Q1. What are the New Changes in
Search?
Ans: In SharePoint 2013 the best of two Search Engines "SharePoint
Search" and “FAST Search Server for SharePoint” was combined to make one Search Engine that
would provide greater redundancy and for better scalability.
Q2. What is Continuous Crawl?
Ans: A new Crawl Option "Continuous crawls" has been Introduced
in search's Crawl Schedule Category to help keep the search index and search
results as fresh as possible.Continuous crawls run every 15 minutes by
default.
Q3. What are Display Templates?
Ans: To eliminate the fact that the designers and power users needed to
modify the XSLT each time they needed a particular look and feel in SharePoint,
a new concept of Design Templates has been introduced. Each Display Template
consist of two files an HTML file (.html) and JavaScript File (.js).
Q4. What is the new Analytics
Processing Component in SharePoint 2013?
Ans: The Analytics Processing Component in SharePoint Server 2013 analyzes
both the Content and the way users interact with it.The results from the
analysis are added to the items in the search index to be used by Search
Webparts,Recommendation Reports,Most Popular Items reports and other WebParts.
Q5: What analysis are done by
Analytics Processing Component in SharePoint 2013?
Ans: The Analytics Processing Component runs two main types of analyses:
Search analytics and Usage analytics. Search analytics analyzes content in the
search index, and usage analytics analyzes the user actions.
Q6. What is the purpose of new
Content Search Web Part(CSWP)?
Ans: In SharePoint 2013 Microsoft has introduced a new webpart called
“Content Search Web Part (CSWP)”.This WebPart queries against search Index to display
results. The webpart displays search results in a way that you can easily
format it and customize it.
Administration -
Q7. What is Shredded Storage?
Ans: Its a new Feature Introduced in SharePoint 2013 where Documents and
Changes to the Documents are stored as “Shredded BLOBS” in the new DocStreams
Data Table.Unlike SharePoint 2010, it helps to lower down the amount of storage
required for saving files by saving only the Changes and not the entire
Versions of the Files in database.
Q8: Why would you Disable
Shredded Storage?
Ans: Shredded storage is a
per document feature.So if two Copies of the exactly same document is stored in
two different libraries, these two documents will still have their own set of
shreds which will take up twice the space of each individual document.
Q9. Whats new in SPSite
Powershell Cmdlet?
Ans: SPSite has few new
parameters in SharePoint 2013 to make Site Collection Operations easier.
New-SPSite cmdlet allows
to Create a Host-name Site Collections adding a using the
HostHeaderWebApplication parameter that identifies the Web Application where
the site collection is being Created.
Copy-SPSite (new) Use the
Copy-SPSite cmdlet to make a copy of a site collection from one Source content
database to a specified destination content database.The copy of the site
collection has a new URL and a new SiteID.This will be very useful when
renaming a SiteCollection.
Q10: What’s new with Web
Content Management in SharePoint 2013
Ans:For End users and
Contributors, some very Interactive features such as Drag and Drop of
documents,Convert to PDF(Print to pdf),Quick edit (datasheet view),Document
Library Search(Find a File),Get Embed code for documents and Out of box PDF
Support etc. has been added in Web Content Management.
Q11: What is the new Out-of-box
PDF Support?
Ans: SharePoint 2013 now
offers Out-of-box PDF Support and what that really means is that PDF icon is
now natively supported and PDF when opened in SharePoint 2013 will try to open
in the Adobe Reader and prompt user to either checkout & open or open the
file in PDF directly.
Q12: What is Embed Code and How
do you get Embed Code for a document?
Ans: SharePoint 2013
provides a support to get “Embed Information” for documents and other digital
Content types such as Videos,Audios etc. to be added on any SharePoint Page or
in a Microblogging feed.
Q13: What are the new “Digital
Content types”?
Ans: In SharePoint 2013
Microsoft has introduced a new set of content types called “Digital Asset
Content Types” for better use of Audio, Video and Images as Web Content.These
content types can be added to any library and can be used as a one of the items
files.
Q14: How does the new Video
Content type work in SharePoint 2013?
