Windows Interview Questions
10 Apr, 2007
- What does IntelliMirror do? It helps to reconcile desktop settings, applications, and stored files for users, particularly those who move between workstations or those who must periodically work offline.
- What’s the major difference between FAT and NTFS on a local machine? FAT and FAT32 provide no security over locally logged-on users. Only native NTFS provides extensive permission control on both remote and local files.
- How do FAT and NTFS differ in approach to user shares? They don’t, both have support for sharing.
10 Apr, 2007
- Can you use Start->Search with DFS shares? Yes.
- What problems can you have with DFS installed? Two users opening the redundant copies of the file at the same time, with no file-locking involved in DFS, changing the contents and then saving. Only one file will be propagated through DFS.
- I run Microsoft Cluster Server and cannot install fault-tolerant DFS. Yeah, you can’t. Install a standalone one.
- Is Kerberos encryption symmetric or asymmetric? Symmetric.
- How does Windows 2003 Server try to prevent a middle-man attack on encrypted line? Time stamp is attached to the initial client request, encrypted with the shared key.
10 Apr, 2007
- What is presentation layer responsible for in the OSI model? The presentation layer establishes the data format prior to passing it along to the network application’s interface. TCP/IP networks perform this task at the application layer.
- Does Windows Server 2003 support IPv6? Yes, run ipv6.exe from command line to disable it.
- Can Windows Server 2003 function as a bridge? Yes, and it’s a new feature for the 2003 product. You can combine several networks and devices connected via several adapters by enabling IP routing.
10 Apr, 2007
- What’s the role of http.sys in IIS? It is the point of contact for all incoming HTTP requests. It listens for requests and queues them until they are all processed, no more queues are available, or the Web server is shut down.
- Where’s ASP cache located on IIS 6.0? On disk, as opposed to memory, as it used to be in IIS 5.
- What is socket pooling? Non-blocking socket usage, introduced in IIS 6.0. More than one application can use a given socket.
10 Apr, 2007
- Which characters should be enclosed in quotes when searching the index? &, @, $, #, ^, ( ), and |.
- How would you search for C++? Just enter C++, since + is not a special character (and neither is C).
- What about Barnes&Noble? Should be searched for as Barnes’&’Noble.
- Are the searches case-sensitive? No.
- What’s the order of precedence of Boolean operators in Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Indexing Service? NOT, AND, NEAR, OR.
