
streamline development of solutions with deep integration of external data and
services.
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Question 25. How Is Bcs Different From Bdc In Sharepoint ?

Answer :

Even though the BDC made it relatively easy to create read-only solutions that
display data in the Business Data List Web Part, it was not so simple to create a
solution that enabled users to make changes and write that data back to the
external store.BCS, on the other hand, provides you with Read-Write capable
connectivity from Client and Server to Database, WCF/Web Services and .Net Sources.
A Developer can now use SharePoint Designer 2010 and VS 2010 rapid development
tools to access external data.

Question 26. How Would You Create An Information Site In Sharepoint 2010?

Answer :

In SharePoint 2010 You can create a Read-Only Farm/site or site-collection by

setting the Content database as Read-only.In SharePoint 2010 You can create a Read-
Only Farm/site or site-collection by setting the Content database as Read-only.In a
read-only farm, only content databases are read-only. All other databases,
including the configuration database, Central Administration content database, and
search database, are read/write.

The site collection that is associated with a read-only content database is

automatically set to be read-only.

The user experience of a read-only site is characterized by the following:

Common tasks that do not require writing to the content database are fully
available.
Most of the common tasks that require writing to the content database are not
available, either because they have been disabled in the user interface or because
the user is no longer allowed to apply changes.
Some common tasks that require writing to the content database appear to be
available, but return errors.

Question 27. What Would You Clean Up Before Upgrading To Sharepoint 2010?

Answer :

Before you begin upgrading from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, you should make sure that your environment is
functioning in a healthy state and that you clean up any content that you do not
have to upgrade.Before you begin upgrading from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
2007 to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, you should make sure that your
environment is functioning in a healthy state and that you clean up any content
that you do not have to upgrade.

Clean Up - Before Upgrading to SharePoint 2010

Look for some things before you start upgrading stuff

Delete unused or underused site collections and sites. You do not want to
upgrade content that you do not have to keep. If it has been unused for a long time
and will not be needed in the future, back it up, and then delete it to free
storage and administrative resources, improve upgrade performance, and reduce
upgrade risk.
 Remove extraneous document versions Large numbers of document versions can slow
down an upgrade significantly. If you do not have to keep multiple versions, you
can have users delete them manually or use the object model to find and remove
them.
Remove unused templates, features, and Web Parts Firstly,verify that no sites
are using any template, feature, or Web Part. You can use the pre-upgrade checker
(Stsadm -o preupgradecheck) and the Stsadm -o EnumAllWebs operation to identify
these customizations in your environment. If you are not using any customization,
then you should delete it.
Address large lists By default, large list query throttling is appliedafter an
upgrade to SharePoint Server 2010. If a list is very large, and users use a view or
perform a query that exceeds the limit or throttling threshold, the view or query
will not be permitted.Check any large lists in your environment and have the site
owner or list owner address the issue before upgrade. For example, they can create
indexed columns by using filtered views, organize items into folders, set an item
limit on the page for a large view, or use an external list.

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Question 28. Describe The Potential Components For Both A Single Server, And
Multiple Servers, Potentially Several Tiered Farms ?

Answer :

A single-server SharePoint Server 2010 environment leverages a built-in SQL Server

2008 Express database. The problems with this environment is scalability, not being
able to install the with built-in database on a domain controller, the database
cannot be larger than 4 GB, and you cannot use User Profile Synchronization in a
single server with built-in database installation.

An example of a multiple tier farm would be a three-tier topology, considered one

of the more efficient physical and logical layouts to supports scaling out or
scaling up and provides better distribution of services across the member servers
of the farm. This is considered a good architecture since one can add Web servers
to the Web tier, add app servers to the application tier, and add database servers
to the database tier.

Question 29. What Is Sharepoint 2010?

Answer :

SharePoint 2010 is the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise & the Web
that enables you to connect & empower people through an integrated set of rich
features. Whether deployed on-premises or as hosted services, SharePoint 2010 helps
you cut costs with a unified infrastructure while allowing you to rapidly respond
to your business needs.

Question 30. What Has Changed With 12 Hive In Sharepoint?

Answer :

Three New Folders have been added in 12 hive structure.

UserCode – files used to support sandboxed solutions .

WebClients – used for the client Object Model.
WebServices – .svc files .

How would you re-deploy the old custom solutions in SharePoint 2010.What Changes
are needed to the old Solution files.
SharePoint 2010 object model contains many changes and enhancements, but our custom
code will still compile and, will run as expected. You should however, rewrite and
recompile any code that refers to files and resources in "12 hive".

