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Active Directory
1. What is Tree?
2. What is Forest?
A group of tree is called forest and doesn’t sharing a continuous name but sharing a common configuration schema.
3. What is group?
4. What is VPN?
VPN stands for Virtual private network that creates a secure network connection over a public network. VPN is used to
enable remotely users to connect the secure private network.
2. What do you mean by Active Directory functional levels? How does it help an organization’s network
functionality?
6. What are the Active Directory Partitions? (Or what are Active Directory Naming Contexts? Or what is AD NC?)
22. Have you ever planned and implemented Active Directory infrastructure anywhere? Tell me few
considerations we have to take during the AD planning.
23. What is Active Directory defragmentation? How do you do AD defragmentation? And why do we do it?
24. How do you uninstall active directory? What are the precautions we have to take before removing active
directory?
25. Imagine you are trying to add a Windows 7 computer to Active Directory domain. But its showing an error
‘Unable to find Domain Controller’. How will you handle this issue?
26. What are the services required for Active Directory replication?
27. What is Active Directory application partition? What are the uses of it?
28. What do you mean by IDA? What are the new components of Windows 2K8 Active Directory?
29. I want to edit the Active Directory Schema. How can I bring Schema editor into my MMC?
30. Name few Active Directory Built in groups
31. I have to create 1000 user objects in my Active Directory domain. Who can I achieve that with least
administrative effort? Tell me few tools that I can use.
55. The security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship?
56. What is lost & found folder in ADS?
57. What System State data contains?
58. What are the Volume types?
59. Minimum requirements installing AD in windows server 2008R2?
60. What is the Event ID to troubleshoot the Account lockout issues?
61. How to edit schema in AD?
62. How to remotely install ADC?
63. AD account lockout issue root cause?
64. What is basic and dynamic disk?
65. What is the process to defragment AD database?
66. What are the types object restoration method in AD?
67. What is system state backup?
68. If PDC goes down then what would be impact?
69. If my PDC goes down the can user set the password?
70. What will you do if schema role goes down?
71. Give an example of schema modification?
72. How to check replication?
73. How to calculate the latency is intrasite and intersite replication?
74. What if a FSMO server role fails?
75. How will map a folder through AD?
76. What is the tool used to anaylsis minidump?
77. What is the event ID for abnormat shutdown?
78. What is the command to check windows server uptime?
79. What is urgent replication in AD ?
80. How to migrate AD location to another ? (from C:\AD to D:\AD)
81. Tool to monitor AD replication?
82. What are the troubleshooting handle for replication issue?
83. What is the protocol used for replication?
84. Explain Infrastructure Master Role. What will be the impact if DC with Infrastructure Master Role goes down?
85. Can I configure two Infrastructure Master Role in a forest? If yes, please explain.
86. What is group nesting?
87. Explain Group Types and Group Scopes?
88. How is Authoritative Restore different from non-Authoritative Restore?
89. Tell me few switches of NTDSUTIL command.
90. What is a tombstone? What is the tombstone lifetime period?
91. What do you understand by Garbage Collection? Explain.
92. What is Lost and Found Container?
93. Where can I locate Lost and Found Container?
94. What is RODC? Why do we configure RODC?
95. Explain Knowledge Consistency Checker (KCC)
96. Tell me few DS commands and its usage.
97. What are Intersite and Intrasite replication?
98. What is shortcut trust?
99. What is selective Authentication?
100. Have you heard of ADAC?
101. What is the use of ADSIEDIT? How do we install it in Windows Server 2003 AD?
102. What is ADMT? What is it used for?
103. What do you mean by Lingering Objects in AD? How to remove Lingering Objects?
104. What is LDAP?
105. What is NETDOM command line tool used for?
106. What is role seizure? Who do we perform role seizure?
107. Is it possible to find idle users who did not log in for last few months?
108. What are the uses of CSVDE and LDIFDE?
109. What are the differences between a user object and contact object?
110. What do you mean by Bridge Head server?
111. What is urgent replication?
112. Please explain Realm trust.
113. Explain object class and object attribute.
114. My organization wants to add new object attribute to the user object. How do you achieve it?
115. What do you understand about GUID?
116. Name few differences from Windows Server 2003 AD and Windows Server 2008 AD.
117. What are the replication intervals for Intersite and intrasite replication? Is there any change in 2003 and
2008?
118. Tell me few uses of NTDSUTIL commands?
119. Tell me Different between online and offline defragmentation.
120. A user account is frequently being locked out. How do you investigate this issue? What will be the possible
solution suggest the user?
