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Windows and Citrix Interview Questions

This document contains questions divided into two sections - Windows and Citrix. The Windows section includes questions about Active Directory objects, organizational units (OUs), group policy objects (GPOs), ports, DNS, DHCP, WINS, terminal services, user profiles, scripting, and PowerShell. The Citrix section focuses on XenApp and includes questions about versions, load balancing, session reliability, the Citrix components like the load evaluator, XML broker and zones, application publishing methods, plugins, monitoring, deploying applications and hotfixes, load balancing, policies, and .ICA files.

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Windows and Citrix Interview Questions

This document contains questions divided into two sections - Windows and Citrix. The Windows section includes questions about Active Directory objects, organizational units (OUs), group policy objects (GPOs), ports, DNS, DHCP, WINS, terminal services, user profiles, scripting, and PowerShell. The Citrix section focuses on XenApp and includes questions about versions, load balancing, session reliability, the Citrix components like the load evaluator, XML broker and zones, application publishing methods, plugins, monitoring, deploying applications and hotfixes, load balancing, policies, and .ICA files.

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Questiones are sectioned into 2 parts

1. Windows
2. Citrix
Windows questions
------------------------1. Explain me about OU(Organizational Unit) and GPO and their relationship.
2. What are the tools/Commands you use to apply/Manage GPO?
3. What are Active directory objects?
4. What is GC(Global Catalogue)?
5. What is the command we use to list all the open ports in our network infrastr
ucture?
6. Network utility commands?
7. Explain TCP/IP and UDP
8. Explain DNS and Forward & Reverse lookup zones.
Ans- Explain DNS then Forward lookup is name-to-address resolution, the reverse
lookup is address-to-name.
9. Explain DHCP and how does it works? Explain the Scopes, reservations and para
meters of reservations.
[Link] WINS and netbios
[Link] Terminal Server, versions, Terminal server licensing.
[Link] TCP/IP port numbers in Windows like: FTP, SMTP, HTTP, HTTPS, TELNE
T, etc.
[Link] Unicast, Multicast and broadcast
[Link] are the performance monitoring tools you use in windows. Explain how?
[Link] many types of user profiles are there?
Ans- Roming profile and mandatory profiles.
[Link] kind of scripts you have worked with, whether they were written in Comma
ndline or VB script.?
[Link] much you know about powershell?
[Link] more I forgot.. :-(
Citrix Questions:
-------------------------1. What is Citrix XenApp all about? give a brief overview.
2. What are the different versions you have worked with
3. why are we using citrix, why not Microsoft terminal services
4. Explain: session keep alive and session reliability
5. Explain LHC, Data store, Data collector, Load evaluator(types), XML broker, Z
ones
6. How do you consider, which database should be best for your environment
7. What do you do to check when data store connection is lost from a particular
server
Ans: Check with DSCHECK command
8. What happens when Datasote is not contactable. what is the grace period(96 Hr
s)
9. What are the commands you use to check or maintain your LHC
and: explain DSCHECK and DSMAINT /recreate or DSMAINT /refresh commands
[Link] Application renumeration process
[Link] command you use to bring back any server to load balance
Ans- enableLB
[Link] can you disable session sharing
Ans: Through registry
[Link] all the citrix port numbers: ICA(1494), IMA(2512), License Server(270
00), License mananagament console(8082), SQL(1433), HTTP(8080), HTTPS/SSL(443),
Session reliability(2598), Management consoles(2513)
[Link] many maximum number of zones you can create.
Ans- 4
[Link] many and name types of Zone Data collector.
Ans- 4, most preferred, preferred, default, not preferred.

[Link] are the methods of the application publising.. Explain


[Link] are the types of plugins you have
[Link] can you do with Delivery services console and Advanced console(Explain a
dministration tasks you perform)
[Link] is the command you use to check the load of your servers accross the far
m
[Link] is client to server content re-direction.
[Link] do you monitor farm performances
[Link] you ever deployed applications/hotfixes using consoles
[Link] data collector collects data from all individual servers or from any sin
gle point of server.
[Link] policies are deplyed in citrix along with GPO(explain hirarchy)?
[Link] does Citrix load balancing work?
[Link] is an .ICA File, What is contained inside an ica File?
[Link] more, I forgot.. :-(

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