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1. What is Active Directory? 2. What is LDAP? 3. Can you connect Active Directory to other 3rd-party Directory Services? Name a few options. 4. Where is the AD database held? What other folders are related to AD? 5. What is the SYSVOL folder? 6. Name the AD NCs and replication issues for each NC 7. What are application partitions? When do I use them 8. How do you create a new application partition 9. How do you view replication properties for AD partitions and DCs? 10. What is the Global Catalog? 11. How do you view all the GCs in the forest? 12. Why not make all DCs in a large forest as GCs? 13. Trying to look at the Schema, how can I do that? 14. What are the Support Tools? Why do I need them? 15. What is LDP? What is REPLMON? What is ADSIEDIT? What is NETDOM? What is REPADMIN? 16. What are sites? What are they used for? 17. What’s the difference between a site link’s schedule and interval? 18. What is the KCC? 19. What is the ISTG? Who has that role by default? 20. What are the requirements for installing AD on a new server? 21. What can you do to promote a server to DC if you’re in a remote location with slow WAN link? 22. How can you forcibly remove AD from a server, and what do you do later? • Can I get user passwords from the AD database? 23. What tool would I use to try to grab security related packets from the wire? 24. Name some OU design considerations. 25. What is tombstone lifetime attribute? 26. What do you do to install a new Windows 2003 DC in a Windows 2000 AD? 27. What do you do to install a new Windows 2003 R2 DC in a Windows 2003 AD? 28. How would you find all users that have not logged on since last month? 29. What are the DS* commands? 30. What’s the difference between LDIFDE and CSVDE? Usage considerations? 31. What are the FSMO roles? Who has them by default? What happens when each one fails? 32. What FSMO placement considerations do you know of? 33. I want to look at the RID allocation table for a DC. What do I do? 34. What’s the difference between transferring a FSMO role and seizing one? Which one should you NOT seize? Why? 35. How do you configure a “stand-by operation master” for any of the roles? 36. How do you backup AD? 37. How do you restore AD? 38. How do you change the DS Restore admin password? 39. Why can’t you restore a DC that was backed up 4 months ago? 40. What are GPOs? 41. What is the order in which GPOs are applied? 42. Name a few benefits of using GPMC. 43. What are the GPC and the GPT? Where can I find them? 44. What are GPO links? What special things can I do to them? 45. What can I do to prevent inheritance from above? 46. How can I override blocking of inheritance? 47. How can you determine what GPO was and was not applied for a user? Name a few ways to do that. 48. A user claims he did not receive a GPO, yet his user and computer accounts are in the right OU, and everyone else there gets the GPO. What will you look for? 49. Name a few differences in Vista GPOs 50. Name some GPO settings in the computer and user parts. 51. What are administrative templates? 52. What’s the difference between software publishing and assigning? 53. Can I deploy non-MSI software with GPO? 54. You want to standardize the desktop environments (wallpaper, My Documents, Start menu, printers etc.) on the computers in one department. How would you do that?