121. Many users of a network are facing latency while trying to log into their workstations. How do you investigate
this problem?
DNS
220. How do I check if my DNS server is working?
221. What is DNS?
222. What is DDNS?
223. What are the resource records in DNS?
224. What is SRV records in DNS?
225. What is forwarding in DNS?
226. What is conditional forwarding in DNS?
227. What are the queries types in DNS?
228. What are the tools for troubleshooting of DNS?
229. How to check DNS health?
230. How do I clear the DNS cache on the DNS server?
231. What are the properties of DNS server?
232. How do you manually create SRV records in DNS?
233. Where DNS resource records will be stored?
234. How DNS works?
235. What is the use of local DNS server?
236. What would be impact if reserve lookup goes down in DNS?
237. What is root hint in DNS?
238. What is prerequisites for DNS?
239. How will you take backup of DNS?
240. How many records in DNS and what is the user of each record?
241. What the port is no of: WSUS, RDP, Global catalogue, WSUS, IMAP, WINS, SSL, SMTP, POP3, HTTPS, LDP,
DNS, DHCP, FTP, Telnet, SSH, SNMP?
242. What will be the problem if DNS Server fails?
DHCP
261. What is DHCP?
262. What is Scope, reservation, lease, exclusion range in DHCP?
263. What are the commands used for troubleshooting DHCP issues?
264. How DHCP work?
265. What is Authorizing DHCP server in Active Directory?
266. How can we take backup of DNS and DHCP server?
267. Where DHCP database store?
268. What are the option classes in DHCP?
269. What is the function of jetpack command in DHCP server?
270. What is Exclusion Range in DHCP Server?
Global Catalog
316. How do I find my global catalogue server?
317. Explain Global Catalog. What kind of AD infrastructure makes most use of Global Catalog?
318. Global Catalog and Infrastructure master roles cannot be configure in same Domain Controller. Why?
319. How to view global catalog on command line?
320. How to transfer global catalog to another domain?
321. How to configure global catalog server?
Roles
322. What are the two forest specific FSMO roles?
323. Tell me one easiest way to check all the 5 FSMO roles.
324. You said there are 5 FSMO roles. Please explain what will be the impact on the AD infra if each FSMO roles
fails?
Networking
331. What is IPv6 and IPv4? What is the difference between them?
332. What is VOIP?
333. How can we change the IP address from Command prompt?
334. What is the APIPA IP?
335. What is IP address range?
336. What is the private IP address range?
337. What are port needs to open for making up trust relationship?
338. What is classfull and classless IP address?
339. What is subnetting and supernetting?
340. What is Switch?
341. What is Router?
342. How firewall works?
343. What is NAT?
344. What is difference between TCP and UDP?
345. What is subnet Mask?
346. What is default gateway?
347. What is multicasting?
348. What is difference between FAT 32 and NTFS?
349. What are the 7 OSI layres?
350. What is Telnet, Tracert & FTP?
351. What is VLAN?
Domain
352. I want to promote a new additional Domain Controller in an existing domain. Which are the groups I should
be a member of?
353. Can I configure two RID masters in a domain?
354. What will be the impact on the network if Domain Controller with PDC Emulator crashes?
355. What is the feature of Domain Local Group?
356. How do you check currently forest and domain functional levels? Say both GUI and Command line.
357. Can you explain the process between a user providing his Domain credential to his workstation and the
desktop being loaded? Or how the AD authentication works?
PORT NUMBER
23 Telnet TCP
50, 51 IPSec
161 162 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) TCP and UDP
15 Netstat
21 FTP
23 Telnet
25 SMTP
42 WINS
53 DNS
68 DHCP Server
80 HTTP
88 Kerberos
101 HOSTNAME
110 POP3
119 NNTP
123 NTP
139 NetBIOS
161 SNMP
180 RIS
389 LDAP
37 Time
143 IMAP4
2) Mention what are the new features in Active Directory (AD) of Windows server 2012?
6) Mention what is the difference between domain admin groups and enterprise admins group
in AD?
9) Explain where does the AD database is held? What other folders are related to AD?
10) Mention what is PDC emulator and how would one know whether PDC emulator is working
or not?
