Name 2 places or ways you can get the IP address of a Windows 9.X machine?
What are the shortcut keys for "cut", "copy" and "paste" in Windows 9.X?
If you have a piece of hardware in Windows 9.X that is behaving strangely where is someplace on the OS you can look to check it's functionality?
Where in Windows 9.X do you change the Login Domain for that computer?
What key can you hit right before Windows 9.X boots up to get a startup menu?
What are some options from the Windows 9.X startup boot menu?
In Windows 98 what command is run every time the computer is booted and can be run from the "run" menu to backup the registry?
Where in Windows 9.X can you tell what version of Windows you are running?
How would you add File and Print Sharing to a Windows 9.X machine?
How would you enable it?
Describe how you would share folder c:\my folder?
What is the difference between a Windows 9.X peer-to-peer environment and a Client Server environment, assuming Windows NT Server is the server?
What command can you run from the "run" dialog to access a dos shell?
What would the DOS/Win 9.X command be from a DOS shell to remove the hidden attribute from file, c:\secret.bat?
What is the difference between these symbols?
How would you open a file, whose association has been already assigned, if you wanted to open it with another program?
What communication protocols can you add to Windows 9.X?
Where can you find the Machine name for a Windows 9.X machine?
I want you to wipe out the Hard drive partitions, recreate them using LBA, format the drive so that it's bootable and install windows 98 fresh. Describe to me in detail what steps you would take?
Where is the task bar? Where is the system tray? Where is the quick launch (if enabled)? In what folder on the Windows 98 CDROM are the *.cab setup files kept?
What would be the purpose of coping those files to your computer?
What command would you use to edit the registry; and how would you find the key that held the setup file information path?
What are the primary to Registry Files?
Where would you setup dialup networking?
How can you from the Windows 9.X shell tell how much ram a machine has?
Does it matter if you disable antiviral software when you install a new program?
Where in Windows 9.X do you create a start up disk?
Where are documents created in MS word on Windows 98 kept?
NT
How can you tell what version of Windows NT you are running (workstation or server)?
During the setup and installation of an NT Server what are the 3 primary roles an NT Server can play?
What is the difference between the 3 roles?
What command can you run from the "run" dialog to access a command shell?
What is the purpose of the "Gateway" entry in the networking properties?
What is another term for Gateway...what actually is the "gateway"?
What are the numbers between the "."'S called in an IP address 127.0.0.1
What are the difference between Classes A, B and C IP address?
How would you lock your Windows NT desktop?
Are passwords casesensative in Windows NT?
Can a machine with an IP address of 192.168.1.1 subnet 255.255.255.0 see a machine with and IP address of 192.162.1.10 subnet 255.255.255.0?
What command can you use to see if another machine is on the network and responding? What are some IP commands from a system shell that you can run to look at various IP statistics and test connectivity?
If your RAS service has stopped responding where could you go to check to see if RAS was running?
By default what group has permissions to a file or directory when shared under NT?
What 2 places or commands can you use in NT to find out a machines IP address?
Where can you change the domain of an NT workstation to login to another domain?
What command do you use to create an emergency boot disk for NT?
On the Windows NT server or workstation CD, where are the setup *. cabs found, i.e. what directory (assuming you are working on an Intel based PC)?
Which application allows you to add users to an NT Server?
Which application allows you to see shares in use on an NT Server?
In this UNC path, \\mongolia\documents\chris.doc tell me: 1. What is the share name? 2. What is the document name? 3. What is the server name?
What does UNC stand for?
When pinging an IP address what does the "TTL" stand for and how does it function?
You share a directory named c:\money, how would you share that so that only the accounting group could see it and use it, and how could you allow just "Joanne" to have access to c:\money\payroll.doc?
How can you access the task manager in NT?
Where can you see the CPU utilization in NT?
Where are documents created in MS word kept in NT?
Where would you go to add, "users can log on locally" to an NT server?
Describe WINS and it's purpose?
How large can the boot partition be on NT 4.0?
Unix (SCO)
How would you mount a CD in SCO?
Name the command to determine the directory you are currently in?
What is the command to change ownership a file?
What is the command to change permissions on a file?
What command would you use to see who is on the server?
What command would you use to see what process id's each user is using?
Are passwords casesensative in SCO?
What is the command to access the character based administration shell?
What command shows you the current hardware configuration and interrupts?
What command shows you the printers and print jobs?
What command shows you the free space on a system?
If you wanted to print file "chrislist" to printer oki321 what command would you use?
Explain Grep and how you would use it?
What command would you use and what syntax to add 192.1.1.10 to the routing table?
What command will show you the routing table?
How do you create a directory?
With the character editor "VI" how do you exit a file without making any changes?
If you are logged in as root and want to assume another's login .profile, what command would you use with out logging out to become user "chris"=20
You are in the root directory and want to change directories to usr, med, medprogs; what command would you use.
You are in a directory called tmp and you want to remove all files and directories recursively from under that directory, what command would you use? What are some of the options used with the command "mkdev"?
TTYa01 has process ID's of 456 567 9235 running, what command would you use to get rid of all processes running under that port?
What file in SCO UNIX can you define what terminal type a particular port will be assigned?
What are some terminal emulations that you can use with SCO?
What would printer 1's device name be if parallel?
What would print 2's device name be if a second parallel port was installed?
What port would you find a modem on tty1a or tty1A and what would be the difference?
What are 2 backup commands in SCO?
What syntax would you use to backup /usr/spool if using tar?
Where would you find the interfaces files?
Where would you find information on remote printers?
Unix (AIX)
What is the command to access the character based administration shell?
Unix (Linux)
Networking
What category of cable is used in most of today's networks?
Describe routing tables?
Name a utility that you could use to access a router to change routing information?
What program can you use to setup HP Jet direct printers and cards?
What is DNS and how would a lack of DNS address impair an end user who wanted to go to yahoo.com?
What is the difference between a Hub and a Switch?
What is the difference between and define LAN & WAN?
What does BNC stand for?
How many routers do you need for 2 offices to communicate?
Explain what Frame Relay is and how it works?
Explain DSL and how it works?
Basic Hardware
What are the interrupts for Com 1 & 2 (most of the time)?
What is the difference between a db25 male and a db25 female?
Name 3 members of the SCSI family?
Would Xon/Xoff be considered Hardware or Software flow control?
What key would you use to enter an "Award Bios"?
What key would you use to enter a "Phoenix Bios"?
What command will allow you to dial out from most modems?
An end user calls and says that the screen says, "non system disk, replace and hit any key", what could the problem be?
What's the 1st thing that comes to mind when an end user states, "My printer is not printing"
What is the difference between an amber light and a green light on a monitor near the power button?
A dot-matrix printer is printing garbage...what are some of the things that could be wrong (the printer is setup as a serial device)?
A mouse can be hooked up to 3 different types of ports. What are the 3 current types of ports a mouse can use, and how would you describe them to an end-user?
How many lines per page can a dot matrix print on?
How many lines per page can a laser print on?
Name as many printer models as you can?
Name as many dumb serial terminals as you can?
A user calls and states that they are having trouble logging in; name some issues they could be having?
A user calls and states that their modem won't dial out; name some issues they could be having?
When all else fails, tell the user to...?
A user calls and states that after 10 minutes or so, their screen goes black; what could be the issue?
Can more than one more device share the same IRQ?
What's the 1st thing or 1st few things you would do BEFORE upgrading a system?