Question 31. Whats New With Sharepoint Webparts?

Answer :

A developer can create two types of webparts using Visual Studio 2010.

1. Visual Webparts - Allows you to Drag and Drop the controls from the Toolbox to
WebPart Design surface. You can of course write your custom code in the code file.
You can also package and deploy your webparts directly to Sharepoint from VS by
pressing Clt+F5. Visual studio 2010 also provides you with three different views
for developing webparts. The views are split view, design view and Source view(as
we have in designer 2007).

Note : The Visual Webpart project Item basically loads a User Control as a WebPart.

2. ASP.Net WebParts - Where a developer can build up User Interface and logic in a
class file. You do not have designer for drag and drop of controls. This webpart
inherits from standard ASP.Net webpart. For Deployment we can again use ctrl+f5 to
deploy this webpart.

What are the Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint.Ans. Visual Studio 2010
includes SharePoint-specific project types and project item types, and includes
powerful packaging, deployment, and debugging features that help increase your
efficiency as a SharePoint 2010 developer.

Some of the Templates avaiable are :

Visual Web Part project template.

List defination template.
Content Type template.
Empty Project template.
Event Receiver template.
some workflow template.
the Site Definition template

Question 32. What Are Sharepoint Sandboxed Soultions ?

Answer :

SharePoint 2010 provides a new sandboxed environment that enables you to run user
solutions without affecting the rest of the SharePoint farm. This environment means
that users can upload their own custom solutions without requiring intervention
from administrators, and without putting the rest of the farm at risk. This means
that the existing sitespages or components will not be effected by the newly added
soultion.

Users can deploy the below four things as sandboxed soultions :

WebParts.
Event Receivers.
List Definations.
Workflows.

Question 33. What Are Requirenments For Sharepoint 2010.?

Answer :

SharePoint Server 2010 will support only 64 - bit. It will require 64 bit Windows
Server 2008 or 64 bit Windows Server 2008 R2. In addition to this, it will require
64 bit version of SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit version of SQL Server 2005.

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1Q) What is SharePoint?

Ans: SharePoint is an enterprise collaborative web platform developed by Microsoft.

SharePoint provides the advantage of rapid solutions development through reusable
components like:

Document management
Record management
Collaboration
Search
Business Intelligence
Workflows
Extensibility
Security

In the core, SharePoint is built on ASP.NET/ISAPI with backend supported by SQL

Server. The previous version of SharePoint 2010 was SharePoint 2007 and the
successor is SharePoint 2013.
2Q) What are the differences between Sharepoint and Confluence?
Ans:
Sharepoint Vs Confluence
Feature SharePoint Confluence
Market Place SharePoint Store Atlassian Marketplace
Organical Growth Sold Top to Bottom Grows Bottom-Up
Enterprise edition Ready to use Ready to use
Personalised News Third party add-ons available Cannot personalise news
Microblogging Can be done using add-ons Microblogging disabled
Team Collaboration Limited to defaults Can collaborate
Controlled Intranet Available Unvailable
Full Transparancy Canot provide complete transparency Available
3Q) What are the various Input forms that you as a user can create for a WorkFlow
in SharePoint?

Ans: These are Modification Form, Installation Form, Task edit Form as well as
Association form.
4Q) What do you know about the Microsoft SharePoint?

Ans: SharePoint is basically a document storage and management system that has wide
applications in the organizations. It simply enable organizations to storage their
documents in an error-free manner on different domains without worrying about
anything. However, the scope and applications of SharePoint are not just limited on
this; they have a lot of other applications as well. The users are free to get a
lot of favourable outcomes in the server domain as well.
5Q) What do you mean by WSP?
Ans: It stands for Web Solution Package and is basically a file that provides
information on resources, assemblies, images, site definitions as well as on the
features to be added on the site. They are required to be considered when the
updating of any type is carried out on the website.
6Q) What are the benefits of using the SharePoint in an organization according to
you?

Ans: There are certain benefits that SharePoint can bring in an organization and a
few of them are spotlighted below.

It is possible to replace an existing corporate file server with the help

of this tool
It has been equipped with features such as access control remotely. This
often makes it a secure approach
Documents can easily be archived and a lot of storage space can be saved
easily
It has scalable features when it comes to confidentiality and
authentication. The users are free to keep up the pace simply
SharePoint is economical and is good enough to be trusted for the long run
It can easily cut down the need for new staff

7Q) What is team Site is SharePoint?

