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IT Technical Interview Questions
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What is FSB?
What are VT and Vi/o?
On what type of socket can you install a Pentium 4 CPU?
What is SMP?
Which Intel and AMD processors support SMP?
How do LGA sockets differ from PGA and SEC?
What is the difference between Pentium 4 and Pentium Core 2 Duo? Explain the new technology.
How does IRQ priority works?
What technology enables you to upgrade your computer's BIOS by simply using software?
What happens if you dissemble the battery located on the Mother-Board?
How do L1, L2, and L3 cache work?
How should we install RAM on a Dual-Channel Motherboard?
What is the advantage of serial over parallel bus?
Is USB using serial or parallel bus? What about Firewire?
How much power is supplied to each USB port?
When should you change your bus-powered USB hub to a self-powered USB hub?
What is an UPS?
What is the difference between standby and online UPS?
What is LBA (in Hard-Disks)?
How many Hard Disks can you install on an E-IDE controller?
Can you configure two hard disks to use the Master setting on the same PC?
What is the difference between Narrow-SCSI and Wide-SCSI?
What is SAS?
What are the three main reasons for using RAID?
Is RAID 0 considered to be a redundant solution? Why?
How many disks can be used for RAID 1?
How RAID 5 works?
What is the smallest number of disks required for RAID5?
What other types of RAID do you know?
What are the six steps for laser printing?
What is the difference between PCIe x1 and PCIe x16?
When you turn on a computer, what is the correct boot order sequence?
You have a printer that has been working normally for a long time. Where would you look first
for a solution when the printer stops printing unexpectedly?
What type of memory uses a file on a hard drive as a temporary RAM storage?
You are formatting a hard disk and get the following error “Sector 0 bad, disk not usable”. What
is the cause of this error?
Name a laptop expansion interface?
You have just installed a new video card in a computer. Because of the urgency of the upgrade,
the installation was done in a carpeted office. You’re now being reported that the video card
works only intermittently. What is the most probable cause of this problem?
What is an IRQ?
What is DMA?
What are I/O Addresses?
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What is the maximum number of primary partitions that you can create on Windows 7?
Where is the best place to start an Internet search for an updated device driver?
What is the default I/O address and interrupt for COM2?
There is one floppy drive in a computer and it is not working. The drive activity light is on
continuously. Which of the following is the most likely cause?
Which items are used to avoid ESD (Electrostatic Discharge)?
Which RAM types MUST be installed in matched pairs?
What motherboard form factor is the most common nowadays?
Name internal disk drive technologies?
You need to replace an existing audio card, what is the first recommended step of the process?
What does an error that reads “CMOS configuration mismatch” mean?
On an ATX motherboards, which color identifies the 3.3 voltage?
Name some of the features of USB (number of devices, speed, and connectivity)?
Number of pins on an IDE ribbon cable? And on a Floppy?
ESD (Electrostatic Discharge) is caused by?
A user complains that a recently upgraded computer shuts down after a few minutes of operation.
You verify the power supply is working correctly. Which of the following is the NEXT
component you should check?
Why are expansion covers installed on the empty slot in a computer?
The mouse attached to your computer dies, how can you replace its functionality without turning
off the computer?
A customer calls complaining that her monitor remains blank after she turns on her computer.
Before telling the customer to bring in the computer, what should you do?
A user connects a joystick to a sound card; he then asks you what IRQ the joystick would use.
What would you answer?
On which bus slots would an ISA card work in?
A user tells you that he would like to add a brand new 120 GB hard drive into their Pentium
system, what problem will you MOST likely come across??
What is the maximum length for a cable connection of a full speed USB device to a PC?
Which interrupt does the LPT1 (printer port) use?
What is the default IRQ for COM1?
What is the most probable cause of a sound card working intermittently?
Which tool should you use to test the serial port?
What specification does the IEEE 1284 standard relates to?
You’re using an external modem. To what type of port does an external modem typically connect
to on a PC?
B. PC Software
1. What is the name of the name of the command-line tool provided with Windows 7 used to
troubleshoot the OS?
2. Name two Microsoft operating systems that may NOT be upgraded to Windows 7?
3. What is the Hardware Compatibility List?
4. You’ve updated a device driver on a Windows 7 Professional, after that the computer fails to boot
to the GUI. What should you do to correct this problem?
