MOSS interview questions - Microsoft office sharepoint
server 2007
MOSS stands for Microsft Office Share Point Server. MOSS is a portal based
platform for complete management of documents & web
services..................
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Six pillars of MOSS2007: Collaboration: SharePoint allows for
collaboration by integrating workspaces, tasks, forums, surveys, blogs, RSS
feeds and Wikis...............
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Architecture of MOSS: The diagram below depicts the
Architecture of MOSS. Office Sharepoint Server: This layer manages excel
services, infopath forms services, project server, enterprise search, policy,
single sign on, business data catalogs................
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Types of sharepoint sites: Wiki: This is usually where
everyone is allowed to add/change content for a common
knowledgebase..............
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Advantages: Sharepoint provides simple user experience
because of simple and consistent interface...............
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Master pages provide a base look and feel and standard
behaviors that are needed for all of the pages in your site..............
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Page layout defines the look and feel of a Web page. Content
for the page is stored in fields on the page. When you view or edit a page, the
content is displayed in the field controls.............
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Ways to author content: Browser-based authoring: Content
creators and editors work directly in the web browsers through MOSS based
features like Page editing toolbar, HTML editor toolbar............
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Workflows are implementation of business processes allowing people to
collaborate on documents through various project tasks assigned to
individuals.............
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Steps to implement workflows in MOSS: Add workflow to a
document library, routing document to different people for approval
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Ways to initiate a workflow: Once a workflow has been linked
to a document, one can start the workflow by selecting the workflow that you
want from the list of workflows............
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Types of workflow supported: Sequential: Sequential workflow
as the name suggests simply depicts the fact that there is a collection of
tasks which need be completed in a sequence one by one...............
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Components of workflow architecture: One can create workflows
using Visual Studio2010 workflow designer. Every single workflow is compiled
into its own dll..............
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MOSS has the capability for a workflow participant to fill an
initiation form to start a workflow. The initiation form can have fields that
support:.............
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MOSS has the capability for a workflow participant to fill an
initiation form to start a workflow. The initiation form can have fields that
support:............
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In Moss, a method activity is one that performs an action,
e.g.: creating/updating a task............
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DPM is designed for the Sharepoint Administrator using a
variety of wizards and workflows to help ensure protection of data. It provides
the following benefits in terms of MOSS:.............
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Data Protection Manager provides the ability to backup an
entire sharepoint farm including the SQL Server databases, metadata, farm
configuration files and indexes for federated search...............
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Difference between MOSS and MOSS for Internet sites: MOSS -
Content, information, and applications are meant to be used by internal
people/employees...............
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Sharepoint based websites can be configured to be password protected to
restrict access to users. Only registered users can then access it and an
invitation to those users is sent via email...............
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To make a sharepoint website public, enable anonymous access
for the entire site. One can then pass on the url for the website through
emails etc and allow public users to access the sharepoint
website..............
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Advanced features of MOSS 2007: My site personal site:
Provides users an opportunity to aggregate information into “for me, by me,
about me”. .............
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MOSS provides enhanced document management including document
authoring, business document processing, web content management and
publishing...............
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The Sharepoint Team Services provides an efficient text based
search capability to find documents and information................
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The Sharepoint Site Server has search capabilities which are more advanced
using SharePoint. It uses digital dashboard technology, which provides a nice
interface for creating web parts.............
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Sharepoint Websites exist in a hierarchy. At the top of the hierarchy is a
Top-Level website. There can then be multiple sub sites under this top-level
website and sub sites under sub sites..................
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A collection of sites along with the top level site is known
as a single site collection in Sharepoint. While creating a new Web
Application, one has to follow creating a site collection to specify the
content of the web application....................
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One can create custom application pages to add GUI components
in Sharepoint. Unlike site pages, an application page is deployed only once per
Webserver.................
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Comparison of UserControl and WebPart Advantages of
UserControl:..............
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Authentication methods supported by Sharepoint: Classic-mode
authentication methods - Anonymous, Basic, Digest..................
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The WebPartManager sealed class manages everything in context of a WebPart
page, i.e. WebParts controls, events..............
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AllowUnsafeUpdates allows updates on a GET request. It basically allows code to
bypass security validation while making..............
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RunWithElevatedPrivileges executes code as the System account. This basically
then means that the code that you supply...............
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SPWeb.EnsureUser method validates whether the specified login name belongs to a
valid user of the website or not............
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Difference between SPSite and SPWeb object: SPSite - The
SPSite object represents a collection of sites, i.e. Site Collection, a top
level site and all its sub sites.................
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The SPWebApplication class consists of various methods and
properties to perform various manipulations on web applications. i.e. Perform
backups, add content databases............
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Create a reference to the SharePoint Lists.asmx web service by appending
“/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx” to the end of a site name...............
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CAML: - Collaborative Application Markup Language.
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Impersonation is the concept of providing functionality in the context of a
different identity, for example letting a user access the system with anonymous
access................
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WebPart properties are just like ASP.NET control properties, they are used to
specify the characteristics of a webpart and by specifying the attributes with
the desired values by a user..............
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ClassResources are defined in the SharePoint solution file. It is a helpful
directory to use in order to deploy custom images...............
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A SharePoint solution file is compressed file that contains
custom components. It is suffixed with a .wsp extension that aids in
deployment...............
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A .ddf file: Data Directive File. It contains the metadata
like the source files and their destination locations. The .ddf file is passed
as a parameter..............
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Event receivers allow responding to events as they occur
within SharePoint, such as adding an item or deleting an item.............
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Event receivers respond to events, thus used for something as canceling an
action, e.g. deleting a document library by using the Cancel
property.............
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An asynchronous event takes place after an action has taken
place, and a synchronous event occurs before the action has take
place...................
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Synchronous event are the ones in which the caller needs to pause to wait for a
response. The fact that it waits for a response means that the call is a
“blocking” call to the event handler...............
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