Core Solutions of Microsoft Sharepoint Server Flashcards

You want to set up a server farm for SharePoint Server 2013. The farm will have two front-end Web servers set up as the following table illustrates. Use the front-end Web server with the least health threshold value to ensure that pages are rendered. Which service ought you to utilize?

Answer: Request Management

Request Management in SharePoint Server 2013 is the service responsible for intelligently routing incoming requests to the most appropriate front-end Web server. To ensure pages are rendered by the server with the least health threshold value, Request Management can be configured to evaluate server health and distribute traffic accordingly. This optimizes performance, ensures high availability, and prevents overloading less healthy servers.

The current managed metadata service application needs to be configured for term store management. Which three things ought you to do? (Select three; each accurate response contains a component of the answer.)

Answer: Grant the Full Access to Term Store permission to the Blue Yonder application pool account.

To configure a managed metadata service application for term store management, several permissions and connections are crucial. Granting 'Full Access to Term Store' to the application pool account running the consuming web application ensures it can manage terms. Adding the managed metadata service connection to the application proxy group makes the term store accessible across relevant web applications. Finally, granting 'Read and Restricted Write Access to Term Store' to the Local Farm account allows the farm to perform necessary operations while maintaining security.

You set up a connection for User Profile Synchronization. You must provide the synchronization account the required rights. What ought you to do?

Answer: Grant the account the Replicate Directory Changes permission on the domain.

For User Profile Synchronization in SharePoint 2013 to read changes from Active Directory, the synchronization account requires specific permissions. Granting the 'Replicate Directory Changes' permission on the domain is the correct and least privileged option. This permission allows the account to efficiently query and retrieve changes to user profiles and other directory objects without granting broader administrative rights, ensuring secure and effective synchronization.

You have a server farm for SharePoint Server 2013. You must make sure users may aggregate user behaviors and system activity using the Newsfeed app on their My Site. Which cache type should you set up?

Answer: A distributed cache

To enable users to aggregate user behaviors and system activity using the Newsfeed app on their My Site in SharePoint 2013, a distributed cache is essential. The Distributed Cache service stores data in memory across multiple servers, significantly improving the performance and scalability of social features like Newsfeeds and microblogging. This reduces database load and provides a faster, more responsive user experience for social interactions.

The SharePoint environment has an authentication problem that needs to be fixed. What ought you to do?

Answer: Deploy the Secure Store Service.

To resolve authentication problems in a SharePoint environment, especially when integrating with external data sources or services requiring different credentials, deploying the Secure Store Service is often the correct solution. Secure Store Service provides a secure, centralized repository for storing and mapping credentials. This allows SharePoint to authenticate to external systems on behalf of users without exposing individual credentials, streamlining authentication for various scenarios like Business Connectivity Services (BCS).

You have a server farm for SharePoint Server 2013. You must see the errors that a Web Part has produced. Which should you employ?

Answer: the SharePoint trace logs

To diagnose errors produced by a Web Part in SharePoint Server 2013, the SharePoint trace logs (ULS logs) are the primary source of detailed diagnostic information. These logs capture a comprehensive range of events, including errors, warnings, and informational messages from various SharePoint components. This makes them invaluable for troubleshooting specific issues like Web Part failures, providing granular insights into the problem's root cause.

For a site within a SharePoint site collection, you are configuring a query rule. Only for a specified time period do you need to advertise certain search results. What are the two things you should do? (Select two accurate answers; each one contributes to the answer.)

Answer: Configure actions for the rule.

To advertise specific search results only for a defined time period using a query rule in SharePoint, two main steps are required. First, you must 'Configure actions for the rule' to specify which results or blocks of results should be promoted. Second, you need to 'Configure publishing options for the rule,' which includes setting start and end dates for when the rule should be active, thereby controlling the time-bound visibility of those advertised results.