wintel L2 questions

1.What are the FSMO roles ?

 2. Which role plays the vital role?

 3.Why domain time synchronization require?

 4.What is KCC?

 5.In global catalogue server which role will not work?

 6.What is the difference between IIS 5.0 and IIS 6.0 ?

7.What is MTA?

 8.What is the role of Application pool in IIS server?

 9.What is the Event ID no. for abnormal shut down ?

 10. How to make coomunicate between difference subnets in DHCP server?

 11.How many types of Host records are there?

 12.What you need to create alias ?

 13.What is Dhcp relay agent and How to configure it?

 14.What is the different types of groups in active directory?

 14.Which domain component takes care of replication?

15.What is smart host?

WINTEL L2 and L3 Interview Questions

WINTEL L2 and L3 

As of now I am just posting the questions only. In due course of time I'll publish the answers as well.

1) Difference between sharing and security permissions.
2) FSMO roles detailed.
3) Raid 5 & 1 scenario based questions.
4) Disk expansion C & D
5) Recetly faced issues.
6) Incident and Change managment processes.
7) How to deal with Memory leak issue.
8) Performance analysis.
9) How to analyze DUMP.
10) Setting up cluster servers
11) Stub zone
12) Global Catalog server
13) Difference between 2008 and 2008R2
14) New features in 2008
15) Boot process in Win 2008
16) How many types of Quorums are there in a Cluster?
17) Have you used DRAC, iDRAC or iLO or IBM remote management tool?
18)

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1) What is Paged pool  memory
2) What is Non paged pool memory
3) What is Virtual Memory and how it is different from a Page file?
4) What is a Page File?
6) What is PAE Switch and why it is needed?
7) What is /3GB switch and why its needed?
8  What is the difference between 64bit OS and 32bit OS?
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How to troubleshoot event Id 2019 and 2020?
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/archive/2006/12/18/understanding-pool-consumption-and-event-id_3a00_--2020-or-2019.aspx

How to open a Dump File?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263


Why BSOD happens and How to fix BSOD error? Look for a detailed answer.

1) Reboot
2) REboot with "Last known good configuration"
3) Reboot in safe mode with networking.
4) Reboot with safe mode.
5) Check if Stop x7B error is there. If yes check of Raid disk/s have an issue.
6) Do a dump analysis. Use step mentioned in KB: 315263 to open a dump file.

What is PAE Switch?
What is /3GB switch? How to use them in Windows 2003 and Windows 2008?

What is virtual memory and how it is organized in Windows? How does it gets more importance as far as 32bit or 64Bit Os goes?

Read this Blog to know about troubleshooting causes of "RPC Server unavailable" issues. It'll help you know about different ports needed, memory depletion due to leak and others.
What is DHCP? What is DORA process? What is APIPA? What is a SCOPE and Superscope? What is a reservation? What is the name of DHCP database?


For VMWARE

1) What id P2V? What is the tool that is used?
2) What is V2V and what is the tool that is used?
3) What is HA?
4) What is DRS?
5) What is storage vmotion?
6) What is system vmotion?
7) What is the difference between ESX and ESXi

client interview questions

1. what are the ways you troubleshoot DNS name resolutions - Gave scenerio

2. Explain about blade servers

3. Difference bet 2003/2008 

4. What is The Quorum Resource

5. What are some of the new features in window 2008?

6. How will you troubleshoot when ports are blocked

7. How many IPs used for 2 node cluster

8. What is Cluster failover concept and how does it works?

9. What is bluescreen error ? what are the steps to fix the issue?

10. Vlan troubleshooting with 2 scenerios

11. Vmotion concepts

12. HA concepts

13. DNS port number

14. What is ICMP

15. diff standard and distrubed switch

16. What are fileshare cluster concepts

17. What is DFS

18. Quorum Concepts

Emerio technologies - wintel interview questions

Tell me about urself

About current environment

Can u pls draw a setup arch. of ur production env?

what is port group in vmware?

Which port used for vmotion?