Ans: Video Content type
added to SharePoint 2013 is a very useful addition for Content Authors.The
Improved Asserts Library provides support for Video Content Types and provides
various Out-of-Box views like “Thumbnails” and Out-of-Box pages like “Video
Page” to View Videos in a very Interactive way.
Videos in SharePoint 2013 are
Organized in a manner similar to “document sets”. SharePoint Creates a stub
(think of it as a folder) to hold a video and all the related contents, such as
user-defined properties, thumbnails, video renditions, and other documents
related to the video. You can use the Video Content Type in Asserts Library
properties.
Q15: What players are Supported
for playing SharePoint 2013 Video files.
Ans: SharePoint 2013
supports two Video players – HTML 5 player and a Silverlight player.SharePoint
chooses the player automatically, depending on the video format that it
encounters in the video set (the collection of files that are related to the
video). If the format can’t be played on the HTML 5 player, the SharePoint uses
the Silverlight player.
Q16: What is “Image
Renditions”?
Ans: Image renditions
enable you to render a single image in multiple ways. An image can be displayed
in various sizes or with different cropping.
Q17: What is the new IFrames
support in SharePoint 2013?
Ans: SharePoint 2013 was
added with the new Out-of-Box Support for IFrames.Admins can now embed dynamic
content from other sites, such youtube videos or maps to any SharePoint site by
using IFrames. Admins would need to add the Domain for the external site in
“HTML Field Security” first.
Q18: How would you use “Related
Items” Column?
Ans: A new Column type
“Related Items” has been Introduced in SharePoint 2013 where you can add
reference to another Item or a document from any List\Library as a related
entity to one of the Item using Related Items column.
Q19: What Changes are
Introduced in SharePoint 2013 Publishing
Ans: SharePoint Server
2013 has two ways that you can make published Content available to users:
author-in-place and cross-site publishing.
Author-in-place – When
users use a single site collection to author content and make it available to
readers
Cross-site collection
publishing -
Q20: What is Cross-Site
Publishing?
Ans: Cross-Site Publishing
is a new Feature in SharePoint Server 2013 that enables you to reuse content
across site collections,web applications, and farms.You can use cross-site
publishing to Create branded Internet, intranet and extranet publishing sites.
Q21 : What’s new with Social
Capabilities in SharePoint 2013
Ans: In SharePoint 2013
Microsoft has Introduced new Social Capabilities to let users Collaborate
Socially in the Company.My Sites have been enhanced Incredibly to Integrate
these Social features.Some of the new Features added are Community
Sites,Microblogging,Newsfeed\Site feed,Follow people and Follow Sites.
Q22: What is new SharePoint
2013?
Ans: SharePoint 2013 is
the next Version of Microsoft’s famous Collaboration and Document Management
Software called SharePoint.This Version follows SharePoint 2010 that was
released back in May 2010.SharePoint 2013 was released (as Preview and RTM
versions) with some new & exciting features such as Real Time Social
Feed,Shredded Storage,SharePoint Apps,Cross-site publishing,Out-of-Box PDF
support,Minimal Download Strategy and lot more.
Q23: Why should a Company Migrate to SharePoint 2013?
Ans: Microsoft has added
some Incredible features to SharePoint 2013 that can be of huge benefit to all
the Companies that use SharePoint on a large scale. Most of the new Features
are Introduced for Improving SharePoint Performance (for both Browser and SQL)
and to enhance the famous Web Content Management Capabilities.There is an
Improvement for all – end users, developers and IT administrators.
Q24: What is the Licensing
Model for SharePoint 2013?
Ans: With SharePoint 2013
Microsoft has Introduced User License Enforcement Capabilities – that means
different licenses can be assigned to different users based on Active Directory
security groups that are added in.A group of admins for example would need features
that are offered by Enterprise license but a group end users on the other hand
can work with Standard license and would not need to pay more.By default the
User License Enforcement is disabled and must first be enabled to begin
assigning, using, and implementing user licensing capabilities
Q25: How does SharePoint 2013
Improve Performance?
Ans: SharePoint 2013
Introduces Minimal Download Strategy and Distributed Cache
Service to Improve Page Load; and Shredded Storage to Improve
Storage required for saving files.
Q26: What is Minimal Download
Strategy?