5. Which Windows 7 utility allows you to take snapshots of the current configuration (user
accounts, hardware and software settings, and startup files)?
6. What is a virus?
7. You’re on an Internet enabled network. What protocol would give a computer access to the
Internet?
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Which utility can be used to recover from errors on a drive in a Windows 7 system?
Name protocols used for e-mail?
On a Windows 7 computer, which command should be run to get a computer’s IP address?
On Windows 7, what is the correct order for preparing a hard disk for installing the operating
system?
What is a NIC (Network Interface Card)?
What is the maximum number of partitions (primary and logical disks) that you can create on
Windows 7?
What type of memory uses a file on a hard drive as a temporary RAM storage?
You are working on a system that has a malfunctioning mouse. How will you toggle from one
open application to another?
What is the Windows registry? What does it do?
Name two (2) keys of the Windows registry?
Does Windows 7 support FAT16 partitions (read/write)? If YES, can it be installed on one?
Which information must be provided or configured in order to allow a PC to have connection to
the Internet?
How are hidden files unhidden in Windows 7?
Where can a Screen Saver password be activated in Windows 7?
Which command repairs the master boot record on Windows 7?
What is the GPF or Blue Screen of Death?
When a user deletes a file, empties the recycle bin, what happens to the file?
The mouse attached to your computer dies, how can you replace its functionality without turning
off the computer?
For Windows Vista or Windows 7 after installing the software or driver for the USB printer, what
would be the NEXT step?
Name 2 of the wireless standards?
How would you be able to figure out the IP address of a remote PC in Windows 7?
Are Windows user names case sensitive? Are Windows passwords case sensitive?
A User is calling saying that every time he prints it is printing on a printer that is on the other side
of the floor and not the printer that he usually prints to that is by his desk. How would you fix?
User calls in and says they cannot access the internet. Getting the “Page cannot be displayed”
error. How would you troubleshoot this?
How would you map a network drive in Windows 7?
User calls and says that an application is frozen and not responding. How would you end the
program?
How do you remove an installed application in Windows 7?
Is Active Directory a part of a Novell network or Windows Domain or Lotus Notes or Microsoft
Outlook?
How do you delete cookies and temporary internet files in internet Explorer?
Name, in order from the bottom up, the seven layers of the OSI model
What is TCP/IP?
What is OSI?
What is an RFC?
What is the IEEE?
How is an IP Address composed?
How many bits are in an IP Address?
What is a firewall?
How would you edit the registry?
What is an UNC?
How do you print a test page (steps)?
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Give a brief description of what a VPN is?
What is a DC?
What is the purpose of the WINS server?
If you need to find an IP address of a machine how would you accomplish this?
What application would you use to monitor connections?
What are valid ranges for class a, b and c addresses?
What is the difference between bridging and routing?
What pins are used for transmit and receive on an RJ45 Ethernet cable?
What is a three bit subnet mask on a class c network look like? (x.x.x.x) How many sub-networks
does this give you and how many hosts subnet?
You need to start a service on a machine across a WAN link. The Machine is not on your domain,
but you do know the administrator password, the name of the machine and the IP address.
Explain what steps you would take to start this service (WAN link connected by Routers)?
How do you check the disk space remaining on a drive?
How would you change/create environment variables in Windows?
When a blue Screen with the message "STOP:0x0000007b Inaccessible Boot Device" What do
you think the cause could be?
What is an Ethernet switch?
What is the difference between IPX and IP? Which protocol is more efficient? Why?
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What is a NIC?
What is a MAC Address?
When would you use a crosslink cable?
What are the main advantages and disadvantages of Fiber-Optic-based networks?
What is the difference between a Hub and a Switch?
On which OSI layer can a router be found?
What is CSMA/CD?
What is multicast?
What is Broadcast?
What is the difference between TCP and UDP?
Describe some of the settings that are added by TCP and by UDP to the packet's header.
What are TCP Ports? Name a few.
What is a TCP Session?
What three elements make up a socket?
What will happen if you leave the default gateway information empty while manually configuring
TCP/IP?
What will happen if you execute the following command: "arp –d *"?
What is ICMP?
When would you use the ping command with the "-t" switch?
