MICROSOFT INTERVIEW QUESTIONS ON 18-11-05 (3 members interview panel)

Q1. I will read out the list of concepts, rate yourself from 1 to 10?
WINS, DHCP, DNS, AD, CLUSTERS, IIS and EXCHANGE

WINS:-

1. What do you know about WINS? How it works in NT 4.0,2000 and 2003?
2. What is the purpose of LMHOST and what are the additional features of WINS
after it replacing the LMHOST File?
3. Where do you configure the WINS and if you know any command line
commands related to WINS?

DHCP:-

1. What do you know about DHCP and tell me the feature of DHCP?
2. How does DHCP perform the DYNAMIC updates? Tell me the logic behind
3. If client system is not getting the IP from DHCP, Tell me the steps to troubleshoot
at the server side and Client side?
4. If you ping the DHCP server, user is getting request time out. Tell me the steps to
resolve the problem and how do you go about it from the client side?
5. What is command to use the DHCP snap in?
6. Which port DHCP uses?
7. If you have Windows NT workstations, will the systems automatically register
with the DNS and what is the relation with DHCP in this scenario.
8. What is the use of the option Allow dynamic updates? When do you use this
option?

DNS:-

1. Tell me the port number of DNS?

2. What is the command used to find or troubleshoot the DNS Server?
3. What is zone and how many zones in 2000 DNS?
4. What are the features of Active Integrated zone?
5. Tell me the various options to use with NSLOOK UP command?
6. If I know only the a_record or c_name record name, from command line, how can
I get the host name address?
7. What is SOE record and elaborate what it is for?
8. What are the commands available to troubleshoot the DNS?
9. How PING command differs from NSLOOK UP? Distinctive features of both?
10. Tell me about Forwarder and Cache DNS?
11. Distinguish the exact difference or classification between C-Record and A-record

AD

1. What is the snap-in used to get the ADS?

2. What is GC and why can’t GC be Infrastructure master?
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3. What is OU and how many characters Maximum length of the OU Name?

4. What is Schema? Not definition and emphasize to elaborate with the illustrations.
5. What is the port number of LDAP and version of LDAP?
6. Port number of Kerberos and the logical process behind the authentication?
7. What is purpose of LDAP? Why is it used for? How the process in the back
ground?
8. What is the port number of GC and how many GCs can be in a domain?
9. What is FSMO? What is Flexible and Single and Master ? More in detail
10. What is PDC Emulator and what is the main functionality of the PDC Emulator?
11. If PDC Emulator goes down, will there be any impact in the network if Yes,
Where the impact and why?

Group Policies:

1. What is group policy Object and why is it used for?

2. What is the snap-in to get the GP console?
3. Local Domain Policy and Domain Policy, which one be the effective and why?
4. How can you force the GP to OU though there is separate GP define at the OU
level?
5. How the Group policy does apply and what levels?
6. Which tool you use to set the group policy at the site level and the domain level?
7. What is the new feature in Windows2003 with regard Group policy?
8. Where do the group policy setting logs store when you set the Local domain
policy or Domain Group policy?

Trusts

1. Where do you configure the Domain Trusts in AD?

2. If HP.com and GDIC.HP.com and BANGALORE.GDIC.HP.com are the
domains? Explain what do you understand by these names? How trust exists?
3. What is the Transitive trust means and how it works?

Terminal Services

1. Protocol used for TSC?

2. What is the port of TSC?
3. If the Terminal Server is not running, how do you troubleshoot?
4. What is the Terminal Service Manager and why is it for?

Sites and Replication

1. What are the protocols used in the site replication?

2. How do you create the site and what is the purpose of site?
3. Where the site replication takes place and what is the process behind it?
4. If 64 kbps link and 33 Kbps link available in the site, which one you go and why
and tell me the cost effective…….??//
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5. Where the replication logs store and how do you troubleshoot with the help of
logs?

