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What is Active Directory? What is LDAP? Can you connect Active Directory to other 3rd-party Directory Services? Name a few options. Where is the AD database held? What other folders are related to AD? What is the SYSVOL folder? Name the AD NCs and replication issues for each NC What are application partitions? When do I use them How do you create a new application partition? How do you view replication properties for AD partitions and DCs? What is the Global Catalog? How do you view all the GCs in the forest? Why not make all DCs in a large forest as GCs? Trying to look at the Schema, how can I do that? What are the Support Tools? Why do I need them? What is LDP? What is REPLMON? What is ADSIEDIT? What is NETDOM? What is REPADMIN? What are sites? What are they used for? Whats the difference between a site links schedule and interval? What is the KCC? What is the ISTG? Who has that role by default? What are the requirements for installing AD on a new server? What can you do to promote a server to DC if youre in a remote location with slow WAN link? How can you forcibly remove AD from a server, and what do you do later? Can I get user passwords from the AD database? What tool would I use to try to grab security related packets from the wire? Name some OU design considerations. What is tombstone lifetime attribute? What do you do to install a new Windows 2003 DC in a Windows 2000 AD? What do you do to install a new Windows 2003 R2 DC in a Windows 2003 AD? How would you find all users that have not logged on since last month? What are the DS* commands? Whats the difference between LDIFDE and CSVDE? Usage considerations? What are the FSMO roles? Who has them by default? What happens when each one fails? What FSMO placement considerations do you know of? I want to look at the RID allocation table for a DC. What do I do? Whats the difference between transferring a FSMO role and seizing one? Which one should you NOT seize? Why? How do you configure a stand-by operation master for any of the roles? How do you backup AD? How do you restore AD? How do you change the DS Restore admin password? Why cant you restore a DC that was backed up 4 months ago? What are GPOs? What is the order in which GPOs are applied? Name a few benefits of using GPMC.

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What are the GPC and the GPT? Where can I find them? What are GPO links? What special things can I do to them? What can I do to prevent inheritance from above? How can I override blocking of inheritance? How can you determine what GPO was and was not applied for a user? Name a few ways to do that. 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? Name a few differences in Vista GPOs Name some GPO settings in the computer and user parts. What are administrative templates? Whats the difference between software publishing and assigning? Can I deploy non-MSI software with GPO? 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? What is domain ? What is domain controller ? What is KCC ? Where is the AD database held? What other folders are related to AD? What is the SYSVOL folder? What are the Windows Server 2003 keyboard shortcuts ? Where are the Windows NT Primary Domain Controller (PDC) and its Backup Domain Controller(BDC) in Server 2003 ? I am trying to create a new universal user group. Why cant I ? What is LSDOU ? Why doesnt LSDOU work under Windows NT ? Whats the number of permitted unsuccessful logons on Administrator account? Whats the difference between guest accounts in Server 2003 and other editions? How many passwords by default are remembered when you check "Enforce Password HistoryRemembered"? Can GC Server and Infrastructure place in single server If not explain why. Which is service in your windows is responsible for replication of Domain controller to another domain controller. What Intrasite and Intersite Replication What is lost & found folder in ADS What is Garbage collection What System State data contains Describe how the DHCP lease is obtained. I cant seem to access the Internet, dont have any access to the corporate network and on ipconfig my address is 169.254.*.*. What happened? Weve installed a new Windows-based DHCP server, however, the users do not seem to be getting DHCP leases off of it. How can you force the client to give up the dhcp lease if you have access to the client PC? What authentication options do Windows 2000 Servers have for remote clients?

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What are the networking protocol options for the Windows clients if for some reason you do not want to use TCP/IP? What is binding order? How do cryptography-based keys ensure the validity of data transferred across the network? Should we deploy IPSEC-based security or certificate-based security? What is LMHOSTS file? Whats the difference between forward lookup and reverse lookup in DNS? How can you recover a file encrypted using EFS? How do you double-boot a Win 2003 server box? What do you do if earlier application doesnt run on Windows Server 2003? If you uninstall Windows Server 2003, which operating systems can you revert to? How do you get to Internet Firewall settings? Where are the Windows NT Primary Domain Controller (PDC) and its Backup Domain Controller (BDC) in Server 2003? How long does it take for security changes to be replicated among the domain controllers? Whats new in Windows Server 2003 regarding the DNS management? When should you create a forest? How can you authenticate between forests? What snap-in administrative tools are available for Active Directory What types of classes exist in Windows Server 2003 Active Directory? . How do you delete a lingering object? What is Global Catalog? How is user account security established in Windows Server 2003? If I delete a user and then create a new account with the same username and password, would the SID and permissions stay the same? What do you do with secure sign-ons in an organization with many roaming users? What remote access options does Windows Server 2003 support? Where are the documents and settings for the roaming profile stored? Where are the settings for all the users stored on a given machine? What languages can you use for log-on scripts? What are the disk types used in a two node cluster? Where are the quorum information stored in a cluster? Is there any 3 node cluster available, if so which one that? N node majority set where we can have quorum on three nodes How can we add group policy to a group of 100 users in a domain? apply group policy to a group other than using OU? We have a domain set with 10 dcs and all are initially windows mixed mode .I have the system state backup and finally I raised the functional level to 2003.suddenly one of my dc goes down how can I restore the dc from that backup? What are the different types of cluster available? How many ips are required for 3 node cluster? What are they? What is the difference between 2003 and 2008 dns? What is ADDS and ADLDS WHERE WE ARE USING IN WINDOWS 2008? HOW WE WILL ADD unique wall paper for set of users/ How we will enable auditing for a set of users login to domain and where we will do that?

