IIS Interview Questions and Answers (Web Server)

IIS Interview Questions and Answers 

If you are preparing for an interview related to Web server like IIS then this article on IIS Interview Questions and Answers will guide you how Internet Information Services (IIS) works and how you can use different set of feature extension modules add useful features to you web Server. There are two famous web server in the world that is Apache Server and IIS Server. It will provide a great knowledge on IIS and you will have a clear concepts after reading these. So let starts..!

What is IIS ?

IIS is a Microsoft application or feature used for creating or converting your machine into web-sever. A web server is used for hosting your Websites, application and other content on the Web. IIS also supports different extensions (or “modules”) that add extra functionality to the server.

What was the first version of IIS was introduced?

First version of IIS is IIS 1.0 and it was initially released as a free feature or add_on for Microsoft Windows NT 3.51.

How IIS Works?

This is most asked IIS Interview Questions and you can answer it by giving the following details. IIS (Internet Information Server) is one of the most powerful web servers from Microsoft that is used to host your Web application. IIS has it’s own Process Engine to handle the request. So, when a request comes from client to server, IIS takes that request and process it and send response back to clients.

Request Processing :

There are main important concepts regarding IIS

• Worker Process
• Application Pool

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What is the role of IIS server or why we use it?

IIS perform the role of the Web-server in networks, answers the queries and requests for files from Web hosts or clients such as internet explorer, and logging activity. The IIS software allows web administrators to configure web-site options, like default-pages, error-pages, logging settings, security settings, and other performance optimizations. Internet Information Server have the information regarding the location of web files. and security types to access these web files. IIS also determined that how content-files are separated into applications and their URLs. Web server administration can configured theses setting by manually or code by using one of the IIS administration technologies like Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, ASP etc.

What is w3wp.exe / IIS Worker Process?

Web applications on Windows Servers are configured via command line or IIS Manager. Within IIS you can set up websites and which application pools they are assigned. Multiple websites can be assigned to a single IIS application pool.

What is application pool in IIS?

In IIS application Pool is like a container which contains many Worker Process. It help to keep separate the multiple-applications from each other. One application-pool can have different websites. In other words, an application pool is a group of addresses or URLs (Uniform Resource Locator ) that have been served by worker processes. With application pool you can separate different applications from each-other and it simplifies management. In case if one application pool have an issue or problem, the others application pool will remain working without error. In this way you can troubleshoot your error in simple and easy way.

Is Microsoft IIS free?

IIS is available free on Microsoft server and windows operating systems.

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