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.What do you do to install a new Windows 2003 R2 DC in a Windows 2003 AD? 14. How would you find all users that have not logged on since last month? 15. What are the DS* commands? 16. What’s the difference between LDIFDE and CSVDE? Usage considerations? 17. What are the FSMO roles? Who has them by default? What happens when each one fails? 18. What FSMO placement considerations do you know of? 19. I want to look at the RID allocation table for a DC. What do I do? 20. What’s the difference between transferring a FSMO role and seizing one? Which one should you NOT seize? Why? 21. How do you configure a “stand-by operation master” for any of the roles? 22. How do you backup AD? 23. How do you restore AD? 24. How do you change the DS Restore admin password? 25. Why can’t you restore a DC that was backed up 4 months ago? 26. What are GPOs? 27. What is the order in which GPOs are applied? 28. Name a few benefits of using GPMC. 29. What are the GPC and the GPT? Where can I find them? 30. What are GPO links? What special things can I do to them? 31. What can I do to prevent inheritance from above? 32. How can I override blocking of inheritance? 33. How can you determine what GPO was and was not applied for a user? Name a few ways to do that. 34. A user claims he did not receive a GPO, yet his user and computer accounts are in the right OU, and everyone else there gets the GPO. What will you look for? 35. Name a few differences in Vista GPOs 36. Name some GPO settings in the computer and user parts. 37. What are administrative templates? 38. What’s the difference between software publishing and assigning? 39. Can I deploy non-MSI software with GPO? 40. You want to standardize the desktop environments (wallpaper, My Documents, Start menu, printers etc.) on the computers in one department. How would you do that? 1.What Is the diff b/w Win NT & win 2000 ? 2. What is difference b/w WIN NT DNS,DhCP and Win 2000 DNS,DHCp ? 3. What are the seven Layers of OSI model ? 4. what Is TCP /IP / 5. What is the difference b/w Netbios name & Hostname resolution ? 6. What are the Features of AD ?What are the diff roles of AD ?(FsmO) 7. How do you carry out migration from NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 ? 8. What is the size of SAM DB in NT 4.0 and how many objects can be created in win NT / Win 2k / 9. How do uimplement group policy and what is the difference b/w s/w deployment and publishing in AD ? 10. Where does u change the role in AD FSMO roles ? 11. What is dynamic DNS and how dows it register with DHCP ? 12. What are the new features of windows 2000 ? 13. Can u rename a domain in win 2k environment ? 14. What is the backup policy that is taken in your company and what is the s/w that is used for taking back up ? 15. How do you update Antivirus on all machines (is it Auto update or manual update) 16. What is the system state data in Win 2k / 17. How do you repair a Blue Screen error ? 18. How is OS hardening done in Servers ? 19. How is auditing is carried out a workstations? 20. Hopw RAs setup in NT and hopw is the permission given for a NT user ? 21. what are the feautures of AD ? 22. by default what is the trust relation ship in Win2k ?] 23. What is native mode in win2k and can we have prewin2k environment(Win nt,win95,98,Me etc)in native mode ? Ans No, only it possible in mIxed mode.it support Pre windows 2000. 24. What is Global catalog server ? 25. Where do you Promote a BDC and PDC ? Ans : Server Manager 26. By default when Win 2k is installed what is the role it assumes and how do you promote it to dC ? 27. what is LDAP protocol / 28. What are EFS , DFS and Kerberos in Win 2k / 29. What is forest , Tree, Organization Unit and site in Win 2k3 ? 30. Can you establish Trust relation ship b/w win 2k and Win Nt machine in native mode environment ? 31. What are the files systems supported Win 2k and 2k3 ? 32. What is tool used to manage disk management tasks ? 33. What is the different between a Basic disc and Dynamic disc ? Can you revert dynamic disk to basic disk ? 34. What are the different levels of RAID that can be setup ? 35. What are the different roles played by a DNS server ? 36. What is a ZONE in DNS ? 37. What is the tool used to move an object with in a domain ? . 38. What is delegation in Ad and what are the benefits ? 39. What is thea System policy in Win NT ? 40. What is folder redirection and how is it accomplished ? 41. Where do you create a group policy in Win 2k nd 2k3 ? 42. How do you setup Disk quotas in Win 2k and 2k3? 43. What is subnet mask Default gateway and router ? 44. How do you configuring auditing in Win 2k and what tools do you use to view the results / 45. What are the 5 different type of backup strategy followed ? 46. What is ERD and how it is created in WIN NT / 2000 / 2003 ? 47. What is the data that is backed up when you backup system state data in win 2k ? 48. How is VPN setup in Windows 2000/2003 ? 49. What is a WINS Server and what is the role in NT/2000/20003 environment ? 50. What is IP Sec in Win 2k /2003 ? 51. What is the tool used manage IIS / 52. How do you secure IIS Website ? 53. How do you setup Multiple websites using a single IP address ? 54. What are Certificate Services in Win 2k nd 2k3? 55. How do you setup RIS and what are the requrirements on client ends ? 56. How many Licenses are provided by default when you setup Terminal services and what are the 2 different modes that a Terminal services can be setup ? 57. What is the tool used to measure the performance in win2k server ? 58. How do you authorize DHCP Server in AD ? 59. What are the prerequisites for installing AD ? 60. What are the file systems supported by Win NT ? 61. How do you remotely start and stop the services in IIS and Controlpanel on a remote machine ? 62. How do you debug the blue screen problem ? 63. Have You Subscribed Technet , MSDN ? 64. How do you troubleshoot a NTLDR,NTDETECT missing issues in Win NT /2000 ? 65. How do you change Boot time in NT/2000/2003 ? 66. what is the regular maintainance on Win Nt server (Event log,chkdisk,rdisk ) 67. What is the difference b/w Exchnage 5.5 and Exchange 2000 /2003? 68. Which are the services in Exchange Server 2003 ? 69. What are the storage groups in Exchange 2k and how many mailbox per storage group can be setup per storage grouping Exch 2k and 2k3 ? 70. What are connectors in Exchange Server and what are the different type of connectors in exchange 2000/2003 ? 71. What is a Site in terms on Exch Server and Win 2000 ? 72. What is circular logging in Exch 2000 ? 73. What are the circular logging in Excjh 2000 ? 74. What are the ifferent authentication methods used in IIS ?Where do you Configure this is IIS ? 75. What are the 4 steps involved in getting IP address from DHCP server ? 76. What is push and pull partners in terms if WINs Server ? 77. How do you back up WINS DB and what format is it stored ? 78. What is the difference WIN NT DHCP and WIN 2k DHcp ? 79. In MS Exch is there any option to forward all my incoming e-mails to another e-mail address ? 80. In what format are the mails and public folder data stored on Exch server ? 81. In what format are the mails stored on client side ? 82. What is Clustering and what are the different methodology in which clustering can be implemented ? 83. What are the 4 domains models defined by MS relating to NT 4.0 ? 84. What is the diff and advantage and disadvantages between a workgroup and domain model ? 85. What is a Trust Real;tion ship & How is it established in NT 4.0 ? 86. What is LAN and WAN ? 87. What is the diff b/w Local group and global group ? 88. What is distributed file system and different types of dfs model and how is it implemented in 2000/2003 ? 89. What is a Hosts and LM Hosts file and how is it useful ? 90. What is B Node,P-node,H-node and M-node in terms of WINS ? 91. What is AT command and how do you schedule automated backup in NT 4.0 92. What is ISINTEGand ESEUTIL in Exch Server ? 93. What is the use of ExchService account in Exchange Server ? 94. what are the Pre requisites for Exchange server installation ? 95. Can my Exchange server check POP3 mail ?

