SharePoint Interview Questions:
What is SharePoint?What is SharePoint, SharePoint is a technology used for web site development. Its collaboration portal which is used to share the data at a one point and then can be accessed based on the user roles and permission levels.
With SharePoint, rather than having to seek out a developer, users can now just talk to the database and server administrators, and start creating and deploying sites themselves. SharePoint will take care of all the data and its connection to the content database.
SharePoint provides various templates and features for modifying and customizing almost everything, from simple layout to the data structure held in lists. For the user, SharePoint acts like an application. Several tools accompany it, including Central Administration, SharePoint Designer, Infopath and the site settings options.
What is WSS and MOSS?
WSS is nothing but the Windows SharePoint Services, and Content Management System in 2003, generally useful for small team/ organization portal development. MOSS is Microsoft Office SharePoint Services is developed in 2007. This was very stable SharePoint version, before 2010.
In SharePoint 2010, there is integration of WSS (2003) and MOSS (2007).
What is top 10 Features in SharePoint?
- SharePoint Designer Enhancement
- Fast Search
- Business Connectivity Services
- New Hardware Requirement
- Workflow improvement
- Visio Services
- Social Networking Capabilities
- Developer Productivity Enhancement
- Business Intelligence Requirement
- Reporting and Logging
What is Central Administration in SharePoint?
Central Administration in SharePoint is a website which is useful for administration functionality or configuration setting for sites. Central Admin can perform many task at farm level, including site collections and other sites settings.
You can find its server running in windows services as - SharePoint Central Administration started, and IIS application pool.
What is WebPart?
Web Part is the unit of functionality in SharePoint. Web Parts are placed within the Web Part Zone. There are two types of Web Parts :
1. Visual Web Part
2. Non-Visual Web Part
It can act like a window to a component that may be displayed on another SharePoint page on your site. A Web Part may display your calendar or task list or a shared documents library. There are other types of Web Parts that show components like an Excel spreadsheet or a list of site members. We can combine and configure several Web Parts on a single page to show various components on your site.
A Web Part can be edited, and also an item can be added to Web Part. Some Web Parts can be much more complicated and can involve much more configuration which is why you might want to close one you've worked on rather than deleting it. Closed Web Parts can be found in the Closed Web Parts Category.
What is Site Collection?
Site Collection is a logical group of sub sites which helps us to identify the sites group wise like HR site collection will have HR sub sites, ACCOUNT site collection will have accounts sub sites. Site collection helps us to have separate permissions for each site collection. so that hr users will not have access for accounts users and vice a versa.
What is Site Template in SharePoint 2010?
What is Site Column in SharePoint 2010?
What is Site Definition in SharePoint 2010?
What is difference between List and Library?
What are the main features in SharePoint?
What is difference between Farm Solution and Sandbox Solution in SharePoint?
What is the difference between Site Pages and Application Pages?
What are the Content Types?
What are the Event Receivers?
It is nothing but an events that can be used to handle the action in SharePoint 2010.
Event receivers are classes that inherit from the SpItemEventReciever or SPListEventReciever base class (both of which derive out of the abstract base class SPEventRecieverBase), and provide the option of responding to events as they occur within SharePoint, such as adding an item or deleting an item.
What is CAML?
CAML
What is difference between SPSite and SPWeb object?
SPSite object represents the site collection (the top level site and its subsites) and contains the information about the site collections and different objects under it whereas SPWeb reprensets the subsite under the particular site collection. The actual contents are accessible using SPWeb object.
You can access all other object within that site collection or site with SPSite and SPWeb objects.
What does AllowUnsafeUpdates do?
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