SharePoint Interview Questions

• What is SharePoint, WSS and MOSS?
• How does WSS actually work?
• What is Site and SiteCollection?
• What is the use of SQL server in SharePoint & use of Virtual path provider?
• What is Ghosting and UnGhosting in SharePoint?
• How can we create a site in SharePoint?
• How can we Customize a SharePoint Site?
• What kind of readymade functional modules exists collaboration?
• Can you display a simple Custom Page in SharePoint?
• How can we implement behind code ASPX pages in SharePoint?
• What is the concept of features in SharePoint?
• I want a feature to be only displayed to admin?
• How do we debug SharePoint error’s?
• Why customized pages are parsed using no-compile mode?
• Can you explain WSS model?
• How can we use custom controls in SharePoint?
• How can we display ASCX control in SharePoint pages?
• What are Web Parts?
• How can we deploy a simple Webpart in SharePoint?
• How can we achieve customization and personalization using WebParts?
• How can we create custom editor for WebPart?
• SharePoint is about centralizing documents, how similar is to the windows folder?
• What are custom fields and content types?
• Can you explain SharePoint Workflows?
• What is a three-state Workflow in SharePoint?
• How can we create sharepoint workflow using sharepoint designer?

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Cognizant's Campus Freshers Recruitment Drive

Cognizant's Combined Campus Freshers Recruitment Drive

Eligibility Criteria for IT:

1. Open only to the students with following degrees
   
   • Category 1: BE / B Tech / ME / M Tech / MCA / M Sc (Computer Science / IT / Software Engg)
   • Category 2: B Sc / BCA / M Sc (except Computer Science / IT / Software Engg)
2. Year of graduation:  2011 batch only
3. Consistent First Class (over 60%) in X, XII, UG and PG (if applicable)
4. No outstanding arrears
5. Candidates with degrees through correspondence/ part-time courses are not eligible to apply
6. Good interpersonal, analytical and communication skills

Eligibility Criteria for IT IS:

1. Open only to the students with following degrees


• BSC - Computer Science/Computer Technology/ IT /Maths/Statistics/Electronics and BCA
• MSC - Maths/Statistics/Electronics
2. Year of graduation: 2011  batch only
3. Consistent First Class (over 60%) in X, XII, and UG
4. Candidates holding correspondence or part time degrees are not eligible to apply
5. Good interpersonal and excellent communication skills
6. Willingness to work in shifts (including night shifts)
7. Willing to work at any Cognizant location across India

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Exam Tips for Students

Praise be to Allaah and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger and upon his family and companions.
The Muslim student puts his trust in Allaah when facing the tests of this world, and he seeks His help whilst following the prescribed means, in accordance with the words of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him):

“The strong believer is better and is more beloved to Allaah than the weak believer, although both are good. Strive to attain that which will benefit you and seek the help of Allaah, and do not feel helpless.” (Saheeh Muslim, hadeeth no. 2664)

Among those means are the following:

• Turning to Allaah by making du’aa’ in any way that is prescribed in Islam, such as saying, “Rabbiy ishrah li sadri wa yassir li amri (O my Lord, expand my chest and make things easy for me).”

• Getting used to sleeping early and going to exams on time.

• Preparing all required or permitted equipment such as pens, rulers and setsquares, calculators and watches, because being well prepared helps one to answer questions.

• Reciting the du’aa’ for leaving the house: “Bismillaah, tawakkaltu ‘ala Allaah, wa laa hawla wa laa quwwata illa Billaah. Allaahumma inni a’oodhu bika an adilla aw udalla, aw azilla aw uzalla, aw azlima aw uzlama, aw ajhala aw yujhala ‘alayya (In the name of Allaah, I put my trust in Allaah, and there is no strength and no power except with Allaah. O Allaah, I seek refuge with You lest I should stray or be led astray, lest I slip (commit a sin unintentionally) or be tripped, lest I oppress or be oppressed, lest I behave foolishly or be treated foolishly).”Do not forget to seek your parents’ approval, for their du’aa’ for you will be answered.

• Mention the name of Allaah before you start, for mentioning the name of Allaah is prescribed when beginning any permissible action; this brings blessing, and seeking the help of Allaah is one of the means of strength.

• Fear Allaah with regard to your classmates, and do not be affected by their anxiety or fear just before the exam, for anxiety is a contagious disease. Instead, make them feel optimistic by saying good words as prescribed in Islam. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was optimistic when he heard the name of Suhayl (which means “easy”) and he said: “Things have been made easy for you.” He used to like to hear the words ‘Yaa Raashid, when he went out for any purpose. So be optimistic that you and your brothers will pass this exam.

