Real time Interview Questions

1.Mindtree
1.What is DHCP.
2.What is DORA Can you briefly explain.
3.What protocol used for UNC path within the domain.
4.What are the Zones in DNS.

2.TecPlix private LTD

1.what did you handled day to day in Wintel.
2.What is DHCP.
3.What is DNS.
4.How to trouble shoot BSOD error in windows.
4.What is ESXI& which version are you currently using.
5.How to upgrade ESXI Host trough update manager.
6.How to deploy new VM from templet.

3.Mind Tree
1.What is page file
2. Bsod
3.Memory utilization
4.Patching

4.Capgemini
1. While doing P2v if it got failed at 32% how will you troubleshoot it.
2. Pre requisites for Vcenterserver
3. Communication b/w vcenter & Esxi port number
4. Port number of Life cycle Manger
5. Vphere7.0 vmotion features latest
6. Which version you are using in HP model G9, G10 firmware
7. How to disable P2v configure port
 8. Difference b/w MBR and GPT & how will you convert it
9. How to restart vpxa and host D agents (/etc/init. d/hostd restart. /etc/init. d/vpxa restart.)
10. Upgradation of vcs
11. What is lot size
It is the storage size up to which the virtual machine files on datastores can grow. This includes log
files, VMX files,
12. AD replications components and port number
Sites.
Subnets.
Servers.
NTDS Settings.
Connections.
Site Links.
NTDS Site Settings.
Cross-reference.
Active Directory Replication, Login services port 445. Kerberos Passwords, port 464. Authentication
port UDP 137. Authentication port TCP 137.

13. How to recover LTD account

14. What is the process to boot 2019
15. What is page file
16. What is para virtual SCSI controller
PVSCSI adapters are high-performance storage adapters that can result in greater
throughput and lower CPU utilization. PVSCSI adapters are best for environments,
especially SAN environments, where hardware or applications drive a very high amount
of I/O throughput.
17. Vcenter server got crashed how will you restart the services & which services are in
enable state and disable state
18. If vcenter server went down Features Will work, how they work, if not Why they don’t
work
19. How to troubleshoot BSOD error

5.Mindtree
1. How to convert MBR to GPT without using tool and without downtime?
2. DHCP reservation and DHCP backend process
3. DNS backup
4. EVC
5. DRS rules
6.MindTree
1. What is Ad & Ad files & Ad partitions &tell me why we use FSMO?
2. What is Sys vol?
3. What is replication & tell me the process of replication?
The replication of updates between Active Directory objects means that data is sent between
multiple domain controllers to keep replicas of directory partitions synchronized. Multiple
domains are common in large organizations, as are multiple sites in disparate locations.
4. What is Gpm & how to apply the Gpm policies?
5. What is Gpupdate & if the Gpupdate is not working then how u will fix it?
6. What is DNS & backend process & what are the zones involved in that & in the
server the DNS is not installing so what was the issue in that & how you will fix that?
7. What are the differences between 2012 & 2016 of windows server?
8. What is Kerberos & why we use the Kerberos protocol?
Kerberos is a protocol for authenticating service requests between trusted hosts across an
untrusted network, such as the internet. 
Advantages of Kerberos
 Passwords aren't exposed to eavesdropping.
 Password is only typed to the local workstation. ...
 Password guessing more difficult.
 Single Sign-on. ...
 Stolen tickets hard to reuse. ...
 Much easier to effectively secure a small set of limited access machines (the AS's)
 Easier to recover from host compromises.

9. What is KCC?
KCC Offers trainings on Cloud Management and Automation, Data Center Virtualization,
Desktop and Mobility, Network Virtualization, Digital Business Transformation.
10. Tell me the 10 major differences between the Gpt & Mbr?

7.LTI infotech company

1.DNS issues
2.AD issues
3.ESXI host prechecks
4.ESXI upgradation
5.what is vmotion.
6.vmotion one data centre to another data centre is possible or not
7.what is VMware
8.what is vSphere
9.how to download update manager
10.current team members how do you describe

8.BETSOL
1.Day to Day activities in Wintel and VMware?
2.What kind of changes and Requests You have been performed Wintel and VMware?
3.What are Domain Wide and Forest Wide FSMO Roles?

