Micro Soft Windows Server Interview Questions With Answers

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#Q1. What is Windows 10?

Ans: -
• Windows 10 is a client OS developed by Microsoft.
• It’s uses for pc, tablet, embedded devices & IOT devices.
• Microsoft release windows 10 on 29th July 2015.
• Version – NT10.0 (New Technology).
#Q2. What is User?

Ans: - The person who uses the resources of computer and
network is called as User.
#Q3. What is User Account?

Ans: - User Account is a location in a hard disk which store the
details of user which to authenticated by shorting the credential
(User name and password).
#Q4. What are the types of accounts supported by

Windows 10?
Ans: -
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#Q5. What is Administrator?

Ans: - The User who has the permission to add, delete and
modify all things of a computer not only own account but also
other account. Administrator can download, configure and install
the application.
#Q6. What are the types of Domain Account?

Ans: -
#Q7. What are the ways of the Domain User can log-in on
to a Domain?
Ans: - There are 4 ways –
❖ User name + Password.
❖ Smart card + PIN.
❖ Virtual smart card + PIN.
❖ Windows Hello + Microsoft Passport.
#Q8. What is Microsoft Account?

Ans: - This is an e-mail address which is registered Microsoft
account service.
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#Q9. What are the minimum requirement of installing of

Windows – 10?
Ans: -
The minimum requirement of installing of Windows - 10 for 32
OS –
❖ Processer – 1 GHz or Faster Processor or SOC.
❖ RAM – 1 GB
❖ Hard Disk – 16 GB.
The minimum requirement of installing of Windows - 10 for 64

OS –
❖ Processer – 1 GHz or Faster Processor or SOC.
❖ RAM – 2 GB
❖ Hard Disk – 20 GB
❖ Graphics card – Direct X9 or later with WDPM
❖ Display – 800 x 600
#Q10. What are the Edition of Windows - 10?

Ans: - There are 4 editions in Windows - 10 –
❖ Windows 10 Home (For home user)
❖ Windows 10 Pro (For advance home user)
❖ Windows 10 Enterprise (For corporate user)
❖ Windows 10 Education (For education corporates)
#Q11. What is Windows - 10 mobile edition?

Ans: - This edition is designed for smart phone and tablet. This
are 2 types-
• Windows 10 mobile.
• Windows 10 mobile enterprise.
#Q12. What is Windows – 10 IoT edition?

Ans: - Windows – 10 IoT core designed for devices support
embedded application.
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#Q13. What is Windows Hello?

Ans: - Windows Hello is a feature which is used to unlock
windows 10 devices by verifying our identify. There are 4 method
of identification –
• Facial Recognition
• Iris Scanning
• Finger Print
• Pin or Password
#Q14. What is User profile? What are the types?

Ans: - User profile is the visual display of personal data of a
specific user. This is the digital representation of a person
identification. User profile are 4 types –
❖ Local Profile
❖ Roaming Profile
❖ Mandatory Profile
❖ Temporary Profile
#Q15. What is Local Profile?

Ans: - When an administrator is created a User and 1st time log
on to the system than Local Profile is created. This is created by
default.
The location of local user profile is on the local machine inside the
Appdata folder of the specific user.
#Q16. What is Roaming Profile?

Ans: - Roaming profile store in domain controller. Each time user
can log on from any system within the domain their profile is
requested and domain controller sends the profile to the
requested machine. This allows the user moving from one
machine to another machine but still maintaining a consists
profile.
#Q17. What is Mandatory Profile?
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Ans: - It is used for guest login. It does not save the user change
or setting, read only. Only system administrator make change to
mandatory profile.
#Q18. What is Temporary Profile?

Ans: - Temporary Profile is issued each time when due to an
error user profile are enabled to load. Temporary profile is deleted
at the end of each session.
#Q19. What is SSO (Single Sign On)?

