Help Desk Interview Questions

What is meant by active directory?
How do you create a policy and organizational unit in windows 2003 server?
How do you apply users to the policy and organizational unit in windows 2003 server?
Which protocol(s) does ADS require?
What is the scope of DHCP server?
What is the difference between 2000 Server and 2003 Server?
What is the difference between domain and domain name server?
How does a protocol work?
What is a ISP and how does it work?
How can we configure a router over switch and which IP Address has to be assigned?
How do you configure Microsoft Exchange in windows 2000 server?
What is VSS and What is its functionality?
What is CVS and What is its functionality?
What are the different version of Windows 2003 and the differences between them?

Operating System Interview Questions

1.What re the basic functions of an Operating system?
2.Explain briefly about Processor, assembler,compiler, loader, linker and the functions executed by them?
3.What are the different phases of software development? Explain briefly?
4.Differentiate between ROM and RAM?
5.What is DRAM? In which form does it store data?
6.What is cache memory?
7.What is hard disk and what is its purpose?
8.Differentiate between compiler and interpreter?
9.What are the different tasks of Lexical analysis?
10.What are the different functions of Syntax phase, Scheduler?
11.What are the main difference between Micro-controller and micro-processor?
12.Describe different job scheduling in operating systems?
13.What is a real-time system?
14.What is the difference between hard and soft real-time systems?
15.What is a mission critical system?
16.What is the important aspect of a real-time system?
17.If two processes which shares same system memory and system clock in a distributed system, what is it called?
18.What is the state of processor, when a process is waiting for some event to occur?
19.What do you mean by deadlock?
20.Explain the difference between micro-kernel and macro-kernel? Give an examples of micro-kernel and macro-kernel?
21.When would you choose bottom-up methodology?
22.When would you choose Top-down methodology?
23.Write a small dc shell script to find number of FF in the design?
24.Why paging is used?
25.Which is the best page replacement algorithm and why? How much time is spent usually in each phases and why?
26.Difference between Primary storage and secondary storage?
27.What is multi-tasking, multi-programming, multi-threading?
28.Difference between multi-threading and multi-tasking?
29.What is software life cycle?
30.Explain Demand paging, page faults, replacement algorithms, thrashing etc.?
31.Explain about paged segmentation and segment paging?
32.While running DOS on a PC, which command would be used to duplicate the entire diskette?

Windows 2000 Interview Question

1. Explain hidden shares.
2. How do the permissions work in Windows 2000? What permissions does folder inherit from the parent?
3. Why can’t I encrypt a compressed file on Windows 2000?
4. If I rename an account, what must I do to make sure the renamed account has the same permissions as the original one?