Interview Questions - Level 1

Prepare yourself for the next big thing. (Developers & Administrators)

The below are the questions which we are expected to answer in our search for a better career path. I have came across lot of questions and scenarios which most of us least expect. So, let's prepare to face it. 

1. What is Request Management Service?
2. How to configure a Request Manager?
3. What are your daily activities as a SharePoint Administrator?
4. Which one is the most critical issue you have faced in your career?
5. How did you solve your biggest issue?
6. If you come across a situation where you have never worked before and you have no knowledge on how to solve it, What will be your approach to handle the situation?
7. What is the process you are following when a ticket is raised?
8. How to determine what all service applications need to be configured for your farm?
9. Explain the biggest SharePoint Farm which you have worked in your career.
10. How to plan the capacity?
11. What are the pre-requisites for User Profile Service?
12. Have you configured service applications through PowerShell?
13. What is the difference between SP 2010, SP 2013 and SP 2016?
14. How to share service applications between farms?
15. How to configure a Search Server?
16. Explain the background process happening while you deploy a solution.
17. How will you do Root Cause Analysis?
18. What is App Management Service?
19. What are the features of SharePoint?
20. Which AD permission is required for the user account which is used for crawling AD users with User Profile Synchronization service?
21. What is metadata?
22. What is a workflow?
23. What is Single sign on?
24. How to do RCA with ULS logs?
25. What are the different types of Search crawling?
26. Difference between a continuous and incremental crawl.
27. Difference between Site Definition and Site Template.
28. Differentiate BDC and BCS.
29. Explain SharePoint Architecture.
30. How do you deploy a Solution?

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Comments

  1. SyedDecember 22, 2016 at 3:14 AM

    1.What is Request Management System?
    Request Manager in SharePoint Server 2013 can route and throttle incoming requests to help improve performance and availability.
    Request Manager is functionality in SharePoint Server 2013 that enables administrators to manage incoming requests and determine how SharePoint Server 2013 routes these requests.

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  2. SyedDecember 22, 2016 at 3:16 AM

    SharePoint Configuration Best Practices – Request Management Service
    https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/robert_mulsow/2015/12/16/sharepoint-configuration-best-practices-request-management-service/

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  3. Anoop AVDecember 22, 2016 at 4:35 AM

    3. What are your daily activities as a SharePoint Administrator?

    SharePoint Administrators might have different perspectives on this question. The basic activities are listed as follows:

    1. Monitor Production, Staging and Development Servers
    2. Check if the Diagnostic Logs are generated accordingly
    3. Check the physical memory and logical disk space on the servers
    4. Check the DB Servers
    5. Check the server health
    6. Check if the associated services for Service Applications are started
    7. Check the IIS to see the status of the Web Application
    8. Check if any new tickets are raised
    9. If any dependencies or issues are found, escalate them to relevant teams
    10. Do the RCA for reported issues
    11. Provide estimation for issued tickets

    The list will go on depending on your luck. Please share your daily activities which are not listed above. Lets work together for a better workplace.

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