IT Executive Interview Question:

System Administration Position Interview Questions:

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► What is the difference between layer 2 and layer 3 devices?

► What is the subnet for a class C network?

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

► Have your configured a NFS server?

► What are RAID 1 and RAID 5?

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

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

► What Exchange process is responsible for communication with AD?

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

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

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

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

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

► What are the disadvantages of circular logging?

► What is Active Directory schema?

► What are the domain functional levels in Windows Server 2003?

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

► What are the forest functional levels in Windows Server 2003?

► What is a global catalog server?

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