Wintel Administrator Interview Questions

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How to check AD configured properly?
How to transfer global catalog to another domain?
How to configure global catalog server?
What are the fsmo roles and it gets down what will impact?
What is the RID pool?
How to check FSMO roles running on which server?
How to transfer FSMO role one domain controller to another domain controller command prompt and GUI?
What is AD data base file and log file where it stored is and what is the use of log file?
How to recover corrupted AD data base file?
Is it possible to rename domain name in windows 2016?
What are the two types of replication?
What are the protocols used in replication?
What is default time for replication?
What is the difference between the two types of replication i.e. intrasite and intersite?
What are replication partition and tell about partition?
Is application partition available in windows 2003?
What is the DNS?
What are types of DNS and zones?
What is the Start of Authority (SOA) record and is its use?
What are records available in dns?
Explain about SRV, MX and CNAME records?
Where DNS file stored and data base of DNS?
How do I configure DHCP Server and steps?
How to reserve IP address?
Why do we need two or more subnets?
If we have two different subnets then how do I configure it in single DHCP server?
What is the use of relay agent?
What is the group policy?
My requirement is to need disable USB port, how will you do?
How to take a backup of group policy?
You are an administrator and my requirement is to configure active directory for four different locations. How will you plan it?
What are the two modes a terminal server works in?
What is the default security group, groups give explanations?
You are maintaining remote servers that you can take remote but you can’t ping them, how to troubleshoot?
What is use of Kerberos protocol?
What is the version Kerberos protocol?
What is the authentication protocol in Windows NT?
What are RAID levels?
Which RAID you will recommend and why?
What are the different RAID1 and RAID 5?
What are the Different between and disk mirroring and disk duplexing?
What is the dynamic disk?
What is disk striping?
What are the backup types?
Which type backup reset archive bits?
What is the use of DFS?
Do you know about FRS?
What are difference between TCP and UDP protocol?
What is different between HUB and Switch?
Which layer of OSI model does the Router works in?
You are going to migrate the domain how to plan?
For project requirement you going to share 20 folders what is the step you will take?
What is the need of a VLAN?
What kind of privilege is required to transfer FSMO roles?
Write down the command line to transfer all the FSMO roles to other server?
Write down the command line to seize all the FSMO roles to a server?
Command for removing active directory?
How to test whether a domain controller is also a global catalog server:
What is Active Directory?
What is DNS? Why it is used? What is “forward lookup” and “reverse lookup” in DNS? What are A records and mx records?
What id DHCP? Why it is used? What are scopes and super scopes?
What are the types of LAN cables used? What is a cross cable?
What is the difference between a normal LAN cable and cross cable? What could be the maximum length of the LAN cable?
What would you use to connect two computers without using switches?
What is IPCONFIG command? Why it is used?
What is a DOMAIN? What is the difference between a domain and a workgroup?
Do you know how to configure outlook 2000 and outlook 2003 for a user?
What is a PST file and what is the difference between a PST file and OST file? What file is used by outlook express?
What is BSOD? What do you do when you get blue screen in a computer? How do you troubleshoot it?
What is RIS? What is Imaging/ghosting?
What is VPN and how to configure it?
Your computer slowly drops out of network. A reboot of the computer
fixes the problem. What to do to resolve this issue?
Your system is infected with Virus? How to recover the data?
How to join a system to the domain? What type of user can add a system to the domain?
What is the difference between a switch and a hub?
What is a router? Why we use it?
What are manageable and non-manageable switches
How do you view replication properties for AD?
What are sites What are they used for?
Name some OU design considerations?
What are FMSO Roles? List them.
Logical Diagram of Active Directory ?, What is the difference between child domain & additional domain Server?
What are Active Directory Groups?
What are the types of backup? Explain each?
What is the SYSVOL folder?
What is the ISTG Who has that role by default?
What is the order in which GPOs are applied?
What’s the difference between local, global and universal groups?
I am trying to create a new universal user group. Why can’t I?
What is LSDOU?
Why doesn’t LSDOU work under Windows NT?
Where are group policies stored?
What is GPT and GPC?
Where is GPT stored?
You change the group policies, and now the computer and user settings are in conflict. Which one has the highest priority?
You want to set up remote installation procedure, but do not want the user to gain access over it. What do you do?
What’s contained in administrative template conf.adm?
How can you restrict running certain applications on a machine?
You need to automatically install an app, but MSI file is not available. What do you do?
What’s the difference between Software Installer and Windows Installer?
How frequently is the client policy refreshed?
Where is secedit?
What is “tattooing” the Registry?
What’s the major difference between FAT and NTFS on a local machine?
How do FAT and NTFS differ in approach to user shares?
Explain the List Folder Contents permission on the folder in NTFS. Same as Read & Execute, but not inherited by files within a folder. However, newly created subfolders will inherit this permission.
I have a file to which the user has access, but he has no folder permission to read it. Can he access it?
For a user in several groups, are Allow permissions restrictive or permissive?
For a user in several groups, are Deny permissions restrictive or permissive?
What hidden shares exist on Windows Server 2019 installation?
What’s the difference between standalone and fault-tolerant DFS (Distributed File System) installations?
Where exactly do fault-tolerant DFS shares store information in Active Directory? =
Can you use Start->Search with DFS shares?
What problems can you have with DFS installed?
Is Kerberos encryption symmetric or asymmetric?
What’s the number of permitted unsuccessful logons on Administrator account?
If hashing is one-way function and Windows Server uses hashing for storing passwords, how is it possible to attack the password lists, specifically the ones using NTLMv1?
How many passwords by default are remembered when you check “Enforce Password History Remembered”?
How do you get to Internet Firewall settings?
How long does it take for security changes to be replicated among the domain controllers?
When should you create a forest?
How can you authenticate between forests?
What are the Important Windows port numbers:
How to check tombstone lifetime value in your Forest?
How to find the domain controller that contains the lingering object
What are Active Directory ports:
How to do active directory health checks?
GPRESULT falied with access denied error:
What is the command to find out site name for given DC
Command to find all DCs in the given site
How many types of queries DNS does?
Difference between 2016 and 2019
Windows server 2019 new features
What is server core? How do you configure and manage a windows server 2016 core installation?
What are RODCs? What are advantages?
What does an RODC do?
How do you install an RODC?
What is the minimum requirement to install Windows 2019 server?
What are the new Domain and Forest Functional Levels in Windows Server 2019
What is WDS? How is WDS configured and managed on a server running Windows Server 2012?
Name some of the major changes in GPO in Windows Server 2019.
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 Restorable Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2008/R2. What is this feature good for?
Windows Server DHCP Interview Questions
What is dhcp ?
What is the dhcp process for client machine?
What is dhcp scope ?
Types of scopes in windows dhcp ?
What is Authorizing DHCP Servers in Active Directory ?
What ports are used by DHCP and the DHCP clients ?
List some Benefits of using DHCP
Describe the process of installing a DHCP server in an AD infrastructure ?
How to authorize a DHCP server in Active Directory Open DHCP ?.
What is DHCPINFORM?