SharePoint

Question 1

What are the types of authentication available for SharePoint 2010?

Answer 1

1. Claims
2. Windows
3. Form Based Authentication

Question 2

What is the GAC?

Answer 2

The GAC stands for the global assembly cache. It is the machine wide code cache which will give custom binaries place into the full trust code group for SharePoint

Question 3

What are Web Application Policies?

Answer 3

Enables security policy for users at the Web application level, rather than at the site collection or site level. Importantly, they override all other security settings.

Question 4

1) What are Web Applications in SharePoint?

Answer 4

An IIS Web site created and used by SharePoint 2010. Saying an IIS virtual server is also an acceptable answer.

Question 5

What is the difference between Classic mode authentication and Claims-based authentication?

Answer 5

As the name implies, classic authentication supports NT authentication types like Kerberos, NTLM, Basic, Digest, and anonymous. Claims based authentication uses claims identities against a against a trusted identity provider.

Question 6

From a basic standpoint, what is the difference between SQL clustering and mirroring?

Answer 6

Clustering provides a failover scenario whereby one or more nodes can be swapped as active depending on whether a node goes down. In mirroring, transactions are sent directly from a principal database and server to a mirror database to establish essentially a replica of the database.