• Remembering Allaah (dhikr) dispels anxiety and tension. If something is too difficult for you, then pray to Allaah to make it easy for you. Whenever Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have mercy on him) found something too difficult to understand, he would say, “O You Who taught Ibraaheem, teach me; O You Who caused Sulaymaan to understand, cause me to understand.”

• Choose a good place to sit during the exam, if you can. Keep your back straight, and sit on the chair in a healthy manner.

• Look over the exam first. Studies advise spending 10% of the exam time in reading the questions carefully, noting the important words and dividing one’s time between the questions.

• Plan to answer the easy questions first, then the difficult ones. Whilst reading the questions, write notes and ideas which you can use in your answers later.

• Answer questions according to importance.

• Start by answering the easy questions which you know. Then move on to the questions which carry high marks, and leave till the end the questions to which you do not know the answers, or which you think will take a long time to produce an answer or which do not carry such high marks.

• Take your time to answer, for the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Deliberation is from Allaah and haste is from the Shaytaan.” (A hasan hadeeth. Saheeh al-Jaami, 3011).

• Think carefully about the answer and choose the right answer when answering multiple-choice questions. Deal with them in the following manner. If you are sure that you have chosen the right answer, then beware of waswasah (insinuating whispers from the Shaytaan). If you are not sure, then start by eliminating the wrong or unlikely answers, then choose the correct answer based on what you think is most likely to be correct. If you guessed at a correct answer then do not change it unless you are sure that it is wrong – especially if you will lose marks for a wrong answer. Research indicates that the correct answer is usually that which the student thinks of first.

• In written exams, collect your thoughts before you start to answer. Write an outline for your answer with some words which will indicate the ideas which you want to discuss. Then number the ideas in the sequence in which you want to present them.

• Write the main points of your answer at the beginning of the line, because this is what the examiner is looking for, and he may not see what he is looking for if it is in the middle of the page and he is in a hurry.

• Devote 10% of the time for reviewing your answers. Take your time in reviewing, especially in mathematical problems and writing numbers. Resist the desire to hand in the exam papers quickly, and do not let the fact that some people are leaving early bother you. They may be among the people who have handed in their papers too early.

• If you discover after the exam that you answered some questions incorrectly, then take that as a lesson in the importance of being well prepared in the future, and not rushing to answer questions. Accept the will and decree of Allaah and do not fall prey to frustration and despair. Remember the hadeeth of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), “If anything befalls you, do not say, ‘If only I had done such and such.’ Rather say, ‘Qadar Allaah wa maa sha’a kaan (the decree of Allaah and what He wills happened),’ for saying ‘if only’ opens the door for the Shaytaan.” (Saheeh Muslim, and the first part of this hadeeth was mentioned above).

• Note that cheating is haraam whether it is in foreign language tests or any other tests. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, “Whoever cheats is not one of us.” It is wrongdoing and it is a haraam means of attaining a degree or certificate, etc., that you have no right to. The consensus is that cheating is a kind of cooperation in sin and transgression. So do without that which is haraam, and Allaah will suffice you from His bounty. Reject all offers of haraam things that come to you from others. Whoever gives up a thing for the sake of Allaah, Allaah will compensate him with something better. You have to denounce and resist evil, and tell the authorities about any such thing that you see during the exam, or before or after it. This is not the forbidden kind of slander rather it is denouncing evil which is obligatory.

Advise those who buy or sell questions or post them on the Internet etc., or who prepare cheat notes. Tell them to fear Allaah, and tell them of the ruling on what they are doing and on the money they earn from that. Tell them that the time they are spending in preparing these haraam things, if they spent it in studying, or answering previous exams, or helping one another to understand the subject before the exam, that would be better for them than doing these haraam things.

- Remember what you have prepared for the Hereafter, and the questions of the examination in the grave, and how to be saved on the Day of Resurrection. Whoever is saved from the Fire and admitted to Paradise will indeed have succeeded.

We ask Allaah to make us succeed in this world and cause us to be among those who are victorious and saved in the Hereafter, for He is the All-Hearing Who answers prayer.

Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid

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laptop theft alarm

Students set laptop theft alarm

Four M’lore girls create a laptop protection system in which an alarm goes off if anyone other than the owner tries to lift it 

If four students from Mangalore have their way, all that laptop thieves will get for their pains will be an ear-splitting screech.

The students of St Aloysius Institute of Management and Information Technology (AIMIT) have devised a laptop protection system that sends out a siren when someone tries to steal the machine.

