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Friday, 29 June 2012

Application Packaging Interview Questions - Miscellaneous

Following are miscellaneous queries


Miscellaneous:


  • What is component Isolation?
  • What is Conflict Management?
  • How to delete/create registry from each user profile?
  • How to delete/copy files to each user profile?
  • When do you use ActiveSetup?
  • When does Run key gets executed?
  • When does ActiveSetup actually run?
  • What change has to be done to run ActiveSetup again after few days?
  • How to Set a file as hidden during MSI installation?
  • Name few silent switches possible for setup.exe's?
  • How to create response files?
  • What is NestedMSI installation?
  • How to package an application which contains multiple MSIs, lets say 5 MSIs?
  • Disadvantage of NestMSI Installation?
  • Lets say a package(MSI+MST) is installed, then MST is modified and now I want to update the existing installation with changes in modified MST? ( How to do it without uninstalling the package)
  • What is meant by A in 'famus' switch in Repair command? When to use it?
  • How to access MSI properties in Deferred Execution custom action?
  • When to choose between Execute Immediate and Deferred sequences?
  • What are all the sequences available in MSI?
  • What is the significance of SelfReg Table?
  • What is the disadvantage of SelfReg Entries?
  • What to do when a MSI contains SelfReg Entries?
  • How to disable advertizement of shortcuts ?
  • What is destination directory for shortcut?
  • What is working directory for shortcut?
  • Is it possible to create a shortcut for a file that is present in pre-requisite package?
  • How to uninstall a MSI using shortcut? Please provide all the shorcut entries?
  • How to install only one feature of MSI through command line ?
  • Name ARP related MSI Properties?
  • What is LockDown Environment ?
  • Why multiple msiexec.exe processes run during MSI installation?
  • What is Source Resiliency?
  • Command to register a DLL file manually?
  • How to disable the setup.exe requirement for installing the msi?
  • What is INSTALLLEVEL property? and its significance?
  • How do you install 2 MSI’s.  After installation of 1st MSI the machine has to reboot and upon start of the machine 2nd MSI installation has to be trigerred. Once installation of 2nd MSI is completed the User has to notified with a Message that 2 MSIs Installation has been completed. How do you perform the Task? 
  • How do you create a Response File?  Where the response file will be created ?
  • What steps to be kept in mind while packaging Addin Applications?
  • How to update Hosts file?
  • How to package driver applications?
  • How to install fonts using MSI? through Registries Or MSI Tables?
  • Condition to check if feature is installed?
  • What is Rollback?
  • Syntax of ProductVersion Property? 


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