Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) Interview Preparation Guide

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Patch management is an area of systems management that involves acquiring, testing, and installing multiple patches (code changes) to an administered computer system. Patch management tasks include: maintaining current knowledge of available patches, deciding what patches are appropriate for particular systems, ensuring that patches are installed properly, testing systems after installation, and documenting all associated procedures, such as specific configurations required. A number of products are available to automate patch management tasks, including Ringmaster’s Automated Patch Management, Patch Link Update, and Gibraltar’s Ever guard

TCP - Transfer Control Protocol.

* a. Reliable
* b.Connection oriented.
* c.Acknowledgement

UDP - User Datagram Protocol.

* a.Non Reliable
* b.Connectionless
* c.No Acknowledgement

It is a set of rules defining a very simple virtual terminal interaction. The NVT is used in the start of a Telnet session.

It is a simple protocol used to exchange information between the routers.

It is a very simple protocol used for transmission of IP datagrams across a serial line.

It is an authentication service developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kerberos uses encryption to prevent intruders from discovering passwords and gaining unauthorized access to files.

It is any routing protocol used within an autonomous system.

It is the protocol the routers in neighboring autonomous systems. It is used to identify the set of networks that can be reached within or via each autonomous system.

NETBIOS is a programming interface that allows I/O requests to be sent to and received from a remote computer and it hides the networking hardware from applications. NETBEUI is NetBIOS extended user interface. A transport protocol designed by Microsoft and IBM is for the use on small subnets.

Packet filter is a standard router equipped with some extra functionality. The extra functionality allows every incoming or outgoing packet to be inspected. Packets meeting some criterion are forwarded normally. Those that fail the test are dropped.

Redirector is software that intercepts file or prints I/O requests and translates them into network requests. This comes under presentation layer.

GSM is a short-range wireless technology and is usually used in the mobile phones, hand help devices, MP3 players, Laptops, computers and in cars.

Frame relay is high-speed data communication technology that operates at the physical and data link layers of the OSI model. Frame relay uses frames for data transmission in a network.

RAS or remote access server allows you to remote dial in through the desktop computers, laptops, and GSM mobile phones.

Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology that uses radio waves for communication. Many mobile phones, laptops, MP3 players have built in features of the Bluetooth.

VOIP or voice over internet protocol is a technology that uses IP based networks such as internet or private networks to transmit the voice communication.

VPN or virtual private network is used to connect two networks by means internet. VPN uses PPTP (point-to-point tunneling protocol) and other security procedures to make a secure tunnel on internet.

UDP or user datagram protocol is a connectionless protocol that is used to transfer the data without any error handling.

SMTP - 25, POP3 - 110, IMAP4 - 143, RPC - 135, LDAP, FTP-21, HTTP-80

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is used to access the directory services from the Active directory in Windows operation systems.

The seven layers of the OSI are Application, Presentation, Sessions, Transport, Network, Data Link, and Physical layer.

WiFi is a next form of the WiFi. WiMax is a high-speed broadband network technology that is designed for the corporate offices, roaming and home users.

WiFi or wireless fidelity is a base-band network technology that is used for the wireless data communication.