Microsoft Sharepoint 2013 Cheat Sheet 2026

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1. What is the role of the 'Usage and Health Data Collection' service application in SharePoint 2013? → Collecting diagnostic logs and usage data for the Health Analyzer and reporting dashboards
2. Which SharePoint 2013 feature enables a team to manage and track project tasks with Gantt chart views? → Project Task List with timeline
3. What is the maximum number of site collections that can reside in a single SharePoint 2013 content database? → 5,000
4. In SharePoint 2013, which type of site template is specifically designed for team collaboration? → Team Site
5. What SharePoint 2013 search feature promotes specific results to the top of search results for certain queries? → Query Rules with promoted results
6. Which SharePoint 2013 feature allows external data sources to be surfaced as lists within SharePoint? → External Content Types via Business Connectivity Services
7. In SharePoint 2013, what is a Display Template used for? → Controlling how search results and Content Search Web Part items are rendered
8. Which SharePoint 2013 workflow type is associated with a list or library and runs on items within that list? → List Workflow
9. Which SharePoint 2013 collaboration feature allows teams to capture meeting agendas, attendees, and decisions in a structured format? → Meeting Workspace site template
10. Which SharePoint 2013 social feature allows users to mark a document or page as liked? → Ratings (Like)
11. Which PowerShell cmdlet backs up a SharePoint 2013 farm? → Backup-SPFarm
12. In a SharePoint 2013 multi-tenant hosting scenario, which object defines the administrative and policy boundary for a tenant? → Site subscription
13. Which SharePoint 2013 topology is recommended for a high-availability production environment that isolates search components from content serving? → Large farm with dedicated role servers
14. What is the SharePoint 2013 feature that enables administrators to set policies for site collection storage limits? → Quota Templates
15. In SharePoint 2013, what does the 'Check Permissions' feature allow administrators to do? → View all permission levels a specific user has on a resource
16. Which SharePoint 2013 feature allows administrators to define and enforce storage quotas and lock states on individual site collections? → Site Collection Quotas and Locks
17. Which SharePoint 2013 claim type is used to represent a Windows user account in claims-based authentication? → Windows Security Identifier (SID) claim
18. In SharePoint 2013, what does the Site Mailbox feature provide? → A shared Exchange mailbox accessible from within SharePoint for team email and documents
19. In SharePoint 2013, which tool is used to configure and manage service applications in Central Administration? → Application Management page
20. What is a SharePoint 2013 'App Part' used for? → Embedding an app's content within a SharePoint page using an IFrame
21. What is the purpose of the SharePoint 2013 Request Management feature? → It throttles and routes incoming HTTP requests to optimize server performance
22. What SharePoint 2013 feature allows users to tag content with keywords and share those tags socially? → Social Tagging and Bookmarks
23. Which component in SharePoint 2013 search architecture is responsible for processing crawled content and extracting metadata before writing to the index? → Content processing component
24. Which SharePoint 2013 authentication provider uses Active Directory credentials to authenticate users? → Windows authentication
25. In SharePoint 2013 workflows, what is the purpose of a 'Reusable Workflow'? → A workflow associated with a content type that can be reused across multiple lists
26. In SharePoint 2013, which object model namespace is used for client-side development in JavaScript? → SP (SharePoint JavaScript Object Model / JSOM)
27. What is the purpose of Visio 2013's integration with SharePoint Designer 2013 workflows? → Allow workflows designed in Visio to be exported to SharePoint Designer for implementation
28. In SharePoint 2013, what is PerformancePoint Services used for? → Creating KPI scorecards, dashboards, and analytical reports for business intelligence
29. What is the purpose of the Unattached Content Database Recovery feature in SharePoint 2013? → Restore data from a content DB not attached to the farm
30. Which SharePoint 2013 feature allows a site collection administrator to delegate site creation to end users within a defined template? → Self-Service Site Creation