Ans: Minimal Download
Strategy in SharePoint 2013 improves rendering performance when browsing
content where large parts of the page do not change providing a more fluid
navigation experience. For example when navigating between a site’s home page
and Shared Documents page only the Content that has changed between the source
and destination page (controls and placeholders in the content area) are
downloaded and Url subsequently updated where the chrome is persisted.
Q27: What is Distributed Cache
Service?
Ans:The Distributed Cache
service provides caching features in SharePoint Server 2013. The microblog
features and feeds rely on the Distributed Cache to store data for very fast
retrieval across all entities. The Distributed Cache service is built on
Windows Server AppFabric, which implements the AppFabric Caching service.
Windows Server AppFabric installs with the prerequisites for SharePoint Server
2013.
Q28: What is Shredded Storage?
Ans: With Shredded Storage
feature enabled, every document and the Changes made to the document, is stored
in SQL as multiple “Shredded BLOBS“. Whenever a new Version of a document is
Created, only the BLOBs of the document that Corresponds to the Change are
saved as opposed to the entire document as a new version.This feature helps to
lower down the amount of storage required for saving files.
Q29: How does Shredded Storage
Work?
Ans: Every Document in
SharePoint 2013 is now stored as multiple “shredded BLOBS” in the new
“DocStreams” data table.Whenever a new Version of a document is created, a new
Record is written in this data table that contains only the “Shred BLOB” of the
original document that corresponds to the Change, merged with the new
Changes.In other words a new Blob with Changes is added as a new row in the
table.Each BLOB that gets added Contains a numerical Id that represents the
source BLOB.At the end it is the job of BLOB Index to keep the track of Blobs
and to create a full file with the Combination of entries that point to the
unchanged shreds of the previous version(s) and the entries that point to the
newly added Changed shreds.
Q30: What is the new Analytics
Processing Component in SharePoint 2013
Ans: The Analytics
Processing Component in SharePoint Server 2013 analyzes both the Content and
the way users interact with it.The results from the analysis are added to the
items in the search index to be used by Search Webparts,Recommendation
Reports,Most Popular Items reports and other WebParts.
Q31: What analysis are done by
Analytics Processing Component in SharePoint 2013
Ans: The Analytics
Processing Component runs two main types of analyses: Search analytics and
Usage analytics. Search analytics analyzes content in the search index, and
usage analytics analyzes the user actions.
Q32: What are Device Channels
in SharePoint 2013
Ans: With device channels
in SharePoint 2013, you can render a single publishing site in multiple ways by
using different designs that target different devices for example mobile
devices etc.These device channels can each be given a different master page and
CSS file to give users a more optimal viewing experience.
Q33: What is Device Channel
Panel Control in SharePoint 2013
Ans: Device Channel Panel
is a new control that you can include in a page layout to control what content
is rendered in which channel. The Device Channel Panel is a container that is
mapped to one or more channels.
Q34: How does Backward
Compatibility works in SharePoint 2013
Ans: In SharePoint 2013
with the new “CompatabilityLevel” parameter of Install -SPSolution cmdlet you
can now deploy your .wsp or Solution to either 14 hive or 15 hive or both.
Q35: What’s new with
Development in SharePoint 2013
Ans: Apart from the new App Model for Creating Custom
Components, Microsoft has added a few new Namespaces to work with newly added –
Social,Event Receivers,Delegate Controls,Callout Popups and other Custom
Components in SharePoint 2013.In addition to these classes a few new templates
in Visual Studio 2012 has also been added to Create better solutions.
Q36: What’s the new App model?
Ans: SharePoint 2013 Introduces a Cloud App Model that enables you to
Create apps.Apps for SharePoint are self-contained pieces of functionality that
extend the capabilities of a SharePoint website. An app may include SharePoint
components such as lists, workflows, and site pages, but it can also surface a
remote web application and remote data in SharePoint.
Q37: What kind of Apps Can
Developed?
Ans: The Code for an app runs in different places, depending on where your
app is hosted.They never run in the context of SharePoint Server, but they will
run in the context of the browser or in the context of the hosted platform.You
Can Develop three kind of Apps –
SharePoint-hosted apps
Provider-hosted and autohosted
apps – In the cloud
Apps that have a mix of Components
in SharePoint and in the cloud
Q38: What’s new with Visual
WebPart in SharePoint 2013?
