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IIS Interview Questions


1. What scripts ship with IIS 6.0?
iisweb.vsb to create, delete, start, stop, and list Web sites, iisftp.vsb to create, delete, start, stop, and list FTP sites, iisdir.vsb to create, delete, start, stop, and display virtual directories, iisftpdr.vsb to create, delete, start, stop, and display virtual directories under an FTP root, iiscnfg.vbs to export and import IIS configuration to an XML file.



2. What secure authentication and encryption mechanisms are supported by IIS 6.0?
Basic authentication, Digest authentication, Advanced digest authentication, Certificate-based Web transactions that use PKCS #7/PKCS #10, Fortezza, SSL, Server-Gated Cryptography, Transport Layer Security



3. Whats the role of http.sys in IIS?
It is the point of contact for all incoming HTTP requests. It listens for requests and queues them until they are all processed, no more queues are available, or the Web server is shut down



4. Where's ASP cache located on IIS 6.0?
On disk, as opposed to memory, as it used to be in IIS 5.



5. Types of authentications in IIS?
a. anonymous authentication, windows authentication, digest authentication, advanced digest authentication web transaction authentication , TLS based authentication mechanism

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