Active Directory INTERVIEW QUESTIONS:

1) How to check AD configured properly?

2) How to check GUID?
3) How to configure global catalog server?
4) What are the FSMO roles and it gets down what will impact?
5) What is the RID pool?
6) FSMO roles detailed?
7) Difference between Infrastructure and Global Catalog server?
8) How to check FSMO roles running on which server?
9) How to transfer FSMO role one domain controller to another domain controller command prompt
and GUI?
10) What is AD data base file and log file where it stored is and what is the use of log file?
11) How to recover corrupted AD data base file?
12) Is it possible to rename domain name in windows 2003?
13) What are the two types of replication?
14) What are the protocols used in replication?
15) What is default time for replication?
16) What is the difference between the two types of replication i.e. intrasite and intersite?
17) What are replication partition and tell about partition?
18) Is application partition available in windows 2003?
19) How to check AD Database integrity?
20) What is the link value of Replication?
21) What is the importance of Universal Membership Caching?
22) How to install software in 2 computers through GPO?
23) What is RPC over IP and RPC over SMTP?
24) How to check GC is working properly?
25) How to check AD Database is corrupted or not?
26) Port Numbers for DNS, LDAP, GC, SMTP, PRC, RRDP, LDAP (SSL), GC (SSL), Telnet, WINS, NetBIOS,
SSH, FTP, HTTP, NTP, SRS, HTTP (SSL), POP, POP (SSL), Kerberos, Cluster services, IMAP etc.
27) What are the AD Database files Name and path they stored.
28) How to restore an object in AD?
29) What are Tombstone and its period?
30) Why GC and infrastructure not be on same server? Why?
31) What is META DATA?
32) How to transfer FSMO roles through NTDS utility?
33) What is KCC?
34) How Kerberos works?
35) How to troubleshoot the replication issues
36) What is lingering object? How to troubleshoot it?
37) What is Strict and Loose Replication?
38) How to do DC promote in Offline Mode?
39) Types of Events in AD Replication issues?
40) What are the tools to troubleshoot AD Replication issues?
41) If user is getting authenticate from far DC then how to authenticate it nearby DC?
42) How to check which DC is getting authenticated with User end?
43) RODC and its uses?
44) What is Service record and its uses?
45) What is SPN?
46) What is System State Backup and which file it contains.
47) What is RODC?
48) Steps to decommission the DC?
49) Event ID: 1006, 6008, 533, 467, 4935, 4936, 644, 4047, 36888, 1220, 2108, 2887, 1864, 41 etc.
50) What is NTP server?
51) What is AD recycle bin and how to restore objects from it?
52) Difference of restoring objects from AD recycle and Ntdsutil
53) Difference between 2008 AD recycle bin and 2012 AD recycle bin.
54) Types of Trust?
55) How LSDOU
56) How GP flows?
57) File contains inside SYSVOL and Net Logon
58) List for tools to troubleshoot AD
59) Commands for doing the replication, force replication, User creation / deletion etc.
60) How to verify the AD installation is proper or not?
61) What is LDP? What is REPLMON? What is ADSIEDIT? What is NETDOM? What is REPADMIN?
62) What are sites? What are they used for?
63) What is LDAP?
64) Difference between Tight replication and Loose Replication and to do that?
65) How do you view all the GCs in the forest?

DNS Interview Questions:

1) What is the DNS?

2) What is Stub zone and its record?
3) Types of Record is DNS
4) What is Forwarded and Reverse Zone?
5) How to integrate the DNS in AD?
6) What is SOA?
7) What is TTL?
8) How to do DNS force replication.
9) How to assigned permission to HOST Record.
10) What are CName and its uses?
11) What is round robin in DNS?
12) How we manually create SRV records in DNS
13) What is Name Server in DNS?
14) Difference between forwarding and conditional forwarding.
15) What is Aging and Scavenging in DNS?
16) What is Recursive and Iterative Query is DNS?
17) How to check the DNS health status
18) What is caching server in DNS?
19) What is “in-addr.arpa”?
20) Steps how to integrate the DNS in AD
Windows Interview Questions:

1) Difference between sharing and security permissions.

2) Raid 5 & 1 scenario based questions.
3) Booting process of 2003, 2008 server.
4) What is BSOD ERROR?
5) Recently faced issues.
6) What is svchost.exe and its functions?
7) How to deal with Memory leak issue.
8) Performance analysis.
9) How to analyze DUMP.
10) Difference between 2008 and 2008R2 and 2012
11) New features in 2008
12) Have you used DRAC, iDRAC or ILO or IBM remote management tool?
13) What is Paged pool memory?
14) What is Non paged pool memory?
15) What is Virtual Memory and how it is different from a Page file?
16) What is a Page File?
17) What is PAE Switch and why it is needed?
18) Hardware supported by server 2008R2 and 2012?
19) What is the difference between 64bit OS and 32bit OS?
20) How to troubleshoot event Id 2019 and 2020?
21) How to open a Dump File?
23) What is PAE Switch?
24) What is /3GB switch? How to use them in Windows 2003 and Windows 2008?
25) 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?
26) What is WSUS and how it works?
27) When did the Microsoft release the Patches?
28) What is PSP and use of it?
29) How WSUS server works?
30) Types of security patches?
31) What are dormant patches?
32) When did Microsoft release patches?
33) Difference between NTFS and Share Permission.
34) Difference between Full control permission and Modify Permission.
35) How to find the SID and PID
36) How to check port is open or not.
37) Have you used DRAC, iDRAC or ILO or IBM remote management tool?
38) What is LMHOSTS file?
39) Features of 2012 server.
40) Explain RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID 50, and RAID 60
Cluster Interview Questions:

1) Setting up cluster servers

2) How many types of Cluster are their?
3) What is Quorum?
4) What is NLB cluster and its types/
5) Types of Node supported in 2003, 2008, 2012
6) What is Failover cluster?
7) Location of cluster logs and its size
8) Troubleshooting of cluster issues.
9) Path for cluster logs?
10) How to read .etl logs
11) What is default cluster log file size and to increase it.
12) How to check the specific node logs
13) Types of Quorum in 2008?
14) Maximum number of modes supported by 2003 / 2008/ 2012 server.
15) What are the pre-requisite of configuring the cluster?
16) What happens to running cluster if Quorum fails?
17) What is CAU in 2012 server and its uses?
18) Port number that cluster uses and its protocol details?
19) Why Quorum is necessary?
20) How MSCS is different from NLB?

DHCP INTERVIEW QUETSIONS:

1) What is DHCP? What is DORA process?

2) What is APIPA?
3) What is a SCOPE and Super scope?
4) What is a reservation?
5) What is the name of DHCP database?
6) What is Dead IP in DHCP?
7) How to take backup of DHCP database.
8) Which database DHCP uses.
9) Log file size of DHCP

Level 1 : VMWWARE Interview Question:

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?
8) Difference between ESX versions.