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VMware L2 Interview Q
VMware L2 Interview Q
Active Directory
1. What is Tree?
2. What is Forest?
A group of tree is called forest and doesn’t sharing a continuous name but sharing a common configuration schema.
3. What is group?
4. What is VPN?
VPN stands for Virtual private network that creates a secure network connection over a public network. VPN is used to
enable remotely users to connect the secure private network.
2. What do you mean by Active Directory functional levels? How does it help an organization’s network
functionality?
6. What are the Active Directory Partitions? (Or what are Active Directory Naming Contexts? Or what is AD NC?)
22. Have you ever planned and implemented Active Directory infrastructure anywhere? Tell me few
considerations we have to take during the AD planning.
23. What is Active Directory defragmentation? How do you do AD defragmentation? And why do we do it?
24. How do you uninstall active directory? What are the precautions we have to take before removing active
directory?
25. Imagine you are trying to add a Windows 7 computer to Active Directory domain. But its showing an error
‘Unable to find Domain Controller’. How will you handle this issue?
26. What are the services required for Active Directory replication?
27. What is Active Directory application partition? What are the uses of it?
28. What do you mean by IDA? What are the new components of Windows 2K8 Active Directory?
29. I want to edit the Active Directory Schema. How can I bring Schema editor into my MMC?
30. Name few Active Directory Built in groups
31. I have to create 1000 user objects in my Active Directory domain. Who can I achieve that with least
administrative effort? Tell me few tools that I can use.
55. The security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship?
56. What is lost & found folder in ADS?
57. What System State data contains?
58. What are the Volume types?
59. Minimum requirements installing AD in windows server 2008R2?
60. What is the Event ID to troubleshoot the Account lockout issues?
61. How to edit schema in AD?
62. How to remotely install ADC?
63. AD account lockout issue root cause?
64. What is basic and dynamic disk?
65. What is the process to defragment AD database?
66. What are the types object restoration method in AD?
67. What is system state backup?
68. If PDC goes down then what would be impact?
69. If my PDC goes down the can user set the password?
70. What will you do if schema role goes down?
71. Give an example of schema modification?
72. How to check replication?
73. How to calculate the latency is intrasite and intersite replication?
74. What if a FSMO server role fails?
75. How will map a folder through AD?
76. What is the tool used to anaylsis minidump?
77. What is the event ID for abnormat shutdown?
78. What is the command to check windows server uptime?
79. What is urgent replication in AD ?
80. How to migrate AD location to another ? (from C:\AD to D:\AD)
81. Tool to monitor AD replication?
82. What are the troubleshooting handle for replication issue?
83. What is the protocol used for replication?
84. Explain Infrastructure Master Role. What will be the impact if DC with Infrastructure Master Role goes down?
85. Can I configure two Infrastructure Master Role in a forest? If yes, please explain.
86. What is group nesting?
87. Explain Group Types and Group Scopes?
88. How is Authoritative Restore different from non-Authoritative Restore?
89. Tell me few switches of NTDSUTIL command.
90. What is a tombstone? What is the tombstone lifetime period?
91. What do you understand by Garbage Collection? Explain.
92. What is Lost and Found Container?
93. Where can I locate Lost and Found Container?
94. What is RODC? Why do we configure RODC?
95. Explain Knowledge Consistency Checker (KCC)
96. Tell me few DS commands and its usage.
97. What are Intersite and Intrasite replication?
98. What is shortcut trust?
99. What is selective Authentication?
100. Have you heard of ADAC?
101. What is the use of ADSIEDIT? How do we install it in Windows Server 2003 AD?
102. What is ADMT? What is it used for?
103. What do you mean by Lingering Objects in AD? How to remove Lingering Objects?
104. What is LDAP?
105. What is NETDOM command line tool used for?
106. What is role seizure? Who do we perform role seizure?
107. Is it possible to find idle users who did not log in for last few months?
108. What are the uses of CSVDE and LDIFDE?
109. What are the differences between a user object and contact object?
110. What do you mean by Bridge Head server?
111. What is urgent replication?
112. Please explain Realm trust.
113. Explain object class and object attribute.
114. My organization wants to add new object attribute to the user object. How do you achieve it?
115. What do you understand about GUID?
116. Name few differences from Windows Server 2003 AD and Windows Server 2008 AD.
117. What are the replication intervals for Intersite and intrasite replication? Is there any change in 2003 and
2008?
