VMWARE L2 INTERVIEW QUESTION

1) What is Virtual Standard Switch?

2) What is Virtual Distributed Switch?
3) What is VM Kernal adapter?
4) What is vMotion?
5) What are network security policies/modes on vSwitch?
6) What is promiscuous mode on vSwitch?
7) What is MAC address changes network policy?
8) What is forged transmits network policy?
9) How many disk types are in VMware?
10) Thick Provisioned Lazy Zeroes
11) Thick Provision Eager Zeroes
12) THIN PROVISIONING
13) What is VMFS?
14) Difference between VMFS 5 & VMFS 6
15) How many maximum hosts can manage a vCenter Server in vSphere
6.0and 6.5?
16) What is DRS?
17) What is the difference between clone, snapshot and template?
18) How FT works?
19) Virtual machine Files.
20) What is virtual memory ballooning
21) What is VMware HA
22) How does VMware vSphere 5’s FDM select a master?
23) ESXi 6.5/6.x Partition layout
24) What is VMware HA Admission Control Policy?
25) Three types of admission control are available.
26) How to (quickly) match a moRef ID to a name in VMware vSphere
27) What is the moRef ID?
28) Looking up moRef IDs using PowerCLI.
29) An administrator wants to connect ESXi host directly from vSphere
Web Client. Which ports are required for this purpose?
30) Clock time of an ESXi 6.x host is not correct. What should an
administrator do to correct this issue?
31) An administrator wants to shut down the host using ESXi host. Which
option would be used in Direct Console User Interface to perform this
task?
32) An administrator can access ESXi host via vCenter Server using
vSphere Web Client but unable to access directly via VClient. What
should he do to access ESXi host directly?
33) An administrator wants to use the VMware Certificate Authority
(VMCA) as an Intermediate Certificate Authority (CA). He already
replaces the Root Certificate and Machine Certificates (Intermediate
CA). What should he do next?
34) If Strict Lockdown Mode is enabled on an ESXi host, which action
should an administrator perform to allow ESXi Shell or SSH access for
users with administrator privileges?
35) SSO is an important component of vCenter Server. Which SSO
component issues Security Assertion Markup Language tokens?
36) What valid Identity Source is used to configure vCenter Single Sign-
On?
37) What happens to the files contained on shared storage When a
Content Library is deleted?
38) What is the maximum number of vCPUs are required for a VM in
vSphere 6.0?
39) A windows domain user can be logged into vSphere using vSphere
Web Client. What are the requirements to be met for this feature to
be available and functional?
40) An administrator wants to clone a virtual machine using the vSphere
Client. Which explains why the Clone option is missing?
41) What will happen if the .nvram file is deleted accidently from a VM?
42) An administrator wants to connect the vSphere 5.5 Client to ESXi 6.x
host. What will occur?
43) Which one of secondary Private VLANs (PVLANs) type can send
packets to Isolated PVLAN?

