SharePoint Interview Questions and Answers

  1.  What are the different types of input forms created for workflow?

You can create four different input forms for workflow like association form, initiation form, modification form and task edit form.

2.  What are the advantages of SharePoint Portal Services?

SharePoint Portal Services has good document management  and search engine with check-in, check-out, versioning, approval, publishing, subscriptions and Categories which crawl multiple resources .

3.  What is Microsoft Office SharePoint Server?

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server often called as MOSS which is mainly meant for creating, managing, sharing documents and web services.

4.  What is the process of debugging SharePoint application and timer jobs?

Initially we need to build an application place .dll in to gac and iis need to reset. After that we need to select Attach to process on Debug menu and need to select Show Process from all users checkbox then we need to select W3W.exe and OSWTIMER.exe file can be attached and SharePoint site breakpoint should be refreshed.

5.  What is the use of Sandbox solution in SharePoint?

If Program is written for one particular site and solution is uploaded in the same site then we can use sandbox solution to administrator. If the failure caused and to stop the working of the solution if it shows bad performance by increasing the size of the file or through bad code

6.  What are the default master pages available in SharePoint2010?

There are four master pages available in SharePoint 2010. They are v4.master, default.master, minimal.master and simple. Master

7.  How many Zones we can create in a web application of SharePoint?

We can create 5 different zones in web application they are Default, Intranet, Extranet, Internet and custom. Each and every zone provides the individual logical paths of authentication for the same web application.

8.  How many web applications can be created on WSS Server?

We can limit the number of web applications running on a server to 99.

9.  What do you mean by Site collection?

Site collection is nothing but a set of websites. We can create multiple site collections in a web application with multiple child sites.

10.  What is the advantage of SharePoint Delegate Control?

If we want to add a control on the SharePoint page we use SharePoint Delegate Control. Even we can override the custom control on the page without any modifications on the page.