The two forest-wide roles, the Schema Master and the Domain Naming Master exist on a per-

forest basis.
Meanwhile, the three-remaining domain-wide roles - the PDC (Primary Domain Controller)
Emulator (PDCe), RID (Relative Identifier) Master, and Infrastructure Master - exist for
each domain in the forest.
4.What RID master?
5.Can we Keep Infrastructure master and Global CatLog in one server?
If the server holding the infrastructure master is also a global catalog it won’t ever see any
differences, since the global catalog holds a partitial copy of every object in the forest itself.
Therefore, the infrastructure master won’t do anything in its domain.
6.What is the Port number of DNS? 53
7.What are Record’s in DNS?
8.Have you heard of TEXT record?
TXT records are multi-purpose records. While most DNS records contain data only for
machines, this record type can also include human-readable instructions. TXT records are
commonly used to store contact details and general information about a domain.
9.WHat is DNS recursion?
The preferred name resolution method is called recursion. Generally speaking, recursion
refers to the process of having the DNS server itself to make queries to other DNS servers on
behalf of the client who made the original request. In essence, the DNS server becomes a
DNS client.
10.What is STUB zone?
 A stub zone is a copy of a zone that contains only those resource records necessary to identify the
authoritative Domain Name System (DNS) servers for that zone.

11.What is the difference between Forwarders and conditional Forwarders?

12.What is the difference Between Domain Admin and Enterprises admin Security Group?
13.A user has created in which Group you will assign him?
14.What are domain local and universal Groups?
15.Diffrence between MBR and GPT? How many partitions can be done in MBR and GPT?
The main differences between MBR and GPT are as follows: ✦ MBR disks can only be
divided into 4 primary partitions or 3 primary partitions + 1 extended partition,
while GPT has no limit on the number of partitions (Windows supports up to 128 partitions).
✦ MBR maximum disk size is 2 TB, but GPT can support 256 TB.
17.What are The RAID types?
Raid 0, Raid1, Raid 5, Raid 10
18.Have you Worked on GPM? What level Policies can be applied?
19.Which policy is most Preferred?
20.What is loop back policy?
Group Policy Loopback Processing comes into play if you want to assign user policies to computer
objects. This feature is especially useful in large organizations.

21.in VMware which versions you have worked on?

22.What are OVA and OVF files?
23.What is the Difference between OVA and OVF?
24.How to upgrade CPU for a VM without Shutting Down the VM?
25.What is the Thin and Thick Previsioning?
26.How to covert the VM from Thick to thin?
27.What are File you see in the datastore in VM folder?
28.If. NV ram is deleted What will happen? will it affect VM?
29.have you came Across Orphaned VM?
 An orphaned VM is a virtual machine that has been disconnected from its host. This problem
happens in various network virtualization systems, indicating that a single virtual machine is not
correctly connected to the greater software environment.

30.What is the Difference Btw Standard switch and distributed Switch?

A standard vSwitch works within one ESX/ESXi host only. Distributed switches allow
different hosts to use the switch as long as they exist within the same host cluster.
A distributed vSwitch extends its ports and management across all the servers in a cluster,
supporting up to 500 hosts per distributed switch.
31.What is DRS? Which licence is required for that?
32.Steps to install patches for esxi? issues faced while installing patches?
33.Have you encountered PSOD? What was the Issue?
34.Have you Configured ESXI from Scratch? (installing ESXI)
35.What is the Hardware used in ESXI?
It is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on server hardware without the need for an
operating system. ESXi allows multiple virtual machines (VMs) to run on a single physical
server, each with its own operating system, applications, and virtual hardware resources,
including virtual CPUs, memory, storage, and networking.

9.BETSOL 2nd round

1How to add server to Nagios

2.How to resolve CPU utilization if one user. Utilization is increasing for next 1hr what are
the necessary steps.

3.Disk utilization parameters for particular windows server. What is the protocol u will use.

4.Have u deployed any new server?

5.Windows server what we need to enable in windows server. What u will do.

6. Change process

7.day to day responsibilities?

8.what all are tickets u handled in wintel and VMware explain any 2?

9.in raid 1 one of the disks is corrupted. What is the steps u need to take for changing to new
disk.
10.if network team is upgrading the port switches without any intimation. There are many
critical VMs are running. What all are the steps u will take and how u will work network
team to resolve the issues.

10.Frontier business solutions Pvt ltd

1.what is the difference between desktop and server.

2.what is HA and DRS

3. Explain about RAID configuration

4. How to restore the data in the newly added disk for the raid configuration.

5.what is NIC teaming

6.how to increase the disk space

7.how to configure IP address for HP servers in ILO.

8.Any P1 issue.

9.why, we need to do Snapshot consolidation.

10.what is the datacentre and cluster?

11.what is the distributed switch.

12.vcenter sever upgrade.

