I had a 2 hour layover and was browsing the newsgroups. A person posted a question wondering about interview questions regarding IIS and .NET 2.0. I'm sure there are many other questions that I didn't think to ask, here is the list I came up with. If you have any questions, feel free to post them to the comments and I'll update the thread.
PS: This is meant for a 'systems' or 'itpro' type person and not necessarily a developer type individual.
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How do you isolate and troubleshoot an ASP and / or ASP.NET application?
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What is your idea of locking down a server?
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How do you feel about having developers or anyone else making changes directly in production? Aka how do you normally handle change management.
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What perfmon counters do you find useful in troubleshooting an IIS or related problem.
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Do you have experience in working with web-farms, load-balancing environments?
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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?
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Are you familiar with DFS?
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What debugging tools do you use for IIS?
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What / Where would you put global .NET settings. How would you lock them down?
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Do you have any experience with SSL certificates?
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Do you have experience with machines with multiple IP's and how to handle several sites / applications on a machine.
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What is your preference of handling machine accounts? Do you like local vs. Active Directory based accounts.
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Do you have experience with working in an AD environment that supports IIS.
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Do you have experience with NLB (network load balancing) that comes with IIS.
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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.
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Are you familiar with compression and the benefits.
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Do you know what MIME types are for?
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Do you know how to list all running applications on a server to determine which application pools are owned by what sites. (IISAPP)
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Are you familiar with IISState, IIS Debug Diag. SSL Diag, SMTPDiag in the resource kit.
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What tools do you use or have experience in load-testing an application.
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What are some of the tools provided by MS. WCAT, TinyGet, WAST.
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Do you know how to configure host-headers and how they related to DNS.
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What is your backup and recovery strategy for IIS
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How would you handle migrating to another box?
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How do you handle changes in IIS, scripting or manual changes?
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Are you familiar with scripting languages such as VBScript, JScript, Powershell.
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Are you familiar with IISCfg and related scripts such as adsutil
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Do you have experience supporting multiple environments of IIS (different domains, dev / test /integration / production)
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Are you familiar with ways to connect to remote databases such as db2, oracle, sql server
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Do you know the differences between anonymous, integrated, basic, digest authentication.
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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.
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Are you familiar with the other services in SMTP, FTP?
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Do you know how to configure a smarthost?
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Does the built-in FTP service support host-headers?
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Do you know the benefits of using a COM+ package vs. Regsvr32
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What certain local group is necessary if it is configured as a application pool user.
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Do you know how to check a COM+ component to ensure it will not leak memory.