Techsignia Solutions SharePoint Interview Questions

Once again gave this interview without any preparation.Opening was for SharePoint Software Engineer.

1. Introduction - a brief one with all details of work
2. Lets say you have 40 sites and their content databases in SharePoint 2010 with SQL 2008 as back-end and you want to upgrade to SQL 2012 with SharePoint 2010 only but when migrating to 2012,there should be only 1 content DB and this content DB should contain all the content DB for 40 sites? 
3. What is difference between Farm and Sandbox solutions
4. How do you debug Farm & Sandbox solutions ?
5. Can MVC implemented in SharePoint 2013 as MVC is implemented in .Net Framework 4.5?
6. Methods to retrive list data ? 
7. What is difference between CAML & LINQ,which one is easy for system to understand ?
8. Which would you prefer CAML or LINQ and why ?
9. CAML returns ListItemCollection and LINQ returns IEnumerable ? what does this mean ? Elaborate this ? which is better ? 
10. How can the highest permission be given ? The interviewer was referring to RunWithElevatePrevilages 
11. What is the use of it and when it can be used,what happens when used?
12. If you have a piece of code which is 

          SPuser something = SPContent.CurrentUser; 

          

          What value does above value return when used with REWP and when used without REWP

  13.   I want to create a Web Service for a list how will I do it ? Answer: SharePoint already provides OOB list web service which list.asmx

  14.   Which one is lighter and faster when comes to access data from list ? CAML,COM or LINQ

That it ! It was very easy..like fucking easy..I could have cracked in if I they asked me such questions when  I was kid..jk :P

This was Round 1: Telephonic 

which I cleared I was called for Round 2: Face 2 Face Interview,if I attend will update the questions else end of post.

TaDa :)

SpadeWrox SharePoint Interview Questions/SharePoint Interview Questions

I went for this interview which was for the Post of SharePoint Developer.

I have 3 years experience,so difficulty of questions was based on my experience.

I went totally unprepared and I messed it up.To some extend it was easy if I would have prepared a bit.

Would try to answer this questions and update this post whenever possible,till then you guys can enjoy the questions and Best of Luck! for your next interview :) 

1)      Introduce yourself

2)      What happens when we run code with RunWithElevatedPrevileges ? What happens in SharePoint internally

3)      What is CAML

I answered it is a query language,I was then asked

4)      what is the other way of quering SharePoint (Answer : LINQ)

5)      SharePoint Heriarchy

6)      Difference between SPSite and SPWeb Object

7)      5 out of the box WebParts

8)      How many DB’s does SharePoint have(Answer: configDb,and other DB’s used for different services like Managed Metadata service,Search service)

9)      When we create a new Web Application,the DB that gets created is it a content DB

10)   What are types of DB in SharePoint

11)   What is User Profile Service

12)   What is an App in SharePoint 2013

13)   What is the user process used by SharePoint 2013 App

14)   Can you write a CAML without u2u

15)   Can you create a list workflow in 30 minutes

16)   Does SharePoint Desginer support only Sequential workflow?

17)   When we create a Web Application,the page promts for DB name,then how do different site collection DB’s are created in same Web Application?

18)   How is the partion of different site collection done ?

19)   What is the main method in Timer jobs?

20)   Have you created any timer jobs ?

21)   Have you created any workflows ?

22)   What are the different workflows?

23)   What is REST

24)   What can you do with REST

25)   What are the OOB features/web parts you have used ?

26)   What are the different authentication types

27)   Can we have Dual Authentication that is Claims & Classic Authentication

28)   What is Event Receiver

29)   What are types of Event Receivers