Sharepoint Interview Questions
1.What is SharePoint?
Microsoft SharePoint is an enterprise collaboration and content
management platform which enables users to connect each other and share
the information across an organization. Indirectly this solves the
problems in an organization to share the documents, security, business
process, maintaining data etc. SharePoint 2010 has rich UI and plenty of
features.
2.What is the Farm in SharePoint?
1. Farm is a collection of SharePoint servers having the same configuration database.
2. Configuration DB stores all the required information to run the farm.
3. Each farm is administered through a central administration
4. There is only one configuration database per farm
3. What do you mean by MOSS ?
- MOSS stands for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
- It is the complete version of a portal-based platform for
collaboratively creating, managing and sharing documents and Web
services.
4.Explain the following: a.) SPSite b.) SPWeb
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.
5.Explain Module in Sharepoint
- A module is a file or collection of file instances which define the
location where the files are installed during site creation.
- They are used to implement a Web Part Page in the site.
- Modules can be defined by using a module element within a feature definition file.
6.What are the advantages of SharePoint Portal Services (SPS) over SharePoint Team Services (STS)?
SharePoint Portal Services (SPS) has MUCH better document management. It
has check-in, check-out, versioning, approval, publishing,
subscriptions, categories, etc. STS does not have these features, or
they are very scaled back. SharePoint Portal Services (SPS) has a better
search engine, and can crawl multiple content sources. STS cannot. STS
is easier to manage and much better for a team environment where there
is not much Document Management going on. SPS is better for an
organization, or where Document Management is crucial.
7.What is CAML?
Ans. CAML stands for Collaborative Application Markup Language and is an
XML-based language that is used in Microsoft Windows SharePoint
Services to define sites and lists for E.g. fields, views, or forms etc.
Developers mostly use CAML to write Queries to retrieve data from
Lists\libraries.
8. What is Custom action?
Ans. Represents a link, toolbar button, menu item, or any control that
can be added to a toolbar or menu that appears in the UI. For e.g. “New
Folder” button in your document library is a custom action or “View All
Site Content” in your Site Settings is a custom action.
9.What are Master pages in SharePoint?
These are the pages that provide a consistent layout and appearance
(look and feel) for SharePoint sites. A master Page consist of a Site
logo, Top navigation, left navigation(some cases) and a footer. In
SharePoint Master Pages are stored in _catalogs folder or Master Page
Gallery from UI.
10.What are the various zones in SharePoint?
- Zones provide the separate logical paths of authentication for the same web application.
- 5 zones can be created for each web application :
a. Default
b. Intranet
c. Extranet
d. Internet and
e. Custom
11.What is LINQ. How is it used in Sharepoint ?
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. It is commonly used to query objects collections, XML
and SQL server data sources.
The LINQ to SharePoint Provider is defined in the
Microsoft.SharePoint.Linq namespace. It translates LINQ queries into
Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) queries.
12.Difference between SharePoint designer workflows and custom workflows?
1. Only sequential workflows can be created in SharePoint Designer;
state machine workflows cannot be created in SharePoint Designer.
2. Deployment and moving is easy in custom workflows when compared to SharePoint designer workflows.
3. Visual Studio can have code-behind.
4. Visual Studio generates a workflow template which can be easily be
deployed, SharePoint Designer workflows are typically built against
specific lists and sites.
5. Visual Studio allows for debugging!!
13.What is sharepoint crawl?
Crawling has to do with making the contents of pages/uploaded documents
available in SharePoint’s search. the administrator can decide the
content to be included in the search. Along with it, it also provides
way to decide the order of results in search. Like according to the
number of hits, the search order changes automatically.
SharePoint Console allows you to crawl and index items from a Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) or Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)
site or site collection. It also allows you to crawl a list of MOSS or
WSS sites specified by an RSS feed. Crawling SharePoint items into your
portal requires the configuration of a content source, a crawler, and a
job. Depending on your needs, more than one content source and/or
crawlers may need to be created
14.What is a content source in relation to SharePoint search? What’s the minimum amount of content sources?
A 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
15. What are Service Application Groups used for?
Just provides a logical grouping of services that are scoped to a particular Web Application.
16. How are Service Applications deployed in terms of IIS (Internet Information Services)?
They are provisioned as a single Internet Information Services (IIS) Web site.
17. Explain how connections are managed with Service Applications.
A virtual entity is used that is referred to as a proxy, due to label in PowerShell.
18. What are some common examples of SharePoint 2010 services architectures, and what are the advantages of each design?
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.
19.What is Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server?
SharePoint Portal Server is a portal server that connects people, teams,
and knowledge across business processes. SharePoint Portal Server
integrates information from various systems into one secure solution
through single sign-on and enterprise application integration
capabilities. It provides flexible deployment and management tools, and
facilitates end-to-end collaboration through data a
ggregation, organization, and searching. SharePoint Portal Server also
enables users to quickly find relevant information through customization
and personalizati
on of portal content and layout as well as through audience targeting.
20.What is Microsoft Windows Services?
Microsoft Windows Services is the engine that allows administrators to
create Web sites for information sharing and document
collaboration.Windows SharePoint Services provides additional
functionality to the Microsoft Office System and other desktop
applications, as well as serving as a plat form for application
development. SharePoint
sites provide communities for team collaboration, enabling users to work
together on documents, tasks, and projects. The environment foreasy and
flexible deployment,
administration, and application development.
