SharePoint Interview Question & Answers Q4

What is SharePoint?
1.    SharePoint is Microsofts enterprise information portal. It can be configured to run Intranet, Extranet and Internet sites.
2. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 allows people to connect and collaborate.
3. A SharePoint enterprise portal is composed of SharePoint Portal and Windows SharePoint Services.
4. SharePoint Server is designed medium to large company wide enterprise portal.

What is MOSS? Explain its features
What is MOSS? Explain its features - MOSS stands for Microsft Office Share Point Server. MOSS is a portal based
 platform for complete management of documents and web services......
Six Pillars of MOSS 2007
Six Pillars of MOSS 2007 - Six pillars of MOSS2007: Collaboration, Portal, Enterprise search, Web & Enterprise Content Management, Forms driven Business Process, Business Intelligence......
Architecture of MOSS
Architecture of MOSS - Architecture of MOSS: Office Sharepoint Server, Asp.Net Forms, Windows Sharepoint Services, Development tools....
Types of SharePoint Sites
Types of SharePoint Sites - Types of sharepoint sites: Wiki: This is usually where everyone is allowed to add/change content for a common knowledgebase.......
Sharepoint master pages and its features
Sharepoint master pages and its features - Master pages provide a base look and feel and standard behaviors that are needed
 for all of the pages in your site........
Page layouts of MOSS
Page layouts of MOSS - Page layout defines the look and feel of a Web page. Content for the page is
 stored in fields on the page........
SharePoint has two ways to author content
SharePoint has two ways to author content - Ways to author content: Browser-based authoring: Content creators and editors work directly in the web browsers through MOSS based features like Page editing toolbar, HTML editor toolbar.......
What is SharePoint Workflow?
What is SharePoint Workflow? - Workflows are implementation of business processes allowing people to
 collaborate on documents through various project tasks assigned to individuals.......
How to implement workflow in SharePoint
How to implement workflow in SharePoint - Steps to implement workflows in MOSS: Add workflow to a document library, routing document to different people for approval......
What are the ways to initiate the workflow?
What are the ways to initiate the workflow? - Ways to initiate a workflow: Once a workflow has been linked to a document, one can start the workflow by selecting the workflow that you want from the list of workflows available for the document or item.......
Types of workflow supported, i.e. Sequential, State Machine
Types of workflow supported: Sequential: Sequential workflow as the name suggests simply depicts the fact that there is a collection of tasks which need be completed in a sequence one by one.......
Components that Workflow Architecture contains
Components of workflow architecture: One can create workflows using Visual Studio2010 workflow designer. Every single workflow is compiled into its own dll. One needs to create a Workflow definition (XML based) to use it in a farm.......
Types of input forms that can be created for a workflow
MOSS has the capability for a workflow participant to fill an initiation form to start a workflow. The initiation form can have fields that support:......
What are ways to create input forms for workflow?
MOSS has the capability for a workflow participant to fill an initiation form to
 start a workflow. The initiation form can have fields that support:......
Method activity and event activity in workflow
In Moss, a method activity is one that performs an action, e.g.:
 creating/updating a task.......
System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM)
DPM is designed for the Sharepoint Administrator using a variety of wizards and workflows to help ensure protection of data. It provides the following benefits in terms of MOSS:......
How does DPM for MOSS Work?
Data Protection Manager provides the ability to backup an entire sharepoint farm
 including the SQL Server databases, metadata, farm configuration files and
 indexes for federated search......
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites
MOSS : Content, information, and applications are meant to be used by internal people/employees........
Windows SharePoint Services Site
Sharepoint based websites can be configured to be password protected to restrict
 access to users.......
How can I make my site public?
To make a sharepoint website public, enable anonymous access for the entire
 site. One can then pass on the url for the website through emails etc and allow
 public users to access the sharepoint website....
Advanced features of MOSS 2007
Advanced features of MOSS 2007: My site personal site: Provides users an opportunity to aggregate information into “for me, by me, about me”.......
Content management in Office SharePoint 2007
MOSS provides enhanced document management including document authoring,
 business document processing, web content management and publishing, records
 management, policy management, and support for multilingual publishing.......
Features of the search component of MOSS 2007
The Sharepoint Team Services provides an efficient text based search capability
 to find documents and information.......
How is SharePoint Portal Server different from Site Server?
The Sharepoint Site Server has search capabilities which are more advanced using
 SharePoint. It uses digital dashboard technology......
How do the sub sites work in SharePoint?
Sharepoint Websites exist in a hierarchy. At the top of the hierarchy is a
 Top-Level website. There can then be multiple sub sites under this top-level
 website and sub sites under sub sites......
Differentiate between a site and a web
Differentiate between a site and a web - A collection of sites along with the top level site is known as a single site
 collection in Sharepoint. While creating a new Web Application......
What are Application Pages in SharePoint?
What are Application Pages in SharePoint? - One can create custom application pages to add GUI components in Sharepoint.
 Unlike site pages, an application page is deployed only once per Webserver.......
Which is Better a UserControl or WebPart?
Developers are already familiar with user controls which reduce the learning
 curve.......
Security methods(Authentication methods)
Classic-mode authentication methods, Claims-based authentication methods......
What is the WebPartManager sealed class?
The WebPartManager sealed class manages everything in context of a WebPart page,
 i.e. WebParts controls......
Role of AllowUnsafeUpdates
AllowUnsafeUpdates allows updates on a GET request. It basically allows code to
 bypass security validation.....
Role of RunWithElevatedPrivileges
RunWithElevatedPrivileges executes code as the System account. This basically
 then means that the code that you supply as a delegate to the method......
Role of SPWeb.EnsureUser method
SPWeb.EnsureUser method validates whether the specified login name belongs to a
 valid user of the website or not. If the login name does not exist then it adds
 the login name to the website........
Difference between SPSite and SPWeb object
The SPSite object represents a collection of sites, i.e. Site Collection, a top level site and all its sub sites......
Role of SPWebApplication object
The SPWebApplication class consists of various methods and properties to perform
 various manipulations on web applications....
SharePoint List items
Create a reference to the SharePoint Lists.asmx web service by appending
 “/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx” to the end of a site name. One can use this url to add a
 service reference in Visual studio there onwards. ......
What is CAML?
What is CAML? - It is an XML based language and provides data constructs used to build up the
 SharePoint fields and is also used for table definition......
What is impersonation?
What is impersonation? - Impersonation is the concept of providing functionality in the context of a
 different identity, for example letting a user access the system with anonymous
 access.......
What are WebPart properties?
What are WebPart properties? - WebPart properties are just like ASP.NET control properties, they are used to
 specify the characteristics of a webpart.....
What are ClassResources?
What are ClassResources? - ClassResources are defined in the SharePoint solution file. It is a helpful
 directory to use in order to deploy custom images......
What is a SharePoint Solution File?
What is a SharePoint Solution File? - A SharePoint solution file is compressed file that contains custom components.
 It is suffixed with a .wsp extension that aids in deployment. ......
What are event receivers?
What are event receivers? - Event receivers allow responding to events as they occur within SharePoint, such
 as adding an item or deleting an item......
When would you use an event receiver?
When would you use an event receiver? - Event receivers respond to events, thus used for something as canceling an
 action, e.g. deleting a document library by using the Cancel property......
Asynchronous and synchronous event receivers
Asynchronous and synchronous event receivers.....
Synchronous and Asynchronous events
Synchronous event are the ones in which the caller needs to pause to wait for a

 response. The fact that it waits for a response means that the call is a

 “blocking” call t

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