Windows Systems Engineer Interview Questions

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What is Active Directory? what is a OU? what is the difference between a container and a OU? What is DNS? What does it do? What is LDAP? what is DNS Forwarding? What does a Domain Controller do? What is a Domain, Tree, Forest? how do they interact? What is Group Policy? what is a GPO? what is the Group Policy Hierarchy? who would override who when forcing GPO? they also said they had some Linux servers and asked me a few questions in that. I let them know I have very little experience so I think they just asked me very basic questions. how do you move a file? move a file into a different folder how do you rename a folder? how do you delete a file? how do you change directories? how do you list all files in a folder? how do you search for certain words in a file?
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Windows Systems Administrative

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Feb 7, 2015

What is Active Directory? what is a OU? what is the difference between a container and a OU? What is DNS? What does it do? What is LDAP? what is DNS Forwarding? What does a Domain Controller do? What is a Domain, Tree, Forest? how do they interact? What is Group Policy? what is a GPO? what is the Group Policy Hierarchy? who would override who when forcing GPO? they also said they had some Linux servers and asked me a few questions in that. I let them know I have very little experience so I think they just asked me very basic questions. how do you move a file? move a file into a different folder how do you rename a folder? how do you delete a file? how do you change directories? how do you list all files in a folder? how do you search for certain words in a file?

1. Day to day activity, most of the questions will be based on day to day activity. 2. what is DNS, DHCP, WDS, KMS. 3. FSMO roles and what will happen if down 4. dhcp backup, relay agent, how to take system backup. 5. ad restore type 6. AD partitions 7.rpc error 8. rdp issue 9. diffrence bw esxi and esx , HA , FT DRS, how to extend c drive . v motions
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Windows Systems Administrator

Interviewed at Cognizant

4
Jun 18, 2018

1. Day to day activity, most of the questions will be based on day to day activity. 2. what is DNS, DHCP, WDS, KMS. 3. FSMO roles and what will happen if down 4. dhcp backup, relay agent, how to take system backup. 5. ad restore type 6. AD partitions 7.rpc error 8. rdp issue 9. diffrence bw esxi and esx , HA , FT DRS, how to extend c drive . v motions

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