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Infrastructure engineers are responsible for building and maintaining digital networks. In your interview for an infrastructure engineer position, be prepared to answer technical questions about IT systems and software. Interviewers may also ask non-technical questions to assess your communication and time management skills.

Top Infrastructure Engineer Interview Questions & How to Answer

Question 1

Question #1: How do you communicate complex issues to non-engineer colleagues or clients?

How to answer
How to answer: Interviewers use this question to assess your ability to communicate IT information to co-workers and clients from non-IT backgrounds. List and describe the verbal and written communication strategies you have used in the past to break down difficult concepts into understandable pieces.
Question 2

Question #2: What are the positive and negative aspects of working within an Agile construct?

How to answer
How to answer: Agile is one of the most popular project management and software development approaches used by IT teams. This question allows interviewers to assess your understanding of the Agile environment as well as your approach to teamwork and interpersonal communication. If possible, use previous work experience to elaborate on the benefits and issues you have experienced working within an Agile environment.
Question 3

Question #3: How do you produce quality work when you have several projects to complete?

How to answer
How to answer: Infrastructure engineers must juggle all of their projects while simultaneously dealing with infrastructure issues requiring immediate attention. Interviewers use this question to assess your time-management skills and your ability to work well under pressure. List and discuss planning tools you use on the job and how you handle emergency issues.

3,737 infrastructure engineer interview questions shared by candidates

Purely windows questions What are FSMO roles and which one is forest wide and which one is domain wide? which one of FSMO role is least important, and we can run the system for a week without that? Replication commands, how to force replication, a DC in a replication is turned off for 180 days and it’s not replicating anymore, how to fix it? How to update the time source in a workgroup computer, how to do that in a domain? I said PDC is doing that in the domain and time pool in the workgroup can update the time in workgroup. He was after the time source setting in the workgroup. Difference between Shared permission and NTFS permissions We don’t have access to the console of a VM/PC and RDC is not working, walk through the process of troubleshooting. He said telnet is not working, what you do? How to connect remotely to the PC with remote tools? If remote registry works where you look into the RDC issue? Customer reported VM is slow, how to troubleshoot that? What you do that with performance monitor? Iterative and recursive query differences? How to schedule performance monitor? Through windows task scheduler BSD come up, how to troubleshoot that? Windbg debugging, how you debug memory.dmp file, what command you know for that. There are a bunch of 2012 servers in the AD how to apply a policy to them? If you answer we put them all in an OU and apply the policy he will ask you imagine they are all around in the AD not in one OU, how to do that? Now, we created a new server and added that server into the group of 2012 servers but it’s not getting the GP, how to troubleshoot that? He said that it’s getting all other policies and we have forced the policy as well(gpupdate /force), I said about inheritances, he said that’s not disabled, I was stuck in this question. What was one of the improvements for the user or system you have done? Tell me about something bad which happened to you? How do you keep your self up to date with technology? Tell me about resources ( I mentioned CBT Nuggets, Guru, workshops, youtube and so on)
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Cloud Engineer – Windows Infrastructure

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
May 5, 2020

Purely windows questions What are FSMO roles and which one is forest wide and which one is domain wide? which one of FSMO role is least important, and we can run the system for a week without that? Replication commands, how to force replication, a DC in a replication is turned off for 180 days and it’s not replicating anymore, how to fix it? How to update the time source in a workgroup computer, how to do that in a domain? I said PDC is doing that in the domain and time pool in the workgroup can update the time in workgroup. He was after the time source setting in the workgroup. Difference between Shared permission and NTFS permissions We don’t have access to the console of a VM/PC and RDC is not working, walk through the process of troubleshooting. He said telnet is not working, what you do? How to connect remotely to the PC with remote tools? If remote registry works where you look into the RDC issue? Customer reported VM is slow, how to troubleshoot that? What you do that with performance monitor? Iterative and recursive query differences? How to schedule performance monitor? Through windows task scheduler BSD come up, how to troubleshoot that? Windbg debugging, how you debug memory.dmp file, what command you know for that. There are a bunch of 2012 servers in the AD how to apply a policy to them? If you answer we put them all in an OU and apply the policy he will ask you imagine they are all around in the AD not in one OU, how to do that? Now, we created a new server and added that server into the group of 2012 servers but it’s not getting the GP, how to troubleshoot that? He said that it’s getting all other policies and we have forced the policy as well(gpupdate /force), I said about inheritances, he said that’s not disabled, I was stuck in this question. What was one of the improvements for the user or system you have done? Tell me about something bad which happened to you? How do you keep your self up to date with technology? Tell me about resources ( I mentioned CBT Nuggets, Guru, workshops, youtube and so on)

The questions were all technical. Event viewer, Sysprep, TCP vs UDP and ports examples, VPN, DNS and examples with DNS records, DHCP, IIS Permissions, Command tools, NAT, Registry, Global Catalog, Active Directory vs Workgroup, Troubleshoot a user who cannot access an internal site, and a tricky one : "Is it possible to change the RDP port?" The answer is YES through registry. I screwed up this one and probably cost me the next steps. So do get prepared well and try to give tight and to the point responses. Even if you know a subject well avoid to give lengthy answers as you will risk additional and harder questions. The interviewer was a technical person very polite and made you feel comfortably with the process. Good luck
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Cloud Support Engineer (Windows Infrastructure)

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Aug 21, 2015

The questions were all technical. Event viewer, Sysprep, TCP vs UDP and ports examples, VPN, DNS and examples with DNS records, DHCP, IIS Permissions, Command tools, NAT, Registry, Global Catalog, Active Directory vs Workgroup, Troubleshoot a user who cannot access an internal site, and a tricky one : "Is it possible to change the RDP port?" The answer is YES through registry. I screwed up this one and probably cost me the next steps. So do get prepared well and try to give tight and to the point responses. Even if you know a subject well avoid to give lengthy answers as you will risk additional and harder questions. The interviewer was a technical person very polite and made you feel comfortably with the process. Good luck

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