Microsoft SharePoint 2010 General Interview Questions and Answers

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WorkFlow What is a workflow? Workflow is sometimes described as a series of tasks that produce an outcome. In the context of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, workflow is defined more narrowly as the automated movement of documents or items through a sequence of actions or tasks that are related to a business process. Workflows can be used to consistently manage common business processes within an organization by enabling the organization to attach business logic to documents or items in a SharePoint list or library. Business logic is basically a set of instructions that specifies and controls the actions that happen to a document or item. What are the types of workflow that you can design in SharePoint 2010. There are three types of workflows we can design in SharePoint 2010: 1. List Workflows: 2. Reusable List Workflows: Workflow can be associated to any list, library, or content type in the site collection. 2 Site workflows: is associated to a site Can you modify the Out-of-Box workflows in SharePoint 2010 ? In SharePoint 2010, you have an option to customize the Out-of-Box workflows. What are the Types of forms associated with the workflow ? 1. Initiation form: An initiation form gathers information from the workflow participant when they start the workflow. 2. Task form: A custom task form allows workflow participants to interact with tasks in the Tasks list specified for the workflow. With the Custom Task Wizard, you can easily create custom form fields and add them to a custom task form. When you finish designing the workflow, SharePoint Designer 2010 automatically generates the InfoPath or ASP.NET forms for your custom tasks. 3. Reusable workflow - Association form: A reusable workflow, by default, only provides the fields common to all items, such as Created and Modified by. This is because a reusable workflow isn�t by default associated with a list, library, or content type. An association form enables you to associate fields with a reusable workflow so that the fields will be available when you design and run the workflow. When are these forms get created ? And how do you customize it ? SharePoint Designer 2010 automatically generates the forms, but you can customize them by going to the settings page for the workflow, in the Forms section, click the form you want to customize. Workflow forms are either InfoPath or ASP.NET pages. They are stored on the SharePoint site with the workflow source files. Administrator What are the Hardware and Software requirements for SharePoint 2010. What Has Changed with SSP in SharePoint 2010. In SharePoint 2010 Shared Service Providers (SSP's) are replaced by Service Applications What are the Methods of Backup and Recovery in SharePoint 2010? Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 provides a broad range of levels for performing backups, including the entire farm, farm configuration information, site collections, subsites, or lists. SharePoint Server 2010 uses two different tools to configure backup and recovery. 1. Central Administration: Central Administration provides a user interface where SharePoint Administrators will be prompted via menu structures to select the information that needs to be backed up. 2. Windows PowerShell: Windows PowerShell is a command line tool that provides SharePoint administrators a way to perform backup and recovery with additional options such as file compression or working with SQL snapshots. How to Export a Site or List in SharePoint 2010? SharePoint Server 2010 provides several new features that provide a granular level of backup for various components of site content. This includes content at the site, subsite, and list level. Through Central Administration(Granular level Back-up) a SharePoint Administrator can configure a backup of a subsite or list. An Administrator can choose a site and a specific list to be exported.The administrators can also choose to export security and select the different versions that will be exported with the list. What is Enterprise Metadata Management? Enterprise metadata management (EMM) is a set of features introduced in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 that enable taxonomists, librarians, and administrators to create and manage terms and sets of terms across the enterprise. What is Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint ? SharePoint 2010 provides a new set of technologies known as Business Connectivity Services for retrieving, editing, updating, and deleting data from external systems(for e.g. data from ERP or CRM database). BCS enhances the SharePoint platform�s capabilities with out-of-box features, services and tools that streamline development of solutions with deep integration of external data and services. General What are the security improvements in SharePoint 2010 ? In SharePoint 2010 a variety of security methods have been introduced. Claims-Based Authentication: Claims based authentication is based on identity. and trust. Code Access Security: in which you can specify your own code access security (CAS) policy for your web parts. Sandbox Solutions: Sandbox Solutions which when deployed to the server, SharePoint runs in a special process that has limited permissions. Cross-Site Scripting: Introduced to prevent Cross - Site Scripting (XSS) attacks Whats New with SharePoint WebParts? A developer can create two types of webparts using Visual Studio 2010. 1. Visual Webparts: Allows you to Drag and Drop the controls from the Toolbox to WebPart Design surface. You can of course write your custom code in the code file. You can also package and deploy your webparts directly to Sharepoint from VS by pressing Clt+F5. Visual studio 2010 also provides you with three different views for developing webparts. The views are split view, design view and Source view(as we have in designer 2007). Note : The Visual Webpart project Item basically loads a User Control as a WebPart. 2. ASP.Net WebParts: Where a developer can build up User Interface and logic in a class file. You do not have designer for drag and drop of controls. This webpart inherits from standard ASP.Net webpart. For Deployment we can again use ctrl+f5 to deploy this webpart. What are the Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint. Visual Studio 2010 includes SharePoint-specific project types and project item types, and includes powerful packaging, deployment, and debugging features that help increase your efficiency as a SharePoint 2010 developer. Some of the Templates avaiable are : 1.Visual Web Part project template. 2. List defination template. 3. Content Type template. 4. Empty Project template. 5. Event Receiver template. 6. some workflow template. 7. the Site Definition template and many more.... What are SharePoint Sandboxed soultions ? SharePoint 2010 provides a new sandboxed environment that enables you to run user solutions without affecting the rest of the SharePoint farm. This environment means that users can upload their own custom solutions without requiring intervention from administrators, and without putting the rest of the farm at risk. This means that the existing sites\pages or components will not be effected by the newly added soultion. Users can deploy the below four things as sandboxed soultions : 1. WebParts. 2. Event Receivers. 3. List Definations. 4. Workflows. What are Requirenments for SharePoint 2010. SharePoint Server 2010 will support only 64 - bit. It will require 64 bit Windows Server 2008 or 64 bit Windows Server 2008 R2. In addition to this, it will require 64 bit version of SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit version of SQL Server 2005. What is LINQ. How is it used in Sharepoint ? LINQ is a feature of the programming languages C# 3.0 and Visual Basic .NET. LINQ allows you to query in an object-oriented way, supports compile-time check, gives you intellisense support in Visual Studio and defines a unified, SQL like syntax to query any data source. But unlike other languages and query syntaxes which vary from one type of data source to another, LINQ can be used to query, in principle, any data source whatsoever. It is commonly used to query objects collections, XML and SQL server data sources. The LINQ to SharePoint Provider is defined in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Linq namespace. It translates LINQ queries into Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) queries. What Changes are made in SharePoint 2010 to enforce Referential Integrity? In SharePoint 2010, Referential Integrity is enforced using two options, available with Look-up columns. While creating a Look-up column, you can either choose a) Restrict Delete or b) Cascade Delete to define a relationship between the Look-up list and the list containing the look-up Column. Whats Ribbon in SharePoint 2010? Whats New in SPALerts ? Ans. In SharePoint 2007, alerts were send only through e-mails, but in SP2010 users can also send an alert to mobile devices as SMS Message. A New property DeliveryChannels is introduced to indicate, whether the alert is delivered as E-mail or as an SMS Message.