Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Active directory Questions

Technical Interview Questions – Active Directory :

1. What is Active Directory?
2. What is LDAP?
3. Can you connect Active Directory to other 3rd-party Directory Services? Name a few options. 4. Where is the AD database held? What other folders are related to AD?
5. What is the SYSVOL folder?
6. Name the AD NCs and replication issues for each NC
7. What are application partitions? When do I use them
8. How do you create a new application partition
9. How do you view replication properties for AD partitions and DCs?
10.What is the Global Catalog?
11.How do you view all the GCs in the forest?
12. Why not make all DCs in a large forest as GCs?
13. Trying to look at the Schema, how can I do that?
14. What are the Support Tools? Why do I need them?
15. What is LDP? What is REPLMON? What is ADSIEDIT? What is NETDOM? What is REPADMIN?
What are sites? What are they used for?
16. What's the difference between a site link's schedule and interval?
17. What is the KCC?
18. What is the ISTG? Who has that role by default?
19. What are the requirements for installing AD on a new server?
20. What can you do to promote a server to DC if you're in a remote location with slow WAN link?
21. How can you forcibly remove AD from a server, and what do you do later? • Can I get user passwords from the AD database?
22. What tool would I use to try to grab security related packets from the wire?
Name some OU design considerations.
23. What is tombstone lifetime attribute?
24. What do you do to install a new Windows 2003 DC in a Windows 2000 AD?
25. What do you do to install a new Windows 2003 R2 DC in a Windows 2003 AD?
26. How would you find all users that have not logged on since last month?
27. What are the DS* commands?
28. What's the difference between LDIFDE and CSVDE? Usage considerations?
29. What are the FSMO roles? Who has them by default? What happens when each one fails?
30. What FSMO placement considerations do you know of?
31. I want to look at the RID allocation table for a DC. What do I do?
32. What's the difference between transferring a FSMO role and seizing one?
Which one should you NOT seize? Why?
33. How do you configure a "stand-by operation master" for any of the roles?
34. How do you backup AD?
35. How do you restore AD?
36. How do you change the DS Restore admin password?
37. Why can't you restore a DC that was backed up 4 months ago?
38. What are GPOs?
39. What is the order in which GPOs are applied?
40. Name a few benefits of using GPMC.
41. What are the GPC and the GPT? Where can I find them?
42. What are GPO links? What special things can I do to them?
43. What can I do to prevent inheritance from above?
44. How can I override blocking of inheritance?
45. How can you determine what GPO was and was not applied for a user?
Name a few ways to do that.
46. 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?
47. Name a few differences in Vista GPOs
48. Name some GPO settings in the computer and user parts.
49. What are administrative templates?
50. What's the difference between software publishing and assigning?

18 comments:

Unknown said...

Dear Kamal,
Good start...best wishes for your effect...

If you provied the answer for the question it will helpful for begineers..

Regards'SN

Sheshappa said...

Dear Kamal,
Can you give answer to these active directory questions please.

Unknown said...

hope u can answer all those questions, i've found those questions from the other website for interview but no answers for it.. do u bro?

Unknown said...

Anyone can post anything...its easy..jus click copy and paste it and say's its mine...yeah !! try to answer it! challenge u! answer all those questions!

Venkat Gollena said...

Hey Dudes

Any where can i get the answers for above questions please..?

wud appreciate for the early response....

Thanks
Venkat Gollena

Babusankar said...

All the Best Kamal.Congrats

Babusankar said...

All the best Kamal

Ravikiran said...

Dear Kamal,
Can you give answer to these active directory questions please

Unknown said...

Hi kamal,

i really thankful to you for ur support.

raju bisht said...

wait u will find answer for these all questions

wait

pradeep said...

Hello Mr Kamal.. Please dont copy and paste questions from petri.co.il and try to fool others.. At least show some integrity.!!!!!!

Unknown said...

the Q is been here since Oct 9 2007.. and i even challenged him... and u guys stil expecting this stupid to answer? all you can expect is copy the answer from other place..
now u know how INDIA guys so good in IT? cos they good in copy n paste..

Kam said...

Hi Friends,

I am sorry, Due to busy with my work, i was not able to see my Blogs...

Kam said...

Hi Friends,

Thanks for your comments.

Request you to check the below link for further queries.

http://windows-kamal.blogspot.com/


Very soon you will get the answers...

Regards,
Kamal.

Merson said...

These questions are stollen ones from Daniel Petri
http://www.petri.co.il/mcse_system_administrator_active_directory_interview_questions.htm

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Sundar said...

Hi Kamal

This is a great help for begineers.
Thanks for posting AD Question.
will you pls give answer for this Questions. Pls i need your mobile number.

MY ID: Sundar83_5ur@hotmail.com.
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Thanks & Regards
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