Ans: A new Visual WebPart Template has been added to Visual Studio 2012
for Creating Visual Webparts for SharePoint 2013. In this new Template both the
User Control and WebPart Classes are merged to Create one template unlike
SharePoint 2010 where you had a separate ascx and webpart file.Also, now you
can Create both Sandbox and Farm solutions using Visual WebPart Template.
Q39: What’s the new
TilesViewWebPart in SharePoint 2013?
Ans: SharePoint 2013 Introduces a new “Getting Started” WebPart that has
“Tiles” to provide an easy access to some of the main links in the Site like –
adding lists\libraries,Creating masterpage etc.To Programmatically Create this
new WebPart a new abstract base class TilesViewWebPart has been added in
SharePoint API.You have to Create a Custom Webpart and Inherit from
TilesViewWebpart and Override GetTiles() to Create Custom tiles.
Q40: Can you Create& Deploy
Sandbox Solutions in SharePoint 2013?
Ans: Sandbox Solutions are depreciated in SharePoint 2013.You can still
Create them and deploy them but they are not supported by Microsoft (not 100%
sure about this though).
Q41: Can we deploy Solutions
Created in SharePoint 2010 in SharePoint 2013?
Ans: Yes. Most of the Solutions Should work fine but it is Recommended to
Re-Create a Solution in Visual Studio 2012, Re-add all the features,Components
and then deploy it to SharePoint 2013.
Q42: Why Would you Recommend
Re-Creating Solutions?
Ans: SharePoint 2013 provides Support for both 14 Hive and 15 Hive.Both
the directories are Created by default.So if you deploy a SharePoint 2010
Solution that refers to say _layouts folder, the reference will be made to 14
Hive and not 15 Hive by default. To make the solution refer to 15 Hive’s
_layouts folder you need to Re-Create the Solution in Visual Studio 2012 and
fix the _layouts reference to add ’15′ into it.
e.g.
14 Hive –
_/layouts/custompage.aspx
15 Hive –
_/layouts/15/custompage.aspx
Notice the reference of 15 in
_layouts folder reference.
Q43: How do you Force a
Solution to be Deployed to 15 Hive and not 14 Hive?
Ans: If the solution was Created in Visual Studio 2010, you would
add SharePointVersion=”15.0″ attribute in Solution’s manifest.xml
file to force it to deploy in 15 Hive instead of 14 Hive.If the Solution
however is Created in Visual Studio 2012, you don’t need to do anything, it
gets deployed to 15 Hive by default.
Q44: How do you Deploy Solution
to 14 hive or 15 Hive without modifying Solution.
Ans: In SharePoint 2013 with the new “CompatabilityLevel” parameter of
Install-SPSolution cmdlet you can now Deploy your wsp Solutions to 14 hive, 15
hive or both.
Q45: Can you Deploy Master Page
and Custom Css from SharePoint 2010 in SharePoint 2013?
Ans: Master Pages and Css has Changed a lot in SharePoint 2013.You can
deploy a master page in Master page gallery but the styles from old core.css
needs to be updated.
Q46: Can you use Fabulous 40
templates in SharePoint 2013?
Ans: As per MSDN, Microsoft is not Creating any New Versions of these
Templates.The old Sites based on these templates Can be upgraded only if the
Templates are Installed successfully in SharePoint 2013.You can try installing
wsp of Fab 40 with CompatabilityLevel as 15 and upgrade the existing site
collections.
Q47: Are there any Changes to
Solutions deployed in \bin directory and GAC in SharePoint 2013?
Ans: You can no longer add partial trust Solution Packages to the \bin
directory.Any files deployed to the \bin directory must be full trust. Any
deployment scripts needs to be updated to make sure that they specify the
correct trust level. After the release of .NET Framework 4.0, the GAC was split
into two, one for each CLR.
c:\windows\assembly is the
location for .NET versions 1.0 through 3.5 and
c:\windows\microsoft.net\assembly is location for all the dlls for project
Created in .NET Framework 4.0.
