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What is
presentation layer responsible for in the OSI model?
The presentation layer establishes the data format prior to
passing it along to the network application’s interface.
TCP/IP networks perform this task at the application layer.
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Does Windows
Server 2003 support IPv6? Yes, run ipv6.exe from
command line to disable it.
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Can Windows
Server 2003 function as a bridge? Yes, and it’s a new
feature for the 2003 product. You can combine several
networks and devices connected via several adapters by
enabling IP routing.
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What’s the
difference between the basic disk and dynamic disk? The
basic type contains partitions, extended partitions,
logical drivers, and an assortment of static volumes; the
dynamic type does not use partitions but dynamically
manages volumes and provides advanced storage options
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What’s a
media pool? It is any compilation of disks or tapes
with the same administrative properties.
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How do you
install recovery console? C:\i386\win32 /cmdcons,
assuming that your Win server installation is on drive C.
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What’s new
in Terminal Services for Windows 2003 Server? Supports
audio transmissions as well, although prepare for heavy
network load.
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What scripts
ship with IIS 6.0? iisweb.vsb to create, delete,
start, stop, and list Web sites, iisftp.vsb to
create, delete, start, stop, and list FTP sites,
iisdir.vsb to create, delete, start, stop, and display
virtual directories, iisftpdr.vsb to create, delete,
start, stop, and display virtual directories under an FTP
root, iiscnfg.vbs to export and import IIS
configuration to an XML file.
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What’s the
name of the user who connects to the Web site anonymously?
IUSR_computername
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What secure
authentication and encryption mechanisms are supported by
IIS 6.0? Basic authentication, Digest authentication,
Advanced digest authentication, Certificate-based Web
transactions that use PKCS #7/PKCS #10, Fortezza, SSL,
Server-Gated Cryptography, Transport Layer Security
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What’s the
relation between SSL and TLS? Transport Layer Security
(TLS) extends SSL by providing cryptographic
authentication.
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What’s the
role of http.sys in IIS? It is the point of contact for
all incoming HTTP requests. It listens for requests and
queues them until they are all processed, no more queues
are available, or the Web server is shut down.
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Where’s ASP
cache located on IIS 6.0? On disk, as opposed to
memory, as it used to be in IIS 5.
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What is
socket pooling? Non-blocking socket usage, introduced
in IIS 6.0. More than one application can use a given
socket.
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Describe the
process of clustering with Windows 2003 Server when a new
node is added. As a node goes online, it searches for
other nodes to join by polling the designated internal
network. In this way, all nodes are notified of the new
node’s existence. If other nodes cannot be found on a
preexisting cluster, the new node takes control of the
quorum resources residing on the shared disk that contains
state and configuration data.
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What
applications are not capable of performing in Windows 2003
Server clusters? The ones written exclusively for
NetBEUI and IPX.
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What’s a
heartbeat? Communication processes between the nodes
designed to ensure node’s health.
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What’s a
threshold in clustered environment? The number of times
a restart is attempted, when the node fails.
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You need to
change and admin password on a clustered Windows box, but
that requires rebooting the cluster, doesn’t it? No, it
doesn’t. In 2003 environment you can do that via
cluster.exe utility which does not require rebooting the
entire cluster.
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For the
document of size 1 MB, what size would you expect the index
to be with Indexing Service? 150-300 KB, 15-30% is a
reasonable expectation.
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Doesn’t the
Indexing Service introduce a security flaw when allowing
access to the index? No, because users can only view
the indices of documents and folders that they have
permissions for.
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What’s the
typical size of the index? Less then 100K documents -
up to 128 MB. More than that - 256+ MB.
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Which
characters should be enclosed in quotes when searching the
index? &, @, $, #, ^, ( ), and |.
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How would
you search for C++? Just enter C++, since + is not a
special character (and neither is C).
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What about
Barnes&Noble? Should be searched for as Barnes’&’Noble.
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Are the
searches case-sensitive? No.
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What’s the
order of precedence of Boolean operators in Microsoft
Windows 2003 Server Indexing Service? NOT, AND, NEAR,
OR.
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What’s a
vector space query? A multiple-word query where the
weight can be assigned to each of the search words. For
example, if you want to fight information on ‘black hole’,
but would prefer to give more weight to the word hole, you
can enter black[1] hole[20] into the search window.
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What’s a
response queue? It’s the message queue that holds
response messages sent from the receiving application to
the sender.
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What’s
MQPing used for? Testing Microsoft Message Queue
services between the nodes on a network.
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Which add-on
package for Windows 2003 Server would you use to monitor
the installed software and license compliance? SMS
(System Management Server).
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Which
service do you use to set up various alerts? MOM
(Microsoft Operations Manager).
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What languages
does
Windows Scripting Host
support?
VB, VBScript, JScript. </>
