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IT interviews span a wide range, so employers use them to establish where you sit on the spectrum from support to infrastructure. Expect fundamentals on the OSI model, IP addressing, DNS and DHCP, Active Directory and Group Policy, backup and recovery, and security basics such as least privilege and MFA. Just as important is your troubleshooting method: interviewers want to see that you narrow a problem systematically rather than guessing. The questions below cover both.

IT MCQ

1.How many layers does the OSI model define?

2.At which OSI layer do IP addresses and routing operate?

3.What is the correct troubleshooting order suggested by the OSI model?

4.What does a subnet mask determine?

5.What is the role of the default gateway?

6.Which of these is a private IP address range?

7.What does a 169.254.x.x address indicate?

8.What does DHCP provide to a client?

10.What determines how long a DNS record remains cached?

11.A user can reach a site by IP but not by name. What is the fault?

12.What is the main difference between TCP and UDP?

13.Which port does HTTPS use by default?

14.Which port does SSH use by default?

15.Which service should never be exposed directly to the internet?

16.What is the difference between a switch and a router?

17.What does a VLAN allow a managed switch to do?

18.What is the security boundary in an Active Directory environment?

19.Which authentication protocol does Active Directory use by default?

20.What is Group Policy used for?

21.Which command reports which Group Policies actually applied to a client?

22.What is the difference between authentication and authorisation?

23.What does the principle of least privilege require?

24.Why should administrators hold a separate privileged account?

25.Which combination genuinely constitutes multi-factor authentication?

26.What is the 3-2-1 backup rule?

27.Why is RAID not a backup?

28.What does RPO define?

29.What is the most important validation of a backup strategy?

30.What is the main difference between a virtual machine and a container?

31.What does virtualisation snapshot capability enable?

32.What is the difference between IaaS and SaaS?

33.Under the cloud shared responsibility model, who secures the customer's data and access configuration?

34.Which is a core system hardening practice?

35.How should patching be prioritised?

36.Which command shows a Linux server's memory and swap usage?

37.Which command shows filesystem disk usage on Linux?

38.What should be established first when troubleshooting an unfamiliar problem?

39.What is the most common reason something that used to work stops working?

40.Why should logs be centralised off the originating host?

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