Ans: It is basically a feature that enables the users to invite other users simply
by allowing them permissions to access the site externally.
8Q) How can you say that SharePoint is Collaborative Software?

Ans: SharePoint has a lot of groupware abilities due to which it is widely known.
The users are free to get the results in a manner they cannot expect with
traditional document managing approaches. It has been equipped with a lot of
features such as project scheduling. Moreover, the users are free to access it in a
social collaborative manner. In addition to this, enterprises can share mailboxes.
Also, the storage of all the documents related to a specific project can be
accomplished in a very reliable manner.
9Q) What sort of applications does SharePoint have in Custom Web Applications?

Ans: SharePoint has vast application in Custom Web Applications. All the users are
free to get the results in the way they want through this approach. SharePoint is
actually capable to offer an extra later of services which simply make sure of
quick prototyping of all the web applications. Developers can make sure of
integrating the corporate directories as well as the data sources through the
various standards imposed on document assessment. SharePoint also has information
management capabilities which are good enough to be trusted in a lot of development
platforms. Moreover, there is a dedicated app store which is equipped with
applications that are best for encapsulating the resources.
10Q) How can you say that SharePoint is a better option than traditional data
sharing document approach?
Ans:
S.No SharePoint Traditional Approaches
1 Data can be accessed securely and reliably There are more security
concerns
2 Multitasking is possible with files, documents and reports The same is not
allowed
3 Can handle web applications development and content management Not all
traditional tools in this class are capable of the same
11Q) What is the purpose of scheduling tools in the SharePoint?

Ans: The scheduling tools are responsible for updating and assigning the multi-
level tasks from a Gant calendar.
12Q) What are some of the best applications of SharePoint which you are familiar
with?

Ans: It has a diverse array of applications. There are a lot of organizations who
are using the. Some of the major domains and sectors in which the SharePoint can
have its applications are:

Sharing of Documents
Intranet applications
Collaboration with other tools
Websites development
Business Intelligence
Extranet

13Q) In the SharePoint, how it is possible for the users to create a Task
Notification?

Ans: First of all, open the designer and opt to create a fresh task list. Next step
is to create a workflow which is associated to the task list. The terms and
conditions for use are them imposed in the next step. Mailing address are to be
mentioned after this and then the same is assigned to the subject lookup. After
this, the workflow is activated and finally the same is published.

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14Q) Tell the procedure of creating a list in SharePoint?

Ans: This can be done by first tapping on the app link and adding a custom list.
Under the site contents, you can then open the app section. Next step is to click
on the custom list and mention the description. This is how a list can be created
in the SharePoint.
15Q) How can permission be chosen from the available group in SharePoint?

Ans: This can easily be done by scrolling down the arrow mark on the available
group and then select the share option.
16Q) What do you mean by the term “OneDrive for Business”?

Ans: One Drive for Business means all the documents related to an organization are
kept in a single drive which can be on a cloud. A lot of synchronization can easily
be assured without compromising with the quality and security of the documents. The
authorized users are free to share and explore the entire information without any
restrictions. You simply need not to worry about anything when it comes to
accessing the documents. The SharePoint is a good approach that can be trusted for
this. It is capable to cater all the data needs in a cloud as well.
17Q) What according to you is the simplest method for displaying the status bar for
the user?

Ans: For this, simply drag and drop a file and the status bar will be shown.
18Q) What are the features of SharePoint that makes it a reliable tool according to
you?

Ans: SharePoint is a good tool that has been provided with some of the most basic
to dynamic features and they are spotlighted below.

It is capable to follow the sites, documents, people, as well as tags

Previews of files and documents can easily be created
Group sharing is possible
Discussions forums are good enough to derive any sort of information
Data integration can be done easily
 Security updates are available with respect to time

Sharepoint Interview Questions And Answers For Experienced

19Q) What type of data or the information is there in the content database in
SharePoint?

Ans: The information available in the content database is

It provides information regarding the report models,

Information on all the reports that get published
Various permissions associated with the different tasks
Properties of different applications
Sharing of data resources and how this can be done
Managing the resources

20Q) Name any two classes in the Server Object model?

Ans: These are SPWeb and SPSite

21Q) What is the purpose of callout function present in the SharePoint?

Ans: It is basically a feature that enables the users to simply access different
commands on the list. Some key examples are handling navigation links, adding new
items and monitoring the tasks. On the navigation list, all the tasks can be
accomplished in one go and the users have no reason to worry about.
22Q) Name the three types of Sites available ion SharePoint?

