MOSS interview

1.What is MOSS? Explain its features.

MOSS stands for Microsft Office Share Point Server. MOSS is a portal based platform for complete management of documents & web services..................
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2.Explain the Six Pillars of MOSS 2007, i.e. Collaboration, Portal, Enterprise Search, Web & Enterprise Content Management, Forms Driven Business Process, Business Intelligence

Six pillars of MOSS2007: Collaboration: SharePoint allows for collaboration by integrating workspaces, tasks, forums, surveys, blogs, RSS feeds and Wikis...............
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3.Discuss the architecture of MOSS.

Architecture of MOSS: The diagram below depicts the Architecture of MOSS. Office Sharepoint Server: This layer manages excel services, infopath forms services, project server, enterprise search, policy, single sign on, business data catalogs................
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4.Explain types of SharePoint Sites.

Types of sharepoint sites: Wiki: This is usually where everyone is allowed to add/change content for a common knowledgebase..............
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5.What are the main benefits of Office SharePoint Server 2007?

Advantages: Sharepoint provides simple user experience because of simple and consistent interface...............
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6.Explain sharepoint master pages and its features.

Master pages provide a base look and feel and standard behaviors that are needed for all of the pages in your site..............
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7.Describe page layouts of MOSS.

Page layout defines the look and feel of a Web page. Content for the page is stored in fields on the page. When you view or edit a page, the content is displayed in the field controls.............
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8.SharePoint has two ways to author content, i.e. Smart Client Authoring and Browser-based Authoring. Explain them

Ways to author content: Browser-based authoring: Content creators and editors work directly in the web browsers through MOSS based features like Page editing toolbar, HTML editor toolbar............
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9.What is SharePoint Workflow? Explain its purposes

Workflows are implementation of business processes allowing people to collaborate on documents through various project tasks assigned to individuals.............
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10.Explain how to implement workflow in SharePoint.

Steps to implement workflows in MOSS: Add workflow to a document library, routing document to different people for approval ..............
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11.What are the ways to initiate the workflow?

Ways to initiate a workflow: Once a workflow has been linked to a document, one can start the workflow by selecting the workflow that you want from the list of workflows............
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12.Two types of workflow supported, i.e. Sequential, State Machine. Explain them

Types of workflow supported: Sequential: Sequential workflow as the name suggests simply depicts the fact that there is a collection of tasks which need be completed in a sequence one by one...............
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13.Explain the components that Workflow Architecture contains.

Components of workflow architecture: One can create workflows using Visual Studio2010 workflow designer. Every single workflow is compiled into its own dll..............
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14.What are the types of input forms that can be created for a workflow? Explain them

MOSS has the capability for a workflow participant to fill an initiation form to start a workflow. The initiation form can have fields that support:.............
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15.What are ways to create input forms for workflow?

MOSS has the capability for a workflow participant to fill an initiation form to start a workflow. The initiation form can have fields that support:............
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16.Differentiate between method activity and event activity in workflow.

In Moss, a method activity is one that performs an action, e.g.: creating/updating a task............
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17.What is System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM)? Explain its purpose in MOSS

DPM is designed for the Sharepoint Administrator using a variety of wizards and workflows to help ensure protection of data. It provides the following benefits in terms of MOSS:.............
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18.How does DPM for MOSS Work?

Data Protection Manager provides the ability to backup an entire sharepoint farm including the SQL Server databases, metadata, farm configuration files and indexes for federated search...............
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19.Differentiate between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Difference between MOSS and MOSS for Internet sites: MOSS - Content, information, and applications are meant to be used by internal people/employees...............
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20.How do I invite users to join a Windows SharePoint Services Site? Is the site secure?

Sharepoint based websites can be configured to be password protected to restrict access to users. Only registered users can then access it and an invitation to those users is sent via email...............
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21.How can I make my site public? By default, all sites are created private.

To make a sharepoint website public, enable anonymous access for the entire site. One can then pass on the url for the website through emails etc and allow public users to access the sharepoint website..............
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22.Explain the advanced features of MOSS 2007.

Advanced features of MOSS 2007: My site personal site: Provides users an opportunity to aggregate information into “for me, by me, about me”. .............
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23.What are the features of the new Content management in Office SharePoint 2007?

