1. What is SharePoint?
Portal Collaboration Software.
2. What is the difference between SharePoint Portal Server and
Windows SharePoint Services?
SharePoint Portal Server is the global portal offering features
like global navigation and searching. Windows SharePoint Services is more
content management based with document libraries and lists. You apply
information to certain areas within your portal from Windows SharePoint
Services or directly to portal areas.
3. What is a document library?
A document library is where you upload your core documents. They
consist of a row and column view with links to the documents. When the document
is updated so is the link on your site. You can also track metadata on your
documents. Metadata would consist of document properties.
4. What is a meeting workspace?
A meeting workspace is a place to store information, attendees,
and tasks related to a specific meeting.
5. What is a document workspace?
Document workspaces consist of information surrounding a single
or multiple documents.
6. What is a web part?
Web parts consist of xml queries to full SharePoint lists or
document libraries. You can also develop your own web parts and web part pages.
7. What is the difference between a document library and a form
library?
Document libraries consist of your core documents. An example
would be a word document, excel, powerpoint, visio, pdf, etc… Form libraries
consist of XML forms.
8. What is a web part zone?
Web part zones are what your web parts reside in and help
categorize your web parts when designing a page.
9. How is security managed in SharePoint?
Security can be handled at the machine, domain, or sharepoint
level.
10. How are web parts developed?
Web parts are developed in Visual Studio .Net. VS.Net offers
many web part and page templates and can also be downloaded from the Microsoft
site.
11. What is a site definition?
It’s a methods for providing prepackaged site and list content.
12. What is a template?
A template is a pre-defined set of functions or settings that
can be used over time. There are many templates within SharePoint, Site
Templates, Document Templates, Document Library and List Templates.
13. How do you install web parts?
Web Parts should be distributed as a .CAB (cabinet) file using
the MSI Installer.
14. What is CAML?
tends for Collaborative Application Markup Language and is an
XML-based language that is used in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to
define sites and lists, including, for example, fields, views, or forms, but
CAML is also used to define tables in the Windows SharePoint Services database
during site provisioning.
15. What is a DWP?
The file extension of a web part.
16. What is the GAC?
Global Assembly Cache folder on the server hosting SharePoint.
You place your assemblies there for web parts and services.
17. What are the differences between web part page gallery, site
gallery, virtual server gallery and online gallery?
Web Part Page Gallery is the default gallery that comes
installed with SharePoint. Site Gallery is specific to one site. Virtual Server
gallery is specific to that virtual server and online gallery are downloadable
web parts from Microsoft.
18. What is the difference between a site and a web?
The pages in a Web site generally cover one or more topics and
are interconnected through hyperlinks. Most Web sites have a home page as their
starting point. While a Web is simply a blank site with SharePoint
functionality built in; meaning you have to create the site from the ground up.
19. What is Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services? How is it related
to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Windows SharePoint Services is the solution that enables you to
create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. Windows
SharePoint Services — a key piece of the information worker infrastructure
delivered in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 — provides additional functionality
to the Microsoft Office system and other desktop applications, and it serves as
a platform for application development.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 builds on top of Windows
SharePoint Services 3.0 to provide additional capabilities including
collaboration, portal, search, enterprise content management, business process
and forms, and business intelligence.
20. What is Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server?
SharePoint Portal Server is a portal server that connects
people, teams, and knowledge across business processes. SharePoint Portal
Server integrates information from various systems into one secure solution
through single sign-on and enterprise application integration capabilities. It
provides flexible deployment and management tools, and facilitates end-to-end
collaboration through data aggregation, organization, and searching. SharePoint
Portal Server also enables users to quickly find relevant information through
customization and personalization of portal content and layout as well as
through audience targeting.
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