Basics of Windows Server 2003

Q. Does Windows 2003 support IPv6?
Ans: Yes. Configure ipv6.exe to disable it.

Q. Can Windows 2003 function as a bridge?
Ans: yes. It’s a new feature for the 2003 product. You can combine several networks and devices connected via several adapters by enabling IP routing.

Q. What’s the difference between the basic disk and dynamic disk?
Ans: The basic type contains primary 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.

Q. Explain Hidden shares?
Ans: Hidden or administrative shares are share names with a dollar sign ($) appended to their names. Administrative shares are usually created automatically for the root of each drive letter. They do not display in the network browser list.

Q. How do the permissions work in Windows 2000? What permissions does folder inherit from the parent?
Ans: When you combine NTFS permissions based on users and their group memberships, the least restrictive permissions take precedence. However, explicit Deny entries always override Allow entries.

Q. Why can’t I encrypt a compressed file on Windows 2000?
Ans: You can either compress a file or encrypt it, however not both.

Q. What are the accessibility features in Windows 2000?
Ans: StickyKeys, FilterKeys, Narrator, Magnifier, and On-screen Keyboard.

Q. Why can’t I get to the Fax Service Management console?
Ans: You can only see the fax Service Management console if a fax had been installed.

Q. What do I need to ensure before deploying an application via a Group Policy?
Ans: Make sure it’s wither an MSI file, or contains a ZAP file for Group Policy.

Q. Can you configure mandatory profile on Local profile?
Ans: No, to enable mandatory profile, roaming profile should be enabled. Once the roaming profile is enabled, rename the file “ntuser.dat” to “ntuser.man”.

Q. What is APIPA?
Ans: APIPA stands for Auto Private IP Addressing. APIPA takes effect on Windows 2000 Professional computers if no DHCP server can be connected. APIPA assigns the computer an IP address within the range of 169.254.0.0 through 192.254.254.254 with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0.

Q. How does Internet Connection Sharing work on Windows 2000?
Ans: Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) uses the DHCP Allocator service to assign dynamic IP addresses to clients on the LAN within the range of 192.168.0.2 through 192.168.0.254. In addition, the DNS Proxy service becomes enabled when you implement ICS.

Q. Which is the command, used to remove active directory from a domain controller?
Ans: The command, which is used to remove the active directory from a domain controller, is dcpromo.

Q. What is RAID 0?
Ans: RAID’s are of 2 types H/W and S/W RAID. RAID 0 is basically a type of S/W RAID that ships with Windows Server. IT is a highly performance striped volume without parity. The data is distributed into different parts and the placed over different volumes and hence improving the response time. You can use this with 2 to 32 disks. You can not mirror a striped volume rather you can make fault tolerant by backing it up.

Q. What is striping?
Ans: A technique for spreading data over multiple disk drives. Disk striping can speed up operations that retrieve data from disk storage. The computer system breaks a body of data into units and spreads these units across the available disks. Systems that implement disk striping generally allow the user to select the data unit size or stripe width.
Disk striping is available in two types. Single user striping uses relatively large data units, and improves performance on a single- user workstation by allowing parallel transfers from different disks. Multi-user striping uses environment by allowing simultaneous read operations on multiple disk drives.

Q. What is a Firewall?
Ans: Firewalls are of two types: Hardware Firewall and Software Firewall. Firewall in simple manner is basically the utility to provide the security over the network. These are the security measures that prevents the network’s in and out traffic to pass through the specific Security filters so that the unwanted and unsecured data can be stopped from entering into the network. As a security measure it also depends on the network designer and implementer that how to use a Firewall mean to say the security measures like how to present the content filtering and URL filtering which type of firewall should be used and where to put it.

Q. Describe DHCP lease process?
Ans: It’s a four-step process consisting of (a) IP Request, (b) IP Offer, (c) IP Selection and (d) Acknowledgement.

Q. On ipconfig, my network address is 192.254.*.*. What happened?
Ans: The 192.168.*.* netmask is assigned to Windows machines running 98/2000/XP if the DHCP server is not available. The name for the technology is APIPA.

Q. We’ve installed a new Windows-based DHCP server, however, the users do not seem to be getting DHCP leases of it.
Ans: The server must be authorized first with the DHCP Server, before the DHCP leases IP Addresses to the client PCs.

Q. What authentication options do Windows 2000 Servers have for remote client?
Ans: PAP, SPAP, CHAP, MS-CHAP and EAP.

Q. What are the networking protocol options for the Windows clients if for some reason you do not want to use TCP/IP?
Ans: NWLink (Novell), NetBEUI, Apple Talk (Apple)

Q. What is data link layer in the OSI reference model responsible for?
Ans: Data link layer is located above the Physical layer, but below Network layer. It takes the raw data bits and packaging them into frames. The Network layer will be responsible for addressing the frames, while the Physical layer is responsible for retrieving and sending raw data bits.

Q. What is Binding order?
Ans: The order by which the network protocols are used for client-server communications. The most frequently used protocols should be at the top.

Q. How do cryptography-based keys ensure the validity of data transferred across the network?
Ans: Each IP packet is assigned a checksum, so if the checksums do not match on both receiving and transmitting ends, the data was modified or corrupted.

Q. Should we deploy IPSEC-based security or certificate-based security?
Ans: They are really two different technologies. IPSec secures the TCP/IP communication and protects the integrity of the packets. Certificate-based security ensures the validity of authenticated clients and servers.

Q. What is LMHOSTS file?
Ans: It’s a file stored on a host machine that is used to resolve NetBIOS name to specific IP Addresses.

Q. What’s the difference between forward lookup and reverse lookup in DNS?
Ans: Forward lookup zone resolves the name to IP Address and the reverse-lookup zone resolves IP Address to Host name.

Q. How can you recover a file encrypted using EFS?
Ans: Use the domain recovery agent.