SharePoint 2010 Interview Questions
Administration and General
1. What are the roles of a SharePoint Administrator?
2. Why do you think companies go for SharePoint?
3. What is version history of SP?
4. What are the various editions of SP 2010?
5. What do you mean SP Topology?
6. How do you plan your SP Topology?
7. What are the pre-requisites to setup a SharePoint Standalone environment?
8. What are the pre-requisites to setup a multi-server SP farm?
9. What is the use of Filter Pack?
10. Can we use SharePoint with a Non SQL Server database?
11. Can SP run without Active Directory?
12. What is the diff between NTLM and Kerberos?
13. What is the diff between Classic and Claims Authentication?
14. What is the diff between Services and Service Applications?
15. What is Alternate Access Mappings?
16. What is extending a Web Application?
17. What is meant by Self Site Creation? How can it be used?
18. Can SP permissions be linked to AD groups?
19. Can users of multiple ADs be used in SP?
20. How can we configure Anonymous Access?
21. What is Host Header? Where is it used?
22. Can we create Custom Service Applications mapping with Web Applications?
23. How can we consume Service Applications of another SP Farm in one SP Farm?
24. How can we manage Content Databases?
25. In a scenario, where you want a Web Application to be temporarily made as Read-Only, what are the options available?
26. In a scenario, where you want a Site Collection to be temporarily made as Read-Only, what are the options available?
27. Can we have multiple Content Databases per application?
28. Can we backup a Web Application?
29. Can we backup a Site Collection?
30. Can we backup a Site?
31. Can we backup a List or Library?
32. What is the expansion of .cmp?
33. Can we backup the whole Farm?
34. Can we backup a Farm Configuration?
35. What is the difference between saving Site as Template including Content and Exporting a Site?
36. How do we configure User Profile Synchronization with Active Directory?
37. What is the use of Audience Targeting?
38. Can we configure Custom Properties for a User Profile?
39. Can a SP user profile property be synchronized back to Active Directory?
40. What is the concept of Managed Accounts?
41. If a Managed Account’s password is changed outside SP, your SP Farm will stop. How do we reset it back?
42. What is the concept of configuring Proxy Server for a Search Service Application?
43. How do we configure Search with File Shares? What permissions are required on the File Shares for the Search to crawl it successfully?
44. How do we avoid a particular Document Library or List from being crawled?
45. How do we avoid a SharePoint page from being crawled and appear in Search Results?
46. What is the concept of Document Conversions?
47. What is the difference between explicit and implicit inclusions in Managed Paths?
48. In a scenario, where we need separate Administrators for a single Service Application, how do we configure and set it up?
49. What is Secure Store Service and how does it work?
50. How do we setup Performance Point Services Dashboard Designer to work?
51. How do we manage User Solutions?
52. If Configuration Database is corrupted / not accessible, will your User Web Applications work?
53. Can we run PowerShell outside the SharePoint Server?
54. Can we use SPD outside the SharePoint Server?
55. How do we change Service Accounts for various Services in SP?
56. What is SP Health Analyzer and how does it work?
57. How do we reset the Search Index?
58. What is a Search Scope?
59. Can the Search Service Application run on multiple Servers?
60. How can we deploy / share content between SharePoint Farms?
61. Can we change a Web Application from Classic Mode to Claims Mode and vice versa?
62. How do we configure SharePoint Web Applications to use Open ID or a third party identity provider?
63. In a scenario, where we have created a Web Application without linking to a particular Service Application, can we add the link later?
64. How do we list all SharePoint Cmdlets in PowerShell?
65. How do we configure a SP PowerShell script to run in a schedule?
66. Difference between StsAdm and PowerShell?
67. Can we use SP cmdlets in Windows PowerShell?
68. How do we find the size of a Site Collection Storage?
69. How do we upgrade from SP 2003 to SP 2010?
70. How do we upgrade from MOSS 2007 to SP 2010?
71. How do we configure Multi-Lingual Sites?
72. How do we install OWA 2010?
73. What are the benefits of FAST Search?
74. How do we configure Incoming e-Mail Settings?
75. How do we configure SMS Alerts?
76. What is Diagnostic Logging?
77. How do we see troubleshoot SharePoint Issues?
78. What is Web Analytics and how do we configure?
79. How do we execute SharePoint’s Timer Jobs?
80. How do we configure Site Quotas?
81. What feature is required to be activated in order to use the Enterprise Search Center Template?
82. How do we configure Reporting Services Integration?
83. How do we determine the patch level of the current deployment?
84. How do we stop users of a site from accessing through SPD?
85. What is the difference between Site Collection Administrator and a User with Full Control?
86. What is the component required in the client side for the Datasheet View to work?
87. What is the difference between Primary and Secondary Site Collection Administrators?
88. RSS Feeds for a Document Library / List do not work and display a message “RSS feeds requiring authentication is not supported”. How do we overcome this problem?
89. Can we downgrade from SP 2010 Enterprise to SP 2010 Standard?
90. Can we use a Farm Configuration Wizard in a standalone installation?
91. What are distribution groups?
92. How do we configure PDF in SP?
93. How do we add / remove file types?
94. What is Information Rights Management?
95. How do we change the Upload Size?
96. How do we change the size of Recycle Bin?
97. How do we setup multiple Content Databases for multiple Site Collections?
98. Can we change a Site Collection from one Content Database to another Content Database?
99. What is List Throttling?
100.What is Request Throttling?
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