Microsoft Sharepoint 2013 Microsoft Sharepoint 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In SharePoint 2013, which service application provides enterprise search functionality?
- Business Connectivity Services
- Search Service Application (Correct answer)
- Managed Metadata Service
- User Profile Service
Correct answer: Search Service Application
The Search Service Application provides enterprise search capabilities including crawling, indexing, and querying content in SharePoint 2013.
Question 2: What is the purpose of the Managed Metadata Service in SharePoint 2013?
- To manage user permissions across site collections
- To provide a centralized taxonomy and folksonomy for tagging content (Correct answer)
- To synchronize user profiles from Active Directory
- To manage document versioning policies
Correct answer: To provide a centralized taxonomy and folksonomy for tagging content
The Managed Metadata Service provides a centralized term store that allows organizations to create and manage hierarchical term sets used for tagging content.
Question 3: Which SharePoint 2013 feature allows external data sources to be surfaced as lists within SharePoint?
- External Content Types via Business Connectivity Services (Correct answer)
- InfoPath Form Services
- Visio Services
- Access Services
Correct answer: External Content Types via Business Connectivity Services
Business Connectivity Services (BCS) uses External Content Types to connect SharePoint to external data sources like SQL Server or web services and surface them as lists.
Question 4: In SharePoint 2013, what is a 'Content Type Hub'?
- A document library that stores all content types
- A site collection that publishes content types to subscribing site collections (Correct answer)
- A term store for managing metadata
- A central repository for workflow templates
Correct answer: A site collection that publishes content types to subscribing site collections
A Content Type Hub is a designated site collection from which content types can be published and shared across multiple site collections via the Managed Metadata Service.
Question 5: What does the SharePoint 2013 'Distributed Cache' service primarily provide?
- Caching of search index data
- Caching for newsfeeds, authentication tokens, and page load performance (Correct answer)
- Distributed storage for document libraries
- Load balancing across web front-end servers
Correct answer: Caching for newsfeeds, authentication tokens, and page load performance
The Distributed Cache service uses AppFabric to cache newsfeeds, security tokens, and other frequently accessed data to improve performance across the farm.
Question 6: Which SharePoint 2013 permission level grants users the ability to view pages and list items but not edit them?
- Contribute
- Design
- Read (Correct answer)
- Edit
Correct answer: Read
The Read permission level allows users to view pages, list items, and documents without the ability to make changes.
Question 7: In SharePoint 2013, which type of site template is specifically designed for team collaboration?
- Publishing Site
- Blog Site
- Team Site (Correct answer)
- My Site Host
Correct answer: Team Site
The Team Site template provides document libraries, task lists, calendars, and other collaboration tools designed for team-based work.
Microsoft Sharepoint 2013 Microsoft Sharepoint 2
In SharePoint 2013, which service application provides enterprise search functionality?