ConfigMgr 2007 Interview Questions

I' d like to start a thread that can be captured into a document for posting to the site. Frequently, I receive emails asking for a list of questions to ask ConfigMgr 2007 interviewees, and it would be nice to gather the best questions and make them available on the site.

Post your best interview questions here...

And where are you going to post the best answers to the questions?

The best questions are the ones where there are multiple correct answers.

Here's one:  What are the causes for a slow ConfigMgr07 Console connection and what would you do to make your ConfigMgr Console users' experience better?

Multiple answers to that one--from deep network connectivity fixes, to standing up remote consoles, to replacing the console for most of your Console users to use some other method to get their job done, like a front-end web page, or use reporting instead of trying to use Collections as a reporting medium.  Whatever answer or answers the person provides, you can tell a lot about how much they know about Configmgr, how it works, the pain points and how to work around them.

I suspect we should answer those here, too.  Once we have a good number, we'll wrap them up in a nice PDF.

I think task-based 'How' questions would get you a better understanding of the capability an applicant has over 'What' questions. 'What' questions gauge how much someone knows about the specifics of a component of ConfigMgr and show only a narrow field of experience and technical understanding. 'How' questions are usually open ended and allow the applicant to showcase their solution to the given scenario - which can often be out of the box of your own thinking.

E.g. We want to ensure all our laptops have 5 core apps installed at all times, and when removed - re-installed. How would you do this?
We want to implement NAP in our production environment, how would you begin this task?
Our compliance department, outside of IT, need up-to-the-minute data of computers with specific licensed applications installed. How would you deliver this to them?

My favorite interview challenge is "Tell me about the last ConfigMgr hierarchy you worked on."  You'll get everything from a very detailed explanation of each of the sites and roles and good reasons for the implementation strategy, to "I don't know, it was set up before I started there."

Asking how to inventory locally attached printers will also get some very creative responses.

I want you to put these SCCM Software Deployment concepts in the correct order/hierarchy and explain what they are and how they relate to their neighbors:

(Randomize this list)
Resources
  Collections
    Advertisements
  Packages
Programs

WELL...That went well.

One of my favorites is name a few tables and views out of the SCCM database and tell me what they are used for.

Q1 - How do you confiure the SUP?
 
Q2. - You distributed a software application to some systems in your environment and few are failed, how do u troubleshoot the failure? what steps you will follow on client side and site server side?
 
Q3. - What are the client deployment methods?
 

1. How SCCM clients come to know that they have to use SCCM WSUS?
2. How certificates created in SCCM and what they called?
3. How do you Backup SCCM Server?
4. What are the client deployments methods?
5. How SCCM Communicate securely between sites? And where do you define that setting?
6. Can you discover clients those are in different AD forest?
7. If you acquire a new organization then how will you configure the SCCM Server and manage those systems and  
what you will keep in mind before configuring SCCM server to manage clients.
8. What are the prerequisite for Software Update Point?
9. What is SMS Provider?
10. What is WMI?
11. What is SMS_Def.Mof?

I would ask more about scenarios and possible rollbacks or failures they have encountered. Another big question is if they have used some type of change management process or software. Even if someone is savvy or a novice if they are pushing or installing software and such without approval could be worse than any knowledge of the product.

1. You want specific users\groups to run specific custom reports. What should you do?
2. You have been provided with permissions on the sccm console to create, distribute, modify and delete packages? However, when distributing a package there is no Distribution points listed in the Distripution Point Wizard. What should you do?
3. You want to assign a user a permission to create a specific package under a folder that contains other packages. What should you do?
 

Can  we have primary & secondary sites in different forests ?

Dear Admin,
 
It's really great.
I'm not able to find the any Interview questions related to SCCM on the given site.Please let me the exact location.
 
Thanks for your effort.
 
Regards,
Reddy

Q..
What is the critical situation you faced while working with Software updates...??and how it got resolved...??
 
 
 

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