44) What sample roles are provided by default when vCenter is installed?
45) What will happen when all paths down (APD) event occurs for the
software FCoE storage?
46) What methods are available for upgrade a host from ESXi 5.x to ESXi
6.x?
47) What administrator should do before upgrading virtual machine
hardware?
48) vCenter Server upgradation fails at the vCenter Single Sign-On
installation. What should do to complete the upgrade process?
49) What prerequisites should be considered before upgrading the
vCenter Server Appliance?
50) After deploying a PSC, vCenter Server is not being installed and
shows the following error:
51) Could not contact Lookup Service. Please check VM_ssoreg.log.
52) An administrator installed Windows Server 2008 and want to install
vCenter Server on it but failed when installing on a Windows virtual
machine?
53) What is the minimum Virtual Hardware version required for vFlash
Read Cache?
54) ESXi host is added in vCenter Server but not responding in vSphere
Web Client. If this issue occurs due to firewall, which port should be
opened?
55) If a VM is unexpectedly powered off. Which VM logs files should be
considered to troubleshoot the issue?
56) Why a VM appeared as orphaned VM?
57) While upgrading an ESXi 5.5 host to ESXi 6.x, following error
appears: MEMORY_SIZE
58) What does this require to do?
59) To remove a host from a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS), following
error message is observed: The resource ’10’ is in use
60) An administrator wants to monitor network traffic and tries to
capture network traffic for a VM, but cannot see the expected traffic
in the packet capture tool. What should he do to resolve the problem?
61) A vSAN Cluster is created with six nodes along with the fault domain,
and three of them moved into fault domain. One-member node of
fault domain fails. What will happen with the remaining two nodes
exist in fault domain?
62) At which level a vSAN Fault Domain configured?
63) It is observed that a VM storage activity on an ESXi 6.x host is
negatively affecting a VM storage activity on another host that is
accessing the same VMFS Datastore. Which action would mitigate the
issue?
64) While upgrading an ESXi host from 5.5to 6.0, administrator runs the
following command:
65) To troubleshoot a CPU performance issues of a VM, which counters
will be used to demonstrate CPU contention?
66) An administrator tries to run esxtop by enabling SSH and using putty
to troubleshoot CPU performance issues, but no output displayed.
How to resolve this issue?
67) An administrator wants to monitor VMs on a host using vCenter
Server and send notifications when memory usage crosses 80%. What
should an administrator do in vCenter Server to accomplish this?
68) An administrator created a DRS cluster and it became unbalanced.
What are likely causes to become unbalanced?
69) An IT administrator configured two vCenter Servers within a PSC, and
needs to grant a user privileges that can access all environments.
What access level is required to access all the environment?
70) An administrator created 10 ESXi 6.x hosts via Auto Deploy for a new
Test/Dev cluster and all hosts are configured to obtain their IP
address via DHCP. Which DCUI option should the administrator use to
renew the DHCP lease for the hosts?
71) How to check NAA id?
72) What HA and DRS?
73) Post configuration of Clone? sysprep command
74) Why use sysprep-
75) what is HPIRS
76) which tool use for vcenter alerts in ur envormemnt.
77) What is the resourse pool.
78) any issue resolve you.
79) pre requisites of connectivity of fc storage?
80) when increase hdd size why this option gredout.
81) what is trafic shaping policies?
82) what is security policies?
83) what nic teaming?
84) What is load balancing policies?
85) what is avarage bandwith policy?
86) you know failover?
87) Difference between vmotion and SV motion?
88) Difference between clone and templates?
89) Why use snapshot with memory.
90) What is hot migration and clone migration?
91) Why use cold migration?
92) Why use hot migration?
93) What is suspended migration and why use this?
94) what is Hypervisor?
95) What is VMware vSphere?
96) What is vCenter?
97) What is NFS?
98) what is RDM?
99) What are the basic differences between VMware and Hyper-v?
100) What is the hardware version used in VMware ESXi 5.5?
101) What is the difference between the vSphere ESX and ESXi
architectures?
102) What is a .vmdk file?
103) What are the different types of virtualization?
104) What is VMware vMotion and what are its requirements?
105) Clone Vs Template in VMware?
106) What is a promiscuous mode in Vmware?
107) What is the difference between Thick provision Lazy Zeroed,
Thick provision Eager Zeroed and Thin provision?
108) What is a snapshot?
109) What is VDI?
110) What is VMware HA?
111) What is the difference between VMware HA and vMotion?
112) What is storage vMotion?
113) What is VMware DRS and how does it work?
114) What is VMware Fault Tolerance?
