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

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

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?
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)
1 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


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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