General IIS related questions
- How do you isolate and troubleshoot an ASP and / or ASP.NET application?
- What is your idea of locking down a server?
- How do you feel about having developers or anyone else making changes directly in production? Aka how do you normally handle change management.
- What perfmon counters do you find useful in troubleshooting an IIS or related problem.
- Do you have experience in working with web-farms, load-balancing environments?
- 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?
- Are you familiar with DFS?
- What debugging tools do you use for IIS?
- What / Where would you put global .NET settings. How would you lock them down?
- Do you have any experience with SSL certificates?
- Do you have experience with machines with multiple IP’s and how to handle several sites / applications on a machine.
- What is your preference of handling machine accounts? Do you like local vs. Active Directory based accounts.
- Do you have experience with working in an AD environment that supports IIS.
- Do you have experience with NLB (network load balancing) that comes with IIS.
- 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.
- Are you familiar with compression and the benefits.
- Do you know what MIME types are for?
- Do you know how to list all running applications on a server to determine which application pools are owned by what sites. (IISAPP)
- Are you familiar with IISState, IIS Debug Diag. SSL Diag, SMTPDiag in the resource kit.
- 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.
- Do you know how to configure host-headers and how they related to DNS.
- 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.
- Do you know how to check a COM+ component to ensure it will not leak memory.
IIS7
- 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
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- how many web.config files are there in 1 project.we can overwrite the web.config files
- Types of authentications in IIS?
- What are different authentication types. How do you retreive user id in case of windows authentication.
- How a proxy is generated for a web service ?
- How a web service is exposed to outside world ?
- What are webservices, its attributes. Where they are available ?
- About stateless and state full web service ?
- What happens when a reference to web service is added ?
- How do you consume a web service ?
- Types of authentications in IIS?
- Did you work on IIS adminisdtration ?
- How do you administer Connection Pooling in IIS 4.0?
- How do you administer Connection Pooling in IIS 3.0?
- How do you remotely administer MS IIS?
- How do you create Virtual Root in IIS?
- How would you go about securing IIS and MS-SQL Server?