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InterviewQuestionsVMWareL3AdministratorGOVARDHANGUNNALA

This is an attempt to make a list of typical questions you can expect in the initial technical round for VMWare administrator L3 positions.
Apparently most people can answer these questions just by preparation but it makes to the interviewer about how strong the candidate in
basic overview.
1. What will be your daily activities in VMWare
2. What is the dierence between VMWare and Hyper-V, when do you use one over the other
3. When you encounter PSOD, what steps do you follow
4. What do you do when you encounter Failed to load, swap le not found error
5. What port does P2V uses
6. What is the command to format and mount a le system
7. What is dvSwitch and why do you need it
8. What is the command you use for reading vm dump le and where does dump le reside
9. Explain the process you follow for Physical to Virtual conversion
10. What is P2V Cleanup and explain it
11. What do you do when the VC becomes frozen/not responding
12. What is ballooning and explain it
13. What is DRS
14. What is HA and how frequent it checks the hosts connectivity
15. what is AAM (Always Available Manager, Active Alert Manager) and its role
16. What is Forged Trac and what is the default value its set to
17. What is Promiscuous mode
18. What is RDM and when do you use it
19. What is ks.conf le
20. How do you expand root/C: drive of a VM
21. What are the features of VMFS
22. How do you restart the services of ESX and vCenter
23. Which port vCenter server listens on or uses
24. What is trac shaping/ltering/prioritization, NIC teaming
25. Suppose I select 1 mb block size what is the maximum le size I can have?
26. What are Networking Policies
27. What network types available in VMWare?
Ill prepare a list for questions in next rounds as well when I nd some time again.
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Alonso says:
July 20, 2011 at 7:58 pm

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