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1. Brief about yourself 2. What is Unicast, Broadcast and Multicast 3. DHCP Working principle(DORA), Which port DHCP uses, It uses broadcast or unicast, What is relay agent? DHCP is having multiple scope configured, how DHCP knows which scope IP it will assign to the requester? 4. How to check IP with command on a machine? Apart from "/all" which all switch you know for IPconfig. In IPconfig /release & renew command what happens exactly at backend? 5. In one NIC card can we assign 2 different ranges IP address 6. 2 Machines are in same network but they are not able to ping each other. How would you troubleshoot. 7. You are not able to RDP to a machine. How would you troubleshoot. 8. One user is not able to access his home directory. How would you troubleshoot. 9. What is DNS? Port no?It uses TCP or UDP? What types of DNS queries available? What is forwarder and conditional forwarder? 10. What will happen if RID master goes down? PDC emulator responsibility? 11. Port no of: DNS/DHCP/FTP/LDAP/Kerberos/SMTP/SSH 12. How telnet works at backend? 13. 2 machines are in same network. How would machines know that they are in same network? 14.Windows Boot Process 15. What is SVShost.exe process
What is Group Policy? How to use help using PowerShell? What are FSMO roles.? Thats it. That too he searched online
What are the Different DNS Records?
Describe how a router knows within the packet which device to send the return packet to.
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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BSOD- You have a windows server that restart every now and then. Before it restart it displays a Blue screen, how do you investigate the problem? What tools do you use? What's the use of pagefile? What is RDP port number? How to troubleshoot a machine that is has connection fail error remotely? Responds to ping but doesn't connect? doesn't respond to ping ? How do you Remotely check what is blocking traffic on a pc? What tool do you used? command to check running services and port on local and remote server ? How to check which port is used by a service on a windows machine? Explain DNS operation DNS port number and protocols, how are they used? which is default protocol? Name 3 DNS records, what is the most common record? What's the use of CNAME record? SRV record? DHCP IP address assignment process How to have a client used the same IP address without inserting it manually? You have a machine with 169.254.x.x IP address, why is this client not reachable? What is the difference between public and private IP? Web browsing. what common errors do you receive when Web connection fails What code you receive when connection succeeds? When it fails? Active directory what is FSMO, what are their use? How to transfer them from one server to another? You clone Existing server then promote as domain received trust relationship failed, what happened? What happened when there is a time difference between a computer and a domain? between two domain controllers? Does the time difference on a client affect connection to a domain controller? What amount of time difference is it allowed? What is SysVol? What happened when it is deleted from a Domain controller? How do you recover sysvol when it is deleted from a domain controller? Difference between TCP and UDP Explain TCP connection process What is the most difficult problem you ever faced? how did you solve it? PS: Every time you answer a question on the way that interests them, they ask another question based on your answer.
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