Ans: These are Team Site, Public site and My sites.

23Q) Is it possible to manage the projects in the SharePoint? How?

Ans: Yes, it is possible and for this, there are several facilities available in
the SharePoint such as dashboards which contain custom KPI. The information
regarding the graphs and status updates can be grabbed from the same. Also, their
other features that can help a lot in this matter.
24Q) How can SharePoint be used in enterprises fro document and content management?

Ans: All the electronic documents and records can easily be tracked, monitored,
controlled, searched, archived, as well as stored easily with the help of this
tool. It has been provided with most dynamic features with the help of which the
users are free to go for information management, legal needs as well as process
requirement fulfillment. It has also been provided with dedicated features for
graph and functionality. It has a collaborative approach and can easily be
integrated with real-time applications and software such as Microsoft Office.
25Q) What do you mean by MOSS?

Ans: It stands for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and is actually a full
version of a portal-based platform for effective managing and creating the
documents and web services.
26Q) What is delegate control in SharePoint?

Ans: It is basically a function that enables the Object-oriented features to be

controlled. When the need felt, they can even be replaced through the custom
control. It is not necessary always that they need to be modified for this task.
27Q) How the Web interface in the SharePoint can be used?

Ans: When it comes to configuration, the SharePoint needs a web browser. Web-based
interface simply enable users to have direct access to several configuration
capabilities. However, it all depends on the level of permission user have.
Depending on the same, a user can have a lot of applications.
 The web interface can simply enable users to manipulate the entire
structure of the content.
The users are free to add or remove apps
Navigation options can easily be modified
A lot of features of the product can easily be enabled or disabled
Custom designs can easily be uploaded
Integration can be done with Microsoft products
Basic workflows can be configured easily
Metadata management can be done in a very reliable manner
Customizations can be uploaded

28Q) What do you mean by CALM in the SharePoint?

Ans: It stands for Collaborative application Markup Language. It is actually the

custom XML language in the SharePoint which is used for defining some important
objects as well as the content types.
29Q) What do you mean by the term Farm in SharePoint?

Ans: In SharePoint, farm is nothing but a collection of SharePoint Servers having

the configuration database similar.
30Q) How can you say that SharePoint can enhance the employee engagement towards
the work?

Ans: Employees have to handle a lot of burden and pressure when it comes to
managing information, data or documents. It often results in common mistakes. The
SharePoint is equipped with so many features and the users are free to keep up the
pace in the long run for managing everything easily and coming up with superior
outcomes. It assures employees to have quality in their work and they can save a
lot of time. Also, the documents can be managed, located and accessed anytime the
need of same is felt. Thus, the overall engagement of employee towards an objective
can easily be enhanced.
31Q) What are Content Types in SharePoint?

Ans: It is basically a WSS type definition which is present in the SharePoint. It

is quite flexible and reusable. It defines the column and the overall behaviors or
an object in a document library.
32Q) Why security matters in the documents management and storage?

Ans: Security is probably one of the major and in fact prime concerns. The users
have to make sure of it always. Without security, there are strong chances of
information leak. This can affect the sales as future plans can be adopted by other
competitive businesses upon information leak. Security always makes sure that
documents remains safe and the information cannot be accessed by anyone who is not
authorized to do so. Also, the security of documents simply enables users to access
them anytime from any remote location.
33Q) What are the 3 editions of SharePoint 2010

Ans: There are 3 editions for SharePoint 2010

1.Foundation

2.Server Standard

3.Server Enterprise

SharePoint Foundation is a freed edition having document management and

collaboration features.

SharePoint server standard is built on top of SharePoint Foundation and involves

business level functionalities.

SharePoint server enterprise is built on top of server standard and targets large
enterprises.
34Q) What are the advantages of using SharePoint?

Ans: SharePoint provides skill, cost & time advantages. For IT professionals,
SharePoint provides development of web sites, lists & libraries. There is lot of
flexibility in customization and security aspects. In forms management side
SharePoint supports InfoPath. Thus the skill of IT Professional can be used instead
of a developer.

For developers, SharePoint provides extensibility through programming. Creation of

web parts for user interfaces, integration of Logic through workflows in some of
the aspect where SharePoint infrastructure supports rapid application development.

In the time & cost advantage side, for example a CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete)
form in ASP.NET takes 8 hours to produce & deploy, the same can be done in
SharePoint within 5 minutes.
35Q) What is the Document Management Features of SharePoint 2010?

