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Contents
Abstract 1
SharePoint Interview Questions ............................................................................................................... 2
1. What is SharePoint? .................................................................................................................... 2
2. What are Features of SharePoint? .......................................................................................... 2
3. Explain a SharePoint site? ......................................................................................................... 3
4. What is SharePoint site collection? ........................................................................................ 3
5. What is SharePoint Web Farm? .............................................................................................. 3
6. What is a Feature? ....................................................................................................................... 3
7. What is a Master page? ............................................................................................................. 3
8. What is a Content type? ............................................................................................................ 4
9. What is a Solution? ...................................................................................................................... 4
10. What is a Theme?. ........................................................................................................................ 5
11. What is the GAC? ......................................................................................................................... 5
12. How can you get a reference to a site? .............................................................................. 5
13. How do you connect (reference) to a SharePoint list, and how do you insert a
new List Item? ........................................................................................................................... 6
14. How would you loop using SP List through all SharePont List items, assuming
you know the name (in a string value) of the list you want to iterate through,
and already have all the site code written? .................................................................... 6
15. Some general terms and their definitions .......................................................................... 6
16. What is List? ................................................................................................................................... 7
17. What is Document Library? ...................................................................................................... 8
18. What is Picture library? .............................................................................................................. 8


19. What is Check-out? ..................................................................................................................... 8
20. What is Check-in? ........................................................................................................................ 8
21. What is Versioning? ..................................................................................................................... 8
22. What is Site Columns? ................................................................................................................ 8
23. What is Rating? ............................................................................................................................. 9
24. What is Audience targeting? .................................................................................................... 9
25. What are Views? ........................................................................................................................... 9
26. What are the various types of Views? ................................................................................... 9
27. What is Task list? ........................................................................................................................ 10
28. What is Document Set? ........................................................................................................... 10
29. What is Drop-Off Library? ....................................................................................................... 10
30. What is Routing Rules List? .................................................................................................... 10
31. What is Blogs? ............................................................................................................................. 11
32. What is Enterprise Wiki? .......................................................................................................... 11
33. What is Tagging? ........................................................................................................................ 11
34. What is Recent Activity? .......................................................................................................... 11
35. What is Survey? ........................................................................................................................... 11
36. What is My Site? ......................................................................................................................... 11
37. What is enterprise Metadata Management? ................................................................... 12
38. What is Web part? ..................................................................................................................... 12
39. What is RSS Viewer? .................................................................................................................. 13
40. What is a Record Center? ........................................................................................................ 13
41. What is Document Center?..................................................................................................... 13
42. What is Digital Asset Management? ................................................................................... 13
43. What is Social Networking? .................................................................................................... 13
44. What is a Recycle Bin in SharePoint? .................................................................................. 13


45. What is Publishing feature? .................................................................................................... 14
46. What is Branding? ...................................................................................................................... 14
47. What are Content pages? ....................................................................................................... 14
48. What is Page Layout? ............................................................................................................... 14
49. What is Navigation in SharePoint 2010? ........................................................................... 14
50. What are the various options for Navigation available in SharePoint 2010? ....... 15
51. What is Ribbon interface? ....................................................................................................... 15
52. What is a workflow? .................................................................................................................. 16
53. Explain .Net Workflow and SharePoint workflow? ......................................................... 16
54. What is Single sign-on? ........................................................................................................... 16
55. What is ULS Logging?............................................................................................................... 16
56. What does RunWithElevatedPrivileges do? ...................................................................... 16
57. What is the difference between method activity and event activity in Work
Flow? .......................................................................................................................................... 17
58. What does SPWeb.EnsureUser method do? .................................................................... 17
59. How to query from multiple lists? ........................................................................................ 18
60. How Does SharePoint work? .................................................................................................. 18
61. What is the difference between Syncronous & Asyncronous events? ................... 18
62. What is ServerUpdate() ? ......................................................................................................... 18
63. How to work with large list in SharePoint? ....................................................................... 18
64. How can you force SPQuery to return results from all the folders of the list? .... 19
65. What is query?ViewAttributes / ............................................................................................ 19
66. What is List View Threshold? ................................................................................................. 19
67. How to override List throttling using object model? .................................................... 19
68. Difference between Close() and Dispose() Method....................................................... 19
69. What is the use of Form Digest control? ....................................................................... 20


70. What is the structure of the InfoPath form data? .......................................................... 20
71. How to debug InfoPath 2010 WebForm? ......................................................................... 20
72. Use of InfoPath form Web part? ........................................................................................... 20
73. What are the types of input forms that can be created for a workflow? ............... 21
74. What is a sandbox solution .................................................................................................... 21
75. What is the use of Sandbox Solution?................................................................................ 21
76. What all SharePoint item types supported by Sandbox Solutions? ........................ 21
77. How to monitor Sandbox solution ...................................................................................... 22
78. What is Service Application module in SharePoint ....................................................... 22
79. What is the limitation and advantages of SSP and Service Applications? ............ 23
80. What is Enterprise Metadata Management? .................................................................... 23
81. What Changes are made in SharePoint 2010 to enforce Referential Integrity? . 24
82. Where can I use InfoPath? ...................................................................................................... 24
83. Core Advantage of using InfoPath ...................................................................................... 24
84. What are the elements we can apply workflow? ............................................................ 24
85. What are the ways to initiate the workflow? .................................................................... 25
86. What are ways to create input forms for workflow? ..................................................... 25
87. What is the difference between method activity and event activity in Workflow?
25
88. How Does SharePoint work? .................................................................................................. 25
89. What is ServerUpdate() ............................................................................................................ 25
90. How can you force SPQuery to return results from all the folders of the list? .... 25
91. What are the service applications that have its own database in SharePoint 2013
26
92. Which are the service applications that should run in Web front end and
application servers? ........................................................................................................................... 26
93. What are the core capabilities of SharePoint 2013 ....................................................... 26


94. What is Apps for SharePoint 2013? What is the different type associated with
the same ................................................................................................................................................ 27
95. What is the change associated with new Visual Web Part in SharePoint 2013? 28
96. What is TilesViewWebPart in SharePoint 2013? ............................................................. 28
97. How we can you Create & Deploy Sandbox Solutions in SharePoint 2013? ....... 29
98. How we can force a Solution to be deployed to 15 Hive and not 14 Hive? ........ 29
99. Is it possible to deploy Master Page and Custom Css from SharePoint 2010 in
SharePoint 2013? ............................................................................................................................... 29
100. Is it possible to use fabulous 40 templates in SharePoint 2013?.......................... 29
101. Do we have any support for PDF in SharePoint 2013 ............................................... 29
102. Do you have any idea about Digital Content types? ............................................. 30
103. What are the types of players that we can used to play SharePoint 2013 Video
files? 30
104. Can we embed Video from external sites like YouTube in SharePoint 2013 .... 30
105. Do you have any idea about Cross-Site Publishing? ................................................. 30
106. Is Sharepoint 2013 have better performance compared to earlier versions? If
so how? .................................................................................................................................................. 30
107. What is Distributed Cache Service? ................................................................................. 31
108. What is Shredded Storage? ................................................................................................ 31
109. What does the e Analytics Processing Component in SharePoint 2013? .......... 31
110. What are Device Channels in SharePoint 2013? ......................................................... 32
111. What are the ways an app communicate with SharePoint? ................................... 32
112. What are the options available to publish an app? ................................................... 32
113. What is meant by OData in SharePoint 2013............................................................... 32
114. What is the use of OData? .................................................................................................. 32
115. What is an OData producer, and some examples? .................................................... 33
116. What is the use of OAuth in SharePoint 2013? ........................................................... 33


117. What is a workflow stage shape in SharePoint Designer 2013? ........................... 33
118. What is the Machine Translation Service? ..................................................................... 34
119. What is PowerPoint Automation Services? ................................................................... 34
120. How can you add a HTML Master Page & Css with Design Manager
SharePoint 2013 ................................................................................................................................. 35
121. What are the three user authentication methods that SharePoint 2013
supports? ............................................................................................................................................... 35
122. Which one is the most recommended method .......................................................... 35
123. What types of authentication does Business Connectivity Services support? . 36
124. What Is An Event Listener in SharePoint 2013? What is the use of it? ............... 36
125. What are the new improvements in Excel Services in SharePoint 2013? ........... 36
126. What are Community Sites in SharePoint 2013? ........................................................ 36
127. What is a ranking model in SharePoint 2013 search? ............................................... 36
128. What is a Continuous crawl? .............................................................................................. 37
129. What does document parsing functionality do? ........................................................ 37
130. Is Visual Upgrade available in SharePoint 2013? ........................................................ 37
131. What is the use of Stemming in SharePoint Search? ................................................ 37
132. What is the use of Word breaking in SharePoint Search? ....................................... 37
133. What is the use of RB and RBS protocol in SharePoint Search? ........................... 37
134. Capabilities of Fast Search in SharePoint 2013 ........................................................... 37
135. What are the uses of Refiners in SharePoint Search? ............................................ 38
136. What are the features of Federated Search? ................................................................ 38
137. Difference between list and library? ................................................................................ 38
138. What is External list throttling ........................................................................................... 39
139. What is your understanding on Column validation rules? ...................................... 39
140. How to do validation if the field values dont allow more than 8? ...................... 39
141. How to do validate if Due date is not greater than equal to current date ....... 39