What command-line tool would help you discover for which port numbers your computer is
listening?
What is APIPA? How would you recognize it?
What is a Cyclic Redundancy Check?
What would you type in at a command prompt to view the IP settings for the computer that you
are sitting at?
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For class B, how many networks can you have?
What is the Net ID of an IP Address of 18.9.25.3 with Subnet Mask of 255.0.0.0?
What is CIDR?
What is 255.255.255.255 used for?
What is the maximum number of hosts for a Class B Network?
What is the (default) class type of 195.152.12.1?
What is the subnet mask for 10.0.10.1/17?
What is the result when changing from a subnet mask of 255.255.224.0 to a subnet mask of
255.255.240.0?
How can you access a shared folder from a remote computer? Name at least 3 methods.
What is an IP address?
What is a subnet mask?
What is ARP?
What is ARP Cache Poisoning?
What is the ANDing process?
What is a default gateway? What happens if I don't have one?
Can a workstation computer be configured to browse the Internet and yet NOT have a default
gateway?
What is a subnet?
What is an RFC? Name a few if possible (not necessarily the numbers, just the ideas behind
them)
What is RFC 1918?
What is RFC 1542?
You have the following Network ID: 192.115.103.64/27. What is the IP range for your network?
You have the following Network ID: 131.112.0.0. You need at least 500 hosts per network. How
many networks can you create? What subnet mask will you use?
You need to view at network traffic. What will you use? Name a few tools
How do I know the path that a packet takes to the destination?
What does the ping 192.168.0.1 -l 1000 -n 100 command do?
What is DHCP? What are the benefits and drawbacks of using it?
Describe the steps taken by the client and DHCP server in order to obtain an IP address.
Name the DHCP address assignment stages.
What is the DHCPNACK and when do I get one? Name 2 scenarios.
What ports are used by DHCP and the DHCP clients?
Describe the process of installing a DHCP server in an AD infrastructure.
What is DHCPINFORM?
Describe the integration between DHCP and DNS.
What options in DHCP do you regularly use for an MS network?
What are User Classes and Vendor Classes in DHCP?
How do I configure a client machine to use a specific User Class?
What is the BOOTP protocol used for, where might you find it in Windows network
infrastructure?
DNS zones – describe the differences between the 4 types.
DNS record types – describe the most important ones.
Describe the process of working with an external domain name
Describe the importance of DNS to AD.
Describe a few methods of finding an MX record for a remote domain on the Internet.
What does "Disable Recursion" in DNS mean?
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What could cause the Forwarders and Root Hints to be grayed out?
What is a "Single Label domain name" and what sort of issues can it cause?
What is the "in-addr.arpa" zone used for?
What are the requirements from DNS to support AD?
How do you manually create SRV records in DNS?
Name 3 benefits of using AD-integrated zones.
What are the benefits of using DNS AD-integrated zones?
You installed a new AD domain and the new (and first) DC has not registered its SRV records in
DNS. Name a few possible causes.
75. What are the benefits and scenarios of using Stub zones?
76. What are the benefits and scenarios of using Conditional Forwarding?
77. What are the differences between Windows Clustering, Network Load Balancing and Round
Robin, and scenarios for each use?
78. How do I work with the Host name cache on a client computer?
79. How do I clear the DNS cache on the DNS server?
80. What is the 224.0.1.24 address used for?
81. What is WINS and when do we use it?
82. Can you have a Microsoft-based network without any WINS server on it? What are the
"considerations" regarding not using WINS?
83. Describe the differences between WINS push and pull replications.
84. What is the difference between tombstoning a WINS record and simply deleting it?
85. Name the NetBIOS names you might expect from a Windows 2008 DC that is registered in
WINS.
