hai i am balaji
now i applied for the post of section engineer in rrb
chennai............
if any body know the question peper and pattern of written
exam please send to me
Q.N.1: DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HUB AND SWITCH?
Q.N.2: DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WINNT 4.0SVR & WINDOW2000/2003SVR?
Q.N.3: WHAT IS ACTIVE DIRECTORY AND WHAT ARE BENEFITS?
Q.N.4: NAME ANY TWO NAME RESOLUTION NETWORK SERVICE?
Q.N.5: NAME PRINT SERVICE?
Q.N.6: NAME WINDOWS INSTALLER SERVICE?
Q.N.7: NAME THE SERVICE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING NETWROK
BROWSING LIST?
Q.N.8: DIFFRENCE BETWEEN IP VERSION 4.0 AND VERSION 6.0?
Q.N.9: DIFFRENCE BETWEEN TCP AND UDP PROTOCOL?
Q.N.10: WRITE DOWN THE DEFAULT SUBNET MASK OF
i. 191.168.0.20
ii. 172.16.0.2
iii. 201.15.16.1
Q.N.11: BENEFITS OF DOING SUBNETTING IN NETWORK?
Q.N.12: DEFINE THE FOLLOWING TERMS:
 SINGLE COLLISION DOMAIN AND MULTIPLE COLLISION DOMAINS.
 SINGLE BROADCAST DOMAIN.
Q.N.13: WHAT IS DNS? ROLE OF DNS SERVER IN ACTIVE DIRECTORY?
Q.N.14: DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
 DNS AND DDNS
 IXFR AND AXFR
 WIN2000 DNS AND WIN 2003 DNS
Q.N.15: WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY GC SERVER? FUNCTION OF G.C SERVER
IN ACTIVE DIRECTORY?
Q.N.16: NAME THE PROTOCOL AND SERVICE USED IN INTRASITE
REPLICATION OF AD DATABASE?
Q.N.17: WHEN DO WE NEED TO CREATE DIFFERENT SITES IN ACTIVE
DIRECTORY?
Q.N.18: WRITE DOWN THE PORT NUMBERS (TCP/UDP)
 LDAP(LIGHT WEIGHT DIRECTORY ACCESS PROTOCOL)
 DNS (DOMAIN NAME SERVICE)
 DHCP (DHYNAMIC HOST CONFIGURATION PROTOCOL)
 SMTP (SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL)
 HTTPS (HYPER TEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL SERVER)
 WINS (WINDOWS INTERNET NAME SERVICE)
 KERBEROS
 TELNET (TERMINAL EMULATION PROGRAM)
 FTP (FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL)
 TFTP (TRIVIAL FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL)
 IP (INTERNET PROTOCOL)
 ICMP (INTERNET CONTROL MESSAGE PROTOCOL)
 TCP (TRANMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL)
 UDP (USER DATAGRAM PROTOCOL)
 RDP (REMOTE DESKTOP PROTOCOL)
Q.N.19: CORE COMPONENTS OF MICROSOFT EXCHANGE SERVER 2003?
Q.N.20: DEFINE ROUTING AND ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP IN
MICROSOFT
EXCHANGE SERVER?
Q.N.21: DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POP3 AND IMAP4 PROTOCOL?
Q.N.22: DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EXCHANGE 5.5 AND EXCHANGE
SERVER
2000/2003?
Q.N.23: DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FAT AND NTFS?
Q.N.24: MAX.NO. OF PARTITIONS IN WINDOWS 2000/XP?
Q.N.25: WRITE THE COMMANDS:-
 TO DISPLAY ARP CACHE TABLE
 TO DISPLAY RESOLVER CACHE TABLE
 TO DISPLAY NETBIOS CACHE TABLE
 TO TRACE ROUTE
 TO DISPLAY PORT STATUS
 DNS TROUBLESHOOTING COMMAND
 TO DISPLAY EFFECTIVE GROUP POLICY
 TO KNOW FSMO ROLES AND USER’S SID
 TO VERIFY REPLICATION STATUS OF ACTIVE DIRECTORY DATABASE
 TO START AND STOP A PARTICULAR SERVICE
Q.N.26: NAME THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY PARTITION?
Q.N.27: WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY SINGLE AND MULTIMASTER
REPLICATION? STATE ALL FSMO ROLES
AND THEIR FUNCTION?
Q.N.28: WHAT IS SYSTEM STATE DATA BACKUP? HOW TO RESTORE?
Q.N.29: DIFFENIATEBETWEENAUTHORITATIVE AND
NON-AUTHORITATIVE
RESTORE OF SYSTEM STATE DATA?
