Q.
Whats new in Shared Service Provider (SSP ) in Sharepoint 2010 ? ( Alt Q: What
is "Service Application" ? )
Ans.
“Service Application” or “Service App” is a concept in Sharepoint 2010, where
SSP Services are split out into separate services.
What
is replaced :
Profiles,
Audiences = People Service App
Search
= Search Service App
Excel
= Excel Service App
Whats
new :
Project
Server = Project Server App
Visio
Services = Visio Service App
Advantages
:
Web
applications can be configured to only use a subset of the deployed services.
You
can deploy multiple instances of the same service in a farm by giving the new
service instances unique names.
You
can share services across multiple web applications in a farm.
Q.
How is SharePoint Portal Server different from the Site Server? Ans. 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 and also allows showing them on dashboards pages. Site
Server on the other hand, does not have anything as advanced as that. The
biggest difference would be Sharepoint Portal Server’s document management
features which also integrate with web folders and MS Office.
Q.
What is an application pool? Ans. A group of one or more URLs that
are served by a particular worker process or set of worker processes.
Q.
Why are application pools important? Ans. They provide a way for multiple
sites to run on the same server but still have their own worker processes and
identity.
Q.
What are zones? Ans.
Different logical paths (URLs meaning) of gaining access to the same SharePoint
Web application.
Q.
What are Web Application Policies? Ans. Enables security policy for users
at the Web application level, rather than at the site collection or site level.
Importantly, they override all other security settings.
Q.
What are content databases? Ans. A content database can hold all
the content for one or more site collections.
Q.
What are My Sites? Ans.
Specialized SharePoint sites personalized and targeted for each user.
Q.
What is the difference between Classic mode authentication and Claims-based
authentication? Ans.
As the name implies, classic authentication supports NT authentication types
like Kerberos, NTLM, Basic, Digest, and anonymous. Claims based authentication
uses claims identities against a against a trusted identity provider.
Q.
When would you use claims, and when would you use classic? Ans. Classic is more
commonly seen in upgraded 2007 environments whereas claims are the recommended
path for new deployments.
Q.
Describe the potential components for both a single server, and multiple
servers, potentially several tiered farms. Ans. A single-server SharePoint Server
2010 environment leverages a built-in SQL Server 2008 Express database. The
problems with this environment is scalability, not being able to install the
with built-in database on a domain controller, the database cannot be larger
than 4 GB, and you cannot use User Profile Synchronization in a single server
with built-in database installation.
An
example of a multiple tier farm would be a three-tier topology, considered one
of the more efficient physical and logical layouts to supports scaling out or
scaling up and provides better distribution of services across the member
servers of the farm. This is considered a good architecture since one can add
Web servers to the Web tier, add app servers to the application tier, and add
database servers to the database tier.
Q.
What are some of the tools that can be used when backing up a SharePoint 2010
environment? Ans.
SharePoint farm backup and recovery
SQL
Server
System
Center Data Protection Manager
Q.
What Microsoft tool can be used for incremental backups? Ans. System Center
Data Protection Manager
Q.
What is Managed Metadata? Ans. Managed metadata is a hierarchical collection of
centrally managed terms that you can define, and then use as attributes for
items.
Q.
What are Terms and Term Sets? Ans. A term is a word or a phrase that
can be associated with an item. A term set is a collection of related
terms.
Q.
How do Terms And Term Sets relate to Managed Metadata? Ans. Managed metadata
is a way of referring to the fact that terms and term sets can be created and
managed independently from the columns themselves.
Q.
Are there different types of Term Sets? Ans. There are Local Term Sets and
Global Term Sets, one created within the context of a site collection and the
other created outside the context of a site collection, respectively.
Q.
How are terms created and used? Ans. There are several ways; however
the most common is to use the Term Store Management Tool.
Q.
How is Managed Metadata, and the related Term technology used? Ans. Through the UI,
the most common use is through the managed metadata list column which allows
you to specify the term set to use. It also related to searching and enhancing
the user search experience.
Q.
What is a sandboxed solution? Ans. Components that are deployed to
run within the sandboxed process rather than running in the production Internet
Information Services (IIS) worker process.
Q.
What are some examples of things that might run within the SharePoint sandbox? Ans. Any of the
following are acceptable answers:
·
Web Parts
·
Event receivers
·
Feature receivers
·
Custom Microsoft SharePoint Designer workflow activities
·
Microsoft InfoPath business logic
·
Etc.
Q.
Why are sandboxed solutions used? Ans. Primarily because they promote
high layers of isolation. By default they run within a rights-restricted,
isolated process based around Code Access Security (CAS). Isolation is possible
to increase with activities like running the sandboxing service on only
specific SharePoint 2010 servers.
Q.
What is a content source in relation to SharePoint search? What’s the minimum
amount of content sources? Ans. A content source is a set of options that you can use
to specify what type of content is crawled, what URLs to crawl, and how deep
and when to crawl. You must create at least one content source before a crawl
can occur.
Q.
What is a search scope? Ans. A search scope defines a subset of information in the
search index. Users can select a search scope when performing a search.
Q.
What is a federated location with SharePoint search? Ans. Federated
locations provide information that exists outside of your internal network to
your end-users.
Q.
How does managed metadata affect search? Ans. Enhances the end-user search
experience by mapping crawled properties to managed properties. Managed
properties show up in search results and help users perform more successful
queries.
Q.
What is query logging in SharePoint 2010? Ans. Collects information about user
search queries and search results that users select on their computers to
improve the relevancy of search results and to improve query suggestions.
Q.
What authentication type does the SharePoint crawler use? Ans. The crawl component
requires access to content using NTLM authentication.
Q.
Please describe what a Service Application is in SharePoint 2010. Ans. Service
applications in SharePoint 2010 are a set of services that can possibly be
shared across Web applications. Some of these services may or may not be shared
across the SharePoint 2010 farm. The reason these applications are shared is
the overall reduction of resources required to supply the functionality these
services cultivate.
Q.
Please provide an example of one of these service applications. Ans. Any of the below
are acceptable answers:
·
Access Services
·
Business Data Connectivity service
·
Excel Services Application
·
Managed Metadata service
·
PerformancePoint Service Application
·
Search service
·
Secure Store Service
·
State service
·
Usage and Health Data Collection service
·
User Profile service
·
Visio Graphics Service
·
Web Analytics service
·
Word Automation Services
·
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Subscription Settings Service
Q.
What are Service Application Groups used for? Ans. Just provides a
logical grouping of services that are scoped to a particular Web Application.
Q.
How are Service Applications deployed in terms of IIS (Internet Information
Services)? Ans.
They are provisioned as a single Internet Information Services (IIS) Web site.
Q.
Explain how connections are managed with Service Applications. Ans. A virtual entity
is used that is referred to as a proxy, due to label in PowerShell.
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