Ans:

Document management features of SharePoint 2010 is follows

1.Document Storage

2.Document Versioning

3. Document Check-in / Check out

4.Client-Side Integration

5.Document Set support

6.Document ID Integration

7.Co-Authoring

8.Content-Type Hub

9.MMS (Managed Metadata Service)

36Q) What are the Record Management features of SharePoint 2010?

Ans: The records management features are

1.Records Center & In-Place Records

2.Content-Type Organization

3.MMS (Managed Metadata Service)

4.Content Approval Policy

5.Record Hold Policy

6.Record Retention Policies

7.Notification Systems
8.Integrated Search

These features can be applied to Document Management too.

37Q) Can we install SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7?

Ans: yes. The SharePoint foundation version can be installed on client operating
systems like windows 7, windows 8 etc.

There are some restrictions like window 7 professional editions are required to
support the Authentication infrastructure of SharePoint 2010.

Installing on client operation system supports the development of components

against SharePoint 2010.
38Q) What are Cumulative Updates and why it is needed?

Ans: They are a periodic release of software updates for SharePoint. It contains
hot fixes and support issues being fixed since the last cumulative update release.

We need to install the latest cumulative update based on the SharePoint edition to
ensure the full functionality of SharePoint with hot fixes.
39Q) What are the Enterprise content Management features of SharePoint 2010?

Ans: Following are some of the few ECM features in SharePoint 2010:

1.Document Management

2.Records Management

3.Document ID Service

4.Co-Authoring

5.Approval workflows

6.Document workspace

7.Managed Metadata Service

8.Content-Type Hub
40Q) What are the Collaboration features of SharePoint 2010?

Ans: Following are some of the few collaboration features of SharePoint 2010:

1.Blogs

2.Wikis

3.Meeting Workspaces

4.Email & Messages

5.Document Tagging
41Q) How to create a new Site Collection in SharePoint

Ans: Following are the ways to create a new site collection:

1. Use Central Administration > Crate site collections link

2. Use Power Shell command

3. Use STASADM command

4. Use the Server object Model

42Q) What is STSADM?

Ans: STSADM is a command-line tool included with SharePoint 2010. It resides in the
14 HIVE > BIN folder.
43Q) How to create a new Site in SharePoint?

Ans: Use SharePoint user interface web application > Site Action > New Site link to
create a new site.
44Q) What is the Site Hierarchy Model in SharePoint?

Ans: Following is the Hierarchy Model:

1.Farm

2.Web Application

3.Site Collection

4.Web Site

5.Library / List

Basic Intro SharePoint Architecture Interview Questions

45Q) What are Web Applications in SharePoint?

Ans: IIS Web site created and used by SharePoint 2010. Saying an IIS virtual
server is also an acceptable answer.
46Q) What is an application pool?

Ans: a group of one or more URLs that are served by a particular worker process or
set of worker processes.
47Q) Why are application pools important?

Ans: They provide a way for multiple sites to run on the same server but still have
their own worker processes and identity.
48Q) What are zones?

Ans: Different logical paths (URLs meaning) of gaining access to the same
SharePoint Web application.
49Q) What are Web Application Policies?

Ans: Enables security policy for users at the Web application level, rather than at
the site collection or site level. Importantly, they override all other security
settings.
50Q) What is a site collection?

Ans: A site collection contains a top-level website and can contain one or more
subsites web sites that have the same owner and share administration settings.
51Q) What are content databases?

Ans: A content database can hold all the content for one or more site collections.
52Q) What is a site?
Ans: A site in SharePoint contains Web pages and related assets such as lists, all
hosted within a site collection.
53Q) What is the difference between Classic mode authentication and Claims-based
authentication?

Ans: As the name implies, classic authentication supports NT authentication types

like Kerberos, NTLM, Basic, Digest, and anonymous. Claims based authentication uses
claims identities against a trusted identity provider.
54Q) When would you use claims, and when would you use classic?

Ans: Classic is more commonly seen in upgraded 2007 environments whereas claims are
the recommended path for new deployments.
55Q) Describe the potential components for both a single server and multiple
servers, potentially several tiered farms

Ans: A single-server SharePoint Server 2010 environment leverages a built-in SQL

Server 2008 Express database. The problems with this environment is scalability,
not being able to install the with built-in database on a domain controller, the
database cannot be larger than 4 GB, and you cannot use User Profile
Synchronization in a single server with built-in database installation.