86. Describe the role of the routing table on a host and on a router.
87. What are routing protocols? Why do we need them? Name a few.
88. What are router interfaces? What types can they be?
89. In Windows 2008 routing, what are the interface filters?
90. What is NAT?
91. What is the real difference between NAT and PAT?
92. How do you configure NAT on Windows 2008?
93. How do you allow inbound traffic for specific hosts on Windows 2008 NAT?
94. What is VPN? What types of VPN does Windows 2000 and beyond work with natively?
95. What is IAS? In what scenarios do we use it?
96. What's the difference between Mixed mode and Native mode in AD when dealing with RRAS?
97. What is the "RAS and IAS" group in AD?
98. What are Conditions and Profile in RRAS Policies?
99. What types or authentication can a Windows 2008 based RRAS work with?
100. How does SSL work?
101. How does IPSec work?
102. How do I deploy IPSec for a large number of computers?
103. What types of authentication can IPSec use?
104. What is PFS (Perfect Forward Secrecy) in IPSec?
105. How do I monitor IPSec?
106. Looking at IPSec-encrypted traffic with a sniffer. What packet types do I see?
107. What can you do with NETSH?
108. How do I look at the open ports on my machine?
109. What is OSI? What is a protocol?
110. Explain how traceroute and ping work and what they are used for?
111. Describe a how you would use these tools to troubleshoot.
112. What routing protocols do you know off?
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113. How do you display a routing table on a Cisco Router (show ip route)? On a host (route print)?
114. How do you use a routing table and for what?
115. What is a metric?
116. Describe an access list and what it does.
117. Describe what a VPN is and how it works.
118. What port does telnet use?
119. What is SMTP?
120. How would you troubleshoot a printer?
121. How does traceroute work?
122. Walk me through everything that happens in the network from the moment you punch in
www.google.com in the address bar to when the browser displays the page?
123. Can you work this weekend?
124. What kind of people are your current users? Do you like them?
125. What role do you think computer support analysts should play in the company?
126. Assuming you have to work for a living and all jobs pay the same, how would you describe the
job you want?
127. When conflict arises on your team, how do you handle it?
128. How do you stay current?
129. What operating system do you prefer and why?
130. What part of the project life cycle have you worked on?
131. Describe the project or situation that best demonstrates your coding (or analytical) skills.
132. What is the difference between domain local, global and universal groups?
133. What is the major difference between FAT and NTFS?
134. Name the FMSO roles and their functions.
135. You’ve just been asked to create 20 new Users and update 2 GPOs, ASAP! You go to the
Administrative Tools, and discover they are all gone. What do you do? What do you suspect
happened?
136. What is a Global Catalog?
137. Explain the function of DNS.
138. Explain a “Two-Way Transitive” trust.
139. In speaking about trusts, what does “Non-transitive” mean?
140. Describe the lease process of DHCP.
141. Explain NTP.
142. What is the 568B wiring scheme?
143. What us your highest achievement while working in the IT field?
144. What are your short term goals to achieve?
145. You have a user call for support for the 5th time on the same issue. How would you handle the
call and what would you do differently?
146. List as many ways you can think of to move a file from a Windows machine to a Linux machine.
147. Demonstrate recursive-ness by implementing a factorial function.
148. Describe OSPF in your own words.
149. What port does telnet use?
150. What is SMTP?
151. How would you troubleshoot a printer?
152. How does trace route work?
153. Walk me through everything that happens in the network from the moment you punch in
www.google.com in the address bar to when the browser displays the page?
154. What is a DC?
155. Under which conditions a shared permission can be used without the need of NTFS permissions?
156. What is the purpose of the WINS server?
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157. What application would you use to monitor connections?
158. How would you create a directory share?
159. How would you change/create environment variables in Windows?
160. When a blue Screen with the message "STOP:0x0000007b Inaccessible Boot Device" What do
you think the cause could be ?
161. You need to start a service on a machine across a WAN link. The Machine is not on your domain
, but you do know the administrator password , the name of the machine and the IP address.
Explain what steps you would take to start this service (WAN link connected by Routers).
162. In This Line is in the Boot.ini. Explain what this line does:
Multi(0)Disk(0)Risk(0)Partition(1)\Windows="Windows 7 Professional "
163. What Registry Key would you need to change to effect the Browser Service
164. If you need to find an IP address of a machine how would you accomplish this?
165. What is an Ethernet switch?
166. What is the difference between bridging and routing?
167. What is the difference between IPX and IP? Which protocol is more efficient? Why?
168. What is a jabber? What is a runt?
169. What are valid ranges for class a, b and c addresses?
170. What is a three bit subnet mask on a class C network look like? (x.x.x.x)
171. How many networks does how many hosts would you have when using a /27 subnet-mask for a
class C address?
