SharePoint 2010 Interview Questions With Answers

What is SharePoint?

SharePoint 2010 is a platform where user can share Data, Collaborate and people can also take this platform and customized platform as per their requirements.

What are the types of authentication available for SharePoint 2010?

1. Claims

2. Windows

3. Form Based Authentication

What are the two different versions in SharePoint 2010?

SharePoint 2010 has 2 different products namely SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010.

SharePoint Foundation 2010

SharePoint Server 2010

What’s new in Shared Service Provider (SSP) in SharePoint 2010 ?

“Service Application”or “Service App” is a concept in SharePoint 2010, where SSP Services are split out into separate services.

Profiles, AudiencesàPeople Service Application

SearchàSearch Service Application

ExcelàExcel Service Application

Project ServeràProject Server Application

Visio ServicesàVisio service application

How to create a simple Website in SharePoint 2010?

In Order to create the SharePoint, we need to use the following steps:

SharePoint Central Administration

Click on manage web application

Top most left screenàNew Menu

New web application

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.

What is a site collection?

A site collection contains a top-level website and can contain one or more sub-sites web sites that have the same owner and share administration settings.

What are Web Application Policies?

Enables security policy for users at the Web application level, rather than at the site collection or site level. Importantly, they override all other security settings.

What are content databases?

A content database can hold all the content for one or more site collections.

What is the difference between Classic mode authentication and Claims-based authentication?

As the name implies, classic authentication supports NT authentication types like Kerberos, NTLM, Basic, Digest, and anonymous. Claims based authentication uses claims identities against a against a trusted identity provider.

When would you use claims, and when would you use classic?

Classic is more commonly seen in upgraded 2007 environments whereas claims are the recommended path for new deployments.

What are Terms and Term Sets?

A term is a word or a phrase that can be associated with an item. A term set is a collection of related terms.

What are different types of Term Sets?

There are Local Term Sets and Global Term Sets, one created within the context of a site collection and the other created outside the context of a site collection, respectively.

What Is Governance in terms of SharePoint 2010?

Governance is the set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that guide, direct, and control how an organization’s business divisions and IT teams cooperate to achieve business goals.

What are some useful, OOB features of SharePoint that aid with governance of an environment?

Please refer the following options:

Site templates – consistent branding, site structure, and layout can be enforce a set of customizations that are applied to a site definition.

Quotas – limits to the amount of storage a site collection can use.

Locks - prevent users from either adding content to a site collection or using the site collection.

Web application permissions and policies – comprehensive security settings that apply to all users and groups for all site collections within a Web application.

Self-service site creation - enables users to create their own site collections, thus must be incorporated into a governance scheme.

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Reference:
What's New in Sharepoint 2010


What is sharepoint 2010 , sharepoint foundation 2010 and sharepoint server 2010 ?


Interview with Andrew Connell on SharePoint 2010


Professional SharePoint 2010 Development