142. Why should you not use Render ()? [only use RenderContents() or use the
more OO approach and implement CreateChildControls() ] ............................................. 39
143. What is claims based authentication? ............................................................................ 40
144. How do we use the claims identity outside of SharePoint? ................................... 40
145. What is LINQ to Sharepoint?.............................................................................................. 40
146. Do you know any tools that can be used to create DataContent classes for use
in LINQ queries? ................................................................................................................................. 40
147. What are the advantages and disadvantages of LINQ to Sharepoint ? ............. 40
148. In Sharepoint 2010, at what levels can a workflow be activated? (Alternative
Question: What is the additional scope a workflow be activated in Sharepoint
2010)? ..................................................................................................................................................... 41
149. Can a workflow created in Sharepoint Designer be edited in Visual Studio? .. 41
150. Can MS Visio be used to create a Sharepoint workflow? ........................................ 41
151. What are the two base classes a WebPart you are going to use within
SharePoint can inherit from? ......................................................................................................... 41
152. What are the differences between the two base classes and what are the
inherit benefits of using one over another? ............................................................................. 42
153. What does the RenderContents method do in an ASP.NET 2.0 WebPart? ....... 42
154. What the difference between CreateChildControls and the RenderContents
method. ................................................................................................................................................. 43
155. What is the WebPartManager sealed class? What is its purpose? ....................... 43
156. How many WebPartManager controls should be on a page? ............................... 43
157. What is a SPSite and SPWeb object, and what is the difference between each
of the objects? ..................................................................................................................................... 43
158. What is the use of SPWebApplication object? ............................................................ 43
159. How we can get the SMTP address of the SharePoint site? ................................... 43
160. Do we have any other way to send mail SharePoint ................................................. 44
161. Where Did OWA ULS Logs Go In SharePoint 2013 .................................................... 44


162. Can we update Web.config Settings Programmatically? ......................................... 44
163. How we can deploy master pages in SharePoint? ..................................................... 45
164. What is the difference between Site Definition and Site Template? ................... 45
Conclusion ..................................................................................................................................................... 46


Abstract

This eBook provides some basic SharePoint interview questions. The reader will then be
taken through Sharepoint different areas of interview questions. We can go through
core parts of SharePoint Web parts, Custom Forms, Event Handlers, Features, Time Jobs,
.NET, work flows etc. have prepared this not to equip you to pass SharePoint interview. It
is just to increase your knowledge in SharePoint


SharePoint Interview Questions

1. What is SharePoint?
SharePoint was born out of a simple idea: Sharing Documents. Microsoft
developed family of software products called SharePoint, to perform features
like File Sharing, Collaboration, and Web Publishing. In simple terms, SharePoint
acts as the single platform to share, communicate, store, and collaborate the
content, documents, and records
2. What are Features of SharePoint?
Communities: The new version of SharePoint allows users to work together in
different ways. Microsoft has enhanced the social feature of SharePoint 2007 in
SharePoint 2010 and has made it look better. Communities allow people to
collaborate in groups, share knowledge, and find information on various topics
easily.
Content: SharePoint content shifts SharePoint 2010 from a departmental
solution to an enterprise solution. There has been massive improvement in
content wherein users can add a significant number of documents to SharePoint.
They can even use external data storage options to store more data.
Search: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 has acquired FAST search server, which
improves the search tremendously for users. Now, users not only can search for
content, but also people. User can opt for better language options with
thumbnails and previews. User can even sort out the search queries and study
similar search to get relevant search results.
Insights: With the help of SharePoint insights, users can access information
through different data sources like dashboards, scorecards, reports and more. To
help users, Microsoft has introduced performance point server to the SharePoint
platform. It is also known as Performance point services for SharePoint. It helps
users discover right people and expertise to make better business decisions.


Compositions: SharePoint being a complete platform helps users in creating
their code solution on premises or in the cloud. Complex application can be
developed with the help of well-known tools like:
InfoPath
SharePoint designer 2013
3. Explain a SharePoint site?

A Web site hosted in a virtual URL. A SharePoint site is a place for collaboration,
communication or content storage. Depending on your business needs, you can
create sites such as team sites, blog sites, wiki sites and others. You can
customize a site's appearance, users, user permissions, galleries, and site
administration by using the Site Settings administration pages.
4. What is SharePoint site collection?

A collection of SharePoint sites that share common administration pages and
site settings. Site collections allow you to share content types, site columns,
templates, and Web Parts within a group of SharePoint sites.
5. What is SharePoint Web Farm?
A group of Office SharePoint servers, that share the same configuration
database. All site content and all configuration data is shared for all front-end
Web servers in a server farm.
6. What is a Feature?
A package of Windows SharePoint Services elements that can be activated for a
specific scope and that helps users accomplish a particular goal or task.
SharePoint have this inherently portable and modular functionality, which
simplifies modification of sites through site definitions. For more information
7. What is a Master page?

Pages, that provide a consistent layout and appearance (look and feel) for
SharePoint sites. They allow you to factor out layout, structure, and interface


elements such as headers, footers, navigation bars, and content placeholders.
Master pages in ASP.NET 2.0 and master pages in Windows SharePoint Services
work in the same way.
8. What is a Content type?
A reusable collection of settings to apply to a certain category of content such as
documents and folders. Content types are designed to help users organize their
SharePoint content in a more meaningful way.
Imagine a business situation in which you have three different types of
documents: expense reports, purchase orders and invoices. All three types of
documents have some characteristics in common for one thing; they are all
financial documents and contain data with values in currency. Yet each type of
document has its own data requirements, its own document template, and its
own workflow. One solution to this business problem is to create four content
types. The first content type, Financial Document, could encapsulate data
requirements that are common to all financial documents in the organization.
The remaining three, Expense Report, Purchase Order, and Invoice, could inherit
common elements from Financial Document. In addition, they could define
characteristics that are unique to each type, such as a particular set of metadata,
a document template to be used in creating a new item, and a specific workflow
for processing an item
9. What is a Solution?
A file that is a bundling of all the components for extending Windows SharePoint
Services in a particular way. A solution file has a .cab-based format with a .wsp
extension. A solution is a deployable, reusable package that can contain a set of
features, site definitions and assemblies that apply to sites, and that you can
enable or disable individually. You can use the solution file to deploy the contents
of a Web Part package, including assemblies, class resources, and other package
components.


10. What is a Theme?
A group of files (CSS, images) that allow you to define the appearance (look and
feel) of Web pages. Themes in ASP.NET 2.0 and themes in SharePoint Products
and Technologies work in the same way. Themes are used to help organizations
to brand their portals and team sites. Office SharePoint Server 2007 includes a set
of predefined themes. However, as a developer, you can create custom themes
for your company.
11. What is the GAC?
The GAC stands for the global assembly cache. It is the machine wide code cache
which will give custom binaries place into the full trust code group for
SharePoint. Certain SharePoint assets, such as Feature Receivers need full trust to
run correctly, and therefore are put into the GAC. You should always try to avoid
deployment to the GAC as much as possible since it will possibly allow
development code to do more than it was intended to do.
What are safe controls, and what type of information, is placed in that element in
a SharePoint web.config file?
When you deploy a WebPart to SharePoint, you must first make it as a safe
control to use within SharePoint in the web.config file. Entries made in the safe
controls element of SharePoint are encountered by the SharePointHandler object
and will be loaded in the SharePoint environment properly; those not will not be
loaded and will throw an error.
In the generic safe control entry (this is general, there could be more), there is
generally the Assembly name, the namespace, the public key token numeric, the
typename, and the safe declaration (whether it is safe or not). There are other
optional elements.
12. How can you get a reference to a site?
oSPSite = new SPSite("http:/server");
oSPWeb = oSPSite.OpenWeb();


13. How do you connect (reference) to a SharePoint list, and how do you insert a
new List Item?
using(SPSite mySite = new SPSite("yourserver"))
{
using(SPWeb myWeb = mySite.OpenWeb())
{
SPList interviewList = myWeb.Lists["listtoinsert"];
SPListItem newItem = interviewList.Items.Add();
newItem["interview"] = "interview";
newItem.Update();
}
}
14. How would you loop using SPList through all SharePont List items, assuming
you know the name (in a string value) of the list you want to iterate through,
and already have all the site code written?
SPList interviewList = myWeb.Lists["listtoiterate"];
foreach (SPListItem interview in interviewList)
{
// Place your code here
}
15. Some general terms and their definitions
Templates: Template acts as stencils, used to create similar attribute elements.


