Anybody have Powershell/IIS experience?

rkhan0019

Hi all,
I wonder if anyone can help

Recently I applied for the job role of an IT Support Engineer (Junior Graduate)
I have tech experience but it's not really related to Powershell and IIS troubleshooting. My experience is more command line Unix based and Oracle/Excel based so I was surprised when I got the call for the interview
I will be given a 2 hour test on the day and the only information I have been given is the following
'Formal technical interview – it will consist of questions around our core technologies; PowerShell, IIS (Windows webhosting and troubleshooting) and SQL Server. The session will last for 2 hours and is not a designed as a direct test of knowledge, but a test of problem solving in a technical environment.'
As a beginner what should I prepare for or the type of questions do you think may come up?

were

ok, i took a leap of faith, i put 'Powershell IIS' into google and all of the first 10 links, if not many more answer and make suggestion about plugins and administration.

I would expect some ports, dns, nslookup, ping, load balancing, certificates, number of current connections, clustering and high availability, live backups, and migration questions too. For big shop think DSC (desired state configuration) is the way to go.

[Deleted User]

PowerShell - scripting language for windows
IIS - Microsoft web server

So.. they'll probably be using PowerShell scripts for automation

So, fire up the PowerShell editor in windows, find some examples online of what it can do (it can do ANYTHING in terms of automation of windows config) and bluff the bit about IIS (just think in terms of an Apache web server)

I'm currently using PowerShell to deploy databases and config to SQL.