System Administration Position

Few more questions that are a little bit more difficult. System Admins should know all these answers by heart in addition to the Network Administrator questions.

1. What is the difference between layer 2 and layer 3 devices?

2. What is the subnet for a class C network?

3. Have you configured a NIS server/client before? If so, describe what you did.

4. Have your configured a NFS server?

5. What are RAID 1 and RAID 5?

6. What are the required components of Windows Server 2003 for installing Exchange 2003?

7. What must be done to an AD forest before Exchange can be deployed?

8. What Exchange process is responsible for communication with AD?

9. What connector type would you use to connect to the Internet, and what are the two methods of sending mail over that connector?

10. How would you optimize Exchange 2003 memory usage on Windows Server 2003 with more than 1Gb of memory?

11. What are the standard port numbers for SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, RPC, LDAP and Global Catalog?

12. Name the process names for the following: System Attendant, Information Store, SMTP/POP/IMAP/OWA.

13. What is the maximum amount of databases that can be hosted on Exchange 2003 Enterprise?

14. What are the disadvantages of circular logging?

15. >What is Active Directory schema?

16. What are the domain functional levels in Windows Server 2003?

17. What is the default domain functional level in Windows Server 2003?

18. What are the forest functional levels in Windows Server 2003?

19. What is a global catalog server?

20. How can we raise domain functional and forest functional levels in Windows Server 2003?

21. What is the default protocol used in directory services?

22. What is IPv6?

23. What are the physical & logical components of ADS?

24. In which domain functional level, we can rename a domain name?

25. What is multimaster replication?

26. What is a site?

27. Which is the command used to remove active directory from a domain controller?

28. What is the file that’s responsible for keeping all Active Directory databases?