Language: SharePoint has ability to create multilingual sites. Language packs
are installed on the server to translate the portal in other languages. User can
select a language-specific site template while creating new site.
Security: User can define unique user groups and permissions for each site as
well as site elements.
Navigation: Site navigation reflects the relationships among the sites in a site
collection. User can fine-tune site's navigation experience by configuring unique
navigation links in each part of site's hierarchy. Therefore, planning navigation
and planning sites structures are closely related activities.
Web Pages: Web pages in sites or site collection are used to display
information.
Site Layouts: Site Layout dictates the overall look and feel of the SharePoint
site.
Themes: Themes specify the appearance of site in terms of Color & font.
Regional Settings: Regional settings are specific to particular country or
geography, such as locale, time zone, sort order, time format and calendar type.
Search: User can make each site having unique search settings. For example,
user can specify that a particular site never appear in search results.
Content Types: A content type defines the attributes of a list item, a document,
or a folder.
Workflows: Workflow defines the action or series of actions that has to be
performed on the occurrence of event
16. What is List?
A SharePoint list is a collection of records related to an entity like a student,
employees, etc. Records in lists are termed as items. A list contains columns or
fields that define the item data or metadata. Lists are created using a GUI
interface by defining the metadata types. Once the Lists are created, it becomes
very easy to add, edit, delete, and search items in it.


17. What is Document Library?
A Document library allows users to easily store, upload, share, collaborate, and
track documents or files. Users can also store the properties related to
documents called metadata to make the documents easily searchable.
18. What is Picture library?
A Picture library allows users to easily store, upload, share, collaborate and track
images or digital pictures. Users can also store the properties related to images
called metadata to make the images easily searchable.
19. What is Check-out?
Check-out ensures that only one person can edit a document at a time. To edit a
document, a user would first have to check out a document. This prevents
anyone else from editing the document until that user check the document back
in. During the period that the document is checked out, other users can only view
a read-only version of the document.
20. What is Check-in?
Check in a file means that user is uploading the modified file to the library and it
is now available for edit by other users. Once the document is checked in, the
document becomes available again to be checked out by someone else. In
addition, all changes made by the person who checked in the document are now
visible to others.
21. What is Versioning?
Versioning allows updates, restoring and tracking of the items in a list or in a
library when they are changed. Versioning makes use of version numbers to keep
track of changes.
22. What is Site Columns?
A site column is a reusable column definition or template that user can assign to
multiple lists across multiple SharePoint sites. Site columns are useful if user
organization wants to establish some consistent settings across lists and libraries.


23. What is rating?
Rating provides user the ability to rate content (of any type, lists, documents,
pages on a site and even content types) and stores that rating information in the
database. It is an assessment or classification of content on a scale according to
how well the content meets specific criteria. Ratings show an average score that
can range from 1 to 100.
24. What is Audience targeting?
The content inside lists, libraries, web parts, etc., can be targeted to appear only
for the users who are members of a particular group or audience. The audience
can be identified via SharePoint groups, distribution lists and security groups.
25. What are views?
User can use views to see the items in a list or library that are most important to
user or that best fit a purpose. For example, user can create views of the files that
were created most recently, of the list items that apply to a specific department,
or of the files created by one person. After creating a view, it is always available
when user looks at a list or library. User can create personal views and public
views. A personal view is available only to user while looking at a list or library. A
public view is available when anyone looks at a list or library. To create a public
view, user must have permission to change the design of the list or library. User
can make a public view the default view for a list or library.
26. What are the various types of views?
Standard: This view displays list items or files like a traditional list on a Web
page. Standard view is the default for most types of lists and libraries, and user
can customize it in several different ways.
Calendar: This view displays the calendar items in a visual format that is similar
to a desk or wall calendar. User can apply daily, weekly, or monthly views in this
format. For example, user can create a calendar to track the team's deadlines for
a project or holidays for the organization.
Datasheet: This view provides data in a format that user can edit, such as a
table in a database or spreadsheet. This view can be helpful if user need to


perform large editing tasks or customization, or export data to a spreadsheet or
database program. Datasheet view requires a control or program that is
compatible with Windows SharePoint Services, such as Office Access 2007 and
ActiveX control support.
Gantt: This view provides a visual view of data, with bars that track progress, if
data is based on a time interval. A Gantt view can help user manage projects and
see a quick overview of the data. User can use this view, for example, to see
which tasks overlap each other and to visualize overall progress.
27. What is Task list?
A task list in SharePoint displays a collection of tasks that has to be performed.
Users can also add columns or metadata to store additional information about
the tasks.
28. What is Document Set?
Document Set enables users to group multiple documents that support a single
project or task, together into a single entity. All documents in a Document Set
share the metadata and the entire set can be versioned. Document sets are built
on SharePoint 2010 content types, and user can create multiple unique document
set content types as part of their implementation.
29. What is Drop-Off Library?
The Drop off Library will be the default destination when a user tries to upload a
document to this site. This is used when user does not know that where should
the document be uploaded in the site. In that case, user uploads the document in
this library and the document is routed automatically to the specific library.
30. What is Routing Rules List?
The Routing Rules list, as its name implies, contains the rules for how a document
is to be routed to its final destination. These rules are written to route the
documents to their final and proper destination.


31. What is Blogs?
Blogs is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries
of commentary, description of events, or other material such as graphics or video.
It can be used to post ideas, observations, thoughts and expertise on which
comments can be done.
32. What is Enterprise wiki?
An enterprise wiki is a publishing site for sharing and updating large volumes of
information across an enterprise. Enterprise wiki can be used as a central
repository for large organizations to store and share unstated information.
33. What is Tagging?
Tagging is the ability to tag documents that enables user to search document
easily with keywords. Tags cloud web parts enable users to display tagging
keywords.
34. What is a Recent Activity?
The recent activity is a helpful way to understand what the person has been
working on recently.
35. What is Survey?
Survey is used when user want to collect the responses from various people,
across the organization about any event, any activity or any other thing. It is a list
that allows user to collect the responses in various ways. User can ask the
questions and they can answer those questions and then result can be analyzed
by taking it to the excel sheet or through graphical summary or by watching all
responses at once.
36. What is MySite?
My Site is the individual mini sites and acts as a central location to view and
manage all of a users documents, tasks, etc. My Sites enables users to easily
share information about themselves and their work. This sharing of information
encourages collaboration, builds and promotes information about expertise and
targets relevant content to the people who are interested.


37. What is enterprise Metadata Management?
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.
There are two key principles in the use of metadata:
Use of tags: It is easy for a site to use enterprise wide tags and taxonomies, and
easy for users to apply them.
Application of tags in SharePoint 2010: The document libraries are configured
to use metadata as a primary navigation pivot and improves search.
38. What is Web part?
Web Parts are customizable plug and play components that empower
information workers to create personalized user interfaces by simply dragging
and dropping them on a Web page. Web parts allow customization at both
design time and run time. There are two types of web parts.
In-built web parts: Web parts that are included in SharePoint. Developers can
drag them from web part galleries and drop them into web part zones.
Custom web parts: Web parts that are created by the user using visual studio is
called custom web parts.
A Web Part is composed of the following entities:
The Web Part description file (.dwp) is a portable container of default and
personalized property values for the Web Part.
The Web Part assembly file (.dll) contains the logic and code for the Web Part,
and is installed on the server running Windows SharePoint Services.
Resource files that support the Web Part these are also stored on the server.
Tables in the Windows SharePoint Services database are used to store current
values of the Web Part properties.


