Q.
What are some common examples of SharePoint 2010 services architectures, and
what are the advantages of each design? Ans. The three most popular designs are
single farms with either a single service application group or multiple service
application groups, or Enterprise services farms.
Single
farms with a single service application group are generally the most common,
and have the advantages of easy deployment, simple service application allocation,
effective resource utilization and cohesive management.
Single
farms with multiple service application groups is less common, and have the
advantage of potential individual management of service applications as well as
allowing data isolation, and while being more complex to deploy and maintain
allows targeting of sites to particular service applications.
Enterprise
Service Farms is pretty uncommon as it is a complete farm dedicated to Service
Applications but promotes autonomous management and high levels of data
isolation.
Q.
Are there any other type of relevant service architectures? Ans. Depending on the
environment requirements, a specialized farm can also be used in order to
deploy specific services tailored to the organizational requirements which can
aid in scaling out and conservation of resources.
Q.
What is the User Profile service? Ans. Allows configuring and managing
User profile properties, Audiences, Profile synchronization settings,
organization browsing and management settings, and My Site settings.
Q.
What are User Profiles? Ans. Aggregates properties from diverse identity content
sources together to create unified and consistent profiles across an
organization, used throughout the SharePoint environment.
Q.
What is Excel Services? Ans. Allows sharing, securing, managing, and using Excel
2010 workbooks in a SharePoint Server Web site or document library. Excel
Services consists of the Excel Calculation Services (ECS), Microsoft Excel Web
Access (EWA), and Excel Web Services (EWS) components.
Q.
What is PerformancePoint Services? Ans. Allows users to monitor and
analyze a business by building dashboards, scorecards, and key performance
indicators (KPIs).
Q.
What is Visio Services? Ans. Allows users to share and view Microsoft Visio Web
drawings. The service also enables data-connected Microsoft Visio 2010 Web
drawings to be refreshed and updated from various data sources.
Q.
What is Access Services? Ans. Allows users to edit, update, and create linked
Microsoft Access 2010 databases that can be viewed and manipulated by using an
internet browser, the Access client, or a linked HTML page.
Q.
What is the Secure Store Service (SSS)? Ans. A secure database for storing
credentials that are associated with application IDs
Q.
What is Content Deployment? Ans. Content deployment enables you to
copy content from a source site collection to a destination site collection.
Backup
/ DR Questions
Q.
Describe how redundancy can be built into a SharePoint environment. Please be
specific in regards to any auxiliary components.
Ans.
Multiple front-end web servers (WFE’s) can be deployed and correlated through
Windows NLB or anything approach. Application servers can be deployed into the
farm for a variety of purposes, depending on organizational requirements.
Databases can be clustered or mirrored, again depending on requirements and
environment.
Q.
From a basic standpoint, what is the difference between SQL clustering and
mirroring? Ans.
Clustering provides a failover scenario whereby one or more nodes can be
swapped as active depending on whether a node goes down. In mirroring,
transactions are sent directly from a principal database and server to a mirror
database to establish essentially a replica of the database.
Monitoring
Questions
Q.
Describe the monitoring features that are baked into SharePoint 2010. Ans. Diagnostic
logging captures data about the state of the system, whereas health and usage
data collection uses specific timer jobs to perform monitoring tasks,
collecting information about:
Performance
Counter Fata
Event
Log Data
Timer
Service Data
Metrics
For Site Collections and Sites
Search
Usage Data
General
Workflow Questions
Q.
What is a declarative workflow? Can non-authenticated users participate in
workflows? Ans.
Workflows created by using Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010, the default
setting enables deployment of declarative workflows. Yes, however you do not
give non-authorized users access to the site. The e-mail message and
attachments sent from notifications might contain sensitive information
Q.
What is Windows Powershell ? Ans. Windows PowerShell is a new
Windows command-line shell designed especially for system administrators. In
the SharePoint administration context, Windows PowerShell is another
administration tool that supersedes the existing Stsadm.exe.
Q.
How is Windows Powershell different from Stsadm ?
Ans.