172. What pins are used for transmit and receive on an RJ45 Ethernet cable?
173. What is the difference between a parallel and serial transmission?
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What are the major advantages of working in a domain model?
What types of operating system installation methods do you know?
What is an answer file?
How would you create an answer file for Windows 7?
How do you perform an unattended installation on Windows 7?
What is Sysprep?
How do you use Sysprep?
What is the major difference between Newsid and Sysprep?
What is the function of the pagefile.sys file?
What is the function of the hiberfil.sys file?
What is the Registry?
How can you edit the Registry? Name at least 3 ways of doing that.
What should you do if you receive a message stating:
"The following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM"?
How would you repair an unsuccessful driver update?
When should you use each of the fallowing tools: System Restore, LKGC and Recovery
Console?
How do you set different print priority for different users?
How can you reset user's passwords if you don't know his current password?
What's the difference between changing a user's password and resetting it?
You want to grant a user the right to perform backups – should you add him to the administrators
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What is gpedit.msc?
How would you use the MMC to manage other servers on your network?
You set a local policy for your Stand-alone Windows 7 Professional – would the local policy
effects the administrators group?
What’s new in the Windows Vista/7 Local Policy?
What is the difference between User Privileges and User Permissions?
What is Safe Mode?
Which logs can be found in Event Viewer?
What is msconfig? On which OS can it be found?
Can you upgrade XP Home Edition to Windows 7 Professional? If yes, how?
Which permission will you grant a user for a folder he need to be able to create and delete files in,
if you do not want him to be able to change permissions for the folder?
What is the difference between clearing the "allow" permission and checking the "deny"?
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What is Active Directory?
What is LDAP?
Can you connect Active Directory to other 3rd-party Directory Services? Name a few options.
Where is the AD database held? What other folders are related to AD?
What is the SYSVOL folder?
Name the AD NCs and replication issues for each NC
What are application partitions? When do I use them
How do you create a new application partition
How do you view replication properties for AD partitions and DCs?
What is the Global Catalog?
How do you view all the GCs in the forest?
Why not make all DCs in a large forest are GCs?
Trying to look at the Schema, how can I do that?
What are the Support Tools? Why do I need them?
What is LDP?
What is REPLMON?
What is ADSIEDIT?
What is NETDOM?
What is REPADMIN?
What are sites? What are they used for?
What's the difference between a site link's schedule and interval?
What is the KCC?
What is the ISTG (Inter-Site Topology Generator)? Who has that role by default?
What are the requirements for installing AD on a new server?
What can you do to promote a server to DC if you're in a remote location with slow WAN link?
How can you forcibly remove AD from a server, and what do you do later?
Can a user get all users passwords from the AD database?
What tool would I use to try to grab security related packets from the wire?
Name some OU design considerations.
What is tombstone lifetime attribute?
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What do you do to install a new Windows 2008 DC in a Windows 2000 AD?
How would you find all users that have not logged on since last month?
What are the DS* commands?
What's the difference between LDIFDE and CSVDE? Usage considerations?
What are the FSMO roles? Who has them by default? What happens when each one fails?
What FSMO placement considerations do you know of?
I want to look at the RID allocation table for a DC. How do I do it?
What's the difference between transferring a FSMO role and seizing one? Which one should you
NOT seize? Why?
How do you configure a "stand-by operation master" for any of the roles?
How do you backup AD?
How do you restore AD?
How do you change the DS Restore admin password?
Why can't you restore a DC that was backed up 4 months ago?
What are GPOs?
What is the order in which GPOs are applied?
Name a few benefits of using GPMC.
What are the GPC and the GPT? Where can I find them?
What are GPO links? What special things can I do to them?
What can I do to prevent inheritance from above?
How can I override blocking of inheritance?
How can you determine what GPO was and was not applied for a user? Name a few ways to do
that.
A user claims he did not receive a GPO, yet his user and computer accounts are in the right OU,
and everyone else there gets the GPO. What will you look for?
Name a few differences in Vista GPOs
Name some GPO settings in the computer and user parts.
What are administrative templates?
What's the difference between software publishing and assigning?
Can I deploy non-MSI software with GPO?
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?
Talk about all the AD-related roles in Windows Server 2008/R2.