What are all the things we need to check if vmotion not occur ?

explain about clustering setup in ur env

what is the diff types of clustering?

what will u do if a cluster node down in two node cluster ?

diffence b/n HA and vmotion

Pre req. for HA ?

if an application runs in a specific h/w then how vmotion will occur in a cluster?

Tell me about AD environment that u handled

what is dpm in vmware and explain about it?

Pre req. for clustering

os ,h/w should be same , two nic ,host based adapter,cluster service, ip (5 ips's ) 2pri , 1pub , 2 heat beat

how to validate cluster configuration

port num for vmotion

what will u do if a server goes offline after applying a patch?

how a disk appears from storage to ur server ?

what is d type of cable used to connect a storage and server

what is the use of port mirroring in vmware

hp interview questions

1. Tell me abt urself

2.Day to day activities

3.Ur action upon a cluster failure.

4.Will dl460 supports win  2012 os

5.What will be yr action if u the server goes down

6.What is NT backup

7. How to add performance counter in 2008 server

8.What is dump file , how will u create analyse a dump file

9.What will u do if a dump file corrupted

10.what is quoram

11. Wht is virtual memory

12.What is domain controller

13. what is member server.

14. what will u do if a backup failure occur b/n client and master

15. tell about b/k types

16. what will happen if i promote a second dhcp server in a same subnet

17.users unable to login to the domain . geting error -domain cannot be contacted

18. users getting ip address in the 169.254.x.x range .. what happened to a dhcp

20. how many hosts u are handling in vm environment?

21.how to do p2v conversion and pre req.

22.How to migrate a esx 4.1 to 5.0 or 5.5  and pre req.?

23. what will u do if a vmotion doesn't happend

24.Give me scenario abt inc,change, problem mgmt

25.what is vcenter server and esx server

26 what will u do if u are unable to connect with a server using hostname.

27.tell me abt the recent challenge issue.

28.what is ASR in window server and what will happen if asr not

29.how about the performance on 2012 server .. what's new in it

30.what is memory leak and how to overcome that issue

31.can u define which type of ticket u will get as p1,p2

32.

Tech Mahindra interview questions

What is RDM (Raw disk mapping ) . What is the use , when it required . As a vmware admin you recommend RDM or Not ? if yes why no Why

What is PSOD how you trouble shoot

Tell any recent troubleshooting methods in VMWARE

P2V convertion metod ..

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How do you trouble shoot in vmware ESX in command line

IPs required for 2 node cluster

Cluster default log location ? what are the cluster event logs you trouble shoot ?

Quarm disk

Dns port

Event id for user system restart & unexpected restart - event id 1074

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BSOD troubleshooting

Why events and alters are important for in system

ITIL process change, problem , incident (RCA)

Have you did any RCA . Tell me about that

Vmware tools usage ?

ballown driver

fidelity investments - interview questions

HOW MANY IP'S NEEDED FOR 2 node  CLUSTERING AND WHY

WHAT IS DYNAMIC AND BASIC DISK .. EXPLAIN 

WHAT ARE ALL THE OPTIONS AVAILABLE ON DYNAMIC DISK

EXPLAIN ABOUT RECENT ISSUES FACED

EXPLAIN ITIL

citi bank wintel support L2 QUESTIONS

24 Feb 2013

1. What is difference between work group & Domain
2. What are the new features in windows 2003?
3. What is Active directory?
4. What are the Forest wide roles and use?
5. Give an example of schema modification?
6. What is the Port number of GC and LDAP?
7. What are different records in DNS?
8. What is MX record and its use?
9. What is stub Zone?
10. What is the difference between Forest trust and Parent Child trust?
11.  How to troubleshoot replication issue?
12. How calculate the latency is Intra site and Inter site replication?
13. What is Sysvol replicates?
14. What is the protocol used for replication?
15.  What is the function on GCS?
16.  What is universal group membership caching and how to enable?
17.  What is ASR?
18.  What is the difference between RAID 1 & 0
19.  What is the difference between RAID 3 & 5 

Hardware:

    

1.      What is the different server hardware you worked on?

2.      what is the tool used to connect to Remote Dell server and Different versions of DRAC cards

ANS: DRAC (Dell Remote Access Console)

3.      What is the tool used to connect Remote HP servers & what is the current version of ILO

ANS: ILO (Integrated Light Out)

Monitoring Tools:

What are the different monitoring tools you worked on?