115) In a cluster with more than 3 hosts, can you tell Fault
Tolerance where to put the
116) How many virtual CPUs can I use on a Fault-Tolerant virtual
machine?
117) What happens if vCenter Server is offline when a failover event
occurs?
118) What is the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 Hypervisor?
119) How does vSphere HA work?
120) What are the monitoring methods used for vSphere HA?
121) What are the roles of a master host in vSphere HA?
122) How is a Master host elected in vSphere HA environment?
123) If the vCenter server goes down with a situation that it was
pre-configured with vSphere HA and DRS, so after power down will HA
and DRS perform their task?
124) What is the use of VMware tools?
125) Type 1 Hypervisor
126) Type 2 Hypervisor
127) These interview questions are categorized into the following
technical areas:
128) Hypervisor
129) Fault Tolerance (FT)
130) Virtual Networking
131) vCenter Server
132) Virtual Storage (Datastore)
133) What’s New in vSphere 6.0
134) Content Libraries
135) vSAN
136) vApp and
137) Miscellaneous
138) Hypervisor
139) What is VMKernel and why it is important?
140) What is the hypervisor and its types?
141) What is Virtualization?
142) What are the different types of virtualization?
Fault Tolerance (FT)
143) What is VMware FT?
144) How many vCPUs can be used for a VM in FT?
145) What is the name of the technology used by VMware FT?
146) What is Fault Tolerant Logging?
147) Will the FT work if vCenter Server goes down?
148) What is the main difference between VMware HA and FT?
Virtual Networking
149) What is virtual networking?
150) What is vSS?
151) What is vDS?
152) How many maximum standard ports per host available?
153) What are the main benefits of distributed switch (vDS)?
154) What is VMKernal adapter and why it used?
155) What is the main use of port groups in data center
virtualization?
156) What are three port groups are configured in ESXi networking?
157) What is VLAN and why use in virtual networking?
158) What is VLAN Tagging?
159) What are three network security policies/modes on vSwitch?
160) What is promiscuous mode on vSwitch?
161) What is MAC address changes network policy?
162) What is Forged transmits network policy?
vCenter Server
163) What are the main components of vCenter Server architecture?
164) What is PSC and its components?
165) What are the two main deploying methods of PSC
166) What are different types of vCenter Server deployment?
167) What is vRealize Operation (vROP)
168) What is the basic security step to secure vCenter Server and
users?
Virtual Storage (Datastore)
169) What is datastore?
170) What is the .vmx file?
171) What information .nvram file stores?
172) What .vmdk file does and used?
173) How many disk types are in VMware?
174) What’s New in vSphere 6.0
175) What is VM Hardware version for vSphere 6.0?
176) What VM hardware version for vSphere 6.5?
177) In which version of vSphere PSC was introduced?
178) How many maximum hosts can manage a vCenter Server in
vSphere 6.0?
179) How many hosts can be managed by a cluster in vSphere 6.0?
180) How can maximum VMs be managed by a single cluster?
181) What is VVol?
182) How many licensing options for vSphere 6.0?
183) How much Maximum RAM can support vSphere 6.0?
Content Libraries
184) What is the Content Library?
185) What are the main benefits of content libraries?
186) How many types of Content Libraries have?
187) What are the requirements and limitations of Content
Libraries?
188) What is VMFS?
VSAN
189) What is vSAN?
190) What is cold migration?
191) What is Storage vMotion?
192) What are the different configuration options for VSAN?
193) Are there VSAN ready nodes are available in the market?
194) How minimum servers/hosts are required to configure vSAN?
195) How are many maximum ESXi hosts allowed for vSAN?
196) hosts are max allowed to configure a vSAN cluster.
197) How many disk groups and max magnetic disks are allowed in
single disk group?
198) How many types of storages can we use in our virtual
environment?
199) What is NFS?
 200) What is Raw Device Mapping (RDM)?
201) What is iSCSI storage?
202) What is the format of iSCSI addressing?
203) What are iSCSI naming conventions?
vApp
204) What is vApp?
205) What settings can be configured for vApp?
Miscellaneous
206) What is VMware DRS?
207) What is share, limit, and reservation?
208) What are the alarms why we use them?
209) What are the hot-pluggable devices which can be added while
VM is running?
210) What is a Template?
211) What is Snapshot?
212) How to convert a physical machine into a VM?
213) What is vMotion and what is the main purpose to use it in a
virtual environment?
214) What is the difference between a clone and a template?
215) What monitoring method is used in vSphere HA?
216) How is master host elected in vSphere HA?
217) What is the purpose of VMware Tools?
218) What is VMware DPM?
219) What is the ESXi Shell?
220) How to run ESXTOP on ESXi host?
221) What is .dvsData?

