SharePoint interview question and answers Part 1
1. What all are new OOB Webparts/Apps
1. What all are new OOB Webparts/Apps
o SharePoint
2013 Minimal Download Strategy
o Promoted
Links App
o Design
Manager
o Remote
event receivers
o Cross-site
publishing
o SharePoint
2013 Service Application Databases
o Timeline
web part
o FAST
Query Language (FQL) features that are deprecated
o OAuth
in SharePoint 2013
o PDF
file support
o Shredded
Storage
o Image
Renditions
o New
master pages
o Mobile
Apps
o Audio
and Video Content Type
o TilesViewWebPart
2. SharePoint 2013 come with some new delegate
controls
- SuiteBarBrandingDelegate delegate Control
- SuiteLinksDelegate delegate Control
- PromotedActions Delegate Control etc.
3. News Feeds, Tags, Follow etc. and what are the
social feature you have worked?
4. What is Design Manager, SharePoint Designer and
InfoPath Designer?
5. What is OData and OAuth
o OAuth
is to authorize requests by an app for SharePoint to access SharePoint
resources on behalf of a user and also OAuth used to authenticate apps in the
Office Store, an app catalog.
o Producers
expose their data in a structured way via a web service. Examples include
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.
6. What is Pages layouts and how can we use it?
o In
a page layout, you are essentially telling SharePoint what it should fill all
those empty bookshelves with. You declare a control (a certain shelf), and then
tell SharePoint what goes inside
7. What is cross site publishing SharePoint 2013
and how / why to use it?
o Cross-site
publishing feature is used to store and maintain content in one or more
authoring site collections and display the content in one or more publishing
site collections. Cross-site publishing will make life easy for you as it:
1.
Can be used across site collections, web
applications, and even across farms.
2.
Separates content authoring from branding and
rendering, meaning how you author content has nothing to do with how it is
displayed to users.
3.
Allows you to mix pages and catalog content.
8. SharePoint services names and what are Newly
introduced?
o Access
Service , Access Service 2010
o App
Management Service
o Business
Data Connectivity Service
o Excel
Services Application
o Machine
Translation Service
o PerformancePoint
Service
o PowerPoint
Automation Service
o Managed
Metadata Service
o Search
Service
o Secure
Store Service
o State
Service
o User
and Health Data Collection Service
o User
Profile Service
o Visio
Graphics Service
o Word
Automation Services
o Work
Management Service
o Microsoft
SharePoint Foundation Subscription Settings Service
9. Managed metadata services, term set, how to
import term set, how to create and manage term set (example country-state-city)
o The managed navigation feature in SharePoint Server 2013 enables you to build navigation for a publishing site that is derived from a SharePoint managed metadata taxonomy. In SharePoint Server 2010, by default, you could base navigation only on the structure of a site. To create site navigation based on any data structure, you had to create a custom navigation provider. By using managed navigation, you can design site navigation around important business concepts. Managed navigation also lets you create friendly URLs without changing the structure of your site. In SharePoint Server 2010, all publishing site URLs contained a reference to the Pages library and any folders within that library — for example, http://contoso.com/Pages/AboutUs.aspx. In SharePoint Server 2013, you can create URLs that are better for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and easier for site visitors to read — for example, http://contoso.com/AboutUs.
10. How to configure Managed Meta data Navigation?
11. What is USerProfile service, how to consume it
and how many ways you can consume it?
o User
Service side code, Client side code, InfoPath forms , Designer we can consume
UPSA
12.
Improvements in SharePoint Search / what is
FAST Search?
13.
