Sharepoint interview questions
Sharepoint - posted on August 27, 2008 at 17:10 pm by Amit
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What is SharePoint?
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SharePoint is Microsofts enterprise information portal. It can be configured to
run Intranet, Extranet and Internet sites.
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 allows people to connect and
collaborate.
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A SharePoint enterprise portal is composed of SharePoint Portal and Windows
SharePoint Services.
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SharePoint Server is designed medium to large company wide enterprise portal.
What is Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server?
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a collaborative enterprise portal
that is built upon WSS 3.0. MOSS 2007 allows people, teams and expertise to
connect and collaborate. Unlike WSS, SharePoint Server is not free and requires
an additional license. MOSS 2007 comes in two versions – Standard and
Enterprise. The main components of SharePoint 2007 are collaboration, portals,
enterprise search, enterprise content management, business process and forms,
and business intelligence.
How is SharePoint Portal Server different from the Site Server?
It becomes difficult to keep a track of the large amount of documents with the
growth of companies. SharePoint lets these be stored centrally. So instead of
having them shared via emails, Sharepoint allows an easy access to the members
by storing the files at one place. SharePoint allows anyone to create sites for
use within their company’s Intranet
How is security managed in SharePoint?
Authentication
SharePoint can run under various IIS modes to authenticate its users. The modes
include: Anonymous, Basic, Integrated Windows or Certificates Authentication
(over SSL).
Authorization
SharePoint security facilitates the regulation of access privileges of
users and groups as well.
Impersonation
.NET Impersonation which is utilized by SharePoint allows an
application to run under the context of the client accessing an application.
Deployment and Code Access Security
.NET Code Access Security (CAS) provides a security model. It can
restrict the operations that can be performed as well as the resources that can
be accessed by managed code.
What is Windows SharePoint Services?
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is the platform on which all SharePoint Products
and Technologies are built. It is suitable for small teams, projects and
organizations.
WSS’s project collaboration, document workspace, meeting sub-site, and
discussion board features allow individuals and small teams to collaborate and
share information online.
New features in WSS 3.0 include
- integrated workflows,
- RSS feeds,
- blogs,
- wikis and
- ASP-style Web parts.
What is a SharePoint site definition?
SharePoint sites consist of numerous Web pages, just like an ASP.NET 2.0
application.
When a site is created, these pages are created as instances in the content
database.
The instances refer to the actual file on the file system.
What is CAML?
CAML stands for Collaborative Application Mark-up Language.
CAML is used to define tables in the Windows SharePoint Services database during
site provisioning.
It is an XML-based language that is used in Microsoft Windows SharePoint
Services to define sites and lists.
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