118. Tell me few uses of NTDSUTIL commands?
119. Tell me Different between online and offline defragmentation.
120. A user account is frequently being locked out. How do you investigate this issue? What will be the possible
solution suggest the user?
121. Many users of a network are facing latency while trying to log into their workstations. How do you investigate
this problem?
DNS
220. How do I check if my DNS server is working?
221. What is DNS?
222. What is DDNS?
223. What are the resource records in DNS?
224. What is SRV records in DNS?
225. What is forwarding in DNS?
226. What is conditional forwarding in DNS?
227. What are the queries types in DNS?
228. What are the tools for troubleshooting of DNS?
229. How to check DNS health?
230. How do I clear the DNS cache on the DNS server?
231. What are the properties of DNS server?
232. How do you manually create SRV records in DNS?
233. Where DNS resource records will be stored?
234. How DNS works?
235. What is the use of local DNS server?
236. What would be impact if reserve lookup goes down in DNS?
237. What is root hint in DNS?
238. What is prerequisites for DNS?
239. How will you take backup of DNS?
240. How many records in DNS and what is the user of each record?
241. What the port is no of: WSUS, RDP, Global catalogue, WSUS, IMAP, WINS, SSL, SMTP, POP3, HTTPS, LDP,
DNS, DHCP, FTP, Telnet, SSH, SNMP?
242. What will be the problem if DNS Server fails?
DHCP
261. What is DHCP?
262. What is Scope, reservation, lease, exclusion range in DHCP?
263. What are the commands used for troubleshooting DHCP issues?
264. How DHCP work?
265. What is Authorizing DHCP server in Active Directory?
266. How can we take backup of DNS and DHCP server?
267. Where DHCP database store?
268. What are the option classes in DHCP?
269. What is the function of jetpack command in DHCP server?
270. What is Exclusion Range in DHCP Server?
Global Catalog
316. How do I find my global catalogue server?
317. Explain Global Catalog. What kind of AD infrastructure makes most use of Global Catalog?
318. Global Catalog and Infrastructure master roles cannot be configure in same Domain Controller. Why?
319. How to view global catalog on command line?
320. How to transfer global catalog to another domain?
321. How to configure global catalog server?
Roles
322. What are the two forest specific FSMO roles?
323. Tell me one easiest way to check all the 5 FSMO roles.
324. You said there are 5 FSMO roles. Please explain what will be the impact on the AD infra if each FSMO roles
fails?
Networking
331. What is IPv6 and IPv4? What is the difference between them?
332. What is VOIP?
333. How can we change the IP address from Command prompt?
334. What is the APIPA IP?
335. What is IP address range?
336. What is the private IP address range?
337. What are port needs to open for making up trust relationship?
338. What is classfull and classless IP address?
339. What is subnetting and supernetting?
340. What is Switch?
341. What is Router?
342. How firewall works?
343. What is NAT?
344. What is difference between TCP and UDP?
345. What is subnet Mask?
346. What is default gateway?
347. What is multicasting?
348. What is difference between FAT 32 and NTFS?
349. What are the 7 OSI layres?
350. What is Telnet, Tracert & FTP?
351. What is VLAN?
Domain
352. I want to promote a new additional Domain Controller in an existing domain. Which are the groups I should
be a member of?
353. Can I configure two RID masters in a domain?
354. What will be the impact on the network if Domain Controller with PDC Emulator crashes?
355. What is the feature of Domain Local Group?
356. How do you check currently forest and domain functional levels? Say both GUI and Command line.
357. Can you explain the process between a user providing his Domain credential to his workstation and the
desktop being loaded? Or how the AD authentication works?
PORT NUMBER
23 Telnet TCP
50, 51 IPSec
161 162 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) TCP and UDP
15 Netstat
21 FTP
23 Telnet
25 SMTP
42 WINS
53 DNS
68 DHCP Server
80 HTTP
88 Kerberos
101 HOSTNAME
110 POP3
119 NNTP
123 NTP
139 NetBIOS
161 SNMP
180 RIS
389 LDAP
37 Time
143 IMAP4
2) Mention what are the new features in Active Directory (AD) of Windows server 2012?
