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Windows NT System Administrators Quiz:

OK so you're a manager who has to interview and hire a WinNT administrator. Perhaps you know diddly about WinNT How will you know whether the candidate now before you really know his/her stuff or if s/he is faking it? Try this quiz:

• Discuss the two major types of multi-tasking, the advantages, and disadvantages of each etc.
  • What type of Multi-tasking does NT use?
• Describe the differences between the major file systems used on x86 operating systems.
  • Is there an advantage to NTFS over HPFS, FAT-16, FAT-32 or NFS?
• How many diskettes does NT 3.5 need to boot the executive or kernal before you get to the CD?
• How would you boot a fresh system just enough to start the NT install program from a server instead of a CD?
  • What commnad line would you execute from the server? From which directory?
• How do you tell the installation program on the server to not build boot disks during installation?
• Discuss the HAL
• Discuss the hive, what is it, and how does it relate to NT?
• Is there a backup copy of the hive?
• Where is it stored?
• Is there a hardware hive built?
• When and how is it built?
• Discuss the HCL.
• How often is it updated.
• Discuss all of the network protocols with which you are familiar.
• Discuss the difference between IPX and TCP/IP
• What is the difference between a MAC address and an IP Address?
• Discuss DNS
• Discuss WINS
• What is an SNMPGET? SNMPSET?
• Can you connect a netware 3.x client to an NT server for file and print sharing? What do you have to do to make this work?
• What experience do you have with Microsoft Exchange and/or other E-Mail Systems?
• Discuss your experience with E-Mail system:
  • Setup
  • Administration
  • Internetworking
  • WAN connections
• Where do E-Mail systems typically have problems?
• Define and discuss SMTP
• Define and discuss POP server
• Give an example of how you resolved a difficult problem in an E-Mail system?