Q 1.What is SharePoint?

Answer : 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 20 0 has rich !I and plenty of features. Q 2. What are the types of input forms that can be created for a workflow ? Answer : "ou can create four different types of input forms including . #n association form 2. #n initiation form $. # modification form %. # tas& edit form. Q . What is !"SS ? Answer : Microsoft 'ffice SharePoint Server (M'SS) is the full version of a portal*based platform for collaboratively creating, managing and sharing documents and +eb services. In M'SS additional feature add that can not in +SS $.0. Q #. What is a site collection in SharePoint? Answer : . # site collection is a set of web sites. 2. 2. ,very site collection has top*level site, created when the site collection is created. $. -here might be multiple site collections in web application and each site collection may have a multiple child sites. Q $. What is WSP %Web solution packa&e'? Answer : +hen developer does any customization or enhancement in SharePoint, then there are many items that need to be deployed li&e assemblies, resource files, features, images, application pages, site definitions etc. It will be a very tedious tas& to deploy these items separately on development, staging and production. So SharePoint introduced a solution pac&age which is powerful deployment tool. +eb solution pac&age is a cabinet file that contains assemblies, resource files, features, images, application pages, site definitions etc. into single file. (ote: # solution pac&age is stored as a cabinet (.#/) file, with the file e0tension .wsp. -his file contains all the files to be deployed. If you rename the file e0tension to .cab, you can open the solution and e0plore its content .It can be deployed using the command*line tool stsadm or PowerShell cmdlets. Q ). *ow will you set up a Platform for +estin& SharePoint WebParts? #nswer1 +e would need to install 1 . +SS $.0 2. Microsoft 'ffice SharePoint Server 2002 installed. $. +indows Server 200$ or 2003. %. 4isual Studio 2005 or 2003.

Q ,. What are the -arious .ones in SharePoint? Answer : * 6ones provide the separate logical paths of authentication for the same web application. * 5 zones can be created for each web application 1 a. 7efault b. Intranet c. ,0tranet d. Internet and e. .ustom Q /. Whats is SharePoint site collection? Answer : # collection of SharePoint sites that share common administration pages and site settings. Site collections allow you to share content types, site columns, templates, and +eb Parts within a group of SharePoint sites. Q 0.What is 1usiness 2ata 3atalo& or 123 ? Answer : It is a shared service that enables 'ffice SharePoint Server 2002 to display business data from various bac&*end servers into a SharePoint page. /usiness 7ata .atalog or /7. provides built*in support for displaying data with various webparts and list8list columns that can help in easy creation of dashboards with data from your S9:, web services, S#P, Siebel, or any other line*of*business (:'/) applications. Q 14. What is a 5ield 3ontrol? Answer : ;ield controls are simple #SP.<,- 2.0 server controls that provide the basic field functionality of SharePoint. -hey provide basic general functionality such as displaying or editing list data as it appears on SharePoint list pages. Q 11. What are the !ethods of 1ackup and 6eco-ery in SharePoint 2414? Answer : Microsoft SharePoint Server 20 0 provides a broad range of levels for performing bac&ups, including the entire farm, farm configuration information, site collections, subsites, or lists. SharePoint Server 20 0 uses two different tools to configure bac&up and recovery. . .entral #dministration 1 .entral #dministration provides a user interface where SharePoint #dministrators will be prompted via menu structures to select the information that needs to be bac&ed up. (see the Image below) 2. +indows PowerShell 1 +indows PowerShell is a command line tool that provides SharePoint administrators a way to perform bac&up and recovery with additional options such as file compression or wor&ing with S9: snapshots. Q 12.What are Application Pa&es in SharePoint? Answer : !nli&e site pages (for e0ample, default.asp0), a custom application page is deployed once per +eb server and cannot be customized on a site*by*site basis. #pplication pages are based in the virtual =layouts directory. In addition, they are compiled into a single assembly 7::.

