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title: "What are the zones in SharePoint?"  
description: "What are the zones in SharePoint?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2011-11-15  
updated: 2020-09-21  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1371/what-are-the-zones-in-sharepoint  
category: "sharepoint"  
tags: ["sharepoint"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What are the zones in SharePoint?

1. Zones provides the separate logical paths of authentication for the same web application.\
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2. We can create 5 zones for each web application as follows :\
a. Default\
b. Intranet\
c. Extranet\
d. Internet and\
e. Custom\
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3. Each zone represented by different web sites in IIS.\

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

1. Zones provides the separate logical paths of authentication for the same web application.\
\
2. We can create 5 zones for each web application as follows :\
a. Default\
b. Intranet\
c. Extranet\
d. Internet and\
e. Custom\
\
3. Each zone represented by different web sites in IIS.\


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