Ans: - SSO is a session a user authentication service that permit
are user to user one set of logs in credential to access multiple
application.
#Q20. What is Upgradation?

Ans: - Upgrade means your system (OS, DB or application) is
going to a higher version.
#Q21. What is Migration?

Ans: - Migration is the process of moving from the use of one
Operating System environment to another Operating System.
Characteristics: -
• Migration is used for user specific settings.
• It is a time-consuming process.
• It required more storage.
• Migration required reinstallation of application.
#Q22. What is Windows ADK (WADK)?

Ans: -
• Its stands for Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit.
• It is developed by Microsoft.
• It is a collection of tools and technology.
• This tool is first introduced by windows vista.
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• It is used to build a WinPE (Pre-boot installation

Environment) boot image.
#Q23. What is User State?

Ans: - User State define as the data and settings specific to a
particular user, the data can be in the user profile (documents) or
outside it. Settings can be OS or application related.
#Q24. What is User State Migration? What are the types?

Ans: - Transferring the user state from one machine to another
machine is called as User State Migration.
❖ There are 2 types of method to perform –
• WET
• USMT
#Q25. What is WET?

Ans: - WET stands for Windows Easy Transfer. This is not good
for large migration because it performs one to one transfer of user
profile.
#Q26. What is USMT?

Ans: - USMT stands for User State Migration Tools. It is best for
enterprise environment. It is use for 2 commands –
✓ Scan state
✓ Load state
#Q27. What is used for Scan State command?

Ans: - This command is used with Windows User State Migration
Tool (USMT) 4.0 to scan the source computer, collect the files and
settings and create a store.
#Q28. What is used for Load State command?

Ans: - This command is used with Windows User State Migration
Tool (USMT) to load the user settings on the destination
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computer, the files collected from the scan sate command is

copied to the destination computer.
#Q29. What is ICD?

Ans: - Its stand for Imaging and Configuration Designer. It
allowed and it administrator to create provising packages. These
packages are used to customized mobile and desktop version of
windows 10 machine.
#Q30. What is Provising?

Ans: - Provising is the process of configuring, developing and
maintaining a package which contain it resource throughout the
enterprise. Its required tools – Windows 10 machine and
Windows ADK tools.
#Q31. What is Windows Power Shell?

Ans: -
• It is a command shell for administration.
• It is based on .net architecture.
• It is support local and remote administration.
• Windows 10 uses the power shell version 5.0.
#Q32. How to open Power Shell?

Ans: - Windows run – Power shell
Windows run – cmd – start power shell
#Q33. What is Winsock?

Ans: -
• Its stand for Windows Socket.
• This are the files which allows windows programme to
connect to the internet or other computer.
• Winsock is an API (Application Programming Interface)
which is used by the developer to make there programme
network enable.
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#Q34. What is Name Resolution?

Ans: - Name Resolution is mapping a host name to an IP address.
Name Resolution technique for IPv6 is LLMNR.
#Q35. What is Network Discovery?

Ans: - This is a feature which allows windows system to find
another computer to the network.
#Q36. What is Network Location?

Ans: - Network Location defined the degree of security of a
device. It is 3 type –
#Q37. What is Private Location?

Ans: - Private Location is a secure network.
It is 2 types –
❖ Home Group: - It is a Peer-to-Peer network used in Home
Network. We create home group for secure communication
within an organization.
❖ Work Group: - A Work Group is a Peer-to-Peer network.
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#Q38. What is Public Location?

Ans: - Public Location is consider as insecure network location.
Example – Hotspots in coffee shops, wi-fi in airports, railway
station.
#Q39. What is Domain Location?

Ans: - It is preferred for corporates domain networks. It is
considered as a secure network to control user’s access to the
corporate resources.
#Q40. What are the types of network location we can be

access?
Ans: - There are 4 types of network location can be access –
▪ Using windows setting
▪ Using windows register
▪ Using local security policy
▪ Using power shell
#Q41. What is VPN?