Window

Active Directory
1. What is Tree?

Ans: A group of domain called tree and sharing a continuous name.

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?

Group is collection of user accounts it facilitate management of network connectivity.

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.

What is roll of ADC?

1. Explain three main features of Active Directory?

2. What do you mean by Active Directory functional levels? How does it help an organization’s network
functionality?

3. How do we install Active Directory in Windows 7 Computer?

4. What are the prerequisites to install Active Directory in a Server?
5. What are the physical & Logical components of Active Directory?

6. What are the Active Directory Partitions? (Or what are Active Directory Naming Contexts? Or what is AD NC?)

7. How will you take Active Directory backup?

8. What are the Active Directory Restore types?
9. Explain me, how to restore Active Directory using command line?
10. Have you ever installed Active Directory in a production environment?
11. Do we use clustering in Active Directory? Why?
12. What is Active Directory Recycle Bin?
13. What are the tools used to check and troubleshoot replication of Active Directory?
14. What is the use of Kerberos in Active Directory? Which port is used for Kerberos communication?
15. Which version of Kerberos is used for Windows 2000/2003 and 2008 Active Directory?
16. Please name few port numbers related to Active Directory.
17. Give me brief explanation of different types of Active Directory trusts.
18. I am unable to create a Universal Security group in my Active Directory? What will be the possible reason?
19. How many objects can be created in Active Directory? (both 2003 and 2008)
20. Which is default location of Active Directory? What are the main files related to AD?
21. What is ISTG? What is role of ISTG in Active Directory?

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.

32. What is Active Directory?

33. What is structure of Active Directory?
34. Which is the command used to remove active directory from a domain controller?
35. What is Active directory database? Explain briefly?
36. What is the DSRM in Active Directory?
37. What are the all the Active directory partitions?
38. What is Active directory restore types?
39. What is authorative restore of Active directory?
40. What is group types in Active Directory?
41. What is lost and found container in Active Directory?
42. What is delegate access control in Active Directory?
43. What is intersite and intrasite replication in Active Directory?
44. What are the Groups types available in active directory ?

45. What are the active directory replication topology?

46. Which services are used for replication active directory?
47. What are active directory partitions can be restored?
48. Which FSMO role is important and why?
49. How many tables are there in [Link]?
50. How will take backup of registry?
51. What is Event viewer?
52. How to check AD configured properly?
53. What are port needs to open for promoting ADC?
54. What is the process to defragment AD database?
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?