System Backup and Recovery:

1. What is system state and what does it contains?

2. What is ASR and why is it for?

General Technical Questions

1. What is the maximum allowed NetBios character length?

2. Port numbers of IMAP, POP3, HTTP, and pcAnyWhere?
3. What are the papers you cleared in MCSE 2000 and tell me your electives?
4. Have you ever participated in the Disaster Recovery Plan?
5. List the top 5 high priority cases which were resolved by you?
6. What is native mode and mixed mode? If I have all domain controllers in 2000
and client systems are NT workstations, tell me the mode and why?
7. If you ping the server, explain how it takes the info (Complete background
process)?
8. Does Windows 3.5 version has WINS concept?
9. Tell me the procedure to rename the domain controller and domain in 2003 and
2000?
10. Data flow at Transportation Layer and Session Layer in detail?
11. Does GC give Group membership for Universal group?
12. In a single Domain model, how the replication takes place? Is it PULL or PUSH?
13. Where do you User Disk Manager and where do you use Disk Administrator?
14. If I have 3 domain controllers with 3 hard disks each, if I want to implement the
fault tolerance at the high reliability and fast access, how do configure in the each
domain controller?
15. On which areas you are strong other than Microsoft technologies?
16. Have you ever hosted the pcAnywhere server?
17. Are you aware of the next version MS O.S and the features?
18. More command line utilities to troubleshoot DNS, DHCP, and Network down?

Personal Questions:

1. Why do you want to join with Microsoft?

2. Why do you want Leave Company like HP?
3. If you got selected, significant contribution to Microsoft?
4. Are you specific to the Location HYD to work and why?
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Generic

1. Difference between DC & ADC

There is no difference between in DC and ADC both contains write copy of AD.
Both can also handles FSMO roles (If transfers from DC to ADC). It is just for
identification. Functionality wise there is no difference.
2. what is the process of DHCP for getting the IP address to the client
There is a four way negotiation process b/w client and server
DHCP Discover (Initiated by client)
DHCP Offer (Initiated by server)
DHCP Select (Initiated by client)
DHCP Acknowledgement (Initiated by Server)
DHCP Negative Acknowledgement (Initiated by server if any issues after
DHCP offer)
3. What are the port numbers for FTP, Telnet, HTTP, DNS
FTP-21, Telnet – 23, HTTP-80, DNS-53, Kerberos-88, LDAP-389
4. what is the database files used for Active Directory
NTDS.DIT
5. What is the location of AD Database
%System root%/NTDS/NTDS>DIT
6. what is the port number for RDP
3389
1. Brief explanation of RAID Levels
RAID 0 – Striping
RAID 1- Mirroring (minimum 2 HDD required)
RAID 5 – Striping With Parity (Minimum 3 HDD required)
RAID levels 1 and 5 only gives redundancy
2. What are the different backup strategies are available
Normal Backup
Incremental Backup
Differential Backup
Daily Backup
Copy Backup
3. What is a global catalog
Global catalog is a role, which maintains Indexes about objects. It contains full
information of the objects in its own domain and partial information of the objects
in other domains. Universal Group membership information will be stored in
global catalog servers and replicate to all GC’s in the forest.
4. what is the role responsible for time synchronization
PDC Emulator is responsible for time synchronization. Time synchronization is
important because Kerberos authentication depends on time stamp information
1. What is FSMO Roles
Flexible single master operation (FSMO) roll are
Domain Naming Master
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Schema Master
PDC Emulator
Infrastructure Master
RID Master
2. Brief all the FSMO Roles
Domain Naming master and schema master are forest level roles. PDC emulator,
Infrastructure master and RID master are Domain level roles;
First server in the forest performs all 5 roles by default. Later we can transfer the
roles
Domain Naming Master: Domain naming master is responsible for maintaining
the relation ship between the domains. With out this role it is not possible to add
or remove any domain.
Schema Master: Schema contains set of classes and attributes. eg User,
computer, printer are the objects in AD which are having their own set of
attributes.. Schema master is responsible for maintaining this schema. Changes to
the schema will affect entire forest.
PDC Emulator: Server, which is performing this role, acts as a PDC in a mixed
mode to synchronize directory information between windows 2000 DC to
Windows NT BDC. Server, which is performing this role, will contain latest
password information. This role is also responsible for time synchronization in the
forest.
Infrastructure Master: It is responsible for managing group membership
information in the domain. This role is responsible for updating DN when name
or location of the object is modified.
RID Master: Server, which is performing this role, will provide pool of RID to
other domain controllers in the domain. SID is the combination of SID and RID
SID=SID+RID where SID is Security identifier common for all objects in the
domain and RID is relative identifier unique for each object
3. What is the difference between authoritative and non-authoritative restore
In authoritative restore, Objects that are restored will be replicated to all domain
controllers in the domain. This can be used specifically when the entire OU is
disturbed in all domain controllers or specifically restore a single object, which is
disturbed in all DC’s
In non-authoritative restore, Restored directory information will be updated by
other domain controllers based on the latest modification time.