SharePoint 2010 interview questions

I have been asked about SharePoint 2010 interview’s questions several times, these questions are suitable for both Junior and senior level SharePoint developers; measuring the knowledge level should be on how deep you go in discussing the answers.

These questions are categorized into Administration, Branding & Development since I believe that good developer should have fair understanding of several SharePoint administration topics in addition to full understanding of SharePoint Branding structure.

This interview should be done by somebody who has a deep SharePoint knowledge, the questions here should be handled as a starting point for discussion rather then regular Q/A interview; this interview should take 20 to 40 minutes.

	Question	Category
1	What is SharePoint foundation, SharePoint server?	Administration
2	What are Site collection, web application, IIS virtual directories?	Administration
3	What is Document library, what is a list?	Administration
4	How can i do backup/migrate in SharePoint	Administration
5	What types of authentication that are supported by SharePoint?	Administration
6	What are site users, groups, and permission sets?	Administration
7	How many master pages in the site collection?	Branding
8	What is SharePoint master page structured? (In terms of content place holders & Controls)	Branding
9	What are the navigation options in the master page?	Branding
10	Where is the CSS file in SharePoint, Images? What is the best practice?	Branding
11	How can I override an internal CSS style?	Branding
12	What are page layouts ( what are publishing controls)	Branding
13	How do you develop webparts? How can you expose Webpart’s property?	Development
14	What is application page? Content page?	Development
15	What is the feature? (feature.xml)	Development
16	What is SharePoint solution (WSP)?	Development
17	Event Receiver?	Development
18	What is site definition?	Development
19	What is list definition ?	Development
20	What is content types?	Development
21	What are SharePoint workflows?	Development
22	What considerations should taken when developing SPWeb SPSite? (Disposal)	Development
23	What is BDC? (BCS)	Development
24	What is the CAML, How do you get an item from List?	Development
25	How can we open a pop up in sharepoint 2010 using client object framework	Development
26	How do you add JQuery support to SharePoint site?	Development
27	What is the GAC?	Development
28	What is the different between GAC deployment and bin deployment.	Development
29	Do you know SharePoint guidance? (SharePoint SPG)	Development