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How the policy are apllied in ADthe levels? What are the difference between windows 2003 and windows 2008? How the change management is done in our work? What are the relevant things we have to take care when we performing a change? What we will do in case of an emergency where CAB is difficult to call for ? What is application directory partition and please mention any other incident of an application directory partition we are having other than dns? Where we will do the replication thing in domain? What is service activation and deactivation kind of jobs? What we need to do for server builds related to software repositorys? When service pack 2 is not working in 2003,how we will trouble shoot that to msake that to install in windows? Mention any critical issue you face while doing the server build? What are relevant things you need to collect before performing any server buid other that os softwares? How you will trouble shoot whether the cluster is working or not? Where we will place the quorum in a cluster? What is AD and DC? How to find the dc where client authentication is carried on? How to find what happened to the server which rebooted when we verify application log to find an application? How we will troubleshoot problems with password for users in AD? How we will troubleshoot login problems for users in AD? What are the general concepts related to ISO standards in IT expecially ISO27000? What are the roles used in AD? What is stub zone in dns and whether the database is Read only or R/W? What is dhcp and what is its working process? What is the upstream and downstream in WSUS? What is the data size of LTO 3------- 400/800 GB ,LTO 4--------- 800/1600 GB? What is the port used by the clients to push patches from a WSUS server? Whether forwarders are available for use in windows 2000? Where is the logfiles of iis 6 located? What is meant by basic and windows authentication? What are the main resources we are used for a file server cluster. Where is the cluster database file lcated How we will direct the client authentication to another dc? What do you meant by authoritative and non authoritative restore how we will perform non authoritative restore? Whether we can the VMware files in hyperv? Domain rename can be done in windows 2003 or not? What do you mean by scope? What is stub zone in dns? Why we configuring subnets under sites? How we will configure round robin win windows DNS?

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What we have to do when we face a problem when we are installing sp2 on windows server 2003 What are main difference between 2000 and 2003 DNS? What the event iDS 2020 and 2019 represents? What are the debugging tools using for troubleshooting the memory dumps files in windows? What is the name of the debugging tools used troubleshooting memory dumps? How we will troubleshoot clustering in windows 2003? What is the importance of pdc emulator ? What are remote management tools used for HP,dell and ibm? Ilo ,drac and ??/ What will do to trouble shoot memory dump errors? What is conditional forwarding in dns? Difference between PDC & BDC Difference between DC &ADC What is DNS & WINS Types of DNS Servers If DHCP is not available what happens to the client What are the different types of trust relationships What is the process of DHCP for getting the IP address to the client Difference between FAT,NTFS & NTFS Version5, NTFS Version 5 features What are the port numbers for FTP, Telnet, HTTP, DNS What are the different types of profiles in 2000 What is the database files used for Active Directory What is the location of AD Database What is the authentication protocol used in NT What is subnetting and supernetting What is the use of terminal services What is the protocol used for terminal services What is the port number for RDP What is the difference between Authorized DHCP and Non Authorized DHCP Difference between inter-site and intra-site replication. Protocols using for replication. How to monitor replication Brief explanation of RAID Levels Basic Disk Storage Dynamic Disk Storage What are the different backup strategies are available What is a global catalog What is Active Directory and what is the use of it What is the physical and logical structure of AD Active directory is logically divided into 3 partitions What is the process of user authentication (Kerberos V5) in windows 2000 What are the port numbers for Kerberos, LDAP and Global catalog Kerberos 88, LDAP 389, Global Catalog 3268 What is the use of LDAP (X.500 standard?) What are the problems that are generally come across DHCP

