What is Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server?

MS SharePoint Portal Server is an integrated suite from server side, to help improve
organizational effectiveness with the help of providing
- comprehensive content management
- enterprise search
- accelerating shared business processes
- facilitating information sharing across boundaries
- Provides platform which includes server administration, application extensibility
and interoperability for IT professionals.
What are zones?
Different logical paths (URLs meaning) of gaining access to the same SharePoint
Web application.
Five Zones :
Internet Zone
Intranet
Default
Extranet
Custom
What are Web Application Policies?
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.
What is a site collection?
A site collection contains a top-level website and can contain one or more sub-sites
web sites that have the same owner and share administration settings.
What are content databases?
A content database can hold all the content for one or more site collections.
What is a site?
A site in SharePoint contains Web pages and related assets such as lists, all hosted
within a site collection.
How is SharePoint Portal Server different from the Site Server?
SharePoint Portal Server:
- Web site creation for information sharing and document collaboration is treated as

services by SharePoint Portal Server.

- SharePoint server services are key information worker infrastructure that provides
additional functionality to the MS Office system applications. Site Server:
- Manages websites with multiple technologies
- Content management, product management, order processing , advertisement
serving are some of the functionalities

How is security managed in SharePoint?

Share point uses digital dashboard technology that provides an interface for the
purpose of creating web parts and making them appear them on dash boards. The
security is applicable throughout the organization.
What is Windows SharePoint Services?
Creation of websites for information sharing and document collaboration will be
enabled by Windows SharePoint Services. It provides additional functionality for MS
Office system and other desktop applications. It also supports like a platform for the
development of applications.
What are the Hardware and Software requirements for SharePoint 2010 ?
Hardware requirements :
# Processor 64-bit, four-core, 2.5 GHz minimum per core.
# RAM 4 GB for developer or evaluation use, 8 GB for single server and multiple
server farm installation for production use.
# Hard disk 80 GB for installation
For production use, you need additional free disk space for day-to-day operations.
Add twice as much free space as you have
RAM for production environments.
Software requirements :
# The 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 Standard with SP2. If you are running
Windows Server 2008 without SP2, the
Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies 2010 Preparation Tool installs
Windows Server 2008 SP2 automatically.

What are Managed Accounts?

To reduce the load of managing various service accounts in Microsoft SharePoint
Server 2010, the concept of managed accounts has been introduced. Much like
managed accounts in Windows Server 2008, they allow SharePoint Server to take
control of all the service accounts you use. After SharePoint Server has control of

these accounts, it can either manage their passwords automatically changing

them as necessary or it can notify you when an accounts password is about to
expire,
allowing you to make the change yourself.

How to Move content Databases using PowerShell ?

To attach\detach an existing content database
use Mount-SPContentDatabase "<ContentDb>" DatabaseServer "<DbServer>"
WebApplication http://webapplicationname/
<ContentDb> is the content database to be attached.
<DbServer> is the name of the database server.
http://WebapplicationName is the name of the Web application to which the content
database is being attached.
To detach a content database:
Dismount-SPContentDatabase "<ContentdBName>"

What is an application pool?

A group of one or more URLs that are served by a particular worker process or set of
worker processes.
Why are application pools important?
They provide a way for multiple sites to run on the same server but still have their
own worker processes and identity.
What are My Sites?
Specialized SharePoint sites personalized and targeted for each user.
What is the difference between Classic mode authentication and Claims-based
authentication?
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.
When would you use claims, and when would you use classic?

Classic is more commonly seen in upgraded 2007 environments whereas claims are
the recommended path for new deployments.

What is Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint ?

SharePoint 2010 provides a new set of technologies known as Business Connectivity
Services for retrieving, editing,updating, and deleting data from external
systems(for e.g. data from ERP or CRM database). BCS enhances the SharePoint
platforms capabilities with out-of-box features, services and tools that streamline
development of solutions with deep integration of external data and services.
How is BCS Different from BDC in SharePoint ?
Even though the BDC made it relatively easy to create read-only solutions that
display data in the Business Data List Web Part, it was not so simple to create a
solution that enabled users to make changes and write that data back to the
external store.BCS, on the other hand, provides you with Read-Write capable
connectivity from Client and Server to Database, WCF/Web Services and .Net
Sources. A Developer can now use SharePoint Designer 2010 and VS 2010 rapid
development tools to access
external data.

What is a SharePoint Farm?

SharePoint Farm is a collection of one or more SharePoint server(s) working together
in order to provide a set of
SharePoint Services. Servers in a SharePoint Farm normally share common
resources and owns a single Central Configuration database.
10. What is a Field Control?
Answer : Field controls are simple ASP.NET 2.0 server controls that provide the
basic field functionality of SharePoint. They provide basic general functionality such
as displaying or editing list data as it appears on SharePoint list pages.

13.What is CAML?
Answer : CAML stands for Collaborative Application Markup Language and is an
XML-based languagethat is used in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to define
sites and lists, including, for Eg, fields, views, or forms, but CAML is also used to

define tables in the Windows SharePoint Servies database during site provisioning.
Developers mostly use CAML Queries to retrieve data from Lists\libraries.

. What is the difference between a Site Definition and a Site Template?

Answer : Site Definitions are stored on the hard drive of the SharePoint front end
servers. They are used by the SharePoint application to generate the sites users can
create. Site Templates are created by users as a copy of a site they have configured
and modified so that they do not have to recreate lists, libraries, views and columns
every time they need a new instance of a site.