Basic Networking Questions and Answers Part 3 (WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM DIFFERENCES) - Interview questions for system administrator or Desktop Support

Basic Networking Questions and Answers For WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM DIFFERENCES - Interview questions for system administrator or Desktop Support. Here are some basic differences between various operating system.

1. Difference between Windows 95  Windows 98

WINDOWS 95                                          WINDOWS 98

• NO USB support                                   USB Support
• FAT16 and FAT32 for R2                         FAT16 and FAT32
• Single monitor                                      Multiple monitor
• No Direct X                                          Direct X
• Internet Explorer 3                               Internet Explorer 4
• No Advance Power management         APM (Advance Power management)

2. Difference between Windows xp and Windows 98

WINDIWS XP                                           WINDOWS 98

• Remote desktop                                 No Remote desktop
• GPO (Group Policy)                             No GPO
• 2 processor                                       1 PROCESSOR
• NTLM & Kerberos                                NTLM authentication
• Encryption                                         No Encryption
• Disk quota                                         No Disk quota
• FAT, FAT32 and NTFS                          FAT and FAT32
• IE 5                                                  IE 4

3. Difference between Windows xp home and Windows xp professional

WINDOWS XP HOME                                    WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL

• No remote desktop                             Remote desktop
• No offline folders                               Offline folders
• 1 processor                                        2 processor
• Workgroup                                         Workgroup and domain
• No Encryption                                     Encryption
• No GPO                                             GPO
• No Roaming profile                            Roaming profile
• No ASR                                            ASR

WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM DIFFERENCES

4. Difference between Window 2000 professional and Windows xp professional

WINDOWS 2000 PROFESSIONAL                  WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL

• ERD                                                     ASR
• Terminal service                                    Remote desktop and assistance
• IE-5                                                     IE-6
• No firewall                                            Basic firewall
• No Alternate IP configuration                   Alternate IP configuration
• No System restore                                  System restore
• No Driver rollback feature                         Driver rollback feature

5. Difference between Windows 2000 server and 2003 server      

WINDOWS 2000                                         WINDOWS 2000

• No shadow copy                                        Shadow copy feature
• No RPC over HTTP                                     RPC over HTTP
• 32 BIT                                                     32 bit and 64 bit
• No domain rename features                        Domain rename features
• Terminal service                                   Remote desktop and assistance
• ERD                                                          ASR
• Less command line tool                               More command line tools
• No stub dns                                               Stub dns
• IIS 5 (Internet Information Services 5)           IIS 6

6. Difference between Windows NT and 2003

WINDOWS NT                                           WINDOWS 2003

• Directory service                               Active directory service
• FAT16 and NTFS 4.0                        FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS 5.0
• Compression                            Compression, Encryption and disk quota 
• System policy                                   Group policy
• Local and Global group                       Local, Global and Universal Group
• No ip sec                                          ipsec built in
• 40000 user limit                                100000 user limit
• NTLM authentication                   NTLM and Kerberos authentication
• Basic disk                                         Basic and dynamic disk
• No shadow copy                                 Shadow copy
• ERD                                                  ASR

7. Difference between Windows NT and 2000

WINDOWS NT                                            WINDOWS 2000

• Directory service                            Active directory service
• FAT16 and NTFS 4.0             FAT16, FAT32 AND NTFS 5.0                       
• Compression                          Compression, Encryption and Disk quota
• System policy                                     Group policy
• Local and Global group                 Local, Global and Universal Group
• No ip sec                                           ipsec built in
• 40000 user limit                                  100000 user limit
• NTLM authentication                 NTLM and Kerberos authentication
• Basic disk                                           Basic and dynamic disk