1. What is static routing?
2. What is dynamic routing?
3. What do you understand by NAT?
4. What is OSI reference model?
5. How many layers does OSI reference model contain?
6. What is the difference between TCP and UDP?
7. How many layers do TCP/ IP Protocol Stack contain?
8. Routers function at which layer of OSI reference model?
9. What are routing protocols?
10. What are port numbers?
11. Name the types of wireless topologies.
12. What do you understand by the term VLAN?
13. What is the difference between network and subnet?
14. What is the major difference between Tracert and Pathping command?
15. What is the difference between Multicast and Broadcast?
16. Which protocol does IPv4 use to resolve broadcast addresses into Media Access Control (MAC)
addresses of NICs?
17. Difference between Windows 2003 &
Windows 2008 boot process
18. Difference between Windows 2003 and Windows 2008
19. Lists the windows Server 2008 R2 new features?
20. Difference between Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R221. Which Windows
Server 2008 tools make it easy to manage and configure a server’s roles and features?
22. Name of utilities that is being used to check multipathing
23. How to create Host A record remotely?
24. What is the requirement to configure Full memory Dump in windows?
25. Tools to analyze Memory Dump?
26. Have you heard of ADAC?
27. What is the use of ADSIEDIT? How do we install it in Windows Server 2003 AD?
28. How many objects can be created in Active Directory? (both 2003 and 2008)
29. Can you explain the process between a user providing his Domain credential to his work
station and the desktop being loaded? Or how the AD authentication works?
30. What is the difference between FAT, FAT32 & NTFS & what is it?
31. What are Permissions?
32. What is the definition for Additional Domain Controller?
33. What is Domain Controller?
34. What is Proxy Server?
35. What is Basic Disk?
36. What is Dynamic Disk?
37. What is RAID?
38. What is Simple Volume?
39. What is Spanned Volume?
40. What is Mirrored Volume?
41. What is Stripped Volume?
42. What is Raid-0?
43. What is RAID-1?
44. What is RAID-5?
45. What is RAID-10?
46. What is RAID-01?
47. What are main difference between RAID 10 vs. RAID 01
48. What is the loopback address in IPv6?
49. How many bits are there in an IPv6 address?
50. What are Global addresses in IPv6?
51. What is Link Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) method?
52. Which protocol replaces the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) in IPv6?
53. Which protocol connects IPv6 hosts and routers over IPv4 networks?
54. What are the different types of IPv6 transition strategies?
55. Explain three main features of Active Directory?
56. What are the physical components of Active Directory?
57. What are the logical components of Active Directory?
58. Do we use clustering in Active Directory? Why?
59. Which version of Kerberos is used for Windows 2000/2003 and 2008 Active Directory?
60. Minimum requirement to install Win 2008 AD?
61. You want to promote one of your Windows Server 2008 R2 machine as a Domain
Controller. Which command you will type to do so?
62. How do you verify whether the AD installation is proper?
63. Where is the AD database held? What other folders are related to AD?
What is the SYSVOL folder?
65. Which command would you use to add or remove roles in Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core?
66. What are the protocols used by AD?
67. What is FSMO role? (Or what are Single Master Operations / Flexible Single Master Operati
ons / Operations Master Role / SMO / OMR?)
68. You are the Administrator of a company named DATACORP.COM. It contains Windows
Server 2008 R2 promoted as a Domain Controller and configured as Global Catalog (GC)
which also holds all five operation master roles. You have also deployed another Domain
Controller in your domain. However, it is not configured as GC. What Flexible Single
Master Operations (FSMO) Role should you transfer to the non-GC domain controller?
69. What are the pre-requisites to add a computer to the domain?
70. What is pre-staging?
71. Explain Active Directory tree and forest.
72. How many types of Operation Master Roles are there in a forest?
73. Can I configure two RID masters in a domain?
74. Can I configure two Infrastructure Master Role in a forest? If yes, please explain.
75. What will be the impact on the network if Domain Controller with PDC Emulator crashes?
76. How many types of Active Directory partitions are there?
77. What is schema?
78. Trying to look at the Schema, how can I do that?
79. What will happen if Schema Master fails?
80. What will happen if Domain Naming Master fails?
81. What will happen if RID Master fails?
82. What will happen if PDC Emulator fails?
83. What will happen if Infrastructure Master fails?
84. Explain object class and object attribute.
85. My organization wants to add new object attribute to the user object. How do you achieve it?
86. What do you understand about GUID?
87. Explain Global Catalog. What kind of AD infrastructure makes most use of Global Catalog?
88. GC and infrastructure master should not be on same server, why?
89. Explain Infrastructure Master Role. What will be the impact if DC with Infrastructure
Master Role goes down?
90. Why not make all DCs in a large forest as GCs?
91. How do you check all the GCs in the forest?
92. In which case you should enable Universal Group Membership Caching (UGMC) in a site?
93. What do you mean by Active Directory functional levels? How does it help an organizati
on’s network functionality?
