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| 80, HyperText Transport Protocol |
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| SMTP port, acronym & purpose? |
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| 25, Simple Mail Transport Protocol, used for email transmission |
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| 22, Secure Shell, remote command line |
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| 110, Post Office Protocol, delivers the mail locally, usually pulling off the server onto the client |
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| 143, Internet Message Access Protocol, retains the messages on the server while keeping a local client copy |
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| 389, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, vendor neutral distributed directory for standard applications |
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| HTTPS (secure) port & acronym |
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| 443, HyperText Transport Protocol over SSL |
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| IMAP over SSL port (secure)? |
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| 993, Internet Message Access Protocol over SSL |
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| 995, Post Office Protocol over SSL |
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| What is DFS stand for? What does it do? |
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| DFS stands for Distributed File System, admins use it to virtual unify or group shared folders on different servers by transparently connecting them to one or more DFS name spaces. |
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| A virtual view of grouped shared folders on different servers as provided by DFS: Distributed File System. DFS root os something users can browse to through their Windows Explorer domain tree. |
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| What tool in Active Directory that installs and removes AD domain services and promotes DCs? It also builds forests and domains in AD and is found in every version since Windows 2000. |
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| What is the difference between thin and thick provision layers in VMware? |
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| Thin allocates space on the fly while thick allocates the disk in a single shot. Thin has a small performance on expanded disks. |
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| Performance RAID with Striping and no parity |
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| Mirroring of 2 or more disks, no performance Striping |
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| Striping with distributed Parity of 3 or more disks, minimum of 3 disks |
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| Striping with Double Distributed Parity of 4 or more disks, allows for failure of 2 disks |
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| PTR (pointer) record is a Reverse lookup record, IP to DNS. Opposite of a standard A record: DNS name to IP. |
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| What is a DNS "A" record? |
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| Translates a DNS name to an IP (douche.com to 192.168.3.45) |
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| How do you force a Group Policy update on a client machine? |
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| What command do you use for creating and modifying DFS name spaces? |
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| What tool helps admins diagnose Active Directory replication problems between Domain Controllers running Windows OS? |
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| What is a LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) editor that you can use to manage objects and attributes in Active Directory? |
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| ADSI Edit: provides a view of every object and attribute in the AD Forest. |
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| What tool is used to join computers to the domain and establish trust relationships? |
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| What is FSMO (FiZMO) and how many operation roles are there? |
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| FSMO means Flexible or Floating Single Master Operation and is a specialized DC set of tasks, where standard data transfer and update methods are inadequate. There are 5 of them: 2 at the Forest level and 3 at the Domain level. |
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| What is a host file (LMHOSTS)? |
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| Resolves DNS or Netbios names to IPs and is hosted on the local machine. The host file takes precedence over DNS, a computer will go to the Default Gateway or DNS server if a host file is not specified. |
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| What tool would you use if you cannot access RDP (Remote Desktop) and wanted to run commands on a remote computer? |
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| What tool would you use if moving a VM (Virtual machine) from one host to another in VMware? |
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| What is the OSI model, how many layers are there and what are they? |
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| The OSI model is a used to describe the 7 layers of Networking. They are ALL PEOPLE SEEM TO NEED DOMINOES PIZZA: Application, Presentation, Session, Transport, Network, Data link and Physical |
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| What is the difference between .pst and .ost files? What are they used for? |
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Outlook Data Files (.pst) are used to create backups or archives of your Outlook folders (POP,IMAP and web-based email accounts).
Outlook Data (.ost) are used when you have an Exchange account and want to work Offline (o=offline) |
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| What is a .plist? What is it used for? |
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| A .plist file is a preference file and is used to save configurations and preferences for Mac applications. |
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| How many twisted pairs does Cat5 have? |
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| How many twisted pairs does Cat6 have? |
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| What tool can you use to list currently used TCP ports? |
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| Netstat -a -n -o displays current network traffic at the port level |
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| What is an infrastructure used for managing data and operations on Windows-based OSes? With this you can also write scripts or applications to automate admin tasks on remote computers? |
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| WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) |
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| WMI filters allow you to dynamically determine the scope of GPOs based on the attributes of the target computer (ex. apply the GP Windows XP machine with an Intel processor) |
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| What is used NSlookup used for? |
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| NSlookup [IP address] is used to determine the DNS (name) of a specified IP. |
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| How do you install a software package using Group Policy? |
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| Go into Group Policy Management, GP Edit> click on Computer Configuration>Software settings>choose package. |
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| HSRP (Hot-Standby Router Protocol) is a Cisco proprietary redundancy protocol used for establishing a fault-tolerant gateway. |
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