What are the new Domain and Forest Functional Levels in Windows Server 2008/R2?
What are the AD naming contexts (partitions)s and replication issues for each NC?
What are application partitions?
What applications or services use AD application partitions? Name a couple.
How do you create a new application partition?
Talk about GCs and Universal Groups.
Describe the time synchronization mechanism in AD.
What is ADSIEDIT? What is NETDOM? What is REPADMIN?
What is DCDIAG? When would you use it?
Talk about sites and GCs.
What is GPO?
Describe the way GPO is applied throughout the domain.
What can you do to prevent inheritance from above?
How can you override blocking of inheritance?
Name some of the major changes in GPO in Windows Server 2008.
What are ADM files? What replaced them in Windows Server 2008?
What's the GPO repository? How do you use it?
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What are GPO Preferences?
What is GPO Loopback Processing?
Which client OSs can use GPO Preferences?
What are GPO Templates?
What are WMI Filters?
What is the concept behind GPO Filtering?
What are the major changes in AD in Windows Server 2008?
What are the major changes in AD in Windows Server 2008 R2?
What is the AD Recycle Bin? How do you use it?
What are AD Snapshots? How do you use them?
What is Offline Domain Join? How do you use it?
What are Fine-Grained Passwords? How do you use them?
Talk about Restartable Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2008/R2. What is
this feature good for?
90. What are the changes in auditing in Windows Server 2008/R2?
91. How can you forcibly remove AD from a server, and what do you do later?
92. Can I get user passwords from the AD database?
93. Talk about PowerShell and AD.
94. Talk about Windows Backup and AD backups.
95. Why can't you restore a DC that was backed up 7 months ago?
96. What's NTDSUTIL? When do you use it?
97. What are RODCs?
98. What are the major benefits of using RODCs?
99. How do you install an RODC?
100. Talk about RODCs and passwords.
101. What is Read Only DNS?
102. What happens when a remote site with an RODC loses connectivity to the main site?
103. Talk about Server Core and AD.
104. How do you promote a Server Core to DC?
105. How can you tell who holds each FSMO role? Name a 2-3 of methods.
106. You want to look at the RID allocation table for a DC. What do you need to do?
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Describe the drawbacks of using TS/RDS.
Describe the main TS role services in Windows Server 2008.
Describe the main RDS role services in Windows Server 2008 R2.
What are the major changes between the Windows Server 2008 TS role in relation to Windows
Server 2008 TS.
What is the TS/RDS Session Host?
What are the benefits of using 64-bit hardware and OS vs. using the 32-bit version?
Describe your experience in using TS/RDS.
How can you configure TS/RDS session limits? Describe a couple of methods.
How do you standardize user profiles and settings across a TS/RDS farm?
What are the major drawbacks of using Roaming User Profiles?
Working with Outlook on TS/RDS, what can you tell me about using cached modes?
How do you install applications on a TS/RDS Session Host? Describe a couple of methods.
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What are the TS/RDS command line management tools?
How would you achieve high availability with TS Session Hosts?
What is "Virtual Machine Redirection" and when would it be used?
Talk about TS/RDS licensing.
Is there any difference in RDS licensing in Windows Server 2008 R2?
What is the licensing grace period?
Where would you install the RD Licensing server? Talk about small implementation and large
implementation scenarios.
What is TS RemoteApp?
Describe the benefits of using TS RemoteApp.
How do you publish a RemoteApp?
What's the difference between using .RDP files and .MSI files when publishing a RemoteApp to
the users' desktops?
In Windows 7, it's possible to use RemoteApp in conjunction with RDS Web Access in a
different manner. Can you describe this process?
Needing to control which users get access to which RemoteApp. How can you do that?
Describe the way RemoteApp integrates with the Windows desktop.
Besides RemoteApp, what other ways or software lifecycle management solutions are you aware
of?
Talk about digital signatures and their relevance to RemoteApp publishing.
What is TS Web Access?
Describe the benefits of using TS Web Access.
Talk about the implementation scenarios of TS Web Access.
Describe the process of securing TS Web Access.
How would you publish a TS Web Access site?
Can you use Web Access with other Microsoft-based solutions? Name a few.
What's the alternative for using TS Web Access?
Talk about digital signatures in relation to TS Web Access.