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how do you manage the sustem administrator job

HSBC,

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I want to go for the ISTQB testing?? Please anyone tell me details for this??? Please share with me on my E-Mail address: mailmevarun988@yahoo.in

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Does switch has the IP Address. If YES? How to find it?

Wipro,

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Can Anyone tell what is aummarization??

Wipro,

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what is difference between subnet-mask and wildcard mask?

IBM,

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what is difference between hub and switch?

IBM,

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How to convert PDF files into SAS datasets?

Accenture,

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Is Apple Certification is beneficial for a bachelor in computer science?

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Please can any one provide me the latest informatica certification(8x)dumps? Please send it to my below mail id...Thanks shanthveer@gmail.com

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Please forward me the latest dumps for base and advance SAS. My email id is-- sudhvimal@gmail.com/soumyajit07@gmail.com

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Significance of IP helper-address Command on SW? Is it necessary to put this command?

Accenture,

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hello, i got a job in a voip company.they said it is technical support---chat ,mail support.i am a btech with ccna.the salary is 3k for 3 months5k for next 3 and 7k from 7th month.is it a good job.i want to be a network eng.is tis path rt and if so wen should i switch to next level from tis job. Could u explain wot is NOC. please reply.really confused

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Hi, gys i am Hasnain alamI want to get certification how do it ? please sugges me.

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Un-Answered Questions { Certifications }

Do any of you have SCJP 6.0 certification voucher valid till Aug 2010?

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What is the subnetmask of / 27 in network based and host based?

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Which type of routing you did in ccna?

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What is the name of best path in eigrp protocol?

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How many types of ethernet?

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Which dynamic type draw back is, if single link down, it removes its routing table?

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Look at the figure. The first number of each host is the IP address, the second number is the subnet mask, and the last number is the default gateway. What is the problem with the TCP/IP network?

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When we use extended access-list?

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Which command we give on privilege mode for coming back to user execution mode?

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Please can any one provide me the latest informatica certification(8x)dumps? Please send it to my below mail id...Thanks shanthveer@gmail.com

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What are the ranges for the private ips?

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what are the different symmetric algorithms?

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mcse 2003 to mcitp upgrade paper

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can someone send me which is the best sas training institute in chennai?

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Name the 2 protocols are in wan technology?

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