Sharepoint Interview Questions and Answers

Answer - 101 : - Four tyes of input forms can be created for a workflow: 1. Association form 2. Initiation form 3. Modification form 4. Task edit form

Answer - 102 : - An ancestral type is the base type that the content typed is derived from.  It defines the metadata fields included with the custom content type.

Answer - 103 : - SharePoint Portal Server is a portal server that connects people, teams, and knowledge across business processes. It 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 aggregation, organization, and searching. It enables users to quickly find relevant information through customization and personalization of portal content and layout as well as through audience targeting.

Answer - 104 : - a.) Custom action. - It Represents a link, toolbar button, menu item, or any control that can be added to a toolbar or menu appearing in the UI. - Custom actions are defined through a custom action element within a feature definition file. Custom actions can be bound to a list type, content type, file type, or programmatic identifier (ProgID). b.) Event receiver. - Event receivers can be defined by using a receiver element within a feature definition file. - They evaluate an event and define the behavior of an application.

Answer - 105 : - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a collaborative enterprise portal that is built upon WSS 3.0. MOSS 2007 allows people, teams and expertise to connect and collaborate. Unlike WSS, SharePoint Server is not free and requires an additional license. MOSS 2007 comes in two versions – Standard and Enterprise. The main components of SharePoint 2007 are collaboration, portals, enterprise search, enterprise content management, business process and forms, and business intelligence.

Answer - 106 : - It becomes difficult to keep a track of the large amount of documents with the growth of companies. SharePoint lets these be stored centrally. So instead of having them shared via emails, Sharepoint allows an easy access to the members by storing the files at one place. SharePoint allows anyone to create sites for use within their company’s Intranet

Answer - 107 : - Authentication SharePoint can run under various IIS modes to authenticate its users. The modes include: Anonymous, Basic, Integrated Windows or Certificates Authentication (over SSL). Authorization SharePoint security facilitates the regulation of access privileges of users and groups as well. Impersonation .NET Impersonation which is utilized by SharePoint allows an application to run under the context of the client accessing an application. Deployment and Code Access Security .NET Code Access Security (CAS) provides a security model. It can restrict the operations that can be performed as well as the resources that can be accessed by managed code.

Answer - 108 : - Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is the platform on which all SharePoint Products and Technologies are built. It is suitable for small teams, projects and organizations. WSS’s project collaboration, document workspace, meeting sub-site, and discussion board features allow individuals and small teams to collaborate and share information online. New features in WSS 3.0 include - integrated workflows, - RSS feeds, - blogs, - wikis and - ASP-style Web parts.

Answer - 109 : - SharePoint sites consist of numerous Web pages, just like an ASP.NET 2.0 application. When a site is created, these pages are created as instances in the content database. The instances refer to the actual file on the file system.

Answer - 110 : - SOA is an IT architecture strategy for business solution (and infrastructure solution) delivery based on the concept of service-orientation. It is a set of components which can be invoked, and whose interface descriptions can be published and discovered. It aims at building systems that are extendible, flexible and fit with legacy systems. It promotes the re-use of basic components called services.