6) Mention what is the difference between domain admin groups and enterprise admins group
in AD?
9) Explain where does the AD database is held? What other folders are related to AD?
10) Mention what is PDC emulator and how would one know whether PDC emulator is working
or not?
391. What is the difference between a geographically dispersed cluster and an MNS cluster?
392. What is the maximum number of nodes in an MNS cluster?
393. Do I need special hardware to use an MNS cluster?
394. Does a cluster aware application need to be rewritten to support MNS?
395. Does MNS get rid of the need for shared disks?
396. What does a failover cluster do in Windows Server 2008?
397. What new functionality does failover clustering provide in Windows Server 2008?
398. What is Dynamic quorum in Windows Server 2012 ?
399. What happens to a running Cluster if the quorum disk fails in Windows Server 2003 Cluster?
400. What happens to a running Cluster if the quorum disk fails in Windows Server 2008 Cluster?
401. What is Cluster-Aware Updating in Windows Server 2012?
402. If a cluster passes all tests in the cluster validation wizard, is it supported?
403. Will failover cluster solutions be listed in the Windows Catalog?
404. Does this new support policy also apply to Windows Server 2003?
405. How does Microsoft CSS check if the solution has been validated?
406. What if I make a change to the cluster configuration, like add a node?
Does the
validation wizard have to be run again?
407. Is cluster high available or fault tolerant solution?
408. How MSCS is different from NLB?
409. What is a quorum or What is a quorum resource or Quorum disk?
410. What’s the advantage/disadvantage of having 1 node cluster?
411. How important is to have public and heartbeat network separate? Is cluster possible
with just one NIC per node?
412. What’s the port number for heartbeat communication between Cluster Nodes?
413. Is it possible to have heartbeat and public NIC’s on the same subnet without causing
any problems?
414. Can 2 nodes belonging from multiple network subnets form a single Cluster?
415. What is the difference between multicast and unicast in a Cluster? Under which scenario u
nicast/multicast is more viable solution that multicast/unicast?
416. What kind of application is called cluster-aware?
417. Is every Windows application Cluster aware? And why or why not?
418. Is it very important to have shared storage for a Cluster 2 run? What kind of applications
may not run if we don’t shared storage?
419. What is a cluster log? What is its default location?
420. How many logging levels do we have in 2003? What is the default logging level of Cluster log
in 2003?
421. What could be the maximum size of a Cluster log and where can it be set / configured?
422. How many Cluster nodes you can have in 2003 Cluster and Windows 2008 cluster? (Depends on
Os edition).
423. Is it possible to have 2000 and 2003 node co-exist in the same Cluster?
424. Is it possible to have x86 and x64 bit 2003 node in the same Cluster?
425. What is a difference between a Cluster and a geographically-dispersed Cluster from
administrative perspective?
426. Are dynamic disks supports in 2003? What about GPT disks?
427. What is a File Share witness?
428. What is a dependency tree and how is it crucial?
429. What are ISAlive and LooksAlive? what is their frequency? What happens if the
ISAlive fails for a resource?
430. How many times Cluster will try to restart the group/resource, before it marks a
group/resource as failed?
431. What are the improvements made in Windows 2008 clustering?
432. What is Web Farm?
433. What is Web Garden?
434. What is the default Identity of an Application Pool ?
435. What is the available Identity of an Application Pool?
436. What is the worker process for IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0?
437. What are the different types of application pool available in IIS 7.0?
438. Where is the default location for IIS Log files ?
What is the use of aspnet_regiis -i command?
440. How to check Installed .Net Version on IIS?
441. If there is multiple worker process running on IIS, then how can you attach a
particular worker process for application ?
442. Which Tool is used for Remote IIS Debugging ?
443. IIS Port numbers?
444. What are IIS Services?
480. Where is the default location for IIS Log files ?
481. What are the major innovations in IIS 7.0 ?
HR Questions
506. How would you handle a negative coworker?
507. What would you do if you witnessed a coworker surfing the web, reading a book, etc, wasting
company time?
508. How do you handle competition among yourself and other employees?
509. When is it okay to socialize with coworkers?
510. Tell me about a time when a major change was made at your last job, and how you handled it.
511. When delegating tasks, how do you choose which tasks go to which team members?
512. Tell me about a time when you had to stand up for something you believed strongly
about to coworkers or a supervisor.