Unlike stsadm, which accept and return text, Windows PowerShell is built on the
Microsoft .NET Framework and accepts and returns .NET Framework objects. In
addition to that it also gives you access to the file system on the computer so
that you can access registry,digital signature certificate etc..
Q.
What are cmdlet's? Ans.
Windows PowerShell introduces the concept of a cmdlet which are simple build in
commands, written in a .net language like C# or VB.
Q.
Can you Create PowerShell scripts for deploying components in SharePoint ? Ans. If you are
creating a webpart with VS 2010 then you can deploy it using ctrl + f5.
However, to activate the webpart feature you can write a powershell script
(.ps1) and execute it after dpeloyment.
Q.
Where is Powershell located in sharePoint ? Ans. On the Start menu, click All
Programs -> Click Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products -> Click SharePoint
2010 Management Shell.
Q.
If you need going to install a webpart or any custom solution in SharePoint
2010 using PowerShell What permissions do you need? Ans. In order to use
Windows PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 Products, a user must be a member of the
SharePoint_Shell_Access role on the configuration and content database. In
addition to this, the user must also be a member of the WSS_ADMIN_WPG local
group on the computer where SharePoint 2010 Products is installed.
Q.
How to list all the commands in PowerShell ? Ans. Get-Command * commands gets you
all the Powershell command
Q.
What is the advantage in using Windows PowerShell over stsadm in SharePoint
2010 ?
Ans.
Unlike stsadm, which accept and return text, Windows PowerShell is built on the
Microsoft .NET Framework and accepts and returns .NET Framework objects.Windows
PowerShell also gives you access to the file system on the computer and enables
you to access other data stores, such as the registry and the digital signature
certificate stores etc..
Q.
How would you deploy WebPart Using Windows PowerShell? Ans. At the Windows
PowerShell command prompt (PS C:\>), type the below command :
Install
-SPWebPartPack -LiteralPath “FullPathofCabFile” -Name “Nameof WebPart”
Q.
What would you like to see in the next version of SharePoint? Ans. A few
suggestions:
SPS
and STS on same machine
Tree
view of Categories and Folders
General
Discussion Web Part
Personalization
of Dashboards
Role
Customization
Email
to say WHY a document has been rejected for Approval
More
ways to customize the interface
Backup
and restore an individual Workspaces
Filter
for Visio
Better
way to track activity on SPS
Ability
to Save as from Adobe to space on My Network Places
Q.
What is a site definition? Ans. It’s a methods for providing prepackaged site and list
content.
Q.
What is a template? Ans.
A template is a pre-defined set of functions or settings that can be used over
time. There are manytemplates within SharePoint,Site Templates, Document
Templates, Document Library and ListTemplates.
Q.
How do you install web parts? Ans. Web Parts should be distributed as
a .CAB (cabinet) file using the MSI Installer.
Q.
What is a DWP? Ans.
The file extension of a web part.
Q.
What is the GAC? Ans.
Global Assembly Cache folder on the server hosting SharePoint. You place your
assemblies there for web parts and services to share them.
Q.
Can I post any kind of document? Can i restrict some document types Ans. You can post
documents in many formats, including .pdf, .htm and .doc. In addition, if you
are using Microsoft Office XP, you can save documents directly to your Windows
SharePointServices site. Yes, you can restrict document types by either adding
them to central admin or by using a custom event receiver.
Q.
Can I create custom templates? Ans. Yes you can. You can create site
or list templates which are nothing but a set of files, pages and data so that
they can be re-used for business process. For e.g. creating a issue tracking
list template will be used to various other teams.
Q.
How can I make My site public? Ans. By default, all sites are created
private.If you want your site to be a public Web site, enable anonymous access
for the entire site. Then you can give out your URL to anybody in yourbusiness
card, e-mail or any other marketing material. The URL for your Web site will
be:http:// yoursitename.wss.bcentral.com Hence, please take special care to
name your site.These Web sites are ideal for information and knowledge
intensive sites and/or sites where you need to have shared Web
workspace.Remember: Under each parent Web site, you can create up to 10
sub-sites each with unique permissions, settings and security rights.
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