10 Apr, 2007
Windows Interview Questions
- 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.
- What’s a vector space query? A multiple-word query where the weight can be assigned to each of the search words. For example, if you want to fight information on ‘black hole’, but would prefer to give more weight to the word hole, you can enter black[1] hole[20] into the search window.
- What’s a response queue? It’s the message queue that holds response messages sent from the receiving application to the sender.
- What’s MQPing used for? Testing Microsoft Message Queue services between the nodes on a network.
- Which add-on package for Windows 2003 Server would you use to monitor the installed software and license compliance? SMS (System Management Server).
- Which service do you use to set up various alerts? MOM (Microsoft Operations Manager).
- What languages does Windows Scripting Host support? VB, VBScript, JScript.