39. What is RSS Viewer?
RSS viewer is a web part that provides a good way of adding interesting content
to SharePoint site pages.
40. What is a Record Center?
The Records Center is intended to serve as a central repository in which an
organization can store and manage all of its records such as legal or financial
documents. The Records Center supports the entire records management
process, from records collection through records management to records
disposition. The Records Center site template is a pre-configured site designed
specifically to help organizations implement their records management and
retention programs. Versioning, auditing, metadata management, eDiscovery,
and customizable record routing are built-in features that can help user to
manage records more effectively.
41. What is Document Center?
Document Center is a site on which user can centrally manage documents in an
enterprise. A large-scale library useful as an enterprise knowledge base or
historical archive includes features to help users navigate, search, and manage
many documents in a deep hierarchy by using a set of specialized Web Parts.
42. What is Digital asset management?
SharePoint server 2010 includes a new asset library specially designed for
managing and sharing digital assets such as audio, video, and other rich media
files known as Digital Asset Management.
43. What is Social networking?
Social Networking Connects public to MySite pages to help establish
connections between colleagues with common interests.
44. What is a recycle bin in SharePoint?
Whenever user will delete something, it goes to recycle bin in SharePoint. User
can restore items that have been deleted from the site from the recycle bin.


45. What is a Publishing feature?
Publishing feature enables the delivery of content for both internal and external
users. User need to turn on the Publishing feature on a site. Checked in and
Checked Out feature in a Site gets enabled and if user dont Checked-in the
change version then older version of pages are shown to users .Users can then
brand the site so that it has the corporate look and feel, and can enable other
users to edit the corporate site within the context of the Web. On a site with the
Publishing functionality turned on, user can also create a multilingual site by
creating a source site and then translating the site into other languages, which
can be published as separate sites.
46. What is Branding?
Branding means to create and design the portal according to the organizational
norms, by changing the title, logo, header, footer, and content to provide the
look and feel that suite the organization. Creating custom-designed UIs, either on
a traditional HTML page or in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, is known as
branding. Branding of portals is done to achieve the unique corporate identity of
an organization across the market.
47. What are Content pages?
Content pages implement a master page. Content pages contain an attribute,
which informs the compiler that the page should be, merged with a master page.
This attribute is part of the page directive tag called the MasterPageFile.
48. What is Page Layout?
Page layout dictates the overall look and feel of a web page. A page layout relies
on a content type to determine the kind of content that can be stored on pages.
Page layout contains field controls and web part.
49. What is Navigation in SharePoint 2010?
Site navigation provides the primary interface for site users to move around on
the sites and pages on the site. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 includes a set
of customizable and extensible navigation features that help orient users of the
site so they can move around on its sites and pages.


50. What are the various options for Navigation available in SharePoint 2010?
1. Navigation controls on master pages
Top link bar navigation
Quick Launch navigation
Breadcrumb navigation
Tree view navigation
Metadata navigation
2. Navigation controls on page layouts
Summary Links
Table of Contents
Content Query
3. Navigation Web Parts
Categories
Site Aggregator
Site in Category
Tag Cloud
The following navigation Web parts are available only on
4. Publishing sites:
Summary Links
Table of Contents
51. What is Ribbon interface?
Ribbon Interface act as the UI enhancement in the product. It provides the
commands to be executed in the form of Icons and tabs.


52. What is a workflow?
A workflow consists of a sequence of connected steps. It is a depiction of a
sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, a group of persons, an
organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms.
53. Explain .Net Workflow and SharePoint workflow?
.Net Workflow: Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) is a new programming
framework introduced in .NET 3.0 for creating reactive programs. A reactive
program typically represents a set of procedures or instructions used to capture
and automate a specific business process. Windows Workflow Foundation
supports publishing a workflow as an ASP.NET Web service on a Web server or
server farm running ASP.NET on Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0. Because
Windows Workflow Foundation Web service support is based on ASP.NET 2.0, it
inherits most of the features of a standard ASP.NET Web service.
SharePoint Workflow: SharePoint workflows are built on top of WWF. WSS
extends the WWF. WSS extends the WWF by introducing the concept of a
workflow template. The main purpose of the workflow template is to integrate
WWF programs into WSS so that they can be installed, configured and
parameterized for use. A workflow template is created by adding a Workflow
element to a feature that is scoped to the level of the site collection.
54. What is Single sign-on?
Single Sign-on allows users to log on to a variety of applications with the single
username and password and user has to enter the details only once for all the
applications.
55. What is ULS Logging?
ULS Logging captures and writes events to trace logs.
56. What does RunWithElevatedPrivileges do?
Assume that you have a Web Part in which you want to display information
obtained through the Windows SharePoint Services object model, such as the
name of the current site collection owner, usage statistics, or auditing
information. These are examples of calls into the object model that require site-


administration privileges. Your Web Part experiences an access-denied error if it
attempts to obtain this information when the current user is not a site
administrator. The request is initiated by a non-privileged user. You can still
successfully make these calls into the object model by calling the
RunWithElevatedPrivileges method provided by the SPSecurity class. C#:
SPSite siteColl = SPContext.Current.Site;
SPWeb site =
SPContext.Current.Web;SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
{
using (SPSite ElevatedsiteColl = new SPSite(siteColl.ID))
{
using (SPWeb ElevatedSite = ElevatedsiteColl.OpenWeb(site.ID))
{
string SiteCollectionOwner = ElevatedsiteColl.Owner.Name;
string Visits = ElevatedsiteColl.Usage.Visits.ToString();string RootAuditEntries =
ElevatedSite.RootFolder.Audit.GetEntries().Count.ToString();
}}
});
57. What is the difference between method activity and event activity in Work
Flow?
A method activity is one that performs an action, such as creating or updating a
task. An event activity is one that runs in response to an action occurring.
58. What does SPWeb.EnsureUser method do?
Checks whether the specified login name belongs to a valid user of the Web site,
and if the login name does not already exist, adds it to the Web site. e.g SPUser
usr = myWeb.EnsureUser("mmangaldas");


59. How to query from multiple lists?
Use SPSiteDataQuery to fetch data from multiple lists.
60. How Does SharePoint work?
The browser sends a DAV packet to IIS asking to perform a document check in.
PKMDASL.DLL, an ISAPI DLL, parses the packet and sees that it has the
proprietary INVOKE command. Because of the existence of this command, the
packet is passed off to msdmserv.exe, who in turn processes the packet and uses
EXOLEDB to access the WSS, perform the operation and send the results back to
the user in the form of XML.
61. What is the difference between Syncronous & Asyncronous events?
Synchronous calls ending with 'ing' E.g. ItemDeleting Event Handler code execute
BEFORE action is committed WSS waits for code to return Option to cancel and
return error code
Asynchronous calls ending with 'ed' E.g. ItemDeleted Event Handler code executes
AFTER action is committed WSS does not wait for code to return Executed in its
own Worker thread.
62. What is ServerUpdate() ?
Any changes in the list, i.e. new addition or modification of an item.. the
operation is complete by calling the Update method.But if a List is set to maintain
versions .. and you are editing an item, but don't want to save it as a new version,
then use the SystemUpdate method instead and pass in 'false' as the parameter.
63. How to work with large list in SharePoint
List throttling is one of the new options in SharePoint 2010 that enable to set
limits on how severely users can put the exhausted down on your servers. In a
husk, what it does is allow you to set a limit for how many rows of data can be
retrieved for a list or library at any one time. The most basic example of this
would be if you had a list with thousands of items, and someone created a view
that would return all of the items in the list in a single page. List throttling
ensures that such a request would not be allowed to execute. The hit on the
server is alleviated, and the user gets a nice little message that says sorry, we


cant retrieve all of the data you requested because it exceeds the throttle limit
for this list.
64. How can you force SPQuery to return results from all the folders of the list?
If you use SPQuery on any SPlist . It will bring back results from the current
folder only. If you want to get results from all the folders in the list, then you
need to specify the scope of the query by the use of ViewAttributes..
e.g. query.ViewAttributes = "Scope=\"Recursive\"";
65. What is query.ViewAttributes /
If you use SPQuery on any SPlist . It will bring back results from the current
folder only. If you want to get results from all the folders in the list. Then you
need to specify the scope of the query by the use of ViewAttributes..
66. What is List View Threshold
This is the maximum number of items that can be retrieved in one request. The
default value is 5,000. Important to note as well, the smallest you make this value
is 2,000.
67. How to override List throttling using object model
Using List Object Model
SPList list = SPContext.Current.Web.Lists["Interview"];
list.EnableThrottling = false;
SPListItemCollection items = list.GetItems(listQuery);