“The idea came from Mohandas, the man incharge of our college’s server room,” says Ashakiran, a first-year MS software and technology student who has a physics background.

The foursome took the cue and went on to develop the system which they claim is a first. Their differing expertise helped — Srijana has studied electronics while Plammy and Maithri have done their BCA.

Ashakiran said, “We’ve made a circuit connection consisting of two ICs. We dipped two wires inside water stored in a container. The water level should be two-thirds the container. As long as there is a connection between the water and the wire, there will be no beeps or sirens. But once the connection is cut, IC-1 gets heated up, triggering IC-2 and the PNP transistor, resulting in a siren.”

The system is made of a matchbox-sized circuit that can be installed inside the laptop. A small switch can be placed anywhere in the laptop, known only to the user. The project has been developed at a cost of Rs 300.

“We always wanted to make a model that was innovative and of use in the market,” said Ashakiran.

However, there are some points that need finetuning. For one, maintaining the water level is crucial. “Since the water can evaporate as the laptop heats up, we need to work on the software and develop a command that will alert the user when the water level comes down,” said Ashakiran.

“We also hope to create a software where the cellphone number is taken as the default value and when the siren goes off, the owner automatically gets a message,” she added.

Also, the small container that stores water has to be sealed and every precaution taken to ensure that water does not seep into the laptop.

“In case laptop manufacturers decide to add this feature, it will certainly be a big hit among customers given the problem of laptop thefts, especially on college campuses,” she said.
 

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IBM’s Solar Servers

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment. – Orison Swett MardenAccording to the U.S. Department of Energy, data centers can consume up to 100 times more energy than a standard office building.In fact, less than 15% of original source energy is used for the information technology equipment within a data center.

A technician inspects IBM's solar-power array atop the roof of the company's software development lab in Bangalore, India. The technology is designed specifically to run high-voltage data centers, integrating AC- and DC-based servers, water-cooling systems and related electronics. The 6,000-square-foot array is capable of providing a 50-kilowatt supply of electricity for up to 330 days a year, for an average of five hours a day.

A 2008 McKinsey report suggested that demand for data centers was expected to grow at 10% CAGR over the next decade, but because of their enormous energy consumption, they were expected to consume as much energy as 10 new major power plants by last year (.2% of world energy production!)
Enter Big Blue.
IBM said today that is rolling out the first solar-power array designed specifically to run high-voltage data centers, integrating AC- and DC-based servers, water-cooled computing systems and related electronics.
The new array is spread over more than 6,000 square-feet of rooftop covering IBM’s India Software Lab in Bangalore.
The solar array is capable of providing a 50-kilowatt supply of electricity for up to 330 days a year, for an average of five hours a day.
By employing unique high-voltage DC power conditioning methods – and reducing AC-DC conversion losses – the new IBM solution can cut energy consumption of data centers by about 10 percent and tailors solar technology for wider use in industrial IT and electronics installations.
In many emerging markets, electrical grids are undependable or non-existent. Companies are forced to rely on expensive diesel generators.
That makes it difficult and expensive to deploy a lot of computers, especially in the concentrated way they’re used in data centers. Using IBM’s solution, a bank, a telecommunications company or a government agency could contemplate setting up a data center that doesn’t need the grid.
The solution, in effect, creates its own DC mini-grid inside the data center.
High-voltage, DC computer servers and water-cooling systems are beginning to replace traditional, AC-powered servers and air-conditioning units in data centers.
IBM’s Bangalore array is the first move to blend solar-power, water-cooling and power-conditioning into a “snap-together” package suitable to run massive configurations of electronic equipment.
“The technology behind solar power has been around for many years, but until now, no one has engineered it for efficient use in IT,” said Rod Adkins, senior vice president, IBM Systems & Technology Group. “We’ve designed a solar solution to bring a new source of clean, reliable and efficient power to energy-intensive, industrial-scale electronics.”
IBM plans for the Bangalore solar-power system to connect directly into the data center’s water-cooling and high-voltage DC systems. The integrated solution can provide a compute power of 25 to 30 teraflops using an IBM Power Systems server on a 50kW solar power supply.
“This solar deployment, currently powering almost 20 percent of our own data center energy requirements, is the latest in the investments made at the India lab to design an efficient and smarter data center,” said Dr Ponani Gopalakrishnan, VP, IBM India Software Lab. “Ready access to renewable energy in emerging markets presents significant opportunities for IBM to increase efficiencies, improve productivity and drive innovation for businesses around the world.”

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