Server interview questions

and answers
Updated April 18, 2023

Introduction to Server interview questions

and answers
A server is a specialized machine or software which is used to connect multiple

clients for a service that may be local or over the internet and we can also say that it

may be physical or located on a cloud, the word ‘server’ does not mean it is
associated with any machine but it is a role which can be assigned to any computer

system.

Interview questions:

An interview is communication between the interviewee and the interviewer in which

the interviewee can ask questions related to job requirement to find the matching

profile and in response interviewer have to answers it direct and to the point.

Part 1 – Server interview questions and

answers (Basic)
This first part covers basic Interview Questions and Answers.

1. What is the difference between the client

operating system and the server operating system?
Answer:

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The server operating system is a device or a program that responds to the requests

of the client by providing services to them and when the client request for services

then it provides services to its clients, for example, database server, file server, and

web server and client-server is a program or device which require services via the
web and it requests the server for content or service function, for example, desktop,

laptops, Smartphone, tablets and web browser.

2. What is Active Directory in the server?

Answer:

In server operating system active directory is a directory service which is developed

by Microsoft and it is used to store information of user, computer, printer, and

network-related information, it helps to manage a network with multiple domain

controllers which provides a unique name to our computer in a different location

with active directory, it also can able to manage active directory from any domain

controllers and this will be replaced to all other domain controllers is the server

which holds the database of the active directory it also authenticates users and

computers in a windows domain.

3. What are the roles of a system administrator?

Answer:

The system administrator having many different types of tasks, the roles of system

admin is depended on the organization and the main task of them are installing,

supporting, and maintaining the server and computer, and there are many other

tasks as following,
 To install the patch and to update the operating system, the patch is a tool or

it is a type of update that overcomes the vulnerability from any computer

system and it needs to update and install regularly.

 To review the system logs to check whether the system is working properly or

not and to check the systems log details, at where the system is accessing,

how it accessed, and also to check whether there is an issue on its process, to

analyze process which is also a work of system administrator.

 To access administration for the user, it means to check the information of the

user, to control the access of users this will be the responsibility of system

admin.

 Disaster recovery planning, backup, recovery-related work.

 Creating and restoring the backup, maintaining systems, making a backup, to

restore the backup as per the organization, also need to handle by the system

admin.

 Also to comply with the requirements of passwords, to provide password

security at the client level as well as the server level that is also the work of

system admin.

 To check access control whatever going in our network, and system audit

logging, these all work is on a server, to audit the server is the main task of the

system administrator, the work of system administrator is to audit server to

maintain security the system we can say the work of system administrators is

to solve the problems between server to the client in a network.

4. What is a domain?
Answer:

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The domain is a service which is provided by an active directory and designed by

Microsoft server through this we can deploy the services and we can provide the

services in a network, for example, if we search for www.google.com,

www.youtube.com, etc., so YouTube is the domain which is working on the active

directory which giving us the services, if we can have any query it will answer.

5. What is Schema?
Answer:

Schema is the logical structure which is created by users and its name and users

name is same and it is also a type of information and that can be stored in the Active

Directory, the active directory schema is the collection of object class and their

attributes, attributes are first name, last name, email, department, and others with

rules, policy, regulations in a domain and object class is the user.

Part 2 – Server interview questions and

answers (Advanced)
Let us now have a look at the advanced Interview Questions and Answers.
6. Explain about Hyper-v?
Answer:

It is a tool that is provided by Microsoft for visualization and it is used for creating

multiple virtual machines on a single physical server, it reduces the cost of hardware

and improves its efficiency.

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7. What is LDAP?
Answer:

It is a lightweight directory access protocol, and we can say that it is a type of

database that stores computers, user’s objects, etc, which helps to add, remove and

upload objects of computer in a directory.

8. What is Wsus?
Answer:

Wsus stands for Windows Server Update Services which is developed by Microsoft, in

the Windows environment it manage the distribution of updates and it allows the

deployment of the latest updates of Microsoft products.

9. What is Powershell?
Answer:

It is developed by Microsoft and built on .NET Framework, the PowerShell of

Windows is a command-line shell and the purpose of it is to automate the tasks of

the administrator which work for both local and remote Windows machines.

Conclusion
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In the above article, we have explained some important questions related to the

server which may ask in the interview, if you like to learn the concept of it then this

article will definitely help you and also seen the definition that it is computers which

provide information to the other computer.

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