Need help with interview question for IIS 6.0 and .NET 2.0 operati

I have to interview a candidate for a systems engineer position..This is NOT
a developer/coding postion. Its a operations/systems engineer kinda position.

I need to come up with a list of questions to ask him/her in reagrds to
IIS6.0 and .NET 2.0.

I am a developer and I can ask him coding questions but that is not the
position. This person will generally be involved in setting up the server and
maintaining it..Hence the questions need to be around that...

Any help would be appreciated mucho...

thanks

Re: Need help with interview question for IIS 6.0 and .NET 2.0 operati

I'll see if I can toss a few your way. I'm assuming the person is familiar
with IIS. Some basic questions I'm assuming they would know. How do I
create a site, what is an application pool.

1) How do you isolate and troubleshoot an ASP and / or ASP.NET application?
2) What is your idea of locking down a server?
3) How do you feel about having developers or anyone else making changes
directly in production? Aka how do you normally handle change management.
4) What perfmon counters do you find useful in troubleshooting an IIS or
related problem.
5) Do you have experience in working with web-farms, load-balancing
environments?
6) What is your ideal way of handling content. Remote Storage / NAS
(network attached storage) vs. local content and replication. If you use
local content and replication what tools do you to use?
6A) Are you familiar with DFS?
7) What debugging tools do you use for IIS?
8) What / Where would you put global .NET settings. How would you lock them
down?
9)Do you have any experience with SSL certificates?
10) Do you have experience with machines with multiple IP's and how to
handle several sites / applications on a machine.
11) What is your preference of handling machine accounts? Do you like local
vs. Active Directory based accounts.
12) Do you have experience with working in an AD environment that supports
IIS.
13) Do you have experience with NLB (network load balancing) that comes with
IIS.
14) How do you monitor the applications / sites to ensure the uptime is
appropriate. This might apply more to a monitoring environment, but it is
good to know what to monitor.
15) Are you familiar with compression and the benefits.
16) Do you know what MIME types are for?
17) Do you know how to list all running applications on a server to
determine which application pools are owned by what sites. (IISAPP)
18) Are you familiar with IISState, IIS Debug Diag. SSL Diag, SMTPDiag in
the resource kit.
19) What tools do you use or have experience in load-testing an application.
What are some of the tools provided by MS. WCAT, TinyGet, WAST.
2) Do you know how to configure host-headers and how they related to DNS.

Hope this helps.

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Best regards,

Steve Schofield
Windows Server MVP - IIS
http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield


"plsntn_rules" wrote in message
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>I have to interview a candidate for a systems engineer position..This is
>NOT
> a developer/coding postion. Its a operations/systems engineer kinda
> position.
>
> I need to come up with a list of questions to ask him/her in reagrds to
> IIS6.0 and .NET 2.0.
>
> I am a developer and I can ask him coding questions but that is not the
> position. This person will generally be involved in setting up the server
> and
> maintaining it..Hence the questions need to be around that...
>
> Any help would be appreciated mucho...
>
> thanks

Re: Need help with interview question for IIS 6.0 and .NET 2.0 operati

Here a few others I thought of while on the plane. :) These aren't meant to
be an exhaustive list, it should provide some options.


What is your backup and recovery strategy for IIS
How would you handle migrating to another box?
How do you handle changes in IIS, scripting or manual changes?
Are you familiar with scripting languages such as VBScript, JScript,
Powershell.
Are you familiar with IISCfg and related scripts such as adsutil
Do you have experience supporting multiple environments of IIS (different
domains, dev / test /integration / production)
Are you familiar with ways to connect to remote databases such as db2,
oracle, sql server
Do you know the differences between anonymous, integrated, basic, digest
authentication.
What is your preferred method of publishing content? FTP? FrontPage?
WebDAV? Folder copy? Publish to a staging machine and replicate to the
content source either on a nas or individual nodes.
Are you familiar with the other services in SMTP, FTP?
Do you know how to configure a smarthost?
Does the built-in FTP service support host-headers?
Do you know the benefits of using a COM+ package vs. Regsvr32
What certain local group is necessary if it is configured as a application
pool user.

Here are some IIS7 questions.
What makes the IUSR account unique in IIS7 vs. previous versions.
What are some of the new ways of troubleshooting, Logging in IIS7
What are the major benefits of IIS7? (FREB, Integrated Pipeline, IUSR same
on all w2k8 boxes, Shared configuration, Modular architecture, configuration
changes)

..NET 2.0
Can you run the 1.1 and 2.0 on the same box? What are the limitations.
Can you explain what the '/bin' folder is used for.
Do you know what user instancing is.
Do you know the difference between precompiled applications and publishing
the source code.
Do you have any experience with partial trust or CAS (code access security)
What types of things cause an appdomain or application pool recycle.
What are the new folders in .NET 2.0 and what are they used for.

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Best regards,

Steve Schofield
Windows Server MVP - IIS
http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield

http://www.IISLogs.com
Log archival solution.
Install, Configure, Forget

"plsntn_rules" wrote in message
news:13AEE3D4-51E6-4BB9-8F9A-D06065A86AFB@microsoft.com...
>I have to interview a candidate for a systems engineer position..This is
>NOT
> a developer/coding postion. Its a operations/systems engineer kinda
> position.
>
> I need to come up with a list of questions to ask him/her in reagrds to
> IIS6.0 and .NET 2.0.
>
> I am a developer and I can ask him coding questions but that is not the
> position. This person will generally be involved in setting up the server
> and
> maintaining it..Hence the questions need to be around that...
>
> Any help would be appreciated mucho...
>
> thanks

Re: Need help with interview question for IIS 6.0 and .NET 2.0 operati

You caught me in the airport and I thought of one critical .NET 2.0 and IIS
one.

How / why does the machine key need to be the same across all machines in a
web-farm.

I think that is it. Good luck!

--

Best regards,

Steve Schofield
Windows Server MVP - IIS
http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield

"plsntn_rules" wrote in message
news:13AEE3D4-51E6-4BB9-8F9A-D06065A86AFB@microsoft.com...
>I have to interview a candidate for a systems engineer position..This is
>NOT
> a developer/coding postion. Its a operations/systems engineer kinda
> position.
>
> I need to come up with a list of questions to ask him/her in reagrds to
> IIS6.0 and .NET 2.0.
>
> I am a developer and I can ask him coding questions but that is not the
> position. This person will generally be involved in setting up the server
> and
> maintaining it..Hence the questions need to be around that...
>
> Any help would be appreciated mucho...
>
> thanks