MCSE related INTERVIEW QUESTIONS..PART4

1. How do I work with the Host name cache on a client computer?
2. How do I clear the DNS cache on the DNS server?
3. What is the 224.0.1.24 address used for?
4. What is WINS and when do we use it?
5. Can you have a Microsoft-based network without any WINS server on it? What are the "considerations" regarding not using WINS?
6. Describe the differences between WINS push and pull replications.
7. What is the difference between tombstoning a WINS record and simply deleting it?
8. Name the NetBIOS names you might expect from a Windows 2003 DC that is registered in WINS.
9. Describe the role of the routing table on a host and on a router.
10. What are routing protocols? Why do we need them? Name a few.
11. What are router interfaces? What types can they be?
12. In Windows 2003 routing, what are the interface filters?
13. What is NAT?
14. What is the real difference between NAT and PAT?
15. How do you configure NAT on Windows 2003?
16. How do you allow inbound traffic for specific hosts on Windows 2003 NAT?
17. What is VPN? What types of VPN does Windows 2000 and beyond work with natively?
18. What is IAS? In what scenarios do we use it?
19. What's the difference between Mixed mode and Native mode in AD when dealing with RRAS?
20. What is the "RAS and IAS" group in AD?
21. What are Conditions and Profile in RRAS Policies?
22. What types or authentication can a Windows 2003 based RRAS work with?
23. How does SSL work?
24. How does IPSec work?
25. How do I deploy IPSec for a large number of computers?
26. What types of authentication can IPSec use?
27. What is PFS (Perfect Forward Secrecy) in IPSec?
28. How do I monitor IPSec?
29. Looking at IPSec-encrypted traffic with a sniffer. What packet types do I see?
30. What can you do with NETSH?
31. How do I look at the open ports on my machine?
32. What is Active Directory?
33. What is LDAP?
34. Can you connect Active Directory to other 3rd-party Directory Services? Name a few options.
35. Where is the AD database held? What other folders are related to AD?
36. What is the SYSVOL folder?
37. Name the AD NCs and replication issues for each NC
38. What are application partitions? When do I use them
39. How do you create a new application partition
40. How do you view replication properties for AD partitions and DCs?
41. What is the Global Catalog?
42. How do you view all the GCs in the forest?
43. Why not make all DCs in a large forest as GCs?