Q48: How are Sandbox Solution
Migrated in SharePoint 2013?
Ans: Sandbox Solutions are upgraded with the Content databases.
Q49: How would you a Migrate a
Site Collection in SharePoint 2013?
Ans: 1. Backup and Restore SharePoint 2010 Content database in your
SharePoint 2013 farm.
2. Run Test-SPContentDatabase
cmdlet to identify missing Components along with potential errors and related
warnings. Check the upgrade log and deploy any missing components and re-run
the cmdlet to verify.
3. Attach the Content database
to the desired web application using Mount-SPContentDatabase cmdlet.
4. After successfully mounting
the content database to web application, the site should be accessible in 14
mode.
5. Next, to Upgrade the site to
15 Hive, Navigate to SiteUpgrade.aspx page in Site Setting of your site
collection.
6. Click on “Upgrade the Site
Collection” button.
7. During the upgrade The
SiteUpgrade.aspx page shows the progress and provides a link to an upgrade log
for troubleshooting purposes.
8. Site Collection Should now
be accessible in 15 mode.
Q50 What are the three user
authentication methods that SharePoint 2013 supports?
Windows claims
Security Assertion Markup
Language (SAML)-based claims
Forms-based authentication
claims
Q51 Out of the available
authentication methods, which one would is considered the recommend according
to Microsoft?
Claims-based authentication
methods are recommended.
Q52 What
protocol does server-to-server authentication extend?
SharePoint 2013 extends OAuth.
Q53 SharePoint Store and App
Catalog Access SharePoint resources on behalf of a user using?
OAuth 2.0.
Q54 What Business Data
Connectivity (BDC) connections types are supported in SharePoint 2013?
WCF
SQL Server
NET assemblies
Open Data Protocol
Q55 What are some examples of
technology that OData leverages?
HTTP
Atom Publishing Protocol
(AtomPub)
JavaScript Object
Notation (JSON)
Q55 What types of
authentication does Business Connectivity Services support?
Anonymous
Basic
Windows
Custom authentication to OData
services when it is used with the Secure Store Service
Q56 What does a BDC model do?
Describes which tables to read,
which items from those tables are of interest, and which operations to perform
on them.
Q57 How is the BDC
model in SharePoint 2013 more streamlined than in SharePoint 2010?
Visual Studio 2010 is able
to connect to the OData endpoint through Business Connectivity Services and
read the OData source. Visual Studio 2010 will then automatically generate the
BDC model.
Q58 How is the BDC model used
after being built?
Imported into the Business Data
Catalog as a farm-scoped external content type, or be included in an app for
SharePoint.
Q59 What Is An Event Listener
in SharePoint 2013?
The event listener includes an
event subscriber. The subscriber receives notifications from the event
publisher (on the external system side) on changes to the data and then
initiates predefined actions when changes occur.
Q60 How is an event listener
useful?
Enables SharePoint users and
custom code to receive notifications of events that occur in an external
system.
Q61 With an event listener,
what are the supported connections for an external system?
OData
SQL
WCF
Q62 What are apps for
SharePoint?
Apps for SharePoint allow
addition of functionality to a SharePoint site by using the self-contained
app for SharePoint.
Q63 What is the primary benefit
of using apps for SharePoint?
Each app for SharePoint is
isolated from the rest of the system.
Q64 How are BDC models and
apps for SharePoint related?
BDC models can be scoped to
apps for SharePoint and connection information is defined and stored separately
from the app-scoped BDC model in BDC connections.
Q65 What is eDiscovery in the
context of SharePoint 2013?
Introduces a new site for
managing discovery cases and holds. The site allows one to access
discovery cases to conduct searches, place content on hold, and export content.
Q66 What are some examples of
some things you can related to an eDiscovery case?
Sources
eDiscovery sets
Queries
Exports
Q67 What is an in-place
hold?
Content that is put on hold is
preserved, but users can still change it.
Q68 What the content
can be included with SharePoint eDiscovery export?
Document
Lists
Pages
Exchange objects
Q69 In terms of enterprise-wide
eDiscovery, what actions can be taken by an authorized user?
Create a case, define a
query, and then search SharePoint Server 2013, Exchange Server 2013, and file
shares
Export all of the content that
was identified.
