Microsoft Sharepoint 2013 Core Solutions of Microsoft Sharepoint Server 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In SharePoint 2013, which topology component is responsible for rendering pages and handling HTTP requests from end users?
- Application server
- Database server
- Web front-end server (Correct answer)
- Search index server
Correct answer: Web front-end server
Web front-end (WFE) servers handle all incoming HTTP/HTTPS requests from clients and render SharePoint pages.
Question 2: What is the function of the SharePoint 2013 Distributed Cache service?
- Caching crawled content for search
- Providing fast, in-memory caching for newsfeeds, authentication tokens, and other transient data (Correct answer)
- Distributing content across CDN nodes
- Replicating databases across servers
Correct answer: Providing fast, in-memory caching for newsfeeds, authentication tokens, and other transient data
The Distributed Cache service (based on Windows Server AppFabric) stores transient data like social feeds, security tokens, and page output cache in memory.
Question 3: Which SharePoint 2013 claim type is used to represent a Windows user account in claims-based authentication?
- SAML claim
- Windows Security Identifier (SID) claim (Correct answer)
- Forms-based claim
- OAuth token claim
Correct answer: Windows Security Identifier (SID) claim
Windows claims authentication encodes the user's Windows SID as a claim within the security token.
Question 4: In SharePoint 2013, what does 'throttling' in list view settings prevent?
- Users from uploading files larger than 50 MB
- Queries that would return more items than the List View Threshold (default 5,000) from overloading the database (Correct answer)
- Concurrent edits to the same document
- External content types from returning too many rows
Correct answer: Queries that would return more items than the List View Threshold (default 5,000) from overloading the database
List view throttling stops queries from retrieving more items than the configured threshold, protecting database performance.
Question 5: Which SharePoint 2013 authentication method uses security tokens issued by a trusted identity provider external to SharePoint?
- Windows authentication (Kerberos)
- SAML-based claims authentication (Correct answer)
- NTLM authentication
- Basic authentication
Correct answer: SAML-based claims authentication
SAML-based claims authentication federates identity to an external Security Token Service (STS) such as AD FS.
Question 6: What is the role of the 'Usage and Health Data Collection' service application in SharePoint 2013?
- Monitoring user profile completeness
- Collecting diagnostic logs and usage data for the Health Analyzer and reporting dashboards (Correct answer)
- Scanning documents for malware
- Tracking content approval workflows
Correct answer: Collecting diagnostic logs and usage data for the Health Analyzer and reporting dashboards
This service application gathers usage events and health data, feeding the Health Analyzer rules and usage reports in Central Administration.
Question 7: In SharePoint 2013, which type of solution runs with full trust in the SharePoint process and can access the server-side object model?
- SharePoint-hosted app
- Provider-hosted app
- Farm solution (Correct answer)
- Sandboxed solution
Correct answer: Farm solution
Farm solutions deploy to the Global Assembly Cache and run with full trust, giving access to the complete SharePoint server-side API.
Microsoft Sharepoint 2013 Core Solutions of Microsoft Sharepoint Server 3
In SharePoint 2013, which topology component is responsible for rendering pages and handling HTTP requests from end users?