RMESI System Administrator Interview Questions

I strongly reccommend to the persons, who all are going for the System Administrator interview, you should know the following three things thoroughly

1. Should have complete knowledge on Group Policy, DNS and Domain functionalities


2. Should have complete knowledge backup and restore methods


3. Should have knowledge on read/write/ full control permission

Also have Basic knowledge on Exchange Server 2003

Here the interview starts

1. Tell me something about you on your Technical skills?


2. What is your current role in your company?


3. What are the issues that you are facing on daily basis?


4. What are your day to day activities?


5. Do you have any experience in taking backup?


6. What is your current domain functionality? What is the use of it?


7. What is the meaning for the domain functionality that you are currently working with?


8. How to change the domain functional Level?


9. What is the use of front and back end architecture of Exchange Server 2003?


10. What are the services that are to be disables in front end Exchange server?


11. What are the important services in Exchange Server 2003?


12. What are the services that are enabled in your network related to exchange server?


13. What is the disadvantage when using pop3 setup, when comparing with normal exchange server mode?


14. How to enable OWA with SSL?


15. What is the use RPC over HTTP?


16. What are the services to be installed as prerequisites before installing Exchange Server 2003?


17. Which backup software you are using for taking backup?


18. What tape drive you are using to take backup?


19. What method of backup you are taking daily? How you will verify the Backup taken?


20. Where the backup log file will be created?


21. Which antivirus you are using in your company?


22. How to delete or fix virus?


23. Do you have any experience with printer troubleshooting?


24. How to clear the printer spooler?


25. What sort of networking issues that you are facing daily? How you are handling?


26. How many switches are in network? Do you have knowledge on firewall?


27. Do you have any experience in installing software using Group policy?


28. For a domain controller, what are the services will be available in Event Viewer?


29. Do you have any experience with Group Policy?


30. How many Domain Controllers are in your Network? If any domain Controller fails, what will happen?


31. What is RSOP? What is the use of RSOP?


32. What is GP Result?


33. What is GP update?


34. What is FQDN? Tell a FQDN Name?


35. What is MX record? What is the use of it?


36. How to take a backup of DNS server?


37. What are DDNS and dynamic updates in DNS Server?


38. To whom you report daily?


39. What are the regular pressures you are handling on daily basis?


40. If one of your servers got crashed what will you do? How you will fix it?


41. Have you restored any server using recovery console?


42. What is the use of repairing an operating system? What will happen when you repair the OS?


43. Do you have any experience in IIS?


44. How to setup a web server with SSL enabled?


45. How to get a new certificate for web server?


46. How to setup a website to require SSL when a client browses a website?


47. How you install SSL for Web server?


48. What is scope of security group in windows server?


49. What is disk quota management? How you will configure this?


50. If one hard disk fails in a RAID, how you will come to know?


51. What is your previous company experience?


52. How to check the order of Group policy in Server and in Workstation?


53. How to backup Group Policy?


54. Do you have any experience in adding administrative templates in Group Policy?


55. How to block an Email Address in Exchange Server 2003, which sent spam mails?


56. How to block a domain not to send any mail to your domain?


57. What is assigning and publishing in Group Policy?


58. What is security Group and Distribution in Windows Server?

If you are not selected for the interview, don’t ask for the feedback with HR, they won’t reply back....