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  1. Which SharePoint Server concept defines a collection of web applications, databases, and services installed on one or more servers working together?

    Answer: Server Farm

    A SharePoint Server Farm is the top-level logical unit consisting of all servers, web applications, service applications, and databases that work together as a single system.

  2. What is the purpose of the Secure Store Service in SharePoint?

    Answer: Storing and mapping credentials for accessing external data sources

    The Secure Store Service stores credential sets (target application credentials) and maps them to SharePoint users or groups, enabling single sign-on to external systems.

  3. In SharePoint, what is a Managed Account and why is it used?

    Answer: A service account whose password is automatically managed and rotated by SharePoint

    A Managed Account is a Windows domain account registered with SharePoint so that SharePoint can automatically change its password on a schedule, reducing manual credential management.

  4. Which SharePoint Server feature enables content to automatically move between document libraries based on metadata rules and conditions?

    Answer: Content Organizer

    The Content Organizer routes documents to specific libraries or folders based on content type, metadata values, or other configurable rules when content is submitted.

  5. What does a SharePoint Web Application's IIS application pool identity determine?

    Answer: The security context under which SharePoint code runs when serving requests

    The application pool identity is the Windows account under which the IIS worker process runs, determining what resources SharePoint code can access on the server and network.

  6. In SharePoint Server's search architecture, what is the role of the Index component?

    Answer: Storing the processed search index and serving queries

    The Index component stores the inverted index built from crawled and processed content, and it serves search queries by returning ranked document IDs to the query processing component.

  7. Which PowerShell cmdlet is used to add a new content database to an existing SharePoint web application?

    Answer: Mount-SPContentDatabase

    Mount-SPContentDatabase attaches an existing SQL Server database to a SharePoint web application, making its site collections available in the farm.