Q.N.30: DIFFERENCEBETWEEN INCREMENTAL & DIFFERENTIAL
BACKUP?
Q.N.31: WHAT IS THE BENEFIT OF VSC (VOLUME SHADOW
COPY) IN
WIN2003SERVER?
Q.N.32: DEFINE THE TERM POOLING & SPOOLING IN RESPECT OF
PRINTER?
Q.N.33: WHICH AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL IS USED IN
WIN2000
/WIN2003 DOMAIN (NATIVE)?
Q.N.34: BENFITS OF VPN? DIFFERENCE BETWEEN L2TP AND
PPTP
PROTOCOL?
Q.N.35: DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SECURITY AND DISTRIBUTION
GROUP?
WHAT DO YOU UNDERSTAND BY GROUP NESTING?
Q.N.36: DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OUTLOOK EXPREES AND
MICROSOFT
OUTLOOK?
Q.N.37: WHAT IS THE MAX.LENGTH OF UTP CAT 5
SEGMENT? WHAT IS
THE STANDARD COLOR CODING?
Q.N.38: FUNCTION OF POINT TO POINT (PPP) PROTOCOL
IN WAN
CONNECTION?
Q.N.39: BASIC DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ISDN AND PSTN LINE?
Q.N.40: WHAT DO YOU UNDERSTAND BY COMPACTING
NTDS.DIT?
WHAT IS THE WAY TO DO THAT?
Technical Interview Questions – Exchange 2003
1. Tell me a bit about the capabilities of Exchange Server.
2. What are the different Exchange 2003 versions?
3. What's the main differences between Exchange 5.5 and
Exchange 2000/2003?
4. What are the major network infrastructure for installing
Exchange 2003?
5. What is the latest Exchange 2003 Service Pack? Name a few
changes in functionality in that SP.
6. What are the disk considerations when installing Exchange
(RAID types, locations and so on).
7. You got a new HP DL380 (2U) server, dual Xeon, 4GB of
RAM, 7 SAS disks, 64-bit. What do you do next to install
Exchange 2003? (you have AD in place)
8. Why not install Exchange on the same machine as a DC?
9. Are there any other installation considerations?
10. How would you prepare the AD Schema in advance before
installing Exchange?
11. What type or permissions do you need in order to install
the first Exchange server in a forest? In a domain?
12. How would you verify that the schema was in fact updated?
13. What type of memory optimization changes could you do
for Exchange 2003?
14. How would you check your Exchange configuration settings
to see if they're right?
15. What are the Exchange management tools? How and where
can you install them?
16. What types of permissions are configurable for Exchange?
17. How can you grant access for an administrator to access
all mailboxes on a specific server?
18. What is the Send As permission?
19. What other management tools are used to manage and
control Exchange 2003? Name the tools you'd use.
20. What are Exchange Recipient types? Name 5.
21. You created a mailbox for a user, yet the mailbox does
not appear in ESM. Why?
22. You wanted to change mailbox access permissions for a
mailbox, yet you see the SELF permission alone on the
permissions list. Why?
23. What are Query Based Distribution groups?
24. What type of groups would you use when configuring
distribution groups in a multiple domain forest?
25. Name a few configuration options for Exchange recipients.
26. What's the difference between Exchange 2003 Std. and
Ent. editions when related to storage options and size?
27. Name a few configuration options related to mailbox stores.
28. What are System Public Folders? Where would you find them?
29. How would you plan and configure Public Folder redundancy?
30. How can you immediately stop PF replication?
31. How can you prevent PF referral across slow WAN links?
32. What types of PF management tools might you use?
33. What are the differences between administrative
permissions and client permissions in PF?
34. How can you configure PF replication from the command
prompt in Exchange 2003?
35. What are the message hygiene options you can use
natively in Exchange 2003?
36. What are the configuration options in IMF?
37. What are virtual servers? When would you use more than one?
38. Name some of the SMTP Virtual Server configuration options.
39. What is a Mail Relay? Name a few known mail relay
software or hardware options.
40. What is a Smart Host? Where would you configure it?
41. What are Routing Groups? When would you use them?
42. What are the types of Connectors you can use in Exchange?
43. What is the cost option in Exchange connectors?
44. What is the Link State Table? How would you view it?
45. How would you configure mail transfer security between 2
routing groups?
46. What is the Routing Group Master? Who holds that role?
47. Explain the configuration steps required to allow
Exchange 2003 to send and receive email from the Internet
(consider a one-site multiple server scenario).
48. What is DS2MB?
49. What is Forms Based Authentication?
50. How would you configure OWA's settings on an Exchange
server?