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What is the role responsible for time synchronization What is TTL & how to set TTL time in DNS How to take DNS and WINS,DHCP backup What is recovery console What is DFS & its usage What is RIS and what are its requirements Can we establish trust relationship between two forests What is FSMO Roles Brief all the FSMO Roles What is the difference between authoritative and non-authoritative restore What is Active Directory De-fragmentation Difference between online and offline de-fragmentation What is tombstone period What are the monitoring tools used for Server and Network Heath. How to define alert mechanism How to deploy the patches and what are the softwares used for this process What is Clustering. Briefly define & explain it How to configure SNMP Is it possible to rename the Domain name & how? What is SOA Record What is a Stub zone and what is the use of it. What are the different types of partitions present in AD What are the (two) services required for replication Can we use a Linux DNS Sever in 2000 Domain What is ASR (Automated System Recovery) and how to implement it What are the different levels that we can apply Group Policy What is Domain Policy, Domain controller policy, Local policy and Group policy What is the use of SYSVOL folder What is folder redirection? Domain Functional Level IPSec usage and difference window 2000 & 2003. How to create application partition windows 2003 and its usage? Is it possible to do implicit transitive forest to forest trust relation ship in windows 2003? What is universal group membership cache in windows 2003 GPMC & RSOP in windows 2003? Assign & Publish the applications in GP & how? USN and its concept? Authoritative and non-authoritative restore explain and when do we use it? Explain Tombstone and its concept? Explain Trust and how it works? Explain FRS and AD replication? Difference between DFS and DFSR? Kerberos concept and how it works? DNS and WINS difference? Logical structure for active directory/ Physical structure of active directory?

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How to reset default group policy ? What do u understand by Client side extension? What is nltest used for? Services of ms exchange and what they do ? Flavors of Microsoft Exchange Standard & exchange ? Where are the groups stored in active directory ? Lingering objects and its concept? FSMO roles explain? System state backup and its contents Profiles and usage ADMT ( Steps)? How to do a system restore authoritative with steps? What is Recovery console and when will you use it? Where is GC information stored ? What is there in sysvol folder? What is Basic Authentication , Integrated Authentication and Anonymous auth? Difference between 32 bit and 64 bit? explain authentication and authorization? What is a domain? What do you understand by TCP handshake? What are GPO and GPT? Difference between NTFS and FAT? Difference between domain and workgroup? NTLM and Kerberos authentication? Sites within Active Directory Operations Master Roles Forest-wide Roles Domain-wide Roles The global catalog contains: Integration of DNS and Active Directory What Are Active Directory Integrated Zones? What Are DNS Zones? DNS Records What does the physical structure of active directory contain? What is nesting? What is trust relationship and how many types of trust relationship is there in exchange 2003? What is a site? What is the use of site? What are the objects a site contains? What is a Site link? Explain Replication in Active directory? What are the different types of replication? What is LDAP? What types of naming convention active directory uses?

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What is multi-master replication? What are different types of groups? What is a group scope and what are the different types of group scopes? What are the items that groups of different scopes can contain in mixed and native mode domains? What is group nesting? How many characters does a group name contain? Is site part of the Active Directory namespace? What is DFS? What are the types of replication in DFS? Which service is responsible for replicating files in SYSVOL folder? What all can a site topology owner do? What is DNS. Which are the four generally accepted naming conventions? How DNS really works? Which are the major records in DNS? What is a DNS zone? How many SOA record does each zone contain? What is an AD-integrated zone? What is a STUB zone? What does a stub zone consists of? How the resolution in a stub zone takes place? What is the benefits of Active Directory Integration? What is Scavenging? What is the default interval when DNS server will kick off the scavenging process? How do I use a load balancer with my name servers? How does reverse mapping work? What are the pros and cons of running slaves versus caching-only name servers? Can I set a TTL on a specific record? What are a zone's NS records used for? Do slaves only communicate with their masters over TCP? What's the largest number I can use in an MX record? Why are there only 13 root name servers? Which is the FIVE FSMO roles? What are their functions? What if a FSMO server fails? Where are these FSMO server roles found? Can you Move FSMO roles? Where to place the FSMO roles? What permissions you should have in order to transfer a FSMO role? Tools to find out what servers in your domain/forest hold what server roles? What are Group Policies? Domain policy gets applied to whom? From Where to create a Group Policy? Who can Create/Modify Group Policies?

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How are Group Policies Applied? How to disable Group Policy Objects? When does the group policy Scripts run? When the group policy gets refreshed/applied? Which are the policies which does not get affected by background refresh? How to refresh Group Policies suing the command line? What is the Default Setting for Dial-up users? Which are the policies which get applied regardless of the speed of the dial-up connection? Which are the policies which do not get applied over slow links? Which are the two types of default policies? How to restore Group policy setting back to default? What are the two exceptions to control the inheritance of the group policy? How to Redirect New User and Computer Accounts? What permissions should a administrator have to manage GPOs? What is the client requirement for supporting GPOs?