122. What is multimaster replication?

123. What is trust? Different types of trusts?
124. What are the tools found after installing AD?
125. What is standalone server?
126. What is the garbage collection?
127. What is WDS?
128. What is the incoming and outgoing email servers? Explain briefly?
129. What are the Lingering Objects?
130. Trying to look schema, how can I do that?
131. What are the types of SRV records?
132. What is WINS server?
133. What is Hper-V?
134. What is WSUS?
135. What is SCCM?
136. What is replication?
137. What is LSDOU?
138. What is KCC?
139. Tools to analyse Memory dump?
140. How to troubleshoot AD replication issues?
141. How to perform a Non-Authoriative restore?
142. What is the difference between windows 2003/2008 & 2012?
143. What are the backup types?
144. What is DFS?
145. Explain DFS types? What is root,link & target?
146. What is FRS?
147. What is Netdom?
148. What is Repadmin? Explain briefly?
149. What is RAID?
150. Expain RAID0, RAID1, RAID5 and RAID 1+0?
151. What is NIC Teaming?
152. If File server is working slowly? How can you resolve this issue?
153. How to resolve the print spooler service crash issue?
154. What is the difference between UEFI and BIOS?
155. What is SMB?
156. What is the POST installation?
157. What are the common causes for account lockouts?
158. What is net logon folder?
159. What is IIS and what is the use of IIS?
160. What is the three types of NIC teaming?
161. If specific internet site is not working? How can we resolve this issue?
162. What is tombstone lifetime?
163. What is LDP?
164. How can we fix the windows update error?
165. What is the latest schema version?
166. When we extend the schema?
167. What is ADSI edit tool?
168. What is Netsh command?
169. What is SID?
170. What is manageable and non-manageable switches?
171. What is firewall?
172. What is Proxy server?
173. What is MAC address?
174. What is clustering?
175. How can we convert FAT file system into NTFS?
176. What is types of profiles?
177. What are the DS commods?
178. What is RODC?
179. What is bitlocker?
180. What are the benefit of using NTFS?
181. What is the ACL?
182. How frequently is client policy is refreshed?
183. What is shadow copy?
184. What are the types of DFS?
185. What is Kerberos and NTLM?
186. What is authentication process?
187. What is USN and how can we check USN value?
188. What is the default replication time for intrasite and intersite?
189. What is difference between FRS and DFSR?
190. What is the replication process and how it works?
191. What is Query process?
192. Where does store cluster logs?
193. Where can we use clustering?
194. Internet site is not working. How can we resolve this issue?
195. What is NLTEST, Adprep, DSmain & DSacl command?
196. What is terminal services?
197. What is FSRM?
198. Steps to install & Configure WSUS Server?
199. Why We Need Netlogon?
200. What is Page File and Virtual Memory?
201. What is the process to defragment AD database
202. What is paging?
203. What is Lingering objects
204. What is RPC & SMTP in replication?
205. What are the Different between and disk mirroring and disk duplexing
206. What is difference between Incremental vs Differential backups
207. How to configure SNMP?
208. How to deploy the patches and what are the softwares used for this process.
209. What is the use of terminal services?
210. Why BSOD happens and how to fix BSOD error?
211. What is virtual memory and how it is organized in windows?
212. What is disaster discovery?
213. New OS installation through ILO?
214. Port used while login to the server?
215. How many IPS needed for 2 node clustering and why?
216. Can you difine which type of ticket u will get as p1 & P2
217. What you will you do if a sever goes offline after applying patch?
218. How as disk appears from storage to your server?
219. What is SLA?
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?

243. What is DNS records in stub zone?

244. Three method of DNS zone transfer?
245. Records in DNS zones?
246. What is benefit of AD integrated Zone?
247. What is port no used for DNS?
248. What is the stub zone where can be used?
249. Properties of a Zone?
250. What is the zone and types of zone?
 251. What is the authorative Name server?
252. What is resource records?
253. What is caching only server?
254. What is Aging and Scavenging?
255. What is queries?
256. How to create Host A record remotely?
257. What you need to create Alias
258. What is NSlookup?
259. What is an FQDN?

260. What is purpose of resource records?

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?

271. What is DHCP failover.

272. What is port no used for DHCP?
273. What is DORA process?
274. What is the superscopes?
275. What is relay agent?
276.
Group Policy
277. Which FSMO role directly impacting the consistency of Group Policy?

278. What Group Policy?

279. What are the tools to troubleshoot Group Policy issues?
280. What is loopback group policy?
281. What is the group policy deployment components?
282. What are the security policy types Group Policy?
283. What is maximum numbers of group policy object a user or a computer can process?
284. What is Group policy modelling?
285. What is the package that can be used to deploy software through group policy?
286. What is restricted group in group policy?
287. How will you create exception for a group in group policy?
288. What is the mean of enforced group policy?
289. How will you take backup of group policy?
290. Where does group policy stored?
291. How will you troubleshoot group policy issue?
292. How group policy applies?
293. How does the Group Policy ‘No Override’ and ‘Block Inheritance’ work ?
294. What are the buttons available on group policy tab in properties of a container?
295. What are the steps do we have when we are creating group policy/
296. Where is group policy template stored?
297. How to create a group policy?
298. Why should we use group policy?
299. What is SYSVOL folder used for?
300. Tell me the order of GPO as it applied.

301. What are the GPO?

302. What is the Sysvol folder?
303. What is GPT and GPC?
304. What is GPMC?
305. Can I Deploy NON-MSI software with GPO?
306. How frequently is the client policy refreshed?
307. Where are group policies stored?
308. What is RSOP?
309. What is block inheritance?
310. What is sysvol replicates?
311. Name a few benefits of using GPMC?
312. Sysvol folder contents?
313. What is the order in which GPO are applied?
314. What is MST?
315. What is Zap file?
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?

