SharePoint Interview Questions and Answers

1. What is SharePoint?

SharePoint is a platform for building collaboration solutions.
It supports

• Document Management
• Colloboration
• Sharing and publishing information
• Enterprise Search
• Business Intelligence like Dashboard and Survey
• Business Forms i.e Electronic forms and workflows

2. Site and Site Collection

• Site is the collection of webpages and information in a organized way
• Site having its own list and libraries likes images and documents
• Site having the information about its users and their rights
• It is very useful to fix the boundries

    Site collection is the collection of sites. It is the logical group of SharePoint site it having a top level site that includes the users and their information of the site collection.

3. Web application 
           Web application is the collection of site collection.  Simply web application is an iis virtual directory.  It having own application pool.

4.Custom Action 

            SharePoint ribbon has many icons to access.  The SharePoint developer can add his own menu icon in the ribbon and add the action also this is called custom action.  In SharePoint 2007 we can add our own menu item in the site actions menu and in the default display form.

5.WebPart, WebPart Zones, WebPart Pages

            WebPart is a widget it can be attachable to the webpage in the run time by the users.  It can be minimize, remove and configure its properties.

           WebPart Zone is the container to add the WebPart it is resizeable at the time of designing . We can add n number of WebParts inside the WebPart Zone.

           WebPart Page is like a normal webpage but it includes at-least one WebPart Zone.

6.Feature    

          Feature is a functional component it includes SharePoint instances like webpart, masterpage, custom action, list, etc and its own files like elements. Feature can activate and deactivatable.  When we activate the feature the sharepoint instances in the feature added to the feature scope.  The feature having its own event receivers the are handles the following events installing, uninstalling, activated and deactivated.  The scopes of the feature are 1.web 2.site 3. farm.

7.WSP files

           Windows Solution Package.  WSP file is the combination of the solution files and its dlls it includes the maifest file also.  It is like CAB file.

  

8. List Vs Document Library

              Almost both are same but the difference is list item can able to attach more than one files.  But document library can able to attach only single file, because the information all are about that single document.

9.Data Connection Library

               Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 provides a business intelligence (BI) feature called the Data Connection Library (DCL), which lets you centrally store and manage Microsoft Office external data connections. Office external data connections are the external data source connection files that Microsoft Excel and InfoPath use for sourcing data from external data sources. Office external data connections are useful because you can reuse them—the end user doesn't need to remember the data source specifics (e.g., address, authentication).