Ans: - VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. It is a private
network over a public network. VPN creates an encryption
connection between the user and company network. VPN is used
to connect the remote site of an organization
VPN is 3 types -
▪ Client to Server
▪ Site to Site
▪ VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol)
#Q42. What is DRA?

Ans: - DRA stands for Data Recovery Agent. It is a user who has
the universal key to open any types of encrypted file.
Unencrypted file cannot the open by except the owner of file.
#Q43. What is AAA?
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Ans: - Radius Server is also called as AAA server (Authentication,

Authorization & Accounting).
▪ Radius is a server which provides centralized authentication,
authorization and accounting of a user in a network while
accessing remote service.
▪ It is uses port no. 1812.
#Q44. What is Virtualization?

Ans: - Virtualization means running multiple operating system
simultaneous on a physical computer. It means creating virtual
resources like server, desktop, OS, file, storage network etc.
#Q45. What is Hyper-V?

Ans: -
▪ Hyper-V is the Microsoft hardware virtualization products.
▪ It allows to create and run software version of a computer is
called as a virtual machine.
▪ Hyper-V allows to run multiple operating system on virtual
machine on a single hardware platform.
#Q46. Why Hyper-V is called as Hardware

Virtualization?
Ans: - It is called as hardware virtualization because its virtual
machine run on virtual hardware and behaves like a real
computer. It allows to create hard drive, virtual switch etc.
#Q47. What is Virtual Machine?

Ans: -
▪ A Virtual Machine is a file called as an image which behaves
like an actual computer.
▪ A Virtual Machine contains virtual hard disk and virtual OS
but give and experience as real.
▪ The Virtual Machine is called as guest machine and the
physical computer which holds the VM is called as host
machine.
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#Q48. What is Guest OS and Host OS?

Ans: - OS of a virtual machine is running is called as Guest OS.
But the OS is running is physical machine is called as Host OS.
#Q49. What is Hyper-Viser?

Ans: - Hyper-Viser is a programme for crating and running
virtual machine. Hyper-viser is called as Virtual Machine Manager
(VMM). A Hyper-viser hardware virtualization techniques, which
allows multiple guest operating system to run on a single host
system at a time.
#Q50. What are the OS for enable Hyper-V in windows-

10?
Ans: - There are 3 types of OS we can enable Hyper-V in windows
10 –
❖ Using Power Shell.
❖ Using CMP and DISM.
❖ Through the Control Panel.
#Q51. What is Virtual Switch?

Ans: - Virtual Switch is used to creates the network. There are 3
types of switch in Hyper-V -
❖ Private
❖ Internal
❖ External
#Q52. What is Private Switch?

Ans: - Private Switch is used to convert the virtual machine only
within a single physical computer.
#Q53. What is Internal Switch?

Ans: - If we want to establish between virtual machine and
physical network then we create Internal Switch.
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#Q54. What is External Switch?

Ans: - If we want to establish the communication between the
virtual machines, hosted on different physical computer than we
create External Switch.
#Q55. What is Windows To Go?

Ans: - Windows To Go is a feature in windows 10 Enterprise and
Windows 10 Education edition that enables the creation of a
Windows To Go workspace that can be booted from a USB
connected external drive on PCs.
#Q56. What are the different versions (editions) of

windows – 7?
Ans: -
• Windows – 7 Starter.
• Windows – 7 Home Basic.
• Windows – 7 Home Premium.
• Windows – 7 Professional.
• Windows – 7 Enterprise.
• Windows – 7 Ultimate.

windows – 8?
Ans: -
• Windows – 8.
• Windows – 8 Pro.

windows – 10?
Ans: -
• Windows – 10 Home.
• Windows – 10 Pro.
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• Windows – 10 Education.
#Q59. What is MS Outlook?

Ans: - Microsoft Outlook is offline mail client. It is a personal
information manager from Microsoft, available as a part of the
Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an email
application, it also includes a calendar, task manager, contact
manager, note taking, journal and web browsing.
#Q60. What is a domain?

