General Questions Flashcards
1) What are Web Applications in SharePoint?
An IIS Web site created by SP.
Or could say an IIS virtual server
2) What is an application pool?
A group of one or more URLs that are served by one or set of worker processes.
3) Why are application pools important?
A way for multiple sites to run on the same server but still have their own worker processes and identity.
4) What are zones?
Different URLs for gaining access to the same SP Web App.
5) What are Web Application Policies?
Enables security policy for users at the WEB APP level, rather than at the site collection or site level.
Importantly, they override all other security settings.
6) What is a site collection?
Contains a top-level website
Can contain one or more sub-sites web sites that have the same owner and share administration settings.
7) What are content databases?
Can hold all the content for one or more site collections.
8) What is a site?
A site in SharePoint contains Web pages and related assets such as lists, all hosted within a site collection.
9) What are My Sites?
Personalised site and targeted for each user.
10) What is the difference between Classic mode authentication and Claims-based authentication?
classic authentication supports NT authentication types like Kerberos, NTLM, Basic, Digest, and anonymous.
Claims based uses claims identities against a trusted identity provider.
11) When would you use claims, and when would you use classic?
More commonly seen in upgraded 2007 environments whereas claims are the recommended path for new deployments.
13) What are some of the tools that can be used when backing up a SharePoint 2010 environment?
SharePoint farm backup and recovery
SQL Server
System Center Data Protection Manager
14) What Microsoft tool can be used for incremental backups?
System Center Data Protection Manager
15) What is Managed Metadata?
Collection of centrally managed terms.
You can define, and then use as attributes for items.
16) What are Terms and Term Sets?
A word or a phrase that can be associated with an item.
A term set is a collection of related terms.