SharePoint 2013/2010 Interview questions - Part 1

Q. What are basic building blocks for SharePoint?

A. SharePoint Developer Building Blocks, which are the technologies that you use to build a SharePoint application.

Q. What is a SharePoint Application?

A. To summarize, SharePoint Server is a system with the following capabilities:

·         Sites – Web Sites both inside and outside the firewall.

·         Communities – Collaboration through wikis, blogs, and more.

·         Content – Enterprise Content Management (ECM) – Web Content Management (WCM) – Publishing Systems.

·         Search – SharePoint includes a search engine that you can customize for your needs.

·         Insights – Business Intelligence (BI).

·         Composite Applications – includes data access, user interface, processes, and infrastructure.

SharePoint is a scalable architecture that can be appropriate for a few user, or 100,000 employees of a large corporation.  For web sites outside of the firewall, SharePoint for Internet Services allows you to build scalable, flexible web sites that you can maintain with the ease of maintaining a SharePoint site.

Q. What are SharePoint capabilities?

A. 

- Sites 

- Communities

- Content Publishing Systems 

- Web content management

- Enterprise content management 

- Search Insights 

- Composites Building Block Description

Q-1: What is new in SharePoint 2013 over SharePoint 2010?

A- There are various new features in SharePoint 2013 over SharePoint 2010. You can also check out some New Features in SharePoint. And also you can check a video tutorial on Benefits of SharePoint 2013.

Q-2: What are Apps in SharePoint 2013?

A- Apps for SharePoint are self-contained pieces of functionality that extend the capabilities of a SharePoint website. Check out more on Apps in SharePoint 2013.

Q-3: How to deploy .wsp Solutions from SharePoint 2010 in SharePoint 2013?

A- You can do this using the CompatabilityLevel parameter of Install-SPSolution cmdlet.

Q-4: Is it possible to create sandboxed solution in SharePoint 2013?

A- Sandbox Solutions are deprecated in SharePoint 2013, but still, you can create them. You can check out the limitation of Sandboxed solutions.

Q-5: What’s the new App model in SharePoint 2013?

A- SharePoint 2013 introduces a Cloud App Model that enables you to Create apps. Check out this article for more information.

Q-6: What are the hardware and software requirements for SharePoint 2013?

A- You can check a good article on SharePoint 2013 hardware and software requirements.

Q-7: What is Shredded Storage?

A- Shredded Storage is a new Feature Introduced in SharePoint 2013 where Documents and Changes to the Documents are stored as Shredded BLOBS.

Q-8: What are new event receivers in SharePoint 2013?

A- SharePoint 2013 has various new event receivers like SPSecurityEventReceiver. Check a good article on New features in Event Receivers in SharePoint 2013.

Q-9: What is new in Search in SharePoint 2013?

A- There are various new things introduced like FAST search is now combined, previously it was coming separately in SharePoint 2010. Check out more SharePoint 2013 search articles.

Q-10: What is OAuth used for in SharePoint 2013?

A- Oauth used to authorize requests by an app for SharePoint to access SharePoint resources on behalf of a  user and also Oauth used to authenticate apps in the Office Store, an app catalog, or a developer tenant.

You can check out more in this article.

Q-11: What are remote event receivers in SharePoint 2013?

A- Remote event receivers are introduced in Sharepoint 2013. It occurs to an item in the app, such as a list, a list item, or a web.

Q-12: What are Community Sites in SharePoint 2013?

A: Community sites are introduced in SharePoint 2013. Check out some benefits of SharePoint 2013 community sites.

Q-13: What is the Content Search Web Part?

A: Content Search Web Part displays content that was crawled and added to the search index. Check out a good article on Content Search Web Part.

Q-14: What are the new Delegate Controls in SharePoint 2013?

A- SharePoint 2013 introduced some new delegate controls like SuiteBarBrandingDelegate delegate Control, SuiteLinksDelegate delegate Control, PromotedActions Delegate Control etc.

Q-15: What’s new with Visual WebPart in SharePoint 2013?

A-: In SharePoint 2013, both web user control and the webpart class are merged into one template file in visual webpart. Check out this article on how to create a visual webpart in Sharepoint 2013.

New and improved features in SharePoint Server 2016

Feature	Description
Access Services	New Access features are available when you deploy Access Services in SharePoint Server 2016 .
Compliance features	New compliance features for SharePoint Server 2016 include the document deletion and in-place hold policies.
Customized web parts	The compile time for customized XSLT files used for Content Query, Summary Links, and Table of Contents Web Parts is improved.
Document Library accessibility	SharePoint Server 2016 includes new document library accessibility features.
Durable links	Resource-based URLs now retain links when documents are renamed or moved in SharePoint.
Encrypted Connections	SharePoint Server 2016 supports TLS 1.2 connection encryption by default.
Fast Site Collection Creation	The Fast Site Collection Creation feature is a rapid method to create site collections and sites in SharePoint.
Filenames - expanded support for special characters	SharePoint Server 2016 now supports using some special characters in file names that were blocked in previous versions.
Hybrid in SharePoint 2016	Hybrid in SharePoint Server 2016 enables you to integrate your on-premises farm with Office 365 productivity experiences, allowing you to adopt the cloud at your own pace.
Identify and search for sensitive content	SharePoint Server 2016 now provides the same data loss prevention capabilities as Office 365.
Image and video previews	You can now preview images and videos in SharePoint Server 2016 document libraries.
Information Rights Management	SharePoint Server 2016 provides Information Rights Management (IRM) capabilities to secure information by encrypting and securing information on SharePoint libraries with OneDrive for Business.
Large file support	SharePoint Server 2016 now supports uploading and downloading files larger than 2,047 MB.
MinRole	MinRole is a new feature in SharePoint Server 2016 that allows a SharePoint farm administrator to define each server’s role in a farm topology.
Mobile experience	SharePoint Server 2016 offers an improved mobile navigation experience.
New features in November 2016 PU for SharePoint Server 2016 (Feature Pack 1)	The November 2016 Public Update for SharePoint Server 2016 (Feature Pack 1) offers seven new features for SharePoint Server 2016.
New controls for working with OneDrive for Business	SharePoint Server 2016 provides controls at the top of your personal document folders that make common tasks in OneDrive for Business more accessible.
New Recycle Bin in OneDrive and Team sites	SharePoint Server 2016 adds a link for the Recycle Bin in the left navigation area of the OneDrive and Team sites.
Open Document Format (ODF)	SharePoint Server 2016 adds support for Open Document Format (ODF) files to use in document library templates.
Project Server	New Project Server features are available in SharePoint Server 2016.
ReFS file system support	SharePoint Server 2016 now supports drives that are formatted with the ReFS file system.
SharePoint business intelligence	SharePoint Server 2016 now supports SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.1 and the Power Pivot add-in and Power View.
SharePoint Search	SharePoint Search Server Application has significant changes to its deployment.
Sharing improvements	SharePoint Server 2016 has many new sharing improvements available.
Site Folders view	SharePoint Server 2016 provides a new Site Folders view that lets you access the document libraries in sites that you're following.
Sites page pinning	This new feature helps you see and follow sites.
SMTP Connection Encryption	SharePoint Server 2016 supports sending email to SMTP servers that use STARTTLS connection encryption.
SMTP ports (non-default)	SharePoint Server 2016 adds support for SMTP servers that use TCP ports other than the default port (25).
Web Application Open Platform Interface Protocol (WOPI)	You can now rename files, create new files, and share files from within the WOPI iframe on the browser page.