Ans: - A domain is a group of users, workstations, devices,
printers, computers and database servers that are administered as
a unit with common rules and procedures. Domains are defined
by the IP address. All devices sharing a common part of IP
address are said to be in the same domain.
#Q61. What is the Active Directory?

Ans: -Active Directory (AD) is the directory service that Microsoft
developed for Windows domain networks. It is included in most
Windows Server operating systems as a set of processes and
services. A server running Active Directory Domain Services (AD
DS) is called a domain controller. It authenticates and authorizes
all users and computers in a Windows domain type network –
assigning and enforcing security policies for all computers and
installing or updating software.
#Q62. What is the Shadow Copy?

Ans: - Shadow copy is a technology included in Microsoft
Windows that allows taking manual or automatic backup copies
or snapshots of computer files or volumes, even when they are in
use.
#Q63. What is the difference between domain and

workgroup?
Ans: -
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DOMAIN WORKGROUP
One or more computers are All computers are peers.
servers and remaining are
clients.
If you have a user account on Each computer has set of
the domain, you can logon to accounts which can logon on
any computer on the domain. local computer only.
There can be 100 plus Typically, not more than 20-30
computers in the domain. computers in the workgroup.
#Q64. What is the Bit locker?

Ans: - Bit locker is a security feature included with selected
editions of Windows Vista and later. It is designed to protect data
by providing encryption for entire volume.
#Q65. What is Bit locker To Go?

Ans: - Bit locker To Go allows you to protect data stored on USB
storage devices.
#Q66. Which are the by default user accounts in

Windows 10?
Ans: - Administrator and Guest.
#Q67. What is quota?

Ans: - Quota is used to specify storage limit on a drive for the
users.
#Q68. What are Windows Updates?

Ans: - The Windows Update utility is used to keep your
Windows-based computer up-to-date with the latest patches.
These updates will close security holes in your computer and
hopefully prevent you from being hacked or infected with viruses.
#Q69. What is the firewall? What are the inbound and

outbound rules?
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Ans: - Firewalls provide the security by limiting access to your

computer and network, a firewall is also useful for allowing
remote access to a private network through secure authentication
certificates and logins. Inbound rules are used to filter the traffic
that comes to your computer/network and outbound rules are
used to filter the traffic that leaves your computer/network.
#Q70. What is UAC?

Ans: - User Account Control (UAC) is a feature in Windows that
can help to prevent unauthorized changes to your computer. UAC
does this by asking you for permission or an administrator’s
password before performing actions that could potentially affect
your computer’s operation or that change settings that affects
other users.
#Q71. What is Virtual Memory?

Ans: - Virtual Memory is a feature of an operating system (OS)
that allows a computer to compensate for shortages of physical
memory by temporarily transferring pages of data from RAM to
disk storage.
#Q72. What is Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)?

Ans: - Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) is a disk image file format for
storing the complete contents of the hard drive.
#Q73. What is AppLocker?

Ans: - AppLocker is a new feature in Windows Operating System
that allows you to specify which users or groups can run particular
applications in the computer. If you use AppLocker, you can
create rules to allow or deny applications from running.
#Q74. What is Pop-Up Blocker in a browser?

Ans: - Pop-up Blocker is a feature in internet Explorer that allows
you to block pop-ups from appearing when you browse a web
page.
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#Q75. What is the prerequisite to configure M.S.

Outlook?
Ans: -
❖ Email address
❖ Password
❖ POP and SMTP servers’ addresses
❖ POP and SMTP port numbers
#Q76. How to take backup and restore M.S. Outlook?

Ans: - There are two ways to take backup and restore as follows,
❖ Import & Export
❖ Copy & Paste
#Q77. What is Office 365?

