Nowadays, we have many Job profiles in Product Development Companies that require somewhere around all-rounder profiles for System Admins. For that they require Network, Windows, ESX, IIS etc. experts to handle there day-to-day work. So, below are some basic Interview questions specifically for the System Admins working for Product Developments companies where they need to interact with Developers, Tester and DBA:

 

Active Directory

• What is RODC?

 

 

• Differences b/w Conditional Forwarding and Stub Zones.

 

 

• What is GPT and GPC?

 

 

• Which DNS record is required for Replication?

 

 

 

Windows Server

• What contain system state backup?

 

 

• What is Majority Node Set?

 

 

• Types of Clusters?

 

• Different types of Quorum in Windows server 2008?

 

 

• Can we install Failover cluster on two different subnets?

 

• What is NPS?

 

 

• What is 802.1x authentication

 

 

 

Internet Information Service

 

• What is the role of HTTP.sys?

 

 

• What are the different security settings available in Internet Information Service?

 

• How many SSL certificates can be used in Internet Information Service 7.5 for multiple sites?

 

 

• What is worker Process?

 

 

VMWARE

 

• What are the different data store multipathing methods available under ESX cluster?

 

 

• How many ESX nodes can be added in VMWare essential plus licensing?

 

 

• In what scenario we cannot expand attached HDD size of Virtual Machine in Vmware Cluster

 

 

• Can we have multiple Vlan under same Vswitch?