Office 365 Interview Questions and Answers

Office 365 is a cloud-based, subscription model version of Microsoft’s popular productivity suite Microsoft Office. Office 365 contains the same core applications as traditional versions of Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and depending on the plan purchased, may also include other apps and services such as Publisher, Planner, OneDrive, Exchange, SharePoint, Access, Skype, Yammer, and Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft Forms is a new part of Office 365 Education that allows you to quickly and easily create custom quizzes, surveys, questionnaires, registrations, and more. When you create a quiz or form, you can invite others to respond to it using any web browser, even on mobile devices. As results are submitted, you can use built-in analytics to evaluate responses. Forms data, such as quiz results, can be easily exported to Excel for additional analysis or grading. -Check Microsoft website

Yes. Yammer and SharePoint already can be connected using available web parts to pull in data from Yammer, and Open Graph technology to push information from 3rd party systems into the Yammer stream. (MJF: Here’s Microsoft’s timetable for fully integrating Yammer and SharePoint. On the pricing side, March 1 is an important milestone date.)

Office 365 now offers SkyDrive Pro for personal document management and sharing. It is accessible across OSes and devices, and comes with the powerful backend of SharePoint Online for versioning, backup/restore, review management, and direct integration with the Office Web Apps.

Yammer is a social network for enterprises that aims to help employees connect and communicate. It provides a space for cross-departmental messaging and information sharing; Yammer is essentially the “outer circle”, for delivering organization-wide news, announcements, and engagements. Think of Yammer a digital company message board.

Microsoft Graph is an API. API stands for Application Programming Interface—these interfaces enable a piece of software to allow another piece of software to use its data and/or functionality in a structured, predefined way

FastTrack is a free deployment service provided by Microsoft to help businesses get Office 365 up and running quickly. This service is carried out remotely.

SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform that integrates with Microsoft Office. Launched in 2001, SharePoint is primarily sold as a document management and storage system, but the product is highly configurable and usage varies substantially between organizations.

We are including Office Web Apps included in E1, which enables even more of our customers to get use of Office Web Apps while simplifying our line-up. E2 will continue to be available for existing customers.

I’ve seen a bit of confusion about what constitutes an upgrade vs. an update in Office 365 land. The easiest way to think about this is an upgrade is a whole new version of Office 365 (similar to what a new release would be in Exchange, SharePoint, Lync and/or Office). An update is a set of more minor fixes and updates, which the Office 365 team has said it plans to provide quarterly to those using the hosted services.

• Cloud Identity
• Synchronized Identity
• Federated Identity

Really, there is no “one size fits all” for conversations. Different scenarios require different tools, and there is a place and time for all of them. You can think of Office 365 Groups as an arsenal of solutions and Christophe helped us distinguish between the choices.

• Global Admin: has access to all admin features
• Billing Admin: makes purchases, manages subscriptions, manages support tickets, monitors service health
• Password Admin: resets passwords
• Service Admin: manages service requests and monitors service health
• User Management Admin: resets passwords, manages user accounts, user groups, and service requests
• Exchange Admin: has administrative access to Exchange Online through the Exchange admin center
• SharePoint Admin: has administrative access to SharePoint Online through the SharePoint Online admin center
• Skype for Business Admin: has administrative access to Skype for Business through the Skype for Business admin center