1- Typically, managed switches are daisy chained via a single Ethernet cable connecting one switch to the other, in what circumstances would you use a stacking cable and/or the SFP ports to achieve stacking and typically what sort of a throughput are you likely to achieve?

2- What is VLAN 0 and what is the difference between a tagged port and an untagged port on a VLAN switch port.

3- Why would you turn on spanning tree in a standard network environment?

4- On a network where QoS needs to be introduced for VoIP would you choose to configure IP Precedence or DSCP and what your reasons behind this?

5- Briefly explain the physical layout of how you would setup HA for a firewall in passive mode with a single WAN connection on port 1 and two internal VLAN connections on port 2.

6- In what scenario would you choose to use Jumbo frames on a switched network? What are the pros and cons of Jumbo frames?

7- In what circumstances would you choose RAID 10 over RAID 6 in storage configuration?

8- What's the difference between a licensed DRAC/ILO port on a server and an unlicensed one? What features will be missing?

9- What’s difference between thin and thick provisioning of disks in a virtual environment?

10- How can shadow copies on a mapped drive originating from a file server be restricted only to a few individual active directory users?

11- How do you achieve a 40Gb uplink from a server to a 10Gb layer two switch in non stacking mode?

12- How would you safely remove a Hyper-V server from a failover cluster?

13- What is the different between a VBK, VIB, VRB file in Veeam?

14- When VMotion stops working what are the first three things you would check?

15- What is a Veeam backup proxy and why is it implemented in server infrastructures?

16- What is the benefit of having SAN (Storage Area Network) storage vs DAS (Direct Attached Storage) storage in a virtualised environment?

17- You have been tasked to create three virtual machines on a single Hyper-V host that require to carry traffic to different VLANs how do you achieve this?

18- In a virtualised VMware environment what does the term DRS stand for and what is its use case?

19- The default domain controller group policy has been deleted by accident how would this affect the domain?

20- You have identified a slow running virtual machine and have further pinpointed the issue to be with the virtual disk rather than the physical disks present on the virtual host, how do you look to diagnose or resolve this issue further?

21- Why would you set TTL on an external DNS record to 300 and in what circumstances a higher TTL is recommended?

22- On a windows file server in what scenario would you choose ReFS over NTFS and what are the benefits?

23- How does taking a backup affect the log files on a SQL and/or Exchange database? Does this need to be configured or does it happen by default?

24- What’s the difference between SMB 2.0 and SMB 3.0? In what scenario’s would you configure SMB 1.0?

25- You need to remotely access the DCUI of a ESXI server located in the datacentre however you do not have IDRAC or ILO access to the physical server but have access to vCenter that manages the host. How would you gain access to the DCUI Interface?

26- How would you keep two virtual machines in a cluster on the same host together and stop them from being separated between different hosts automatically.

27- We have a single Hyper-V host with dual processors that each have 32 cores. We're looking to host 4 Windows Server 2022 Standard virtual machines on this server. How many Windows Server 2022 Standard core licenses would we require for this environment. (The Virtual host will be installed with a Windows Server 2022 Standard operating system)

28- What does an unmap command on VMFS6 file systems in a VMware virtual storage environment achieve?

29- You need to update the firmware on a SAN storage unit with dual controllers. Would updating the firmware for the controllers cause disruption to the hosts connected to it?

30- You have been tasked to mount an ISCSI volume from a network attached storage device to a server. How would you look to secure the ISCSI connection to this host only.

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