# good e0ample of an #pplication Page is the default Site Settings page1 every site has one, and it>s not customizable on a per site basis (although the contents can be different for sites). +ith application pages, you can also add inline code. +ith site pages, you cannot add inline code. Q 1 .What is 3A!7? Answer : .#M: stands for .ollaborative #pplication Mar&up :anguage and is an ?M:*based languagethat is used in Microsoft +indows SharePoint Services to define sites and lists, including, for ,g, fields, views, or forms, but .#M: is also used to define tables in the +indows SharePoint Servies database during site provisioning. 7evelopers mostly use .#M: 9ueries to retrieve data from :ists8libraries. Q 1#. Whats (ew with SPAlerts in SharePoint 2414? Answer : In SharePoint 2002, alerts were send only through e*mails, but in SharePoint 20 0 users can also send an alert to mobile devices as SMS Message. # <ew property 7elivery.hannels is introduced to indicate, whether the alert is delivered as ,*mail or as an SMS Message. Q 1$. What is the difference between a Site 2efinition and a Site +emplate? Answer : Site 7efinitions are stored on the hard drive of the SharePoint front end servers. -hey are used by the SharePoint application to generate the sites users can create. Site -emplates are created by users as a copy of a site they have configured and modified so that they do not have to recreate lists, libraries, views and columns every time they need a new instance of a site. Q 1).*ow to 89port a Site or 7ist in SharePoint 2414? Answer : SharePoint Server 20 0 provides several new features that provide a granular level of bac&up for various components of site content. -his includes content at the site, subsite, and list level. -hrough .entral #dministration(@ranular level /ac&*up) a SharePoint #dministrator can configure a bac&up of a subsite or list. #n #dministrator can choose a site and a specific list to be e0ported.-he administrators can also choose to e0port security and select the different versions that will be e0ported with the list. Q 1,.What is 7:(Q. *ow is it used in Sharepoint ? Answer : :I<9 is a feature of the programming languages .A $.0 and 4isual /asic .<,-. :I<9 allows you to Buery in an obCect*oriented way, supports compile*time chec&, gives you intellisense support in 4isual Studio and defines a unified, S9: li&e synta0 to Buery any data source. /ut unli&e other languages and Buery synta0es which vary from one type of data source to another, :I<9 can be used to Buery, in principle, any data source whatsoever. It is commonly used to Buery obCects collections, ?M: and S9: server data sources. -he :I<9 to SharePoint Provider is defined in the Microsoft.SharePoint.:inB namespace. It translates :I<9 Bueries into .ollaborative #pplication Mar&up :anguage (.#M:) Bueries.

Q 1/.What is claims based authentication ? Answer : .laims is a new authentication method that SharePoint 20 0 can utilize. -his allows a single authentication store for multiple types of authentication (+indows <-:M, S9: ;/#, :7#P, etc) which allows all of these types of authentication to access SharePoint under a single !D:. .laims creates a S#M: to&en based on the sign*in, that contains the user>s identity. Q 10.*ow will you deploy files such as 3ss; <s in SharePoint 2414? Answer : -he most preferable way to deploy files in SharePoint is by using the solution pac&age. In SharePoint 20 0 you can create an empty proCect with 4S 20 0 and then add a new SharePoint Mapped folder in it. -his will give the desired location in % hive where you can then add a file to deploy. Q 24. What are Parallel and Serial actions ? Answer : +hen you have more than one action associated with a condition, the actions can be set up to run at the same time (parallel) or one after another (serial), the default. Q 21. When should you dispose SPWeb and SPSite ob<ects? And e-en more important; when not? Answer : "ou should always dispose them if you created them yourself, but not otherwise. "ou should never dispose SP.onte0t..urrent.+ebESite and you should normally not dispose SP+eb if IsDoot+eb is true. More tric&y constructs are things along the line of SP:ist.Parent+eb. Q 22.What security le-els are assi&ned to users? #nswer 1 Security levels are assigned by the administrator who is adding the user. -here are four levels by default and additional levels can be composed as necessary. FDeader G Has read*only access to the +eb site. F.ontributor G .an add content to e0isting document libraries and lists. F +eb 7esigner G .an create lists and document libraries and customize pages in the +eb site. F #dministrator G Has full control of the +eb site. Q 2 .What does a SPWebApplication ob<ect represent? Answer : -he SP+eb#pplication obCects represents a SharePoint +eb #pplication, which essentially is an IIS virtual server. !sing the class you can instigate high level operations, such as getting all the features of an entire +eb #pplication instance, or doing high level creation operations li&e creating new +eb #pplications through code.

Q 2#. 2ifference between SharePoint desi&ner workflows and custom workflows? Answer : . 'nly seBuential wor&flows can be created in SharePoint 7esignerI state machine wor&flows cannot be created in SharePoint 7esigner. 2. 7eployment and moving is easy in custom wor&flows when compared to SharePoint designer wor&flows. $. 4isual Studio can have code*behind. %. 4isual Studio generates a wor&flow template which can be easily be deployed, SharePoint 7esigner wor&flows are typically built against specific lists and sites. 5. 4isual Studio allows for debuggingJJ Q 2$. What is Windows Powershell? Answer : +indows PowerShell is Microsoft>s tas& automation framewor&, consisting of a command*line shell and associated scripting language built on top of, and integrated with the .<,- ;ramewor&. PowerShell provides full access to .'M and +MI, enabling administrators to perform administrative tas&s on both local and remote +indows systems.