Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Core Solutions Exam 70-331

Design information architecture in SharePoint 2013 by using metadata, content types, and site columns to organize document libraries, enhance search, and optimize navigation.

Configure managed metadata navigation using term sets and the managed metadata service to create friendly urls, enable site-wide navigation inheritance, and switch from structural to managed navigation with publishing features.

Learn how master pages and the design manager link an HTML page with a cascading style sheet to a SharePoint ASPX page, and manage device channels for 10 layouts.

Convert an html template into a SharePoint master page, then customize the site title, top navigation, search box, and vertical navigation using the snippets gallery and content placeholders.

Publish the master page as a major version with the design manager and apply it to the site, using the master page for system pages to reflect the new template.

Create a design package to transport SharePoint configurations, then import it to deploy, while designing information architecture with metadata, site columns, navigation, and html editing via the design manager.

Define and reuse content types to standardize columns across lists and libraries, publish them via the content types hub, and use templates and workflows to automate document handling.

Explore how managed metadata in SharePoint uses term sets, a term store, and groups to create hierarchical, reusable data for navigation and tagging.

Understand the SharePoint hierarchy, including farm, web applications, service applications, site collections, top level and child sites, lists, libraries, items, and application pools for isolation.

Learn how SharePoint web applications connect to content databases and SQL Server. Explore central administration, authentication, and service applications in web apps.

Create and manage path-based and host-named site collections within a single web application, including top-level sites, security boundaries, and admin tools via central administration and PowerShell.

Identify hardware and software requirements for SharePoint 2013, including 64-bit systems, and evaluate storage options like nas and san for content databases.

Explore farm typologies in SharePoint 2013, detailing web front end, application server, and database roles. Examine online, on-premises, and hybrid deployments, multi-tenancy, and the request manager.

Explore hosted SharePoint in the cloud and compare Office 365 and SharePoint Online plans. Note features not available online due to hosting; review authentication options with Azure Active Directory.

Explore authentication versus authorization in SharePoint 2013, focusing on claims-based authentication, security token service, identity provider and relying party, and who gets authenticated (users, servers, apps) to access resources.

Explore the four Windows authentication methods (NTLM, Kerberos, digest, basic) and how anonymous and forms-based authentication coexist as claims-based options in SharePoint 2013, with Sammul token federation.

Configure federation claims by creating a SharePoint relying party, establishing trust with the federation service, and defining claim rules (UPN and email) using WS-Federation and token signing certificates.

Explore how SharePoint server authenticates with other servers and apps through trust relationships, claims-based authentication, and the Windows token service, authenticating both app and user identities, including Office Web Apps.

Master authorization in SharePoint 2013 by grouping users, setting permissions and inheritance, applying web application permission policies, and using the new people picker to grant access.

Discover how SharePoint groups function as site collection items, nest global groups into domain local groups via Active Directory, and use the share button to add members.

Explore how SharePoint uses permission levels to bundle granular permissions, manage site access, enable inheritance across child sites, and handle limited access and no deny rules.

Learn how permission inheritance in SharePoint propagates from site collection to lists, libraries, and items; break inheritance to set unique permissions, manage groups, and consider anonymous access licensing.

Learn how to manage web application permission policies in SharePoint 2013, including anonymous access, user policies, and web application level denies for sites and the search crawler.