MOSS provides enhanced document management including document authoring, business document processing, web content management and publishing...............
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24.Does a SharePoint Web site include search functionality? Write the features of the search component of Office SharePoint Server 2007?

The Sharepoint Team Services provides an efficient text based search capability to find documents and information................
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25.How is SharePoint Portal Server different from the Site Server?

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.............
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26.How do the sub sites work in SharePoint?

Sharepoint Websites exist in a hierarchy. At the top of the hierarchy is a Top-Level website. There can then be multiple sub sites under this top-level website and sub sites under sub sites..................
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27.Differentiate between a site and a web.

A collection of sites along with the top level site is known as a single site collection in Sharepoint. While creating a new Web Application, one has to follow creating a site collection to specify the content of the web application....................
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28.What are Application Pages in SharePoint?

One can create custom application pages to add GUI components in Sharepoint. Unlike site pages, an application page is deployed only once per Webserver.................
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29.Which is Better a UserControl or WebPart? Explain why

Comparison of UserControl and WebPart Advantages of UserControl:..............
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30.Explain the Security methods(Authentication methods) available in sharepoint

Authentication methods supported by Sharepoint: Classic-mode authentication methods - Anonymous, Basic, Digest..................
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31.What is the WebPartManager sealed class? What is its purpose?

The WebPartManager sealed class manages everything in context of a WebPart page, i.e. WebParts controls, events..............
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32.Explain the role of AllowUnsafeUpdates.

AllowUnsafeUpdates allows updates on a GET request. It basically allows code to bypass security validation while making..............
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33.Explain the role of RunWithElevatedPrivileges.

RunWithElevatedPrivileges executes code as the System account. This basically then means that the code that you supply...............
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34.Explain the role of SPWeb.EnsureUser method.

SPWeb.EnsureUser method validates whether the specified login name belongs to a valid user of the website or not............
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35.What is a SPSite and SPWeb object, and what is the difference between each of the objects?

Difference between SPSite and SPWeb object: SPSite - The SPSite object represents a collection of sites, i.e. Site Collection, a top level site and all its sub sites.................
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36.Explain the role of SPWebApplication object.

The SPWebApplication class consists of various methods and properties to perform various manipulations on web applications. i.e. Perform backups, add content databases............
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37.How do you return SharePoint List items using SharePoint web services?

Create a reference to the SharePoint Lists.asmx web service by appending “/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx” to the end of a site name...............
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38.What is CAML? Explain its usage.

CAML: - Collaborative Application Markup Language. ................
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39.What is impersonation, and when would you use impersonation?

Impersonation is the concept of providing functionality in the context of a different identity, for example letting a user access the system with anonymous access................
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40.What are WebPart properties, and what are some of the attributes you see when declaring WebPart properties in code?

WebPart properties are just like ASP.NET control properties, they are used to specify the characteristics of a webpart and by specifying the attributes with the desired values by a user..............
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41.What are ClassResources? How do you reference and deploy resources with an ASP.NET 2.0 WebPart?

ClassResources are defined in the SharePoint solution file. It is a helpful directory to use in order to deploy custom images...............
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42.What is a SharePoint Solution File? How does it differ from WebPart .cab files in legacy development? What does it contain?

A SharePoint solution file is compressed file that contains custom components. It is suffixed with a .wsp extension that aids in deployment...............
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43.What is a .ddf file and Explain its purposes

A .ddf file: Data Directive File. It contains the metadata like the source files and their destination locations. The .ddf file is passed as a parameter..............
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44.What are event receivers?

Event receivers allow responding to events as they occur within SharePoint, such as adding an item or deleting an item.............
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45.When would you use an event receiver?

Event receivers respond to events, thus used for something as canceling an action, e.g. deleting a document library by using the Cancel property.............
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46.Difference between an asynchronous and synchronous event receivers

An asynchronous event takes place after an action has taken place, and a synchronous event occurs before the action has take place...................
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47.Differentiate between Synchronous & Asynchronous events.

Synchronous event are the ones in which the caller needs to pause to wait for a response. The fact that it waits for a response means that the call is a “blocking” call to the event handler...............
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