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System Admin Technical Interview Questions Windows and VMware

1. What is Automatic site Coverage?

2. How do you list Name Servers from command line?

Ans.   Here.

3. What is the default size of Active Directory Database?

4. What is Conditional Forwarding in DNS?

5. What are the different WINS records?

6. How will you restore Active Directory?

7. What problems will arise if the server running GC goes down?

8. What are the AD partitions?

9. How will you identify if an object is deleted from AD database?

10. How replication occurs?

11. What is the difference between inter-site and intra-site replication?

12. What are the different roles in a AD domain? Which are forest and which are domain level roles?

13. What is ISTG?

14. What is KCC?

15. What are the RCAs performed so far?

16. What is the difference between RSOP and GPRESULT?

17. How will you approach after a server crashes with a blue screen?

18. RDPing to a remote servers brings a black screen? Logging on to ILO works fine. What is the issue?

19. What are the different RAID levels?

20. What is the maximum number of hard disks on RAID 5?

21. What are DHCP scope options? Name a few.

22. What is a Superscope?

23. What is DNS round robin?

24. What are the different ways to promote a Windows server into a Domain Controller?

25. What are the different Backup types?

26. What strategy would you use when implementing a backup solution?

27. What does SCCM do?

28. What is Websense?

29. How will you repair AD database?

30. How Sysvol replication occurs?

31. How will the GPO and the ‘script file’ defined in the GPO be differentiated?

32. What is the difference between FRS and AD replication?

33. What is DFS? What are the types of DFS?

34. How DFS replication occurs?

35. What are the different trusts?

36. How will you troubleshoot a broken trust?

37. What is Group Policy object and Group Policy Template?

38. How will you troubleshoot Group Policy?

39. Explain the order in which Group Policy is applied?

40. What happens if the server holding the FSMO roles goes down? Explain individually.

41. What is USN Rollback?

42. What is Tombstone Life time?

43. What is Garbage Collection?

44. How will you extend a NTFS partition?

45. What are the different groups in Windows 2003?

46. What is Universal Group Name Caching? How is it beneficial?

47. What are Site Links?

48. What is the default replication interval between sites?

49. What is the default replication interval within Sites?

50. What FSMO role or roles if goes down would affect users?

51. What FSMO role or roles if goes down would affect Administrators?

52. What is RID master?

53. What is SIDHistory? Why is it important?

54. What is SIDFiltering?

55. How will you rename a Domain Controller? How will you rename a Domain?

56. What is FSUTIL?

57. What is a Junction Point?

58. What is a USN Journal?

59. How will list all Global Catalogs in the domain from commandline?

Ans.    The following command will list all the GCs available in the domain:

Dsquery server -isgc

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