Use in SPQuery
SPQuery listQuery = new SPQuery();
listQuery.Query = query;
listQuery.QueryThrottleMode = SPQueryThrottleOption.Override; SPList
list = SPContext.Current.Web.Lists["Interview"];
SPListItemCollection items = list.GetItems(listQuery);
68. Difference between Close() and Dispose() Method


The basic difference between Close() and Dispose() is, when a Close() method is
called, any managed resource can be temporarily closed and can be opened once
again. It means that, with the same object the resource can be reopened or used.
Where as Dispose () method permanently removes any resource ((un)managed)
from memory for cleanup and the resource no longer exists for any further
processing.
69. What is the use of Form Digest control?
The FormDigest control generates a security validation, or message digest, to
help prevent the type of attack whereby a user is tricked into posting data to the
server without knowing it. The security validation is specific to a user, site, and
time period and expires after a configurable amount of time. When the user
requests a page, the server returns the page with security validation inserted.
When the user then submits the form, the server verifies that the security
validation has not changed.
70. What is the structure of the InfoPath form data?
Document based Form: Hierarchical
List based Form: Flat
71. How to debug InfoPath 2010 WebForm?
a. Build in Debug mode (Project Properties > Build > Active (Debug)
b. Enable full Debug Info (Project Properties > Build > Advanced)
c. Clear "Enable Just My Code" and select "Suppress JIT..." (Tools > Options
> Debugging)
Then you can deploy your template and attach to either the correct w3wp
process or the SPUCWorkerProcess for a sandboxed solution - for this you will
need to use Visual Studio.
72. Use of InfoPath form Web part?
It is used to show the published InfoPath form in SharePoint webpages.


73. What are the types of input forms that can be created for a workflow?
You can create four different types of input forms including
An association form
An initiation form
A modification form
A Task edits form.
74. What is a sandbox solution
One of the biggest problems with SharePoint 2007 development is that all of its
solutions run with full trust. This makes SharePoint administrators hesitant to
publish any solution that may disturb the stability of the SharePoint farm.
Sandboxed Solutions, new in SharePoint 2010, address this by allowing site
collection administrators to deploy solutions that are safe to run.
The Sandboxed Solution is effectively a process separation engine, designed to
allow code within the sandbox to run in a separate worker process thread,
thereby moderating the concern that an overly busy application pool will
interfere with other normal operations.
75. What is the use of Sandbox Solution?
In the SharePoint 2007 environment, many companies feel they need to separate
even their normal business process data from custom applications developed
using SharePoint as an access mechanism, by placing these applications under a
separate application pool and thus preventing development changes from
affecting the server.
Sandboxed Solutions are aimed at creating business agility. This helps to satisfy
the demanding nature of business by quickly creating and deploying solutions.
Businesses can deploy these solutions rapidly because there's less risk and less
need for a review process to slow them down. Site collection administrators can
even deploy third-party solutions without fear of bringing down the entire farm
76. What all SharePoint item types supported by Sandbox Solutions?
List definitions
List instances


Content Types/Fields
Navigation
Web Parts derived from Web Part
Event receivers
Custom Workflow Actions
Workflows

77. How to monitor Sandbox solution

Site Collection administrator can monitor resource usage of Sandboxed Solutions
via Site ActionsSite Settings Galleries Solutions. The simple dashboard
shows how much resources have been consumed by deployed solutions.
78. What is Service Application module in SharePoint
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, 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 additionally.
The services architecture is extensible, allowing third-party companies to
build and add services to the platform.
Services are managed directly in Central Administration (In SSP it was 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.
79. What is the limitation and advantages of SSP and Service Applications?
The key limitation of the SSP architecture was that it was configured by using a
set of services, and all Web applications associated with the SSP bore the
overhead of all the services even if they weren't being used. To change the
service configuration for a particular Web application, a new SSP would have to
be created.
The service application architecture on the other hand, allows a set of services
to be associated with a given Web application and a different set of services to
be associated with another Web application. Also, the same service application
can be configured differently in different Web applications; therefore, Web sites
can be configured to use only the services that are needed, rather than the entire
bank of services. 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.

The service application model provides a suitable approach to addressing the
scalability and delegation issues with SSPs and also is a fundamental enabler for a
much wider feature capability in SharePoint 2010. Indeed the service application
model pushes Microsoft's most "service orientated" product vastly further ahead
in the realm of distributed application platform sanitation.
The service application model allows SharePoint 2010 to scale further than ever
before, way further. It also introduces flexibility with respect to deployment that is
unmatched in the marketplace.
80. What is Enterprise Metadata Management?

Enterprise metadata management 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.
81. What Changes are made in SharePoint 2010 to enforce Referential Integrity?

In SharePoint 2010, Referential Integrity is enforced using two options, available
with Look-up columns. While creating a Look-up column, you can either choose
a) Restrict Delete or b) Cascade Delete to define a relationship between the Look-
up list and the list containing the look-up Column
82. Where can I use InfoPath?
With InfoPath, you can simply develop Web Services "hooks" that allow data to
be submitted to and retrieved from a variety of applications. Developers can use
InfoPath to quickly create new, feature-rich user interfaces to those legacy
applications. This process is both much faster and less expensive than the task of
re-engineering the legacy application, and can result in a huge cost saving. You
can transfer and re-use data with InfoPath, as its base is XML and so its now easy
to exchange data between two incompatible systems.
83. Core Advantage of using InfoPath
Ability to communicate between two Incompatible data format
Browser-Compatible Form
Broader usage scope, it gets easily integral with other office product.
Offline support, InfoPath forms don't have to be filled out while a user is
connected to a network.
Users can save forms to their computer, work on them offline, and then submit
them to the corporate network when they are reconnected.
Low cost and Fast Development
84. What are the elements we can apply workflow?
At the level of a list (or document library)
At the level of a content type defined at site scope
At the level of a site ( SharePoint 2010 )


85. What are the ways to initiate the workflow?
Automatic (on item added or item updated)
Manual (standard UI interface)
Manual (Custom UI Interface)
Programmatically through custom code
86. What are ways to create input forms for workflow?
Two different approaches can be used to develop custom input forms for a
workflow template. You can create your forms by Using custom application
pages, which are standard .aspx pages deployed to run out of the _layouts
directory Using Microsoft Office InfoPath 2010
87. What is the difference between method activity and event activity in
Workflow?
A method activity is one that performs an action, such as creating or updating a
task. An event activity is one that runs in response to an action occurring.
88. How Does SharePoint work?
The browser sends a DAV packet to IIS asking to perform a document check in.
PKMDASL.DLL, an ISAPI DLL, parses the packet and sees that it has the
proprietary INVOKE command. Because of the existence of this command, the
packet is passed off to msdmserv.exe, who in turn processes the packet and uses
EXOLEDB to access the SharePoint, perform the operation and send the results
back to the user in the form of XML.
89. What is ServerUpdate()?
Any changes in the list new addition or modification of an item the operation is
complete by calling the Update method. But if a List is set to maintain versions
and you are editing an item, but don't want to save it as a new version, then use
the System Update method instead and pass in 'false' as the parameter.
90. How can you force SPQuery to return results from all the folders of the list?
If you use SPQuery on any SPlist it will bring back results from the current folder
only.If you want to get results from all the folders in the list then you need to


specify the scope of the query by the use of ViewAttributes..
91. What are the service applications that have its own database in SharePoint
2013
App Management Service (new)
Business Data Connectivity
Managed Metadata Service
Search
Secure Store Service
Machine Translation Services (new)
State Service
Usage and Health Data Collection
User Profile Service Application
Word Automation Service
Access Services App databases (new) (2010 and 2013)
92. Which are the service applications that should run in Web front end and
application servers?
In web front end Servers
SharePoint Foundation Web Application
Inbound email
In application servers
You can decide which services should run in each app Server. But you should
make sure SharePoint Foundation Web Application service should be stopped in
App Server. The Service Application Model also allows us to deploy more than
one instance of the same Service Application
93. What are the core capabilities of SharePoint 2013
Below are some major additions are revisions
Education Module. SharePoint 2013 has a new education module that enables
administrators to create a fully-functional e-learning system in their SharePoint
farm.