51. What is DSACCESS?
52. What are Recipient Policies?
53. How would you work with multiple recipient policies?
54. What is the "issue" with trying to remove email
addresses added by recipient policies? How would you fix that?
55. What is the RUS?
56. When would you need to manually create additional RUS?
57. What are Address Lists?
58. How would you modify the filter properties of one of the
default address lists?
59. How can you create multiple GALs and allow the users to
only see the one related to them?
60. What is a Front End server? In what scenarios would you
use one?
61. What type of authentication is used on the front end
servers?
62. When would you use NLB?
63. How would you achieve incoming mail redundancy?
64. What are the 4 types of Exchange backups?
65. What is the Dial-Tone server scenario?
66. When would you use offline backup?
67. How do you re-install Exchange on a server that has
crashed but with AD intact?
68. What is the dumpster?
69. What are the e00xxxxx.log files?
70. What is the e00.chk file?
71. What is circular logging? When would you use it?
72. What's the difference between online and offline defrag?
73. How would you know if it is time to perform an offline
defrag of your Exchange stores?
74. How would you plan for, and perform the offline defrag?
75. What is the eseutil command?
76. What is the isinteg command?
77. How would you monitor Exchange's services and
performance? Name 2 or 3 options.
78. Name all the client connection options in Exchange 2003.
79. What is Direct Push? What are the requirements to run it?
80. How would you remote wipe a PPC?
81. What are the issues with connecting Outlook from a
remote computer to your mailbox?
82. How would you solve those issues? Name 2 or 3 methods
83. What is RPC over HTTP? What are the requirements to run it?
84. What is Cached Mode in OL2003/2007?
85. What are the benefits and "issues" when using cached
mode? How would you tackle those issues?
86. What is S/MIME? What are the usage scenarios for S/MIME?
87. What are the IPSec usage scenarios for Exchange 2003?
88. How do you enable SSL on OWA?
89. What are the considerations for obtaining a digital
certificate for SSL on Exchange?
90. Name a few 3rd-party CAs.
91. What do you need to consider when using a client-type AV
software on an Exchange server?
92. What are the different clustering options in Exchange
2003? Which one would you choose and why.
Technical Interview Questions – Networking
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?
46. How do I work with the Host name cache on a client
computer?
47. How do I clear the DNS cache on the DNS server?
48. What is the 224.0.1.24 address used for?
49. What is WINS and when do we use it?
50. Can you have a Microsoft-based network without any WINS
server on it? What are the "considerations" regarding not
using WINS?
51. Describe the differences between WINS push and pull
replications.
52. What is the difference between tombstoning a WINS record
and simply deleting it?
53. Name the NetBIOS names you might expect from a Windows
2003 DC that is registered in WINS.
54. Describe the role of the routing table on a host and on
a router.
55. What are routing protocols? Why do we need them? Name a
few.
56. What are router interfaces? What types can they be?
57. In Windows 2003 routing, what are the interface filters?
58. What is NAT?
59. What is the real difference between NAT and PAT?
60. How do you configure NAT on Windows 2003?
61. How do you allow inbound traffic for specific hosts on
Windows 2003 NAT?
62. What is VPN? What types of VPN does Windows 2000 and
beyond work with natively?
63. What is IAS? In what scenarios do we use it?
64. What's the difference between Mixed mode and Native mode
in AD when dealing with RRAS?
65. What is the "RAS and IAS" group in AD?
66. What are Conditions and Profile in RRAS Policies?
67. What types or authentication can a Windows 2003 based
RRAS work with?
68. How does SSL work?
69. How does IPSec work?
70. How do I deploy IPSec for a large number of computers?
71. What types of authentication can IPSec use?
72. What is PFS (Perfect Forward Secrecy) in IPSec?
73. How do I monitor IPSec?
74. Looking at IPSec-encrypted traffic with a sniffer. What
packet types do I see?
75. What can you do with NETSH?
76. How do I look at the open ports on my machine?
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3.3kv,6.6kv,11kv,22kv and 33kv? Which is to be referred for
this?
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future?
2.how many courses r in networking that fulfill market
requrment?
3.who is better for career MCSE or CCNA ,UNIX ?
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what is the difference between & inverter ? which UPS is
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what are the advantages of 12 V, 24 V , 36 V etc
and what are the disadvantages of 12 V, 24 V, 36 V etc
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What is the requirement of sulphuric acid in electrical
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Can any one send me the sample test papers of IOCL entry
exam to be held on 6th july 2008. Also plz send the
interview questions that cud probably be asked........i wud
be highly obliged if u can send a few test paers and other
stuff @ inderjeetd@gmail.com.........Inderpreet