325. What is FSMO roles?

326. What is forest wide roles?
327. What is Domain wide roles?
328. What is steps to transfer/Seize roles using NTDSutil command?
329. What is the difference between seize and transfer roles?
330. How to check which server holds which roles?

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?

358. What is the command used for Domain Controller decommissioning?

359. Which domain and forest functional level I will select if I am installing Windows Server 2008 AD in an Existing
environment where we have Windows Server 2003 Domain Controllers?
360. I want to transfer RID master role to a new Domain Controller. What are the steps I need to follow?
361. Name few services that directly impact the functionality of Domain Controller.
362. A user is unable to log into his desktop which is connected to a domain. What are the troubleshooting steps
you will consider?
363. A Domain Controller called ABC is failing replication with XYZ. How do you troubleshoot the issue?
364. What are the differences between Enterprise Administrators and Domain Administrators groups?

365. What is domain controller?

366. What is domain?
367. What is Child domain controller?
368. What is the process to promote to domain controller?
369. Which types of policies can be applied on domain controller?
370. How can we join the offline domain?
 371. What is the difference between domain local group and a global group?
372. How many objects can we create in Domain controller?
373. What do mean to forest and domain functional level?
374. What happens if a Schema or Domain naming master goes down
375. How many objects can we create in Domain controller
376. Why domain time synchronization require?
377. Which domain components takes care of replication?
378. How many domain controllers need to backup or which domain controllers to backup?

PORT NUMBER

20,21 File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

22 Secure Shell (SSH) TCP and UDP

23 Telnet TCP

25 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)

50, 51 IPSec

53 Domain Name Server (DNS) (TCP and UDP)

67, 68 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

69 Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) UDP

80 HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) TCP

110 Post Office Protocol (POP3) TCP

119 Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP) TCP

123 Network Time Protocol (NTP) UDP

135 139 NetBIOS TCP and UDP

143 Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP4) TCP and UDP

161 162 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) TCP and UDP

389 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol TCP and UDP

443 HTTP with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) TCP and UDP

15 Netstat

21 FTP

23 Telnet

25 SMTP
42 WINS

53 DNS

67 Bootp UDP Client

68 DHCP Server

80 HTTP

88 Kerberos

101 HOSTNAME

110 POP3

119 NNTP

123 NTP

139 NetBIOS

161 SNMP

180 RIS

389 LDAP

443 HTTPS (HTTP over SSL/TLS)

37 Time

3389 Terminal services

443 SSL (https) (http protocol over TLS/SSL)

143 IMAP4

3268 AD Global Catalog

3269 AD Global Catalog over SSL

Windows Server Interview Questions

1) what is Active Directory?

2) Mention what are the new features in Active Directory (AD) of Windows
server 2012?

3) Mention which is the default protocol used in directory services?

4) Explain the term FOREST in AD?

5) Explain what is SYSVOL?

6) Mention what is the difference between domain admin groups and

enterprise admins group in AD?

7) Mention what system state data contains?

8) Mention what is Kerberos?

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?

11) Mention what are lingering objects?

12) Mention what is TOMBSTONE lifetime?

13) Explain what is Active Directory Schema?

14) Explain what is a child DC?

15) Explain what is RID Master?

16) Mention what are the components of AD?

17) Explain what is Infrastructure Master?

18) Difference between windows server 2008 and 2012

19) Difference between windows server 2012 and R2

20) Active Directory has been enhanced with the following

20). Active Directory Health Check
21.) Differences between Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V and Hyper-V Server 2012 R2

22) What is DNS Scavenging?

22) What is Dynamic DNS record?

23) How to force the DNS Dynamic Update?
24) If DNS Dynamic updates not working what are the checks needs to do?
25) What are Prerequisites to do the DNS scavenging?
26) What is Scavenging Period?
27) When the Record refreshes happen? (Dynamic updates of record)
28) What is Scavenging servers?
29) Nslookup for WINS?

