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But the big negative with this company is that they will ask you how you feel about after hours work, weekend work, and point out that there are numerous on-call "windows" that you'll have to work every month. Not sure if they are looking for applicants to be overly enthusiastic at the prospect of working so many hours, but in my case when I answered in a neutral tone of "that's fine" or "that's OK", they sarcastically came back with "it's part of being in IT" and began digging more by asking more questions about how fast I anticipate I would be able to respond to a call in the middle of the night.
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Windows Systems Administrator

Interviewed at Credit One Bank

3.5
Jun 9, 2016

But the big negative with this company is that they will ask you how you feel about after hours work, weekend work, and point out that there are numerous on-call "windows" that you'll have to work every month. Not sure if they are looking for applicants to be overly enthusiastic at the prospect of working so many hours, but in my case when I answered in a neutral tone of "that's fine" or "that's OK", they sarcastically came back with "it's part of being in IT" and began digging more by asking more questions about how fast I anticipate I would be able to respond to a call in the middle of the night.

1. Brief about yourself 2. What is Unicast, Broadcast and Multicast 3. DHCP Working principle(DORA), Which port DHCP uses, It uses broadcast or unicast, What is relay agent? DHCP is having multiple scope configured, how DHCP knows which scope IP it will assign to the requester? 4. How to check IP with command on a machine? Apart from "/all" which all switch you know for IPconfig. In IPconfig /release & renew command what happens exactly at backend? 5. In one NIC card can we assign 2 different ranges IP address 6. 2 Machines are in same network but they are not able to ping each other. How would you troubleshoot. 7. You are not able to RDP to a machine. How would you troubleshoot. 8. One user is not able to access his home directory. How would you troubleshoot. 9. What is DNS? Port no?It uses TCP or UDP? What types of DNS queries available? What is forwarder and conditional forwarder? 10. What will happen if RID master goes down? PDC emulator responsibility? 11. Port no of: DNS/DHCP/FTP/LDAP/Kerberos/SMTP/SSH 12. How telnet works at backend? 13. 2 machines are in same network. How would machines know that they are in same network? 14.Windows Boot Process 15. What is SVShost.exe process
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Cloud Support Engineer Windows

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Jun 27, 2019

1. Brief about yourself 2. What is Unicast, Broadcast and Multicast 3. DHCP Working principle(DORA), Which port DHCP uses, It uses broadcast or unicast, What is relay agent? DHCP is having multiple scope configured, how DHCP knows which scope IP it will assign to the requester? 4. How to check IP with command on a machine? Apart from "/all" which all switch you know for IPconfig. In IPconfig /release & renew command what happens exactly at backend? 5. In one NIC card can we assign 2 different ranges IP address 6. 2 Machines are in same network but they are not able to ping each other. How would you troubleshoot. 7. You are not able to RDP to a machine. How would you troubleshoot. 8. One user is not able to access his home directory. How would you troubleshoot. 9. What is DNS? Port no?It uses TCP or UDP? What types of DNS queries available? What is forwarder and conditional forwarder? 10. What will happen if RID master goes down? PDC emulator responsibility? 11. Port no of: DNS/DHCP/FTP/LDAP/Kerberos/SMTP/SSH 12. How telnet works at backend? 13. 2 machines are in same network. How would machines know that they are in same network? 14.Windows Boot Process 15. What is SVShost.exe process

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