Preserve items in place in
SharePoint Server 2013 or Exchange Server 2013.
Track statistics related to the
case.
Q70 What are the different
types of mobile views offered in SharePoint 2013?
Contemporary view
Classic view
Full screen UI
Q71 What is the Microsoft Push
Notification Service?
Supports applications on mobile
devices that should receive notifications from a SharePoint site.
Q72 What field type would be
used when working location specific SharePoint applications?
Geolocation field type
Q73 What is Site-based
retention?
You can create and manage
retention policies in that will apply to SharePoint sites and any Exchange
Server 2013 team mailboxes that are associated with the sites.
Q74 What does a retention
policy contain?
Generally what causes a project
to be closed and when a project should expire.
Q75 What are
some improvements in Excel Services in SharePoint 2013?
Field list and field well
support
Calculated measures and members
Enhanced timeline controls
Application BI Servers
Business Intelligence Center
update
Q76 What is the In-Memory
BI Engine (IMBI)?
The In Memory multidimensional
data analysis engine (IMBI), also known as the Vertipaq engine, allows for
almost instant analysis.
Q77 What does the Power View
Add-in for Excel do?
Power View (“Crescent”) enables
users to visualize and interact with modeled data by using highly interactive
visualizations, animations and smart querying.
Q78 Can PerformancePoint be
displayed on iPads?
Yes.
Q79 What is the Analysis
Services Effective User?
Eliminates the need for
Kerberos delegation when per-user authentication is used for Analysis Services
data sources. By supporting Analysis Services Effective User feature,
authorization checks will be based on the user specified by the
EffectiveUserName property instead of using the currently authenticated user.
Q80 What are Community Sites in
SharePoint 2013?
Community Sites offer a forum
experience to categorize and cultivate discussions with a broad group of people
across organizations in a company.
Q81 What is the primary change
with MySite document libraries in 2013?
Users can specify permissions
for a specific document without having to understand the inheritance model.
Q82 What are Image renditions?
Image renditions let you
display different sized versions of an image on different pages.
Q83 How are multilingual
sites implemented?
Variations, integrated
translation service, cross-site publishing
Q84 What is Cross-site
publishing?
Cross-site publishing lets you
store and maintain content in one or more authoring site collections, and
display this content in one or more publishing site collections.
Q85 What is Managed navigation?
Managed navigation lets you
define and maintain the navigation on a site by using term sets.
Q86 What are Category pages?
Category pages are page layouts
that are used for displaying structured content such as catalog data.
Q87 What is the Content
Search Web Part?
Displays content that was
crawled and added to the search index.
Q88 What are Refiners and
faceted navigation?
Refiners are based on managed
properties from the search index. With faceted navigation you can configure
different refiners for different terms in a term set.
Q89 What is the Analytics
Processing Component?
Runs different analytics jobs
to analyze content in the search index and user actions that were performed on
a site to identify items that users perceive as more relevant than others.
Q90 What does the Workflow
Manager do?
High Density and Multi-Tenancy,
Elastic Scale, Activity / Workflow Artifact Management, Tracking and
Monitoring, Instance Management, Fully Declarative Authoring, REST and Service
Bus Messaging, Managed Service Reliability.
Q91 What is a ranking model in
SharePoint 2013 search?
A ranking model determines
recall (which items are displayed in the search results) and rank (the order in
which search results are displayed).
Q92 What actions can a query
rule specify?
Add one or more result blocks
Change ranked results
Add Promoted Results (formerly
called Best Bets) that appear above ranked results
Q93 What are Result sources?
Result source allow you to
restrict queries to a subset of content by using a query transform.
Q94 What is a Continuous
crawl?
Eliminates the need to schedule
incremental crawls and automatically starts crawls as necessary to keep the
search index fresh.
Q95 How can you remove items
from the search index?
Using the crawl logs..
Q96 How can you specify which
entities to look for in the content in relation to SharePoint search?
Create and deploy your own
dictionaries
Q97 What does document parsing
functionality do?
Document parsers extract useful
metadata and remove redundant information.
Q98 Is Visual Upgrade available
in SharePoint 2013?
No.
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