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Top 30 Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) Interview Questions and Answers

Your Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert certification has gotten you in the door, and you’re about to have an interview for what could be your dream job. Nice! But are you ready for what comes next? What kind of questions are you likely to be asked? Let’s find out!

Level 1: You want me to do what now?

  1. We have a new clustered application that will be coming online in the next several months and have been debating about whether to use Windows Server 2016 Standard or Datacenter. The new cluster may have to be multi-site, but we aren’t entirely sure yet. What do you think?

    For base level cluster functionality, Windows Server 2016 Standard and Datacenter versions will both do the same jobs. When scaling up, however, that’s really where Datacenter starts to shine. Datacenter is the only version that supports Storage Replica — a method of replicating data quickly from server to server without the potential massive expense of high-level storage appliances. For this reason specifically, when using geographically-separated cluster nodes it is definitely worth looking at Datacenter despite the additional cost. Finding out what additional resources would be available at each site would help tremendously when figuring out a final plan.

    2. We have inconsistent issues with resolving systems and websites in the domain in a specific physical network location. The networking hardware itself is clean, DNS has already been ruled out and the servers themselves are known good systems. What would you suggest looking at?

    ARP caching would absolutely be a good place to start looking for this issue. Where DNS resolves hosts-to-IP-addresses, ARP exists one step lower and resolves IP-addresses-to-MAC-addresses of individual systems. At the gateway of a network, requests come in all the time for different machines and routes them accordingly. If a request comes (Read more...)

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