An example of a multiple tier farm would be a three-tier topology, considered one

of the more efficient physical and logical layouts to supports scaling out or
scaling up and provides better distribution of services across the member servers
of the farm. This is considered a good architecture since one can add Web servers
to the Web tier, add app servers to the application tier, and add database servers
to the database tier.
SharePoint Backup and Restore Interview Questions
56Q) What are some of the tools that can be used when backing up a SharePoint 2010
environment?
Ans:

1.SharePoint farm backup and recovery

2.SQL Server

3.System Center Data Protection Manager

57Q) What Microsoft tool can be used for incremental backups?

Ans: System Center Data Protection Manager

Managed Metadata Questions

58Q) What is Managed Metadata?

Ans: Managed metadata is a hierarchical collection of centrally managed terms that

you can define, and then use as attributes for items.
59Q) What are Terms and Term Sets?

Ans: A term is a word or a phrase that can be associated with an item. A term set
is a collection of related terms.
60Q) How do Terms and Term Sets relate to Managed Metadata?

Ans: Managed metadata is a way of referring to the fact that terms and term sets
can be created and managed independently from the columns themselves.
61Q) Are there different types of Term Sets?

Ans: There are Local Term Sets and Global Term Sets, one created within the context
of a site collection and the other created outside the context of a site
collection, respectively.
62Q) How are terms created and used?

Ans: There are several ways; however the most common is to use the Term Store
Management Tool.
63Q) How is Managed Metadata, and the related Term technology used?

Ans: Through the UI, the most common use is through the managed metadata list
column which allows you to specify the term set to use. It also related to
searching and enhancing the user search experience.

Sharepoint Sandbox Solutions Interview Questions

64Q) What is a sandboxed solution?

Ans: Components that are deployed to run within the sandboxed process rather than
running in the production of Internet Information Services (IIS) worker process.
65Q) What are some examples of things that might run within the SharePoint sandbox?

Ans: Web Parts Event receivers Feature receivers Custom Microsoft SharePoint
Designer workflow activities Microsoft InfoPath business logic
66Q) Why are sandboxed solutions used?

Ans: Primarily because they promote high layers of isolation. By default, they run
within a rights-restricted, isolated process based around Code Access Security
(CAS). Isolation is possible to increase with activities like running the
sandboxing service on only specific SharePoint 2010 servers.
67Q) What is a content source in relation to SharePoint search? What’s the minimum
amount of content sources?

Ans: content source is a set of options that you can use to specify what type of
content is crawled, what URLs to crawl, and how deep and when to crawl. You must
create at least one content source before a crawl can occur.
68Q) What is a search scope?

Ans: search scope defines a subset of information in the search index. Users can
select a search scope when performing a search.
69Q) What is a federated location with SharePoint search?

Ans: Federated locations provide information that exists outside of your internal
network to your end-users.
70Q) How does managed metadata affect search?

Ans: Enhances the end-user search experience by mapping crawled properties to

managed properties. Managed properties show up in search results and help users
perform more successful queries.
71Q) What is query logging in SharePoint 2010?

Ans: Collects information about user search queries and search results that users
select on their computers to improve the relevancy of search results and to improve
query suggestions.
72Q) What authentication type does the SharePoint crawler use?

Ans: The crawl component requires access to content using NTLM authentication.
73Q) Please describe what a Service Application is in SharePoint 2010.

Ans: Service applications in SharePoint 2010 are a set of services that can
possibly be shared across Web applications. Some of these services may or may not
be shared across the SharePoint 2010 farm. The reason these applications are shared
is the overall reduction of resources required to supply the functionality these
services cultivate.
74Q) What are Service Application Groups used for?

Ans: Just provides a logical grouping of services that are scoped to a particular
Web Application.
75Q) How are Service Applications deployed in terms of IIS (Internet Information
Services)?

Ans: They are provisioned as a single Internet Information Services (IIS) Web site.
76Q) Explain how connections are managed with Service Applications.

Ans: virtual entity is used that is referred to as a proxy, due to label in

PowerShell.
77Q) What are some common examples of SharePoint 2010 services architectures, and
what are the advantages of each design?

Ans: The three most popular designs are single farms with either a single service
application group or multiple service application groups, or Enterprise services
farms.

Single farms with a single service application group are generally the most common,
and have the advantages of easy deployment, simple service application allocation,
effective resource utilization and cohesive management.

Single farms with multiple service application groups is less common, and have the
advantage of potential individual management of service applications as well as
allowing data isolation, and while being more complex to deploy and maintain allows
targeting of sites to particular service applications.