Ans: - Office 365 is a Microsoft online cloud solution and it is
interconnected with windows 10 device, that includes Microsoft
Office and other services, such as email and collaboration from
Microsoft's cloud server. Microsoft Office 365 provides desktop
functionalities and is available by paid subscription.
#Q78. What is the different between Windows 10 Home

& Pro Edition?
Ans: - Windows 10 Home edition available feature is Device
Encryption but its Pro edition is available features is Device
Encryption, Domain Join, Group Policy Management, Bit Locker
and Remote Desktop etc.
#Q79. What is the different between Windows 10 Pro &

Enterprise Edition?
Ans: - Windows 10 Pro edition has no support for features like
App Locker, Direct Access but Windows 10 Enterprise has
supported App Locker, Direct Access, Smart Control with Group
Policy etc. features.
#Q80. What are the New features of Windows 10?
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Ans: -
▪ Its new browser is EDGE browser.
▪ For security Windows Hello, Microsoft Passport etc.
▪ Its new update Administration by Windows Update for
Business.
▪ New feature evolution includes Hyper-V, Azure Integration
and Windows Store.
#Q81. Give some description about Windows 10 Mobile

Edition?
Ans: -
▪ The Windows 10 Mobile editions for uses Smart phones and
Tablets.
▪ Microsoft Windows 10 divided by 2 types of editions for
mobile devices.
▪ First Edition is Mobile – it is used by personal or individual
users.
▪ Second Edition is Mobile Enterprise Edition – it is used by
organizations and has an objective to support MDM (Mobile
Device Management).
#Q82. What is the different between Windows To Go and

WinPE?
Ans: - Windows To Go is the complete Operating System and it is
not a limited Operating System but WinPE (Windows Pre-
installation Environment) version 2.0 is a minimal Windows 32
bit operating system with limited services.
#Q83. What is Microsoft Intune?

Ans: - Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based management tool. It is
also used to control access to applications, data resources on any
device. It is used for devices of Windows, MAC and other mobile
devices.
#Q84. What is Azure Active Directory?
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Ans: - Active Directory is a directory service hosted in Microsoft

Cloud.
#Q85. What is Network Discovery? What are the types?

Ans: - Network Discovery is a feature to allows Windows 10
devices to find other computer and devices on a network. By
default, it is “ON” (Enabled) for Private Network and “OFF”
(Disabled) for Public and Domain Networks.
❖ It is 4 types –
• Private
• Public
• Home & Work
• Domain
#Q86. What LLMNR?

Ans: - Its stand for Link Local Multicast Name Resolution. It is
Name resolution without DNS or NetBIOS, typically based on IP
version 6. It uses port number UDP 5355.
#Q87. What is One Drive?

Ans: - It is a cloud storage feature based on Microsoft. It is
released on 2007 in Microsoft with product name SkyDrive. Later
in 2014 it was renamed as One Drive.

windows 7?
Ans: -
• Windows 7 Starter
• Windows 7 Home Basic
• Windows 7 Home Premium
• Windows 7 Professional
• Windows 7 Enterprise
• Windows 7 Ultimate
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#Q89. What is Hiren Boot?

Ans: - Hiren Boot CD is an all-in-one bootable CD solution that
contains a load of useful tools that can be used in hard drive
failure, virus infections, partitioning, password recovery and data
recovery.
#Q90. What is MS SQL Server?

Ans: - MS SQL Server is a relational database management
System (RDBMS) developed by Microsoft. This product is built for
the basic function of storing retrieving data as required by other
applications. Microsoft SQL Server 2016 is the most recent
version available.
#Q91. What is Domain?

Ans: - The logical boundary of network object control by
centralized controller is called as Domain.
#Q92. What is ADDS?

Ans: - Its stand for Active Directory Domain Service. It is the
database which store the details of every network object for that
domain.
#Q93. What is Domain Controller?

Ans: - The physical computer in which ADDS role is installed and
configured is called as Domain Controller.
#Q94. What are the editions of Windows Server 2016?