Request Management. Administrators can use the Request Management feature to
distribute Incoming requests across Web Front-End servers in the SharePoint
farm. For example, they can use static weights to route more requests to a new,
high specification server and thus take load off an older, slower server. You could
also route all requests from a particular browser, such as IE9, through a specific
server or deny requests from certain IP address ranges.
Shredded Storage. When users make changes to documents, SharePoint 2013 can
apply those
Changes to the document in the content database without a full refresh of the
whole document. If only a single change has been made to a large document,
this can enormously reduce the quantity of data sent over the network and, if
versioning is used, the volume of the content database.
Enterprise Content Management (ECM). Many improvements have been made to
ECM especially in the field of eDiscovery, which is the process of locating all
document records that relate to a specific subject or legal case. You can also use
Team Folders to consolidate content stored in SharePoint and Exchange.
Web Content Management (WCM). In SharePoint 2013, the structure and navigation
of a WCM site is defined by managed metadata terms. This approach is highly
flexible and enables administrators to reorganize their entire Web site without
moving any content.
Search. In SharePoint 2013 there is a single Search engine that combines the best
features of the SharePoint and FAST search engines in SharePoint 2010. New
configuration objects, such as Query Rules and Result Types allow administrators
to customize result sets to an unprecedented level.
Client object model (CSOM). The CSOM existed in SharePoint 2010 but has been
greatly extended in SharePoint 2013 to enable
94. What is Apps for SharePoint 2013? What is the different type associated with
the same
In SharePoint 2013 there is a new custom component called the apps for
SharePoint. This is the
Recommended way for developers and third parties to create new functionality
and user interface components. We will see, later in this module and throughout
this course how developers create these Apps. However the SharePoint 2013


Apps infrastructure also benefits SharePoint administrators by making it easier to
manage the life cycle of custom applications. The following features are included:
SharePoint Marketplace. This global marketplace for apps for SharePoint is a single
repository of custom components, available to all SharePoint customers.
Administrators can enable users to purchase apps, on behalf of the company
from the marketplace, or restrict that right to a small number of budget holders.
Once purchased, an app becomes available to all users in the SharePoint farm.
Corporate App Catalog. This catalog is a private repository of apps within the
SharePoint farm and controlled by farm administrators. Users can choose to
install these apps in any SharePoint site in the organization.
Removing Apps. Apps for SharePoint is contained entirely within a sub-site of the
SharePoint site in which it is used. Therefore, when a user or administrator
removes the app, the sub-site is removed cleanly and no objects are retained in
the parent site or elsewhere. This clean removal aids app management.
Apps in Multi-Tenant Farms. In a multi-tenant SharePoint farm, there is a one
Corporate App Catalog for each tenant organization. This ensures that both
tenants must pay for their app usage and that removals do not impact other
tenants
95. What is the change associated with new Visual Web Part in SharePoint 2013?
A new Visual Web Part Template has been added to Visual Studio 2012 for
Creating Visual Web parts for SharePoint 2013. In this new Template both the
User Control and Web Part Classes are merged to create one template unlike
SharePoint 2010 where you had a separate ascx and web part file. Also, now you
can create both Sandbox and Farm solutions using Visual Web Part Template.
96. What is TilesViewWebPart in SharePoint 2013?
SharePoint 2013 Introduces a new Getting Started Web Part that has Tiles to
provide an easy access to some of the main links in the Site like adding lists or
libraries, Creating master page etc. To Programmatically Create this new Web
Part a new abstract base class TilesViewWebPart has been added in SharePoint
API.You have to Create a Custom Web part and Inherit from TilesViewWebpart
and Override GetTiles() to Create Custom tiles. This be good branding solution in
SharePoint 2013


97. How we can you Create & Deploy Sandbox Solutions in SharePoint 2013?
Sandbox Solutions are depreciated in SharePoint 2013.You can still create them
and deploy them but they are not much compatible. I suggest to go for Apps
model in these scenarios.
98. How we can force a Solution to be deployed to 15 Hive and not 14 Hive?
If the solution was Created in Visual Studio 2010, we have to would add
SharePoint Version=15.0 attribute in Solutions manifest.xml file to force it to
deploy in 15 Hive instead of 14 Hive. If the Solution however is created in Visual
Studio 2012, you dont need to do anything; it gets deployed to 15 Hive by
default.
99. Is it possible to deploy Master Page and Custom Css from SharePoint 2010 in
SharePoint 2013?
Master Pages and CSS have changed a lot in SharePoint 2013. We can deploy a
master page in Master page gallery but the styles from old core.css need to be
updated.
100. Is it possible to use fabulous 40 templates in SharePoint 2013?
Microsoft is not creating any New Versions of these Templates. The old Sites
based on these templates can be upgraded only if the Templates are installed
successfully in SharePoint 2013.
101. Do we have any support for PDF in SharePoint 2013

SharePoint 2013 now offers some Out-of-box support for PDF.PDF icon is now
natively supported and PDF when opened in SharePoint 2013 will try to open in
the Adobe Reader and prompt user to either checkout & open or open the file in
PDF directly.


102. Do you have any idea about Digital Content types?
In SharePoint 2013 Microsoft has introduced a new set of content types called
Digital Asset Content Types for better use of Audio, Video and Images as Web
Content. These content types can be added to any library and can be used as a
one of the items files.

103. What are the types of players that we can used to play SharePoint 2013
Video files?
SharePoint 2013 supports two Video players HTML 5 player and a Silverlight `
player. SharePoint chooses the player automatically, depending on the video
format that it meets in the video set. For example, if the format cant be played
on the HTML 5 player, the SharePoint uses the Silverlight player for playing it.

104. Can we embed Video from external sites like YouTube in SharePoint 2013
SharePoint 2013 have natives support for IFrames.We can now embed dynamic
content from other sites, such as YouTube videos or maps to any SharePoint site
by using IFrames. We need to add the Domain for the external site in HTML
Field Security first.
105. Do you have any idea about Cross-Site Publishing?
Cross-Site Publishing is a new Feature in SharePoint Server 2013 that enables
you to reuse content across site collections, web applications, and farms. You can
use cross-site publishing to Create branded Internet, intranet and extranet
publishing sites.
106. Is Sharepoint 2013 have better performance compared to earlier versions? If
so how?
SharePoint 2013 Introduces Minimal Download Strategy and Distributed Cache
Service to Improve Page Load; and Shredded Storage to Improve Storage
required for saving files. Office web apps integration with SharePoint is also a
added addition for the browser based rendering of Office document.


107. What is Distributed Cache Service?
The Distributed Cache service provides caching features in SharePoint Server
2013. The microblog features and feeds rely on the Distributed Cache to store
data for very fast retrieval across all entities. The Distributed Cache service is
built on Windows Server AppFabric, which implements the AppFabric Caching
service. Windows Server AppFabric installs with the prerequisites for SharePoint
Server 2013.
The Distributed Cache service is either required by or improves performance of
the following features:
Authentication
Newsfeeds
OneNote client access
Security Trimming
Page load performance
108. What is Shredded Storage?
With Shredded Storage feature enabled, every document and the Changes
made to the document, is stored in SQL as multiple Shredded BLOBS.
Whenever a new Version of a document is created, only the BLOBs of the
document that Corresponds to the Change are saved as opposed to the entire
document as a new version. This feature helps to lower down the amount of
storage required for saving files.
In SharePoint 2010 when saving a document, such as a documented opened
from SharePoint with the Office 2010 client, only the incremental change to the
document are submitted over the network from the client to the server;
however, the document is coalesced on the Web server requiring a full read
from the database server, and subsequently the new file inclusive of the change
are written to the database server.
Shredded Storage at its most basic is designed to ensure the write cost of
updating a document is proportional to the size of the change, and not of the
file itself.
109. What does the e Analytics Processing Component in SharePoint 2013?
The Analytics Processing Component in SharePoint Server 2013 analyzes both
the Content and the way users interact with it.The results from the analysis are


added to the items in the search index to be used by Search Web parts,
Recommendation Reports, Most Popular Items reports and other Web Parts.
110. What are Device Channels in SharePoint 2013?
With device channels in SharePoint 2013, you can render a single publishing
site in multiple ways by using different designs that target different devices for
example mobile devices etc. These device channels can each be given a
different master page and CSS file to give users a more optimal viewing
experience. For more Info see Plan device channels in SharePoint Server 2013

111. What are the ways an app communicate with SharePoint?
We have two options
d. REST and JavaScript APIs
e. Managed APIs (.NET)
112. What are the options available to publish an app?
a. Public SharePoint app store-Which will be public
b. Organizations app catalog-Which is specific to the organization
113. What is meant by OData in SharePoint 2013
The Open Data protocol (OData) lets you access a data source, such as a
database, by browsing to a specially constructed URL. The Open Data protocol
(OData) lets you access a data source, such as a database, by browsing to a
specially constructed URL. This allows for a simplified approach for connecting
to and working with data sources that are hosted within an organization.
OData is a protocol that uses HTTP, Atom, and JavaScript Object Notation
(JSON) to enable developers to write applications that communicate with an
ever-growing number of data sources. Microsoft supports the creation of this
standard as a way to enable the exchange of data between applications and
data stores that can be accessed from the web.
114. What is the use of OData?
This is the most simplified approach for connecting and working with data
sources that are hosted within an organization.


