SharePoint Authentication Interview Questions

Q. What is the difference between an Internet and an intranet site? Ans. An internet site is a normal site that anyone on the internet can access (e.g., www.msn.com, www.microsoft.com, etc.). You can set up a site for your company that can be accessed by anyone without any user name and password.

An intranet (or internal network), though hosted on the Web, can only be accessed by people who are members of the network. They need to have a login and password that was assigned to them when they were added to the site by the site administrator

Q. What are the various kinds of roles the users can have? Ans. A user can be assigned one of the following roles

Reader - Has read-only access to the Web site.

Contributor - Can add content to existing document libraries and lists.

Web Designer - Can create lists and document libraries and customize pages in the Web site.

Administrator - Has full control of the Web site.

Q. What are the types of authentication available for Sharepoint 2010 ? Ans. Claims

Windows

Forms-based authentication

Ref : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262350(office.14).aspx

 Q. What is claims based authentication ?  Ans. Claims is a new authentication method that SharePoint 2010 can utilize. This allows a single authentication store for multiple types of authentication (Windows NTLM, SQL FBA, LDAP, etc) which allows all of these types of authentication to access SharePoint under a single URL.

Claims creates a SAML token based on the sign-in, that contains the user’s identity.

Ref: http://blogs.technet.com/ritaylor/archive/2009/06/03/claims-based-authentication-an-overview.aspx

 Q. How do we use the claims identity outside of SharePoint? Ans. LOB systems

External partner services

Separate SharePoint farms