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QUESTION 71 You are managing a SharePoint farm. You need to ensure that new content is included in search results as soon as possible. What should you do?
The correct answer is C. Configure continuous crawling. Continuous crawling in SharePoint Search indexes new and changed content at frequent, automatic intervals (every 15 minutes by default) to minimize the lag between content changes and their appearance in search results.
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- AConfigure on-demand crawling.
- BConfigure an incremental crawl to run every 30 minutes.
- CConfigure continuous crawling.
- DAdd an additional index server to the farm.
- EConfigure an incremental crawl to run every day.
- FReset the search index.
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(31 responses)- A6% (2)
- B3% (1)
- C87% (27)
- E3% (1)
Why each option
Continuous crawling in SharePoint Search indexes new and changed content at frequent, automatic intervals (every 15 minutes by default) to minimize the lag between content changes and their appearance in search results.
On-demand crawling requires manual initiation or a code trigger and does not automatically keep content current without active intervention.
A 30-minute incremental crawl schedule reduces latency compared to daily, but still leaves up to a 30-minute gap and requires manual configuration of each schedule window.
Continuous crawling runs incremental crawls on a short, fixed cycle (default 15 minutes) without requiring manual scheduling, ensuring that newly added or modified content surfaces in search results much faster than a scheduled incremental crawl. It is specifically designed to keep the search index as fresh as possible with minimal configuration overhead.
Adding an index server increases query throughput and capacity but does not affect how quickly new content is crawled and indexed.
A daily incremental crawl schedule means new content could be missing from results for up to 24 hours, which is far from 'as soon as possible.'
Resetting the search index deletes all indexed content and forces a full recrawl, which takes longer and temporarily removes all results rather than speeding up indexing.
Concept tested: SharePoint Search continuous crawling configuration
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/technical-reference/continuously-crawl-sharepoint-content
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