94. How many Forest Functional Levels does Windows Server 2008 R2 have?
95. Which Operation Master role is responsible for time synchronization and password changing?
96. What do you understand by the term Certificate Revocation?
97. What is the function of Infrastructure Master Role?
98. What is symmetric encryption?
99. What is Asymmetric encryption?
100. What do you understand by single sign on (SSO)?
101. What do you understand by Network Device Enrollment Service (NDES)?
102. What is the difference between trusted domain and trusting domain?
103. What is a pre-shared key?
104. What is Integrated Windows Authentication?
105. What do you mean by Bridge Head server?
106. What is the function of Key Recovery Agent (KRA)?
107. What is Client Certificate Authentication method?
108. What is Selective Authentication?
109. What is a trust?
110. What are the prerequisites for deploying AD FS (Active Directory Federation Services)?
111. What is the AD Recycle Bin?
112. What is the use of Active Directory Recycle Bin in Windows Server 2008 R2?
113. What are AD Snapshots? How do you use them?
114. What are Fine-Grained Passwords? How do you use them?
115. Talk about Restartable Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2008/R2.
What is this feature good for?
116. What is Benefits of restartable AD DS?
117. What are the Naming Conventions used in AD?
118. What is Distinguished Name?
119. What is Auto Enrollment?
120. What are the two types of Replication Transport Protocols in Active Directory Sites and
Services snap-in?
121. What are the two types of Replication Transport Protocols in Active Directory Sites
and Services snap-in?
122. What is a Global Catalog Server?
123. What is the function of Schema Master?
124. What is LDAP?
125. Which protocol is used by AD LDS?
126. What are the core elements of the AD CS infrastructure?
127. What is FRS (File replication services)?
128. What are the two protocols that are used in replication?
129. Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication
130. What is Journal Wrap?
131. How can you forcibly remove AD from a server, and what do you do later?
132. What is Certificate Revocation List (CRL)?
133. Describe the concept of Administrator role separation.
134. Which FSMO roles you can transfer from a domain controller to another domain controller i
n a different domain in a forest?
135. In which condition you can replicate SYSVOL by using DFS-R within that domain?
136. What is Intersite replication?
137. What is Intrasite replication?
138. What is Strict Replication?
139. What is urgent replication?
140. What is shortcut trust?
141. Please explain Realm trust.
142. What is selective Authentication?
143. Give me brief explanation of different types of Active Directory trusts.
144. How do you view replication properties for AD partitions and DCs?
145. What are the Support Tools? Why do I need them?
146. What is LDP? What is REPLMON? What is ADSIEDIT? What is NETDOM? What is REPADMIN?
147. What is NETDOM command line tool used for?
148. What is role seizure? Who do we perform role seizure?
149. What is Active Directory replication?
150. Explain Knowledge Consistency Checker (KCC)
151. What are the tools used to check and troubleshoot replication of Active Directory?
152. What is ISTG? What is role of ISTG in Active Directory?
153. Is it possible to find idle users who did not log in for last few months?
154. What should be the minimum Forest and Domain Functional Level for deploying RODC?
155. Name the built-in Data Collector Sets in Windows Server 2008 R2.
156. What is Data Collector Set?
157. What is the difference between Enterprise CA and Standalone CA?
158. What is server core? How do you configure and manage a windows server 2008
core installation?
159. Which Server Roles are supported by Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core?
160. Talk about all the AD-related roles in Windows Server 2008/R2.
161. What are RODCs? What are advantages?
162. What does an RODC do?
163. How do you install an RODC?
164. What do you understand by RODC credential caching?
165. How to configure RODC to replicate password of users?
166. Where does Active Directory store its Database?
167. What do you understand by the process Offline Domain Join?
168. When a child domain is created in the domain tree, what type of trust relationship exists
Be-tween the new child domain and the trees root domain?
169. What are sites? What are they used for?
170. What’s the difference between a site link’s schedule and interval?
171. What are Site Link Bridges?
172. Describe the features provided by Windows Server2008 R2 domain functional level.
173. What are application partitions? When do I use them?
174. How do you create a new application partition?
175. How can you create application partitions for AD LDS instances?
176. A user logs on to a Domain using User1@Datacorp.com credentials. What is the other
credential method of logging on to a Domain?