Ans: - Windows Server is available in 6 editions: -
▪ Windows Server 2016 Essentials
▪ Windows Server 2016 Standard
▪ Windows Server 2016 Datacenter
▪ Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016
▪ Windows Storage Server 2016 Workgroup
▪ Windows Storage Server 2016 Standard
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#Q95. What is Domain Tree?

Ans: - Domain Tree is a collection of Domains grouped together
in a hierarchical structure. Its support Parent-Child concept.
#Q96. What is OU?
Ans: - Organization Unit (OU) is the container within a Microsoft
Active Directory Domain, it can hold users, groups and
computers. It is the smallest unit to which an administrator can
assign group policy settings or account permissions.
#Q97. What is MS Exchange Server?

Ans: - Microsoft Exchange Server is a mail server and
calendaring server developed by Microsoft. It runs exclusively on
windows server operating system.
#Q98. What are the editions of Windows Server 2012?

Ans: - Windows Server 2012 has 4 editions –
▪ Windows Server 2012 Foundation
▪ Windows Server 2012 Essential
▪ Windows Server 2012 Standard
▪ Windows Server 2012 Datacenter
#Q99. What is Windows Defender?
Ans: - Windows Defender is a Built-in malware protection engine
in Windows 10 operating system.
It is designed to stop malicious software from getting on your
computer by protecting your PC from viruses, spyware another
potentially unwanted programs.
#Q100. What is GPO?

Ans: - Group Policy Object (GPO) is use to secure a windows
machine by restricting the user account and the computer
account. Primarily is designed to increase the productivity of the
user inside the organization.
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Top 100 Microsoft Server Interview

Here describe some basic Microsoft Windows Server

#Q1. What is Windows 10?

#Q2. What is User?

#Q3. What is User Account?

#Q4. What are the types of accounts supported by

#Q5. What is Administrator?

#Q6. What are the types of Domain Account?

#Q8. What is Microsoft Account?

#Q9. What are the minimum requirement of installing of

The minimum requirement of installing of Windows - 10 for 64

#Q10. What are the Edition of Windows - 10?

#Q11. What is Windows - 10 mobile edition?

#Q12. What is Windows – 10 IoT edition?

#Q13. What is Windows Hello?

#Q14. What is User profile? What are the types?

#Q15. What is Local Profile?

#Q16. What is Roaming Profile?

#Q17. What is Mandatory Profile?

#Q18. What is Temporary Profile?

#Q19. What is SSO (Single Sign On)?

#Q20. What is Upgradation?

#Q21. What is Migration?

#Q22. What is Windows ADK (WADK)?

• It is used to build a WinPE (Pre-boot installation

#Q23. What is User State?

#Q24. What is User State Migration? What are the types?

#Q25. What is WET?

#Q26. What is USMT?

#Q27. What is used for Scan State command?

#Q28. What is used for Load State command?

computer, the files collected from the scan sate command is

#Q29. What is ICD?

#Q30. What is Provising?

#Q31. What is Windows Power Shell?

#Q32. How to open Power Shell?

#Q33. What is Winsock?

#Q34. What is Name Resolution?

#Q35. What is Network Discovery?

#Q36. What is Network Location?

#Q37. What is Private Location?

❖ Work Group: - A Work Group is a Peer-to-Peer network.

#Q38. What is Public Location?

#Q39. What is Domain Location?

#Q40. What are the types of network location we can be

#Q41. What is VPN?

#Q42. What is DRA?

#Q43. What is AAA?

Ans: - Radius Server is also called as AAA server (Authentication,

#Q44. What is Virtualization?

#Q45. What is Hyper-V?

#Q46. Why Hyper-V is called as Hardware

#Q47. What is Virtual Machine?

#Q48. What is Guest OS and Host OS?

#Q49. What is Hyper-Viser?

#Q50. What are the OS for enable Hyper-V in windows-

#Q51. What is Virtual Switch?