30) Check the DC IP address from multiple DC’s

31) Command to troubleshoot DNS issues (Nslookup Advance Usage)

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 t
o his workstation 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 Mas
ter Operations / Operations Master Role / SMO / OMR?)
68. You are the Administrator of a company named [Link]. 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 he
lp an organization’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 2
008/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 in 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 relations
hip 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@[Link] 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 [Link]. 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 [Link]. 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 [Link]/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 initiateRDP 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 running 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 ins
tance of Windows Server 2008 R2 support?
252. You are the Administrator of a company. For security reason management decid
ed 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 g
roup can access 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 partner 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 [Link]. What will be
the NetBIOS name of the domain?
269. You are an Administrator of [Link]. When you try to add a client
computer to [Link] domain it gives an error saying: An Active
Directory Domain Controller for the domain [Link] 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 [Link] that has two s
ites, Dallas 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 [Link] you need to create 200 domain user ac
counts. How 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? [Link] 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 [Link] 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 [Link]. 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 menu, 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?

391. What is the difference between a geographically dispersed cluster and an

MNS cluster?
392. What is the maximum number of nodes in an MNS cluster?
393. Do I need special hardware to use an MNS cluster?
394. Does a cluster aware application need to be rewritten to support MNS?
395. Does MNS get rid of the need for shared disks?
396. What does a failover cluster do in Windows Server 2008?
397. What new functionality does failover clustering provide in Windows Server 2008?
398. What is Dynamic quorum in Windows Server 2012 ?
399. What happens to a running Cluster if the quorum disk fails in Windows Server
2003 Cluster?
400. What happens to a running Cluster if the quorum disk fails in Windows Server
2008 Cluster?
401. What is Cluster-Aware Updating in Windows Server 2012?

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 c
luster 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 s
cenario unicast/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 ?

482. What is the Role of Windows Activation Process in IIS ?

483. What are the different types of application pool available in IIS 7.0 ?
484. What are the worker processes for IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0?
485. What is the default Identity of an Application Pool?
486. How can we set the default page for any web application ?
487. How we can set the Idle Time out of an worker process ?
488. Is there any alternative way to host site on IIS rather than opening IIS Manager ?
489. Can we create one Application Pool From Another Application Pool ?
490. What are the main components of [Link] ?
491. What is the different way that we can hosted site on IIS ?
492. How does IIS process an [Link] request?
493. From where we can set the Session Time Out in IIS?
494. What are the different "Execution Permission" available for IIS for a
virtual directory?
495. From where you can change the [Link] Version in IIS ?
496. What is the default user name of an anonymous login in IIS?
497. How can we take back-ups in IIS Server?
498. What is IIS metabase? And In which format IIS stored configurations?
499. List of Error &
Status codes in
IIS 6.0?
500. How to recycle application pool from the command prompt in IIS7?
501. What are the Different steps to be followed to get SSL(Secure Sockets Layer) for our
Web Application ?
502. What is the purpose of IIS application pools?
503. What is Windows Process Activation Service?
504. What are the Different Authentication Methods(Using Windows Authentication)
which are provided by IIS ?
505. How can we check whether IIS is being installed in my system or not?

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?

557. Explain what is Windows Server?

2) Explain in windows DNS server what is Primary, Secondary and Stub

zone?

3) Explain what does IntelliMirror do?

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?

6) What does it mean by “tattooing” the Registry ?

7) Mention how many types of queries DNS does?

8) Explain what is the primary function of the domain controller?

9) What information is required when TCP/IP is configured on Window

Server?

10) Explain what does it mean caching only server in terms of DNS?

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?

12) Explain what is LDAP?

13) Explain what is SYSVOL folder?

14) Explain what is the difference between a thread and a computer process?

16) Explain what is RAID in Windows Server?

17) Explain what is the purpose of deploying local DNS servers?

18) To check TCP/IP configurations and IP connectivity, what are the two
command line utilities that can be used?

19) Explain if it is possible to connect Active Directory to other 3rd party

Directory services?

20) Explain where is the AD database is held?

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?

23) What is the SYSVOL folder?