177. You are an Administrator in a company. You have three sites, Sydney, Dallas and New
Delhi. CEO of the organization has decided to dissolve Dallas branch. When you attempt
to remove all OUs created for Dallas site it responds as: The object is protected from
accidental deletion. What will you do to delete this Organizational Unit (OU)?
178. You are the administrator of a company named DATACORP.COM. You hired a tech support
engineer so that you can delegate some administrative task of adding users, creating
users and resetting user passwords to him. Which tool or feature will you use to do so?
179. What is an Organizational Unit (OU)?
180. You are the administrator of a company named DATACORP.COM. When you initiated Active
Directory Users and Computers snap-in, you found that one of the users’ icons in Users
container has a small down arrow. What does it mean?
181. How many scopes does a domain group have?
182. Explain Group Types and Group Scopes?
183. What is the feature of Domain Local Group?
184. What is group nesting?
185. What is secondary logon?
186. What is UPN suffix?
187. What is the difference between local users and domain users?
188. Why do you create a shadow group?
189. by default, members of which group can create Password Setting Objects (PSOs)?
190. What type of Active Directory objects a Universal Group can contain?
191. In which environment should you use Distribution groups?
192. What are the uses of CSVDE and LDIFDE?
193. What’s the difference between LDIFDE and CSVDE? Usage considerations?
194. What are the differences between a user object and contact object?
195. How would you find all users that have not logged on since last month?
196. What are the DS* commands?
197. How to troubleshoot AD replication issues?
198. What is DHCP?
199. At what layer of OSI it functions?
200. What is the default Lease Period in DHCP Client/Server communication?
201. What is the purpose of creating reservations in DHCP?
202. When does a client obtain an IP address of 169.254.0.0/16 range?
203. What is a Super Scope?
204. When does a DHCP client request DHCP server for IP address renewal?
205. What is the default lease duration for which an IP address is assigned to a client
computer by the DHCP server?
206. Describe the process of DORA.
207. What is the function of DHCP relay agent?
208. What do you understand by exclusions in DHCP?
209. When you configure ICS what IP address is assigned to the internal network adapter?
210. What is the difference between DHCP and DHCPv6?
211. How can you backup configuration file of DHCP server?
212. What is VLAN?
213. How is it different than VLANs?
214. What is a RADIUS Server?
215. Which protocol is used for smart card authentication?
216. Name the types of VPN tunneling protocol.
217. What is Distributed File System (DFS)?
218. What are the types of replication in DFS?
219. Which service is responsible for replicating files in SYSVOL folder?
220. What are the Important Windows port numbers:
221. What is ADMT? What is it used for?
222. What do you mean by Lingering Objects in AD? How to remove Lingering Objects?
223. How to find the domain controller that
contains the lingering object
224. What are Active Directory ports:
225. How to do active directory health checks?
226. GPRESULT failed with access denied error:
227. What is the command to find out site name for given DC
228. Command to find all DCs in the given site
229. Tell me few DS commands and its usage.
230. What is a tombstone? What is the tombstone lifetime period?
231. How to check tombstone lifetime value in your Forest
232. What do you understand by Garbage Collection? Explain.
233. Where can I locate Lost and Found Container?
234. What is WDS?
235. Benefits of Windows Deployment Services
236. What are the prerequisites for deploying Windows Deployment Services (WDS)?
237. What is Hyper-V or Hypervisor?
238. Which TCP port is used to initiate RDP connections to terminal servers?
239. What do you understand by the term DFS namespace?
240. Why Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server is used?
241. What do you understand by printer pooling?
242. How many maximum concurrent Remote Desktop sessions can be initiated on a computer r
unning Windows Server 2008 R2?
243. What is the changed name of Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 R2?
244. In a RADIUS oriented environment, who acts as a radius client?
245. What are the major Distributed File System (DFS) elements?
246. Which port is used by Remote Desktop Gateway to communicate with clients over SSL?
247. What is the benefit of FTPS over FTP?
248. Which command is used to initiate IIS 7.5 Manager?
249. Which streaming protocol is used by Windows media services?
250. What are the system requirements for deploying Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2?
251. How many logical cores does a single instance and single Virtual Machine instance of
Windows Server 2008 R2 support?
252. You are the Administrator of a company. For security reason management decided that a
particular user must not logon after 4.00 p.m. What appropriate action will you take?
253. You have created a shared folder in a file server and you want that Marketing group can a
ccess the shared folder but Accounts group cannot. What will you do?
254. Your Company undertakes a new project and you want to give access to your domain par
tner on your file server to a specific folder. What type of group will you create so that
they can access that folder?