513. Tell me about a time when you helped someone finish their work, even though it wasn't
“your job.”
514. What are the challenges of working on a team? How do you handle this?
515. Do you value diversity in the workplace?
516. How would you handle a situation in which a coworker was not accepting of someone
else's diversity?
517. Are you rewarded more from working on a team, or accomplishing a task on your own?
518. Tell me about a time when you didn't meet a deadline.
519. How do you eliminate distractions while working?
520. Tell me about a time when you worked in a position with a weekly or monthly quota to
meet. How often were you successful?
521. Tell me about a time when you met a tough deadline, and how you were able to complete it.
522. How do you stay organized when you have multiple projects on your plate?
523. How much time during your work day do you spend on “auto-pilot?”
524. How do you handle deadlines?
525. Tell me about your personal problem-solving process.
526. What sort of things at work can make you stressed?
527. What do you look like when you are stressed about something? How do you solve it?
528. Can you multi-task?
529. How many hours per week do you work?
530. How many times per day do you check your email?
531. Tell me about a time when you worked additional hours to finish a project.
532. Tell me about a time when your performance exceeded the duties and requirements of
your job.
533. What is your driving attitude about work?
534. Do you take work home with you?
535. Describe a typical work day to me.
536. Tell me about a time when you went out of your way at your previous job.
537. Are you open to receiving feedback and criticisms on your job performance, and adjusting
as necessary?
538. What inspires you?
539. How do you inspire others?
540. How do you make decisions?
541. What are the most difficult decisions for you to make?
542. When making a tough decision, how do you gather information?
543. Tell me about a decision you made that did not turn out well.
544. Are you able to make decisions quickly?
545. Ten years ago, what were your career goals?
546. Tell me about a weakness you used to have, and how you changed it.
547. Tell me about your goal-setting process.
548. Tell me about a time when you solved a problem by creating actionable steps to follow.
549. Where do you see yourself five years from now?
550. When in a position, do you look for opportunities to promote?
551. On a scale of 1 to 10, how successful has your life been?
552. What is your greatest goal in life?
553. Tell me about a time when you set a goal in your personal life and achieved it.
554. What is your greatest goal in your career?
555. Tell me about a time when you achieved a goal.
556. What areas of your work would you still like to improve in? What are your plans to do this?
2) Explain in windows DNS server what is Primary, Secondary and Stub zone?
4) In the case when MSI file is not available, how you can install an app?
5) Explain how you can set up remote installation procedure without giving access to user?
10) Explain what does it mean caching only server in terms of DNS?
11) Explain what is the way to configure the DHCP server such that it allocates the same IP
address to certain devices each time the address is removed?
14) Explain what is the difference between a thread and a computer process?
18) To check TCP/IP configurations and IP connectivity, what are the two command line
utilities that can be used?
19) Explain if it is possible to connect Active Directory to other 3rd party Directory services?
20) Explain where is the AD database is held?
21) Explain what is the major difference between NTFS ( New Technology File System) or FAT
(File Allocation Table) on a local server?
22) Mention what windows server 2008 service is used to install client operating system over
the network?
Q :15 What is LDP? What is REPLMON? What is ADSIEDIT? What is NETDOM? What is REPADMIN?
Q: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? How it is possibal.
1. Can you connect Active Directory to other 3rd-party Directory Services? Name a few
options.
Q: What is a Domain?
Q: What is Domain Controller?
Q: What is LDAP?
Q: What are main Email Servers and which are their ports?
Q: Why should you not restore a DC that was backed up 6 months ago?
DHCP:
1) How DHCP work?
2) What is DHCP Scope.
3) What protocol and port does DHCP use.
4) What is a DHCP lease.
5) Can DHCP support statically defined addresses.
7) What is Authorizing DHCP Servers in Active Directory.
8)How to Backup and Restore DHCP in Windows Server 2008
Backup DHCP Server
Restore DHCP Server
DNS
1) Define DNS .
2) what is the port no of DNS.
3)What is NSlookup.
13) Where is the AD database held? What other folders are related to AD?
17) What is the difference between local, global and universal groups
Vertualization
1)Define virtualization.
3) What is a Hypervisor.