MCSE related INTERVIEW QUESTIONS..PART5

1. What is an IP address?
2. What is a subnet mask?
3. What is ARP?
4. What is ARP Cache Poisoning?
5. What is the ANDing process?
6. What is a default gateway? What happens if I don't have one?
7. Can a workstation computer be configured to browse the Internet and yet NOT have a default gateway?
8. What is a subnet?
9. What is APIPA?
10. What is an RFC? Name a few if possible (not necessarily the numbers, just the ideas behind them)
11. What is RFC 1918?
12. What is CIDR?
13. You have the following Network ID: 192.115.103.64/27. What is the IP range for your network?
14. You have the following Network ID: 131.112.0.0. You need at least 500 hosts per network. How many networks can you create? What subnet mask will you use?
15. You need to view at network traffic. What will you use? Name a few tools
16. How do I know the path that a packet takes to the destination?
17. What does the ping 192.168.0.1 -l 1000 -n 100 command do?
18. What is DHCP? What are the benefits and drawbacks of using it?
19. Describe the steps taken by the client and DHCP server in order to obtain an IP address.
20. What is the DHCPNACK and when do I get one? Name 2 scenarios.
21. What ports are used by DHCP and the DHCP clients?
22. Describe the process of installing a DHCP server in an AD infrastructure.
23. What is DHCPINFORM?
24. Describe the integration between DHCP and DNS.
25. What options in DHCP do you regularly use for an MS network?
26. What are User Classes and Vendor Classes in DHCP?
27. How do I configure a client machine to use a specific User Class?
28. What is the BOOTP protocol used for, where might you find it in Windows network infrastructure?
29. DNS zones – describe the differences between the 4 types.
30. DNS record types – describe the most important ones.
31. Describe the process of working with an external domain name
32. Describe the importance of DNS to AD.
33. Describe a few methods of finding an MX record for a remote domain on the Internet.
34. What does "Disable Recursion" in DNS mean?
35. What could cause the Forwarders and Root Hints to be grayed out?
36. What is a "Single Label domain name" and what sort of issues can it cause?
37. What is the "in-addr.arpa" zone used for?
38. What are the requirements from DNS to support AD?
39. How do you manually create SRV records in DNS?
40. Name 3 benefits of using AD-integrated zones.
41. What are the benefits of using Windows 2003 DNS when using AD-integrated zones?
42. You installed a new AD domain and the new (and first) DC has not registered its SRV records in DNS. Name a few possible causes.
43. What are the benefits and scenarios of using Stub zones?
44. What are the benefits and scenarios of using Conditional Forwarding?
45. What are the differences between Windows Clustering, Network Load Balancing and Round Robin, and scenarios for each use?