255. What is the difference between authentication and authorization?
256. Describe the benefits provided by the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).
257. What do you understand by Network Level Authentication?
258. What do you understand by the term Kerberos authentication?
259. Why do we need DRA?
260. What is Transport Layer Security (TLS)?
261. What is Access Control List (ACL)?
262. What is Domain Isolation Policy?
263. What is BitLocker Drive Encryption?
264. What is DNS?
265. How DNS Works?
266. How DNS does relate with ADS?
267. What is an FQDN?
268. You have established a domain/client network infrastructure using Windows Server 2008
R2 and have named the domain as DATACORP.COM. What will be the NetBIOS name of
the domain?
269. You are an Administrator of DATACORP.COM. When you try to add a client computer to
DATACORP.COM domain it gives an error saying: An Active Directory Domain Controller for
the domain DATACORP.COM could not be contacted. How will you resolve this problem?
270. In IP v4 DNS representation of host records is A. What is the representation of host records in
IP v6?
271. What are Root Hints?
272. Why do we need to configure conditional forwarders?
273. You are the administrator of a company named DATACORP.COM that has two sites, Dalla
s and Sydney. Both sites have DNS Servers. Sites are connected via 256 Kbps WAN link.
To save your bandwidth and for better query resolution, you created a stub zone for
Sydney site in Dallas site but when you attempt to reload the zone or transfer from
master it gives an error- Unable to transfer from master. What could be the real cause?
274. What is the main purpose of a DNS server?
275. What are commonly Used DNS Records?
276. What is glue record?
277. Which DNS record is required for Replication?
278. Explain DNS Zones?
279. Explain zone file?
280. What is Primary DNS Zone?
281. What is Standard Primary DNS Server?
282. What is Forward Lookup?
283. What is Reverse Lookup?
284. What's the difference between a zone and a domain?
285. Why do you need to configure scavenging and aging on a DNS server?
286. When do we need to configure Forwarders?
287. What do you understand by DNS recursion?
288. What types of records does a stub zone contain?
289. In which scenario we can use Caching Only DNS Server?
290. Which resource records are used to resolve queries for Exchange Server?
291. Describe the process of how Secondary DNS server receives DNS records from Master
DNS server.
292. What is the use of stub zone?
293. Differences b/w Conditional Forwarding and Stub Zones
294. What is Active Directory integrated zone?
295. What do you understand by DNS suffix?
296. What do you understand by the Glue Record?
297. What are Pointer (PTR) records?
298. What is NetBIOS name resolution?
299. What is GlobalNames Zone?
300. Name the scopes available for DNS Zone replication in Active Directory infrastructure.
338. What is the main benefit of restoring Active Directory using Installation from Media
(IFM) process?
339. Difference between Incremental & Differential Backup?
340. As an administrator of DATACORP.COM you need to create 200 domain user accounts. Ho
w will you complete the task with least administrative overhead?
341. Which command is used to manage SYSVOL replication when Forest Functional Level
is Windows Server 2008 R2? DFSRadmin.exe command is used to manage SYSVOL
replication in
342. Which command-line utility is used to perform initial configuration of WDS (Windows
Deployment Services) Server in Windows Server 2008 R2?
343. Which command is used to enable Active Directory Recycle Bin feature in Windows Server
2008 R2?
344. What does OOBE command do?
345. Which command line tool is used to troubleshoot DNS server?
346. Through which command we can convert a Security Policy into a Group Policy Object (GPO)?
347. Which command is used to update Group Policy settings on a client computer?
348. Which command is used to manage DNS server from command line?
349. Which command is used to renew an IP address assigned by DHCP server?
350. Which command you must use to deploy Read Only Domain Controller (RODC)?
351. Why do we initiate ipconfig /flushdns command?
352. What command is used to add client computers to a specific DHCP User Class?
353. Which command line utility is used to administer Windows SharePoint Services?
354. What is Windows PowerShell?
355. Name some of the major changes in GPO in Windows Server 2008.
356. What are GPOs?
357. What are GPT and GPC?
358. What are Starter GPOs?
359. Being an Administrator of DATACORP.COM you have configured a GPO named Desktop
Lock that has following settings:
a) Remove Add or Remove Programs
b) Restrict Access to Control Panel
c) Prevent changing desktop wallpaper
360. You want to link it to an OU named Datacorp Users which also contains a child OU
named Executives. What will you do to prevent Executives OU from inheriting
settings from Desktop Lock GPO?
361. You are an administrator at DATACORP.COM. For security reasons, you want that users
cannot plug any USB or removable devices to the computers. What appropriate action
you should take to do so?