How can you control who has access to the TS Web Access website?
What would you do in order to publish RemoteApp from multiple RD Session Hosts through one
RD Web Access server?
What's TS Gateway?
What are the main usage scenarios for TS Gateway?
What are RAPs?
What are CAPs?
Describe the process of securing TS Gateway.
Talk about digital signatures in relation to TS Gateway.
What type of RD clients can be used with TS Gateway?
What is the TS Session Broker?
What was the original role of the RD Session Broker, and what where the names this role used in
previous versions of Terminal Services?
When would you need to implement a TS Session Broker?
Talk about TS Session Broker and VDI.
Talk about the entire process of using all TS components along with TS Session Broker.
How would you achieve high availability with TS Session Brokers?
What is virtualization (in general)?
What is Hyper-V?
What OSs are supported on Hyper-V?
Describe the major benefits of Server Virtualization.
Name a few competitive products that can be compared (even roughly) with Hyper-V.
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G. Security+
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What is a firewall?
Describe, generally, how to manage a firewall
What is a Denial of Service attack?
What is a “spoofed” packet?
What is a SYN Flood?
What do you do if you are a victim of a DoS?
What is GPG/PGP?
What is SSH?
What is SSL? How do you create certificates?
What would you do if you discovered a UNIX or Network device on your network has been
compromised?
What is spear-fishing?
What is whaling?
What would you do if you discovered a Windows system on your network has been
compromised?
What is DNS Hijacking?
What is a log host?
What is IDS or IDP, and can you give me an example of one?
Why are proxy servers useful?
What is web-caching?
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What is an ACL?
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Firewall: what is it? how it works? different types?
What are VLANs?
What is STP?
How a L2 switch works with broadcast, unicast, multicast, known/unknown traffic?
Difference between RIPv1 and RIPv2?
How many number of routes carried by RIP packet?
Is OSPF link state or distance vector or path vector protocol?
What is the difference between OSPF and IS-IS and which one is preferred?
Can we use BGP instead of any IGP?
How many network types available in OSPF?
Different type of Link State Advertisements aka LSA?
LSA 3 and LSA 4 are generated by which router?
When to use Stub and Not So Stubby Area?
How to get the external routes without making area Not So Stubby?
What is the different type of route summarization available in OSPF?
What is the requirement of doing summarization?
A major network is advertised as summary in one area and few of the routes from that network is
configured in another area. What will happen in that case?
20. If any of the OSPF area is not stabilized, does it impact another area?
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What is the use of forwarding address in LSA 5 and LSA 7?
External routes are available in OSPF database but not installing in routing table?
If loopback is not configured, what will be the router-id selected by OSPF process?
Can we run multiple OSPF process in single router and what is the advantage of using it?
What are timers of OSPF?
Multicast address of used by OSPF.
OSPF works on which layer?
What is backbone area in OSPF?
Can we use OSPF without backbone area?
Why the secondary ip address of an interface is not advertising in IGP cloud?
OSPF neighbor-ship is not coming up. List the various steps to troubleshoot it.
One side MTU is 1500 and another side MTU is 1600. Does it affect neighbor-ship?
Provide the process of DR and BDR election.
If DR is down and no BDR is configured what will happen?
What is the difference between a neighbor and adjacent neighbor?
My OSPF neighbor-ship is showing 2-way, what does it mean?
Define different type of OSPF neighbor states?
OSPF external routes are not redistributing? What is the subnet mask 10.2.1.3/22?
What is the administrative distance of EIGRP, OSPF, and RIP?
What is your favorite routing Protocol?
In EIGRP, what is a Stuck in Active route?
In OSPF, what is a totally stubby area? What does Area Zero do?
Which internal routing protocol would use if you needed to route between Cisco and non-Cisco
equipment?
Explain what a 3-way handshake is in TCP?
What is a VLAN trunking protocol?
What is the different between 802.1q and ISL?
Explain what is an Ether-Channel?
What do you need to do to setup a VTP domain?
What is Spanning Tree used for?
What is a root bridge and why do you need one?
What is needed on a router interface to allow DHCP to function on a subnet?
Describe what a stateful firewall is?
In IPSec VPNs, what is Diffie-Hellman? What is it used for?
In an IPSec tunnel, what is main mode?
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