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50 SharePoint 2013 Interview Questions – SharePoint Administrator

1.      What are the 3 user authentication methods that SharePoint 2013 supports?
2.      Out of the available authentication methods, which one would is considered the recommended according to Microsoft?
3.      What protocol does server-to-sever authentication extend?
4.      SharePoint Store and App Catalog Access SharePoint resources on behalf of a user using?
5.      What Business Data Connectivity (BDC) connections types are supported in SharePoint 2013?
6.      What are some examples of technology that OData leverages?
7.      What types of authentication does Business Connectivity Services support?
8.      What does a BDC model do?
9.      How is the BDC model in SharePoint 2013 more streamlined than in SharePoint 2010?
10.   How is the BDC model used after being built?
11.   What is an Event Listener in SharePoint 2013?
12.   How is an Event Listener useful?
13.   With an event listener, what are the supported connections for an external system?
14.   What are apps for SharePoint?
15.   What is the primary benefit of using apps for SharePoint?
16.   How re BDC models and apps for SharePoint related?
17.   What is eDiscovery in the context of SharePoint 2013?
18.   What are some examples of some things you can related to an eDiscovery case?
19.   What is an in-place hold?
20.   What the content can be included with SharePoint eDiscovery export?
21.   In terms of enterprise-wide eDiscovery, what actions can be taken by an authorized user?
22.   What are the different types of mobile views offered in SharePoint 2013?
23.   What is the Microsoft Push Notification Service?
24.   What field type would be used when working location specific SharePoint applications?
25.   What is site-based retention?
26.   What does a retention policy contain?
27.   What are some improvements in Excel Services in SharePoint 2013?
28.   What is the In-Memory BI Engine (IMBI)?
29.   What does the Power View Add-In for Excel do?
30.   Can PerformancePoint be displayed on iPads?
31.   What is the Analysis Services Effective User?
32.   What are Community Sites in SharePoint 2013?
33.   What is the primary change with MySite document libraries in 2013?
34.   What are Image Renditions?
35.   How are multilingual sites implemented?
36.   What is Cross-site publishing?
37.   What is Managed navigation?
38.   What are Category pages?
39.   What is the Content Search Web Part?
40.   What are Refiners and faceted navigation?
41.   What is the Analytics Processing Component?
42.   What does the workflow Manager do?
43.   What is a ranking model in SharePoint 2013 search?
44.   What actions can a query rule specify?
45.   What are result sources?
46.   What is a Continuous Crawl?
47.   How can you remove items from the search index?
48.   How can you specify which entities to look for in the content in relation to SharePoint search?
49.   What does document parsing functionality do?
50.   Is Visual Upgrade available in SharePoint 2013?

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