362. Tell me the order of GPO as it applied.
363. What is the order in
which GPOs are applied?
364. Name a few benefits of using GPMC.
365. How can you determine what GPO was and was not applied for a user? Name a few ways to
do that.
366. What are administrative templates?
367. What’s the difference between software publishing and assigning?
368. You want to standardize the desktop environments (wallpaper, My Documents, Start men
u, printers etc.) on the computers in one department. How would you do that?
369. Tools to troubleshoot Group Policy issues?
370. What is Loopback Group Policy?
371. Which FSMO role directly impacting the consistency of Group Policy?
372. In which condition you are required to configure Loopback Policy Processing?
373. You want to install Microsoft Word 2007 on all your client computers in the network.
How would you accomplish the task with least administrative overhead?
374. What are fine grained policies in Windows Server 2008 R2?
375. Name the two built-in GPOs that are by default created when AD DS is installed.
376. What is the difference between Default Domain Policy and Default Domain Controller Policy?
377. What are the two ways of deploying software through group policies?
378. What is the difference between assigning an application and publishing an application in
Group Policy?
379. What’s new in Windows Server 2008 Cluster?
380. What existing functionality is changing?
381. What is Clustering? Briefly define & explain it?
382. Types of Clusters?
383. What is Quorum?
384. Why Quorum is necessary?
385. Different types of Quorum in Windows server 2008?
386. Different types of Quorum in Windows server 2003?
387. Explain about each Quorum type ?
388. How is the quorum information located on the system disk of each node kept in synch?
389. Can this method be used to replicate application data as well?
390. Can I convert a standard cluster to an MNS cluster?
402. If a cluster passes all tests in the cluster validation wizard, is it supported?
403. Will failover cluster solutions be listed in the Windows Catalog?
404. Does this new support policy also apply to Windows Server 2003?
405. How does Microsoft CSS check if the solution has been validated?
406. What if I make a change to the cluster configuration, like add a node?
Does the
validation wizard have to be run again?
407. Is cluster high available or fault tolerant solution?
408. How MSCS is different from NLB?
409. What is a quorum or What is a quorum resource or Quorum disk?
410. What’s the advantage/disadvantage of having 1 node cluster?
411. How important is to have public and heartbeat network separate? Is cluster possible
with just one NIC per node?
412. What’s the port number for heartbeat communication between Cluster Nodes?
413. Is it possible to have heartbeat and public NIC’s on the same subnet without causing
any problems?
414. Can 2 nodes belonging from multiple network subnets form a single Cluster?
415. What is the difference between multicast and unicast in a Cluster? Under which scenario u
nicast/multicast is more viable solution that multicast/unicast?
416. What kind of application is called cluster-aware?
417. Is every Windows application Cluster aware? And why or why not?
418. Is it very important to have shared storage for a Cluster 2 run? What kind of applications
may not run if we don’t shared storage?
419. What is a cluster log? What is its default location?
420. How many logging levels do we have in 2003? What is the default logging level of Cluster log
in 2003?
421. What could be the maximum size of a Cluster log and where can it be set / configured?
422. How many Cluster nodes you can have in 2003 Cluster and Windows 2008 cluster? (Depends on
Os edition).
423. Is it possible to have 2000 and 2003 node co-exist in the same Cluster?
424. Is it possible to have x86 and x64 bit 2003 node in the same Cluster?
425. What is a difference between a Cluster and a geographically-dispersed Cluster from
administrative perspective?
426. Are dynamic disks supports in 2003? What about GPT disks?
427. What is a File Share witness?
428. What is a dependency tree and how is it crucial?
429. What are ISAlive and LooksAlive? what is their frequency? What happens if the
ISAlive fails for a resource?
430. How many times Cluster will try to restart the group/resource, before it marks a
group/resource as failed?
431. What are the improvements made in Windows 2008 clustering?
432. What is Web Farm?
433. What is Web Garden?
434. What is the default Identity of an Application Pool ?
435. What is the available Identity of an Application Pool?
436. What is the worker process for IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0?
437. What are the different types of application pool available in IIS 7.0?
438. Where is the default location for IIS Log files ?
What is the use of aspnet_regiis -i command?
440. How to check Installed .Net Version on IIS?
441. If there is multiple worker process running on IIS, then how can you attach a
particular worker process for application ?
442. Which Tool is used for Remote IIS Debugging ?
443. IIS Port numbers?
444. What are IIS Services?
480. Where is the default location for IIS Log files ?
481. What are the major innovations in IIS 7.0 ?
HR Questions
506. How would you handle a negative coworker?
507. What would you do if you witnessed a coworker surfing the web, reading a book, etc, wasting
company time?