HCL Screening

1. Application packaging

2. p2v conversion 

3. Diff b/n 2003 vs 2008 AD

4. hpsim ilo sccm

5. How to allocate hdd to server from san

6. Minimum space for Server OS 

7. wsus , wds, ris

8. Max vm per host

9. Hot migration,cold migration, VMOTION

10. security feature in 2008 

CTS and HCL interview questions

CTS 

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active directory architech

diff b/n stub and secondary zone

partition in AD

PARTITION IN schema

fine grained pwd

AD Metadata

roles involved in domain renaming

diff b/n 2008 vs 2008r2

diff b/n esx and esxi

diff b/n 2012 vs 2008 schema version

how to view gctalog on command line ------->dsquery server -o rdn -isgc

whar are the active directory services in 2003

port used while login to the server

services used for replication in action directory

files in vmware

WHAT IS SRV RECORD

VMWARE PORT GROUP?

HOW TO CHK REPLICATION?

HCL

1.Diff b/n ntlm and kerberos

2. what is Advanced Data Guarding ?

3.Raid  0+1 and Raid 1+0

4How to remotely install ADC

5.Diff b/n DCPROMO and dcpromo /adv

6.Sysvol folder contents

7.DNS zones

8.Records in dns zones

9.primary zone conatins 1000 users, will there be same record present in stubzone?

10. conditional forwarder configuration vs forwarder

.What is the difference between Ntlm vs Kerberos

CSC Interview questions

1. explain about the AD architecture of any customer you handle?

2. explain IPV6?

3. Explain about server hardening?

4. What is the ILO of IBM

5. clusters concepts

6. port  no of DNS DHCP

7. how to get ILO when there is no documentation available

8. what is the tool used to anaylsis minidump?

9. what are models of servers you worked on?

10. if Admin in chennai creates a objects in Chennai domain and if a admin in mumbai of the same domain deletes the object what will be interval time for replication

11. tool to monitor AD replication.

12. what are troubleshooting handle for replication issue

13. what are the troubleshooting steps handled for server crash

14. what impacts on the environement if PDC is crash

15. tell me the steps to handle FSMO roles seize

16 how to seize roles in command prompt

16. FSMO roles which is considered very important of the all the roles

17. what is tombstone?

18 what are linkering objects?

19. what is the change management process

20 when you will submit change

21 what are the parameters you will do before CR?

22. who will co ordinate with the customer for CR

23.

VOLVO Interview questions

1.How to Install ADC on remote site with minimal bandwidth?

2.Difference between 2000 AD Vs 2003 AD

3.AD ACCOUNT Lockout Issue root cause 

4.Preferred RAID for ACTIVE DIRECTORY

5. AD Difference between 2003 vs 2008

6. Difference between 2003 vs 2003 R2

7.Can i install 32bit version OS on 64 bit PROCESSOR , & whats the impact?

8.How to restore a deleted OU?

9. Server blue dump error root cause?

10.New OS Installation through ILO

11.REPLICATION Types

12. AD related Issues faced

13. fsmo roles

14. Whats the use of stub zone?

15.RECORDS in DNS

16.Difference between authoritative and Non Authoritative Restore?

17.What is global Catalog?

18. Process from entering website name in the browser and getting the reply from the website

19. Trust types

20.protocol for Global catalog

21. Day to Day activities in current company and previous company?

22. which server os you are working with?

23.what is site

Polaris AD interview questions

what are lingering objects in active director command
how to install active directory 2008 domain controller, any interfaces you see
how group policies are applie?
what is kcc and how does it works on domain?
what is dc locator and how does it works?
nltm block in active directory, ntlm authentication
kerberos authentication
what is dns records in stubzone?
why do we need stub zones in dns?
what is conditional forwarding in dns?
what protocol does dns use?
what is edns?
three methods of dns zone transfer?
primary or secondary dns zone transfer pull or push
ad integrated zone in load balancing
ipconfig flush dns
what is recursive and iterative query in dns