What is Workflow Manager and Improvements in
current version? (architecture, Service and commands)
14. What is webpart life cycle,
o OnInit – Configuration values set using
WebBrowsable properties and those in web part task pane are loaded into the web
part.
o OnLoad
o CreateChildControls – All the controls
specified are created and added to controls collection. When the page is being
rendered for the first time the method generally occurs after the OnLoad()
event. In case of postback, it is called before the OnLoad() event. We can make
use of EnsureChildControls() – It
checks to see if the CreateChildControls method has yet been called, and if it
has not, calls it.
o LoadViewState – The view state of the
web part is populated over here.
o OnPreRender – Here we can change any of
the web part properties before the control output is drawn.
o RenderContents – Html Output is
generated.
o OnUnload(EventArgs e)
o Dispose()
15. SharePoint 2013 Authentication
o Windows claims
o Security
Assertion Markup Language (SAML)-based claims
o Forms-based
authentication claims
o See
for details https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219758.aspx
16. What is Distributed caching?
o A new service called Distributed Cache. 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 provides in-memory caching services and does not have a dependency on databases for several features in SharePoint Server 2013. Some of the features that use the Distributed Cache service include:
- Newsfeeds
- Authentication
- OneNote client access
- Security Trimming
- Page load performance
o When
the service is enabled, these features use the Distributed Cache for quick data
retrieval. Blob Cache and Output Cache do not use a distributed caching service
since these types of cache exist on each Web Front End server in the farm
17. Types of events available in SharePoint –
(Sync and aSync or Adding / Added)
(Sync and aSync or Adding / Added)
o Item
Level
o Security
/ Permission
o List
o Web
18. Remote event receiver.
o By
Client service in SharePoint (app- we use in provider hosted app).
19. Name the REST Api operation names?
o GET,
PUT, POST, Delete
20. What query string element enables a client
webpart to talk back to the parent?
o SenderId.
21. What is the PFX and CER cert ?
o PFX
is required by the App and the CER is needed by SharePoint
22. What is .App file? What it contains?
o It
is like .zip file
23.
What API do Apps use? (both REST and CSOM)
24.
Where will you find the necessary DLLs to refer?
(15/16 hive ISAPI folder)
25.
What serialization formats are used with REST in
SharePoint?(JSON and ATOM)
26. What are Ghosted pages and Unghosted pages?
The pages those are stored in File system are Ghosted pages which are faster and UnGhosted pages are those are being stored in SharePoint Database and comparative slower in rendering.
27. What is SharePoint Object Hierarchy?
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26. What are Ghosted pages and Unghosted pages?
The pages those are stored in File system are Ghosted pages which are faster and UnGhosted pages are those are being stored in SharePoint Database and comparative slower in rendering.
27. What is SharePoint Object Hierarchy?
- SPFarm
- SPWebApplication
- SPSiteCollection
- SPWeb
- SPList
- SPListItemCollection
- SPListItem, SPField
Recommends reading below points (search over internet)
1. How
to Configure Search Service Application? How to Create/Config its Databases,
Crawls and scopes?
2. What
is Display templates, how to you use?
3. What
all are the new features of SharePoint?
4. What
is Image rendition and Shredded storage?
5. How
to improve SharePoint site performance?
6. What
is Site Ribbon- how to add option in it? And how to hide it from specific site.
7. How
to create or Override - delegate controls
8. Master
pages creation/ branding, Important/Required control name those needs to be
added in MasterPage.
9. How
to create Responsive SharePoint site? (bootstrap in html5 and css3)
10. PDF
file support, what is I Filter PDF?
11. Feature
stapling, and how and why to do it?
12. Sandbox
solution-2013 supported? on Which Process is run and why? – SPUCWorkedProcess.exe
– rest search it over internet
13. SPQuery
vs SiteDataQuery
14. Can
we user list Joins in SharePoint? How to apply joins, tell me important tag
names?
15. One
Issuer ID can be setup for hosting multiple clients/apps in provider hosted
apps?
16. What
is JSON and ATOM format?
17. What is Reusable Workflows
18. SharePoint Permission Hierarchy?
19. Content and Config DataBase Difference?
20. BCS service, operation names and how to Configure it.
17. What is Reusable Workflows
18. SharePoint Permission Hierarchy?
19. Content and Config DataBase Difference?
20. BCS service, operation names and how to Configure it.