508. How do you handle competition among yourself and other employees?
509. When is it okay to socialize with coworkers?
510. Tell me about a time when a major change was made at your last job, and how you handled it.
511. When delegating tasks, how do you choose which tasks go to which team members?
512. Tell me about a time when you had to stand up for something you believed strongly
about to coworkers or a supervisor.
513. Tell me about a time when you helped someone finish their work, even though it wasn't
“your job.”
514. What are the challenges of working on a team? How do you handle this?
515. Do you value diversity in the workplace?
516. How would you handle a situation in which a coworker was not accepting of someone
else's diversity?
517. Are you rewarded more from working on a team, or accomplishing a task on your own?
518. Tell me about a time when you didn't meet a deadline.
519. How do you eliminate distractions while working?
520. Tell me about a time when you worked in a position with a weekly or monthly quota to
meet. How often were you successful?
521. Tell me about a time when you met a tough deadline, and how you were able to complete it.
522. How do you stay organized when you have multiple projects on your plate?
523. How much time during your work day do you spend on “auto-pilot?”
524. How do you handle deadlines?
525. Tell me about your personal problem-solving process.
526. What sort of things at work can make you stressed?
527. What do you look like when you are stressed about something? How do you solve it?
528. Can you multi-task?
529. How many hours per week do you work?
530. How many times per day do you check your email?
531. Tell me about a time when you worked additional hours to finish a project.
532. Tell me about a time when your performance exceeded the duties and requirements of
your job.
533. What is your driving attitude about work?
534. Do you take work home with you?
535. Describe a typical work day to me.
536. Tell me about a time when you went out of your way at your previous job.
537. Are you open to receiving feedback and criticisms on your job performance, and adjusting
as necessary?
538. What inspires you?
539. How do you inspire others?
540. How do you make decisions?
541. What are the most difficult decisions for you to make?
542. When making a tough decision, how do you gather information?
543. Tell me about a decision you made that did not turn out well.
544. Are you able to make decisions quickly?
545. Ten years ago, what were your career goals?
546. Tell me about a weakness you used to have, and how you changed it.
547. Tell me about your goal-setting process.
548. Tell me about a time when you solved a problem by creating actionable steps to follow.
549. Where do you see yourself five years from now?
550. When in a position, do you look for opportunities to promote?
551. On a scale of 1 to 10, how successful has your life been?
552. What is your greatest goal in life?
553. Tell me about a time when you set a goal in your personal life and achieved it.
554. What is your greatest goal in your career?
555. Tell me about a time when you achieved a goal.
556. What areas of your work would you still like to improve in? What are your plans to do this?
2) Explain in windows DNS server what is Primary, Secondary and Stub zone?
4) In the case when MSI file is not available, how you can install an app?
5) Explain how you can set up remote installation procedure without giving access to user?
11) Explain what is the way to configure the DHCP server such that it allocates the same IP
address to certain devices each time the address is removed?
18) To check TCP/IP configurations and IP connectivity, what are the two command line
utilities that can be used?
21) Explain what is the major difference between NTFS ( New Technology File System) or FAT
(File Allocation Table) on a local server?
22) Mention what windows server 2008 service is used to install client operating system over
the network?
Q :15 What is LDP? What is REPLMON? What is ADSIEDIT? What is NETDOM? What is REPADMIN?
Q:You want to standardize the desktop environments (wallpaper, My Documents, Start menu,
printers etc.) on the computers in one department. How would you do that? How it is possibal.
1. Can you connect Active Directory to other 3rd-party Directory Services? Name a few
options.
Q: What is a Domain?
Q: What is Domain Controller?
Q: What is LDAP?
Q: What are main Email Servers and which are their ports?
Q: Why should you not restore a DC that was backed up 6 months ago?
DHCP:
1) How DHCP work?
2) What is DHCP Scope.
3) What protocol and port does DHCP use.
4) What is a DHCP lease.
5) Can DHCP support statically defined addresses.
7) What is Authorizing DHCP Servers in Active Directory.
8)How to Backup and Restore DHCP in Windows Server 2008
Backup DHCP Server
Restore DHCP Server
DNS
1) Define DNS .
2) what is the port no of DNS.
3)What is NSlookup.
13) Where is the AD database held? What other folders are related to AD?
17) What is the difference between local, global and universal groups
Vertualization
1)Define virtualization.