Some frequently asked interview Questions for Network Operations

Engineer/Manager positions are described below, go through all of the

questions, you can take reference from our previous posts to clear your doubt
on specific technology or you can write @ comment section as well,

Q. What is the role of Information technology in present business?

Q. What do you mean by network management system?

Q. How do you manage multiple projects?

Q. Describe some of network tools you are familiar with.

Q. How do you troubleshoot the high CPU utilization issue in a switch?

Q. What is 802.3ad standard?

Q. What is the exact work of collision domain?

Q. What are basic differences between a bridge and switch?

Q. What is the difference between manageable and unmanageable switches? What series of
switches you have worked with?

Q. What do you mean by native VLAN?

Q. Describe VLAN pruning?

Q. Define the role of Dynamic Trunking Protocol. How to disable it?

Q. How to reset revision number of a switch configured as VTP Server or Client?

Q. Explain the differentiation between STP, PVST and MST.

Q. What is ether-channel and is it possible to achieve load balancing using ether-channels.

Q. What is the use of client identifier while configuring DHCP pool?

Q. Define Stuck in Active (SIA).

Q. Define CLNS address?

Q. Which layers of OSI model considered as User Support Layers?

Q. What is the role of Administrative Distance in best path selection?

Q. What is the use of defining NULL0 routes?

Q. OSPF neighbor-ship is not coming up. How to start OSPF troubleshooting?

Q. Define different Area types of OSPF?

Q. Define LSA type 4?

Q. My OSPF neighbor is in 2-way/exstart state, what does it mean?

Q. What is the use of Private Autonomous System in BGP?

Q. My BGP peer is down, what would be your troubleshooting approach?

Q. Define loop prevention mechanism in BGP. / Define BGP Split-Horizon rule.

Q. What is the use of originator-id and cluster-id in BGP?

Q. Does route reflector come in actual path during traffic forwarding?

Q. Does it require that BGP router-id should reachable in cloud?

Q. If BGP neighbor is in idle state what does it mean?

Q. My BGP neighbor is in Active state, what could be the reason?

Q. What is the use of policy based routing?

Q. What is the significance of route-target import and route-target export?

Q. How MPLS works? What is Penultimate Hop Popping (PHP)?

Q. Why RP is required in sparse mode? What is the difference between Auto RP & BSR
candidate?

Q. What is the difference between a/s or a/a failover?

Q. Does trace route command work across the firewall?

Q. Does telnet/ssh command work across the firewall?

Q. How to protect network against some common attacks?

Q. What is the concept of demilitarized zone (DMZ)?

Q. How to trouble shoot the high utilization issue in firewall?

Q. How to enable net flow? Describe the benefits of enabling net flow?

Q. How to deal with crackling sound on VoIP line while talking?

Q. What is the diff b/w E1 and T1 Link?