115. What is an OData producer, and some examples?

OData Producers expose their data in a structured way through web service.
SharePoint Foundation 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, SQL Azure, Windows
Azure Table Storage, Windows Azure Marketplace, SQL Server Reporting
Services, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, and Windows Live can be considered
for the examples of the same.
For SharePoint to use the data exposed by a specific OData producer, an
external content type must be created inside SharePoint. As with all
SharePoint external content types, it contains all the connectivity information
that is needed to connect and communicate with the external system.
116. What is the use of OAuth in SharePoint 2013?
To authorize requests by an app for SharePoint to access SharePoint resources on
behalf of a user and to authenticate apps in the Office Store, an app catalog, or a
developer tenant.
In the case of app authentication, the authentication process verifies a claim that
is made by a subject that it should be allowed to act on behalf of a given
principal. Apps can be authenticated in several different ways. When a call is
made to an app web, for example, unless that call is an OAuth call, the call is
attributed to the app associated with the app web. If it is an OAuth call,
SharePoint 2013 uses the Windows Azure Access Control Service as the app
identity provider. OAuth is one of several ways for an app to be authenticated,
but authorization is consistent across all apps, regardless of whether the apps use
OAuth.

117. What is a workflow stage shape in SharePoint Designer 2013?

Workflows in SharePoint Designer 2013 now include the notions of stages, loops,
and steps. Workflow authors can group a number of individual actions and
conditions as a single unit to more clearly define the process. For example, there


could be an Approval or Request Feedback stage or step. Within that stage or
step would be all of the actions that are necessary for that process. The stage or
step itself might be one node of a longer workflow and would allow a viewer to
see the status of that stage as a whole, rather than a set of individual actions. A
stage can contain any number of shapes and may include branching. The stage or
step itself might be one node of a longer workflow.

118. What is the Machine Translation Service?
Using machine translation will allow users to send content to Microsoft for
translation. Microsoft may use content users send us to improve the quality of
translations. If you use the Machine Translation Service in your application, you
are responsible for informing users that this application will allow users to send
content to Microsoft for translation and that Microsoft may use content users
send us to improve the quality of translations. See Microsoft Translator Privacy
for more information. Machine Translation Service is a new service application in
SharePoint 2013 that provides automatic machine translation of files and sites.
When the Machine Translation Service application processes a translation
request, it forwards the request to a cloud-hosted machine translation service,
where the actual translation work is performed.
The Machine Translation Service application processes translation requests
asynchronously and synchronously. Asynchronous translation requests are
processed when the translation timer job executes. The default interval of the
translation timer job is 15 minutes; you can manage this setting in Central
Administration or by using Windows PowerShell.
119. What is PowerPoint Automation Services?
Many businesses, large and small, use their Microsoft SharePoint Server libraries
as a repository for Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. These businesses all
have their own particular needs for storing, distributing, and updating their
presentations. Microsoft PowerPoint Automation Services is a new feature of
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 that can help enterprises to manage their
presentations. It is a shared service that provides unattended, server-side


conversion of presentations into other formats. It was designed from the outset
to work on servers and can process many presentation files in a reliable and
predictable manner.

Using PowerPoint Automation Services, you can convert from the PowerPoint
binary file format (.ppt) and the PowerPoint Open XML file format (.pptx) to other
formats. For example, you may want to upgrade a batch of PowerPoint 972003
files to Open XML presentation files. You could also create a custom action in the
Edit menu to allow users to create a PDF version of presentations on demand.

120. How can you add a HTML Master Page & Css with Design Manager
SharePoint 2013
In SharePoint 2013 you can easily Use HTML Master page along with its CSS and
Images for the look and feel of your SharePoint site. You do not need to work
on SharePoint designer anymore.
The new tool is called Design Manager. Its actually not a tool or anything its a
new feature added to Look and Feel in Site settings. The Design Manager assists
in creating the master page from simple HTML, CSS files. The SharePoint
designers or Admins only need to create these designs on an HTML editor or
Notepad and Convert that into HTML, CSS and Images. Once these artifacts are
ready, the design manager can process these to generate a master page.
121. What are the three user authentication methods that SharePoint 2013
supports?
Windows claims
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)-based claims
Forms-based authentication claims
122. Which one is the most recommended method
Claims-based authentication methods are recommended


123. What types of authentication does Business Connectivity Services support?

a. Anonymous
b. Basic
c. Windows
d. Custom authentication to OData services when it is used with the Secure
Store Service
124. What Is An Event Listener in SharePoint 2013? What is the use of it?
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 it Enables
SharePoint users and custom code to receive notifications of events that occur
in an external system.
The supported connections for an external system?
OData
SQL
WCF
125. What are the new 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
126. 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.
127. 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).


128. What is a Continuous crawl?
Eliminates the need to schedule incremental crawls and automatically starts
crawls as necessary to keep the search index fresh.
129. What does document parsing functionality do?
Document parsers extract useful metadata and remove redundant information.
130. Is Visual Upgrade available in SharePoint 2013?
It is not available. Site collection administrator can either go for visual upgrade
from the site settings
131. What is the use of Stemming in SharePoint Search?
Stemming is a feature of the word breaker component used only by the query
engine to determine where the word boundaries are in the stream of characters
in the query. A stemmer extracts the root form of a given word. For example,
running, ran, and runner are all variants of the verb to run.
132. What is the use of Word breaking in SharePoint Search?
A word breaker is a component used by the query and index engines to break
compound words and phrases into individual words or tokens. If there is no
word breaker for a specific language, the neutral word breaker is used, in which
case word breaking occurs where there are white spaces between the words and
phrases.
133. What is the use of RB and RBS protocol in SharePoint Search?
RB & RBS protocols are used to index Exchange servers public folder.
134. Capabilities of Fast Search in SharePoint 2013
Content-processing pipeline
Metadata extraction
Structured data search
Deep refinement
Visual search
Visual best bets
Development platform flexibility
Ease of creating custom search experiences


Extreme scale and performance
135. What are the uses of Refiners in SharePoint Search?
Refiners which provide the ability filter down the search results using the
returned metadata without have to re-run the actual search.
136. What are the features of Federated Search?
No additional capacity requirements for the content index, as content are not
crawled by SharePoint Enterprise Search. Can take advantage of a repositorys
existing search engine. For example, you can federate to an Internet search
engine to search the Web. Can access repositories that are secured against
crawls, but which can be accessed by search queries.
137. Difference between list and library?
A list contains items that are collections of fields/properties/columns. Optionally
each item can have one or more attachments.
A library is a list, but has one and exactly one file associated with each item. A
library item also has fields/properties/columns.
Simple way to say this is that a list item has a focus on "text" stored in
fields/properties/columns, while a library has a focus on a single document.
Checking option: SharePoint list doesnt support check in and check out options
but SharePoint Library supports.
Search: When the user searches for a keyword in a document, if the document is
in a list then search returns the list item as the result. When the user searches for
a keyword in a document, if the document is in a library then they find the
document listed in the search results.
List examples: Contact lists, Task lists etc.
Library examples: Picture library, Form library etc.


138. What is External list throttling
Same as internal list throttling, SharePoint also supports External list throttling.
External lists are lists that are connected to other systems using BCS and
External content type.
139. What is your understanding on Column validation rules?
A validation formula at the column level cannot include any other columns
besides itself. For example, [Column1]> [Column2] is an invalid formula and
SharePoint will not allow it to be used at the column level. In this case, you want
to use list-level validation.
140. How to do validation if the field values dont allow more than 8?
Formula = LEN ([REGION]) <8.
141. How to do validate if Due date is not greater than equal to current date
Enter the [Due Date] > Today () formulae in column validation while creating the
Due Date field.
142. Why should you not use Render ()? [only use RenderContents() or use the
more OO approach and implement CreateChildControls() ]
A. Basically the WPSC provides developers with a SharePoint specific client-side
DOM that allows developers to listen for events, interact with Web Parts and even
set properties. all through script on the client. The WPSC is implemented using a
bunch of client-side code. You can see a snippet of it if you look at the source of
a SharePoint page.
When SharePoint renders the page, it adds a unique ID to the HTML <TABLE> as
well as a unique ID to the <DIV>... developers can use these ID's to get to the
Web Part via client-side code.
When you use RenderContents() or CreateChildControls(), the rendered markup
produced by those methods is put inside the <DIV>. If you override Render(),
you are replacing the entire <TABLE>! Thus, by replacing the entire table, you are
breaking the WPSC... the whole SharePoint specific DOM.