Que.: What is Active Directory?

Que.: What is the Global Catalog?

Q2: What is LDAP?

Q 18: What is KCC ?
Q 10: What is Global Catalog Server ?
Q; What is active directory?
Q 10 : what is Global catalog server GC?
Q 4: Where is the AD database held? What other folders are related to AD?

A 4: The AD data base is store in [Link].

Q 5 : What is the SYSVOL folder?
Q 19: What is the ISTG? Who has that role by default?

Q :15 What is LDP? What is REPLMON? What is ADSIEDIT? What is NETDOM?

What is REPADMIN?

Q 36: how to take backup of AD ?

Q 37 : how to restore the AD ?
Q 19: What is the ISTG? Who has that role by default?
Q 29 :What are the DS* commands

Q 30 :What’s the difference between LDIFDE and CSVDE? Usage

considerations?
Q 25 : What is tombstone lifetime attribute?

(20)What are the requirements for installing AD on a new server?

212)What are application partitions? When do I use them.

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.

8. How do you create a new application partition

9)How do you view all the GCs in the forest?

1. Can you connect Active Directory to other 3rd-party Directory Services?

Name a few options.

Q 38 :How do you change the DS Restore admin password ?

Q.40: What are Group Policy objects (GPOs)?

Q 41 :What is the order in which GPOs are applied ?

Q: What is a Domain?

Q: What is Domain Controller?

Q: What is Group Policy?

Q: What are GPOs (Group Policy Objects)?

Q: What is LDAP?

Q: Where is the AD database stored?

Q: What is the SYSVOL folder?

Q: What is Garbage collection?

Q: When do we use WDS?

Q: What is DNS and which port number is used by DNS?

Q: What are main Email Servers and which are their ports?

Q: What do Forests, Trees, and Domains mean?

Q: Why do we use DHCP?

Q: What are Lingering Objects?

Q: How can we remove Lingering Objects?

Q: Why should you not restore a DC that was backed up 6 months ago?

Q: How do you backup AD?

1) Differentiate between NTFS & FAT.

2) What Is VOIP.
3) What is loop back.
4) What is Proxy Server.
5) Differentiate between FIREWALL/ANTIVIRUS.
6) Differentiate between Frond end & Back End Server.
7) What is APIPA.
8) How Release and renew IP address from Command prompt.
9) What is wins server.
10)What is the Windows Registry.
11) System Volume Information (SVI) Folder.
12 ) What is MBR.
13) What is Bit Locker.
14) Difference b/w sata and IDE.
15)Main Difference Between Windows server 2008 and 2012
16)How Long My Computer Has Been Running? Get to Know My Computer’s
Uptime.
17)Event viewer in Windows server
18) Manage Multiple, Remote Servers with Server Manager.
19) What happens when we type URL in browser.

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.

Active directory and Domain

1) What is LDAP? Why it is used.

2) What is Active Directory? Why it used.
3) What Is Group Policy.
4) What is the order in which GPOs are applied .

5) What is the difference between software publishing and assigning.

6) Can I deploy non-MSI software with GPO.

7) Name some GPO settings in the computer and user parts.

8) Name a few benefits of using GPMC.

9) How frequently is the client policy refreshed ?

10) Where are group policies stored ?

11) Group policy backup

12) Define DSRM Mode?

13) Where is the AD database held? What other folders are related to
AD?

14 ) Have you ever Installed AD?

15) What is the use of SYSVOL folder

16) What is global catalog

17) What is the difference between local, global and universal groups

18) What is group nesting.

19) What is Domain control?

20) What is domain?

21) What is Forest?

22) What is global catalog.

23) What is tree.

24) What is site.

25) Flexable Single Master Operation Roles (FSMO)

26) Command to Add client to Domain

27) Setting File Permissions on a Folder Using Group Policy

Vertualization

1)Define virtualization.

2) What are the benefits of virtualization ?

3) What is a Hypervisor.

4) What are a host, guest, and virtual machine.

Hyper v Snap shot:

How to create Hyper v Snap shot:

File extension = .avhd

Virtual Machine files