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Thursday 4 August 2011

SharePoint Interview Questions and Answers 9

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106. What is the difference between SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services?
SharePoint Portal Server is the global portal offering features like global navigation and searching. Windows SharePoint Services is more content management based with document libraries and lists. You apply information to certain areas within your portal from Windows SharePoint Services or directly to portal areas.

107. What is a web part zone?
Web part zones are what your web parts reside in and help categorize your web parts when designing a page.

108. How is security managed in SharePoint?
Security can be handled at the machine, domain, or sharepoint level.

109. How are web parts developed?
Web parts are developed in Visual Studio .Net. VS.Net offers many web part and page templates and can also be downloaded from the Microsoft site.

110. What is a SharePoint farm?
Multiple machines running services for SharePoint. Otherwise known as Topology.

111. What is a site definition?
It’s a methods for providing prepackaged site and list content.

112. What is a template?
A template is a pre-defined set of functions or settings that can be used over time. There are many templates within SharePoint, Site Templates, Document Templates, Document Library and List Templates.

113. How do you install web parts?
Web Parts should be distributed as a .CAB (cabinet) file using the MSI Installer.

114. What is the difference between a site and a web?
The pages in a Web site generally cover one or more topics and are interconnected through hyperlinks. Most Web sites have a home page as their starting point. While a Web is simply a blank site with SharePoint functionality built in; meaning you have to create the site from the ground up.

115. What are the differences between web part page gallery, site gallery, virtual server gallery and online gallery?
Web Part Page Gallery is the default gallery that comes installed with SharePoint. Site Gallery is specific to one site. Virtual Server gallery is specific to that virtual server and online gallery are downloadable web parts from Microsoft.

116. What is the GAC?
Global Assembly Cache folder on the server hosting SharePoint. You place your assemblies there for web parts and services.

117. What is a DWP?
The file extension of a web part.

118. What is CAML?
Stands for Collaborative Application Markup Language and is an XML-based language that is used in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to define sites and lists, including, for example, fields, views, or forms, but CAML is also used to define tables in the Windows SharePoint Services database during site provisioning.

119. What is a document library?
A document library is where you upload your core documents. They consist of a row and column view with links to the documents. When the document is updated so is the link on your site. You can also track metadata on your documents. Metadata would consist of document properties.

120. What is a meeting workspace?
A meeting workspace is a place to store information, attendees, and tasks related to a specific meeting.



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