143. What is claims based authentication?
Claims is a new authentication method that SharePoint 2010 can utilize. This
allows a single authentication store for multiple types of authentication (Windows
NTLM, SQL FBA, LDAP, etc) which allows all of these types of authentication to
access SharePoint under a single URL.Claims creates a SAML token based on the
sign-in, that contains the users identity.
144. How do we use the claims identity outside of SharePoint?
LOB systems
External partner services
Separate SharePoint farms
145. What is LINQ to Sharepoint?
o LINQ is a feature of the programming languages C# 3.0 and Visual Basic
.NET
o LINQ adds, to each of the languages, a SQL-like syntax and vocabulary for
querying data sources.
o LINQ to Sharepoint allows developers to use SQL-like syntax to query Lists
and Libraries in Sharepoint.
o LINQ to Sharepoint internally converts the LINQ query to a CAML query to
fetch records
Advantage: Strongly typed access to the entities of the list.
Disadvantage: If the new columns are added or its data type changed, the data
context class used by LINQ is no longer valid and may break the code

146. Do you know any tools that can be used to create DataContent classes for
use in LINQ queries?
SPMetal.exe
147. What are the advantages and disadvantages of LINQ to Sharepoint ?
Advantages:
Intellisense


Strongly typed access to the entities of the list
Faster development
Simplify complex queries
Disadvantages:
If the new columns are added or its datatype changed, the datacontext
class used by LINQ is no longer valid and may break the code
Extra layer to the actual CAML query
148. In Sharepoint 2010, at what levels can a workflow be activated? (Alternative
Question: What is the additional scope a workflow be activated in Sharepoint
2010)?
Work flow can be activated at list or library level
Site level
Web Application level
149. Can a workflow created in Sharepoint Designer be edited in Visual Studio?
Yes. If you have created the work flow as reusable. You can import the same n
Visual studio and update it
150. Can MS Visio be used to create a Sharepoint workflow?
MS Visio cannot be used to create the Sharepoint workflow itself, but can be
used for workflow visualization. What this means is that, the flow diagram
designed in Visio can be imported in Sharepoint Designer where all the
functionality can be added and deployed to Sharepoint.
151. What are the two base classes a WebPart you are going to use within
SharePoint can inherit from?
There are two base classes that a WebPart which is going to be consumed by
SharePoint can inherit from, either the SharePoint WebPart Base class or the
ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part base class. When inheriting from the SharePoint WebPart
Base class your derived WebPart class will inherit from
Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart. When inheriting from the
ASP.NET 2.0 WebPart base class your derived WebPart class will inherit from
System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPart. It is considered good practice


to use the ASP.NET WebPart base class since the old base class is meant for
backwards compatibility with previous version of SharePoint, however there are
four exception when it is better to leverage functionality from the SharePoint
WebPart base class:
Cross page connections
Connections between Web Parts that are outside of a Web Part zone
Client-side connections (Web Part Page Services Component)
Data caching infrastructure

152. What are the differences between the two base classes and what are the
inherit benefits of using one over another?
The difference is the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart base class is
meant for backward compatibility with previous versions of SharePoint. The
benefit of using the SharePoint WebPart base class is it supported:
Cross page connections
Connections between Web Parts that are outside of a Web Part zone
Client-side connections (Web Part Page Services Component)
Data caching infrastructure
ASP.NET 2.0 WebParts are generally considered better to use because
SharePoint is built upon the ASP.NET 2.0 web architecture. Inheriting from the
ASP.NET 2.0 base class offers you features that inherit to ASP.NET 2.0, such as
embedding resources as opposed to use ClassResources for deployment of said
types.
153. What does the RenderContents method do in an ASP.NET 2.0 WebPart?
The render contents method will render the WebPart content to the writer,
usually an HtmlTextWriter since WebParts will output to an HTML stream.
RenderContents is used to tell how the controls that are going to be displayed
in the WebPart should be rendered on the page.


154. What the difference between CreateChildControls and the RenderContents
method.
The CreateChildControls method is used to add controls to the WebPart, and
the RenderContents method is used to tell the page framework how to render
the control into HTML to display on a page.
155. What is the WebPartManager sealed class? What is its purpose?
The WebPartManager sealed class is responsible for managing everything
occurring on a WebPart page, such as the WebParts (controls), events, and misc.
functionality that will occur in WebPartZones. For example, the WebPartManager
is responsible for the functionality that is provided when you are working with
moving a WebPart from WebPartZone to WebPartZone. It is known as the the
central class of the Web Part Control Set.
156. How many WebPartManager controls should be on a page?
In order to have WebParts on a page there has to be just one WebPartManager
control to manage all the WebParts on the page.
157. What is a SPSite and SPWeb object, and what is the difference between each
of the objects?
The SPSite object represents a collection of sites (site collection [a top level sites
and all its subsites]). The SPWeb object represents an instance SharePoint Web,
and SPWeb object contains things like the actual content. A SPSite object
contains the various subsites and the information regarding them.
158. What is the use of SPWebApplication object?
The SPWebApplication objects represents a SharePoint Web Application, which
essentially is an IIS virtual server. Using the class you can instigate high level
operations, such as getting all the features of an entire Web Application
instance, or doing high level creation operations like creating new Web
Applications through code.
159. How we can get the SMTP address of the SharePoint site?
We can use SpWebApplication.This is a Web Application level setting. You
would iterate through each SPWebApplication in the SPWebApplication


collection, and then use the appropriate property calls
(OutboundMailServiceInstance) in order to return settings regarding the mail
service such as the SMTP address.
160. Do we have any other way to send mail SharePoint
Yes, there is. You can use the SendMail method from the SPutility class to send
simple emails, however it is not as robust as using the System.Net.Mail
functionality since it doesnt allow things like setting priorities on the email.
161. Where Did OWA ULS Logs Go In SharePoint 2013
One of the neat features about SharePoint 2013 is that Office Web Apps has
been split off into it's "own product" so it doesn't have to be installed on a
SharePoint server anymore. There are lots of reasons to do that, like being able
to maintain a separate patching schedule, being able to do a patch with no
downtime, using the same OWA farm for multiple SharePoint farms or other
applications, etc. One of the things that can be tricky to figure out though is
what to do when you need to troubleshoot an issue.
Well it turns out that we still have ULS logs for OWA, even though it's not
"SharePoint" per site. The log files are not where you're used to finding them
though - you need to look in the
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\OfficeWebApps\Data\Logs\ULS folder to find them.
That's the default location, you can change it as well using PowerShell. Once
you find them the same tools that you use to examine SharePoint ULS log files
will work with these as well.
162. Can we update Web.config Settings Programmatically?
One way to modify web.config settings is to use the SPWebConfigModification
class of the Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration namespace, which allows you
to dynamically register entities. These modifications are persisted in the
configuration database where they function as a kind of virtual web.config that
effectively serves as the final layer of the .config file stack for the SharePoint
web application. The changes become effective when the
SPWebService.ApplyWebConfigModifications method is called.


163. How we can deploy master pages in SharePoint?
We can deploy master pages as features in SharePoint. We can use feature
stapling to activate the same in different sites.
164. What is the difference between Site Definition and Site Template?

Site Definitions
A site definition is the core definition of what a site is in SharePoint.
A site definition is installed on file system of web front ends, located at
..\15\Template\SiteTemplates. This directory is language-neutral.
A site definition consists of .aspx pages and .xml files with Collaborative
Application Mark-up Language (CAML).
A major benefit is that the Page and List definition is read locally from the
file system, not from Content Database.
Site Template
A site template is created through the user interface or through
implementation of the object model.
The site template package is a package containing a set of differences and
changes from a base site definition.
The site template package is stored as a CAB-based file that can be
downloaded or uploaded to site collections by users with the appropriate
rights.


Conclusion

These are our answers to some of the SharePoint interview questions. Please refer
MSDN for more details. Please use this as a starting guide for preparing for your
interview. This is my forth book and I am sincerely expressing my heartfelt thanks
to my guide Mr. Mahesh Chand. I also would like to extend my thanks to my
friends Jerin Xavier, Rahul Lathika and Jibin Koshy for contributing to the book
Also, I would like to thank John Panicker for the design work.

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