Enterprise Service Farms is pretty uncommon as it is a complete farm dedicated to

Service Applications but promotes autonomous management and high levels of data
isolation.
78Q) Is there any other type of relevant service architectures?

Ans: Depending on the environment requirements, a specialized farm can also be used
in order to deploy specific services tailored to the organizational requirements
which can aid in scaling out and conservation of resources.
79Q) What is the User Profile service?

Ans: Allows configuring and managing User profile properties, Audiences, Profile
synchronization settings, organization browsing and management settings, and My
Site settings.

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80Q) What are User Profiles?

Ans: Aggregates properties from diverse identity content sources together to create
unified and consistent profiles across an organization, used throughout the
SharePoint environment.
81Q) What is Excel Services?

Ans: Allows sharing, securing, managing, and using Excel 2010 workbooks in a
SharePoint Server Web site or document library. Excel Services consists of the
Excel Calculation Services (ECS), Microsoft Excel Web Access (EWA), and Excel Web
Services (EWS) components.
82Q) What is PerformancePoint Services?
Ans: Allows users to monitor and analyze a business by building dashboards,
scorecards, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
83Q) What is Visio Services?

Ans: Allows users to share and view Microsoft Visio Web drawings. The service also
enables data-connected Microsoft Visio 2010 Web drawings to be refreshed and
updated from various data sources.
84Q) What is Access Services?

Ans: Allows users to edit, update, and create linked Microsoft Access 2010
databases that can be viewed and manipulated by using an internet browser, the
Access client, or a linked HTML page.
85Q) What is the Secure Store Service (SSS)?

Ans: A secure database for storing credentials that are associated with application
IDs
86Q) What is Content Deployment?

Ans: Content deployment enables you to copy content from a source site collection
to a destination site collection.
Backup/DR Questions
87Q) Describe how redundancy can be built into a SharePoint environment. Please be
specific in regards to any auxiliary components.

Ans: Multiple front-end web servers (WFE’s) can be deployed and correlated through
Windows NLB or anything approach. Application servers can be deployed into the farm
for a variety of purposes, depending on organizational requirements. Databases can
be clustered or mirrored, again depending on requirements and environment.
88Q) From a basic standpoint, what is the difference between SQL clustering and
mirroring?

Ans: Clustering provides a failover scenario whereby one or more nodes can be
swapped as active depending on whether a node goes down. In mirroring, transactions
are sent directly from a principal database and server to a mirror database to
establish essentially a replica of the database.
Sharepoint Governance Interview Questions
89Q) What Is Governance in terms of SharePoint 2010?

Ans: Governance is the set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that
guide, direct, and control how an organization’s business divisions and IT teams
cooperate to achieve business goals.
90Q) What are some useful, OOB features of SharePoint that aid with the governance
of an environment?

Ans: Any of the below are acceptable answers. There are some others but these are
the major ones that I generally look for from a candidate:

Site templates – consistent branding, site structure, and layout can be enforce a
set of customizations that are applied to a site definition.

Quotas – limits to the amount of storage a site collection can use.

Locks – prevent users from either adding content to a site collection or using the
site collection.

Web application permissions and policies – comprehensive security settings that

apply to all users and groups for all site collections within a Web application.

Self-service site creation – enables users to create their own site collections,
thus must be incorporated into a governance scheme.
Monitoring Questions
91Q) Describe the monitoring features that are baked into SharePoint 2010.

Ans: Diagnostic logging captures data about the state of the system, whereas health
and usage data collection uses specific timer jobs to perform monitoring tasks,
collecting information about:

1.Performance Counter Data

2.Event Log Data

3.Timer Service Data

4.Metrics For Site Collections and Sites

5.Search Usage Data

92Q) What is a declarative workflow? Can non-authenticated users participate in
workflows?

Ans: Workflows that are created by Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010, the default
setting enable deployment of declarative workflows. Yes, however you do not give
non-authorized users access to the site. The e-mail message and attachments sent
from notifications might contain sensitive information.
93Q) What do you mean by MOSS?

Ans:

1.MOSS stands for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

2. It is the complete version of a portal-based platform for collaboratively

creating, managing and sharing documents and Web services.

Q) Explain the following: a.) SPSite b.) SPWeb

Ans:

a.) SPSite –

i) It is a site collection and an be represented as SPSite class in the object

model.

ii) SPSite object is a primary entry points to the server object model.

iii) It is used frequently in SharePoint application development.

b.) SPWeb –

i) It is a specific site under site collection in Sharepoint.

ii) It is represented as SPWeb class in the server object model.