11.NTT Data

1. ESXI host not responding. How to troubleshoot?

2. What is HA?

3. What is HA Agent?

4. What is admission control?

It is one of techniques that is widely used in virtual-circuit networks to keep congestion at

bay. The idea is do not set up a new virtual circuit unless the network can carry the added
traffic without becoming congested.

5.What is ballooning?
Memory ballooning makes the guest operating system aware of the host's memory shortage.
Virtualization providers such as VMware enable memory ballooning. VMware
memory ballooning, Microsoft Hyper-V dynamic memory, and the open source KVM
balloon process are similar in concept.

6.What is DRS?

7.What is VMkernel?

VMkernel is a POSIX-like operating system developed by VMware. The VMkernel is the

liaison between virtual machines (VMs) and the physical hardware that supports them. The
VMkernal is responsible for allocating memory, scheduling CPUs and providing other
hardware abstraction and operating system (OS) services. 
8.What port groups are there in VSS?

Virtual standard switch has 4 port groups defined – 3 for VM communication and one
VMKernel port group. When Yellow VLAN 10 or Red VLAN 20 (or any VLAN ID in the
range of 1 to 4094) is allocated to a port group, the virtual switch strips tag when delivering it
to VM or VMKernel port in this group.

9.What port groups in Distributed switch?

10.SAN and NAS difference?

NAS is a single storage device that serves files over Ethernet and is relatively inexpensive
and easy to set up, while a SAN is a tightly coupled network of multiple devices that is more
expensive and complex to set up and manage

11.Fibre channel and ISCSI difference?

Fiber Channel is a kind of high-performance but expensive storage network. It requires you
specialized admin skill sets. Fiber Channel is famous for its high building rating,
management difficulty and inflexibility (due to incompatibilities between vendor and
products). ISCSI charges you less and is much easier to deploy and manage than FC.

12.What is Host swapping?

The host reserves a certain amount of space for swapping to the host cache. If you have a vSphere license
to set up a virtual flash resource, you can use the resource to configure the

13.How to do ESXI patching. Detailed process?

14.Vcenter down. How to troubleshoot?

15.Not able to increase disk, what is the reason?

16.What are snapshot files?

17.Taking snapshot with memory and without memory. What is the difference?
18.If any changes done, what happen to snapshot if change is successful and what if it is
unsuccessful?

12.inspirisys solution Ltd

What is RADI 1&5

WHAT difference between vsphere & vCenter

What is vmotion

WHAT is svmotion
When we use svmotion

When do you do v2v

What is DNS. How to test that weather DNS server is working or not

What is different between DHCP & STATIC IP

What is DHCP IP

What is DHCP

In service now what are the different ticket u handled

What is ILO use for

Can we install windows OS using ILO

What are the application running in u r infra

13.Technical round: inspirisys pvt limited

1.explain raid

2. Difference between raid 1& raid 5

3. If raid 5 having 1TB each disk (total 10disks) after configuring raid5 what is total
capacity of disk

4.what is hardening

Systems hardening is a collection of tools, techniques, and best practices to reduce

vulnerability in technology applications, systems, infrastructure, firmware, and other areas.

5.explain itsm tools

IT Service Management (ITSM) Tools enable IT operations organizations, specifically

infrastructure and operations (I&O) managers, to better support the production environment. 

6. What P1 & P2 tickets

7 for what priority based on ticket is P1 Or P2

8.difference between 2012 &2016

9.what is difference between snapshot &clone

10.explain storage vmotion

11. Why do we use Storage vmotion

12.explain Vmotion

13.what is cluster

14. Explain difference between vsphere &vcenter

15. What is gateway

A gateway is a network node used in telecommunications that connects two networks
with different transmission protocols together.

16.what is subnet mask

A subnet mask is used to divide an IP address into two parts. One part identifies the host
(computer), the other part identifies the network to which it belongs. 

17.explain dhcp

18.how to validate dns server working or not?

Open the Command Prompt. · Type ipconfig /all and press Enter. · Look for the DNS
Servers entry to check your DNS settings and verify that they.

19.what is your technical strengths?

20. Explain memory utilization

21.explain hardware issue

22.explain GPO? Can we apply GPO per particular user??

23.what is limitations of group policy management
Limitations of GPOs
Flexibility is limited -- GPOs can only be applied to users or computers. So they're limited
when it comes to applying settings based on context. Limited triggers -- GPOs can only be
applied at computer startup, when a user logs on or at set intervals.

14.NTT Company Questions (Mylan Client)

1.Host D Means what

2.Host D Restart Means What Happened to VM's

3.difference between Db switch & Standard switch

4.open trunk port to closed trunk port

A trunk port allows you to send all those signals for each switch or router across a single
trunk link. 

