Developing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Core Solutions

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Question 1 of 79

You plan to create a SharePoint Business Process Automation (BPA) project.
You need to process items for approval with the least amount of developer effort.
Which tool should you use?

Remote Event Receiver

Out-of-the-box workflow

SharePoint Designer workflow

Work Item Timer Job

Correct Answer: B

Workflows in SharePoint 2013 allow you to model and automate business processes. These business processes can be as simple as a document approval process with a single approver (shown in example below), as complex as customer-facing product catalog using web service calls and database support, or as formidable as virtually any structured business process, full of conditions, loops, user inputs, tasks, and custom actions.
Example: Simple SharePoint workflow
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Reference: Get started with workflows in SharePoint 2013 B

Question 2 of 79

DRAG DROP -
You need to create a workflow custom activity to use in a custom action in SharePoint by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2012.
Which five actions should you perform in sequence? (To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.)
Select and Place:
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Correct Answer:

Note:
Box 1 (Visual Studio): Add a new item named Workflow Custom Activity to the project.
Visual Studio 2012 now provides a "workflow custom activity" item type within SharePoint projects. You can use the item type to create a custom activity that you can then import as a custom action in SharePoint Designer 2013.
Box 2 (Visual Studio): Package the custom activity as a SharePoint solution package (.wsp) file.
Custom actions are packaged and deployed as SharePoint Features in SharePoint solution package (.wsp) files
Box 3: (Visual studio) Deploy the SharePoint solution package (.wsp) file.
After you create your custom workflow activity, you can then package and deploy it. After it is deployed, the custom activity can be consumed by SharePoint
Designer 2013 as a custom action.

Box 4: Activate the feature -
After a solution package (.wsp) file is uploaded and activated on the target website (that is, the SharePoint site collection), the features that are contained in the package are installed and available for activation. After the custom actions are activated, they are available for use in a workflow.
Box 5: Create a new custom action by using SharePoint Designer.
* SharePoint Designer provides a collection of workflow actions that are available through the Workflow Designer user interface (UI). Although the range of workflow actions that are included in SharePoint Designer) is extensive, it is nevertheless finite. In some cases, you may need to model a business process whose requirements are not met by the existing library of workflow actions that are available in SharePoint Designer. Recognizing that business processes often have specialized requirements, SharePoint 2013 lets you create custom workflow actions. You can develop these custom actions by using Visual Studio, and then package and deploy them to SharePoint. At that point, the custom action becomes available to workflow authors in SharePoint Designer, exactly as if it were among the library of existing actions.
Reference: How to: Build and deploy workflow custom actions
Reference: Exercise: Implement a Custom Workflow Action in Visual Studio Exam 70-488: Question 2 - Image 2

Question 3 of 79

Contoso uses a SharePoint site that contains subsites. Each subsite represents different projects. Each project site is based on a team site template and stores information and documents. Contoso has five teams: Manufacturing, Sales, Administration, Marketing, and IT.
You must create a different look and feel for each team site such that any visitor to the site can identify the team by looking at the colors, fonts, and background image of the site.
You need to create a different look and feel for each team.
What should you do? (Each correct answer presents part of the complete solution. Choose all that apply.)

Open Contoso Corporate Microsoft PowerPoint Slides Template, save the template as ContosoCorporate.master, and then upload it to the Theme Gallery.

From SharePoint Designer, go to Content Types. Right-click and select Content Type Settings.

Get a site background image for each team and upload it to the site collection images library. Then create a new master page for each team site by using the Master Page Gallery. Set the version to 15.

From the Web Designer Galleries, choose Composed Looks and create a new item for each team site. Specify the title, URL of the master page, theme, background image, and font schema file.

On the Site Settings page in the Look and Feel section, choose Change the look.

Create a new font XML schema with a font specification for each team.

Correct Answer: B, C, D

Question 4 of 79

A user deploys a sandbox solution.
The user cannot activate the solution.
You need to ensure that the user can activate the solution.
What should you do? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.)

Grant permission to the user to execute the solution.

Grant permission to the user to activate the solution.

Start the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service.

Start the PerformancePoint Services.

Correct Answer: B, C

Question 5 of 79

A company uses SharePoint for internal collaboration. SharePoint is deployed on a server farm with a single front-end server, a single application server, and a dedicated database server.
You review existing Web Parts that read from and write to SharePoint lists. You find the following code in one of the utility classes and notice memory leaks in the method.
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You need to ensure that there are no memory leaks in the method.
What should you do?

Add a finally statement and include site.Dispose ().

Add site.Dispose() to the catch statement.

Add a finally statement and include siteCollection.Dispose ();

Add siteCollection.Dispose() to the catch statement.

Correct Answer: C