94Q) What are the various classes in the Server Object Model from a development
point of view?

Ans: Following are the classes in Server Object Model from the development point of
view:

1.SPFarm
2.SPWebApplication

3.SPSite

4.SPWeb

5.SPList

6.SPListItem

7.SPDocumentLibrary
95Q) Which class is used to retrieve data from multiple lists?

Ans:

1.SPSiteDataQuery class is used to retrieve data from multiple lists.

2. It queries the data from multiple lists across different sites in a collection.

3. Usually, it is used in list aggregation, where list data from team sites or
other subsites is collated and presented in a single interface.

4. It aggregates the data from SharePoint lists only while ignoring data from
external lists.

Q) What do you mean by WSP?

Ans:

1.WSP stands for Web Solution Package. It is a cabinet file that contains
assemblies, resource files, features, images, application pages, site definitions
etc. into a single file.

2. Whenever any customization or up-gradation or updation is carried out in

SharePoint, various items like assemblies, resource files, features, images,
application pages, site definitions etc. are required to deploy.

3. It becomes difficult to deploy these items separately in development, staging

and production. This called for a powerful deployment tool in the form of WSP.
96Q) a) How is AllowUnsafeUpdates used?

Ans:

1.When a developer updates the content database without requiring a security

validation AllowUnsafeUpdates property is set to true.

2. One the operation is carried out, the property is again set to false .

b) What is CAML?

1.CAML – also called as Collaborative Application Markup Language is the custom XML
language in SharePoint.

2.It is used to define key objects such as lists, columns, and content types.

Q) Which is better – SPS or STS?

Ans:
Before we begin – let us see what do these two abbreviations stand for.

SPS means SharePoint Portal Services

STS means SharePoint Team Services

i) Document management system in SPS is better than STS.

ii) The search engine in SPS is better, more efficient and possesses the capability
to crawl multiple content sources in comparison to STS.

iii) If Document Management is not required, STS is easier to manage for team
environment while SPS is better for an organization where Document Management is
required.
97Q) What are the various zones in SharePoint?

Ans: Zones provide the separate logical paths of authentication for the same web
application. 5 zones can be created for each web application :

1.Default

2.Intranet

3.Extranet

4.Internet and

5.Custom
98Q) Explain Farm in SharePoint.

Ans:

1. The farm is a collection of SharePoint servers with same configuration database.

2. All the required information to run the farm is carried in Configuration DB.
There exists only one configuration database for each farm.

3. Central administration is used for the administration of each farm.

99Q) Explain WebApplication.

Ans:

1.WebApplication is an IIS website. The content-database is created for each web

application

2.WebApplication can be created from a central admin.

3. Once a web application is created, it can be extended to different zones.

100Q) Explain Content types in Sharepoint.

Ans:

1. A content type is a WSS type definition which is flexible and reusable.

2. It is used to define the columns and behaviour for an item in a list or a

document in a document library.

101Q) a) Differentiate between Library vs List.

Ans:

1. The library is used to store the document whereas Lists are the container of
similar items in the form of rows and columns.

2. Core documents like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint can be created using a Library
while you can not create a document in a List. The list can be used to attach a
document.

b) What do you mean by Field Control?

1. Field controls are ASP.NET 2.0 server controls. They provide basic field
functionality in SharePoint.

2. They also provide basic general functionality such as displaying or editing list
data as it appears on SharePoint list pages.
102Q) a) What are the various types of input forms that can be created for a
workflow?

Ans: Four tyes of input forms can be created for a workflow:

1.Association form

2.Initiation form

3.Modification form

4. Task edit form

b) Explain an ancestral type. How is it related to content types?

1. An ancestral type is the base type that the content typed is derived from.

2. It defines the metadata fields included with the custom content type.
103Q) Explain the Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server?

Ans:

1.SharePoint Portal Server is a portal server that connects people, teams, and
knowledge across business processes.

2. It integrates information from various systems into one secure solution through
single sign-on and enterprise application integration capabilities.

3. It provides flexible deployment and management tools, and facilitates end-to-end

collaboration through data aggregation, organization, and searching.

4. It enables users to quickly find relevant information through customization and

personalization of portal content and layout as well as through audience targeting.
104Q) Explain Module in Sharepoint

Ans:

1. A module is a file or collection of file instances which define the location

where the files are installed during site creation.

2. They are used to implement a Web Part Page in the site.

3. Modules can be defined by using a module element within a feature definition
file.