5.how many ways we can upgrade the esxi host...tell me details explaining.

ILO, Putty, Update manager

6.what affinity & anti-affinity rule, y we use.

Affinity and anti-affinity rules create relationship between virtual machines (VMs) and hosts.
The rule can be applied to VMs, or a VM and a host. The rule either keeps the VMs and hosts
together (affinity) or separated (anti-affinity). Policies are applied during individual VM
deployment.

7.what basic disk & dynamic disc

A basic disk using the GPT partition style can have up to 128 primary partitions, while
dynamic disks will have a single LDM partition as with MBR partitioning.

8.how to increase data store

9.what is kernel port & vm port group

 The VMkernel port is a virtual adapter; that is, it is a special device with which the vSphere
host communicates with the outside world.

VM port groups are a way that we can create logical rules around the virtual ports that
are made available to VMs.

10.how to trouble shoot exsi host issues

11.how to create a root password if it is expired

12.how to add alternative DNS server IP to vCenter server

Procedure
1. In the vCenter Server Management Interface, click Networking.
2. From the Network Settings page, click Edit.
3. Expand the Hostname and DNS section to configure the DNS settings. ...
4. From the Network Settings page, click Edit.
5. Expand the NIC0 section to configure the gateway settings. ...
6. Edit the IPv4 address settings.

13.how fdm works in the back-end process

The FDM communicates directly with both the hostd agent and the vCenter Server. The
hostd agent, which runs on the host server, is required for vSphere HA to function correctly.
If the hostd agent is not functioning, the FDM puts all vSphere HA functions on hold until the
agent is operational again.

14. How to upgrade the DB switch? Is there any business impact??

The DB->upgrade () method upgrades all of the databases included in the file, if

necessary. If no upgrade is necessary, DB->upgrade () always returns success. Database
upgrades are done in place and are destructive.15.how, do you check load balancer

To increase the size of a database

Expand Databases, right-click the database to increase, and then click Properties. In
Database Properties, select the Files page. To increase the size of an existing file, increase the
value in the Initial Size (MB) column for the file.

15.Hcl Interview Questions

1.Tell about your day to day activities.

2.How to download vm log files by using cmd.

3.How to delete and Revert the Snapshot.

4.How many snapshots we can take for a vm.

5.Types of snapshot.

6.Vmotion issues .

7. If esxi host disconnected how to troubleshoot.

8.Types of physical storage adapters.

9.What is the difference between standard switch and Distribued switch.

10.How to add particular drive from one vm to another vm.

11.Can we upgrade VMware tools from 8-19.

12.vmottion port number.

13.vcenter port number.

14.How to restart host by using cmd.

15.If Rdm disk is corrupted as VMware administrator what will you do.

16.Firmware upgradation for proliant servers .

17.What is the difference between vcenter server 6.0 and 7.0.

18. What is psc.

19.If vm got corrupted how will you troubleshoot it.

20.By default vmfs file size is 1Tb for which data store it will be configured.

21. Where can you find the psc option in Vcenter server.

16.Company: Tecplix

What are the issues u are facing every day in u r infra

How to trouble shoot DCUI console is in Hung state

How do u install patches...if patching fail how do you troubleshoot it

17.Company:Infosys

1.what is AD and fsmo roles.

2.what is HA,FT,DRS.

3.how to u increase vm disk .

4.what is snapshot and what happens when u choose to include ram content?

5.what is reverse lookup zone?

6.what is static and dynamic ip?

7.What is change management and incident management?

8.what is problem ticket?

9.Explain about clustering?

10.workgroup and domain difference

11.command used to update a gpo ?

 Ans : gpupadate /force

12.why do we use group policy?

13. how does dns work?

14. How do u check logs of server?

Ans: event viewer

15.RDP issues.

18.Company: Tecplix

1.Tell me about ur organisation?(all past companies)

2.how do u upgrade esxi host?

3.How do u troubleshoot bsod issue?

4.what is snapshot and it's files?

5.what is thin and thick provisioning?

19.Company:LTI mindtree

1. how many years of experience do you have?

2. Tell me the role of yours in AD?

3. What is the tool used to unlock the account if it's getting locked frequently?

4. Do you know about replication?

5. where will you check replication?

6. I want to create 2 policies in one GPO..can I able to create?

7. If CEO of the company wants 2 policies in one GPO then what will you do?

8. DHCP, DNS, LDAP, Kerberos port numbers?

9. Sysvol folder?

10. If PDC gets down, what will happen?