Networking Interview Questions (2)

Networking Interview Questions

9 Apr, 2007 No Comment

Describe your home WLAN setup.(Pay attention to candidate’s confidence. Plus if the candidate built it himself. Plus if the network is secured additionally, regardless of the protocols used. Plus if the candidate fought poor coverage.)
Ad-hoc vs. infrastructure topology. Advantages and disadvantages. Ad-hoc networks are easy to set up. By definition ad-hoc WLANs do not require access point, so they are cheaper. With infrastructured WLANs one can connect to wired LAN, enable wireless roaming for office workers, centralize WLAN management, boost the range.

9 Apr, 2007 No Comment

Display the page size of memory ? - pagesize -a
Display Ethernet Address arp table ? - arp -a
Display the no.of active established connections to localhost ? - netstat -a | grep EST
Display the state of interfaces used for TCP/IP traffice ? - netstat -i
Display the parent/child tree of a process ? - ptree <pid> Example: ptree 1267
Show the working directory of a process ? - pwdx <pid> Example: pwdx 1267
Display the processes current open files ? - pfiles <pid> Example: pfiles 1267
Display the inter-process communication facility status ? - ipcs

9 Apr, 2007 No Comment

What are the required components of Windows Server 2003 for installing Exchange 2003? - ASP.NET, SMTP, NNTP, W3SVC
What must be done to an AD forest before Exchange can be deployed? - Setup /forestprep
What Exchange process is responsible for communication with AD? - DSACCESS
What 3 types of domain controller does Exchange access? - Normal Domain Controller, Global Catalog, Configuration Domain Controller
What connector type would you use to connect to the Internet, and what are the two methods of sending mail over that connector? - SMTP Connector: Forward to smart host or use DNS to route to each address

9 Apr, 2007 No Comment

What is a default gateway? - The exit-point from one network and entry-way into another network, often the router of the network.
How do you set a default route on an IOS Cisco router? - ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 x.x.x.x [where x.x.x.x represents the destination address]
What is the difference between a domain local group and a global group? - Domain local groups grant permissions to objects within the domain in which the reside. Global groups contain grant permissions tree or forest wide for any objects within the Active Directory.

9 Apr, 2007 No Comment