This is a part 2 of my MCSE and System Administrator job interview sample questions (see previous part at "Part 1 – Networking").
For a Windows Server 2008/R2 version, see my MCSE and System Administrator Job Interview Questions - Part 6 - Windows Server 2008/R2 Active Directory article.
Technical Interview Questions – Active Directory
- What is Active Directory?
- What is LDAP?
- Can you connect Active Directory to other 3rd-party Directory Services? Name a few options.
- Where is the AD database held? What other folders are related to AD?
- What is the SYSVOL folder?
- Name the AD NCs and replication issues for each NC
- What are application partitions? When do I use them
- How do you create a new application partition
- How do you view replication properties for AD partitions and DCs?
- What is the Global Catalog?
- How do you view all the GCs in the forest?
- Why not make all DCs in a large forest as GCs?
- Trying to look at the Schema, how can I do that?
- What are the Support Tools? Why do I need them?
- What is LDP? What is REPLMON? What is ADSIEDIT? What is NETDOM? What is REPADMIN?
- What are sites? What are they used for?
- What's the difference between a site link's schedule and interval?
- What is the KCC?
- What is the ISTG? Who has that role by default?
- What are the requirements for installing AD on a new server?
- What can you do to promote a server to DC if you're in a remote location with slow WAN link?
- How can you forcibly remove AD from a server, and what do you do later? • Can I get user passwords from the AD database?
- What tool would I use to try to grab security related packets from the wire?
- Name some OU design considerations.
- What is tombstone lifetime attribute?
- What do you do to install a new Windows 2003 DC in a Windows 2000 AD?
- What do you do to install a new Windows 2003 R2 DC in a Windows 2003 AD?
- How would you find all users that have not logged on since last month?
- What are the DS* commands?
- What's the difference between LDIFDE and CSVDE? Usage considerations?
- What are the FSMO roles? Who has them by default? What happens when each one fails?
- What FSMO placement considerations do you know of?
- I want to look at the RID allocation table for a DC. What do I do?
- What's the difference between transferring a FSMO role and seizing one? Which one should you NOT seize? Why?
- How do you configure a "stand-by operation master" for any of the roles?
- How do you backup AD?
- How do you restore AD?
- How do you change the DS Restore admin password?
- Why can't you restore a DC that was backed up 4 months ago?
- What are GPOs?
- What is the order in which GPOs are applied?
- Name a few benefits of using GPMC.
- What are the GPC and the GPT? Where can I find them?
- What are GPO links? What special things can I do to them?
- What can I do to prevent inheritance from above?
- How can I override blocking of inheritance?
- How can you determine what GPO was and was not applied for a user? Name a few ways to do that.
- 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?
- Name a few differences in Vista GPOs
- Name some GPO settings in the computer and user parts.
- What are administrative templates?
- What's the difference between software publishing and assigning?
- Can I deploy non-MSI software with GPO?
- You want to standardize the desktop environments (wallpaper, My Documents, Start menu, printers etc.) on the computers in one department. How would you do that?
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