Some frequently asked interview Questions for VoIP Engineer/ Administrator

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What are the key responsibilities for a VoIP engineers.

What is packet switching and circuit switching?
What is unified communication?
Define Voice VLANs.
What is VoIP and how it works?
What are the major responsibilities of VoIP engineer?
What are the key benefits of using VoIP than traditional telephony?
Describe Cisco IP Phone Boot process?
How many types of Deployment models in Cisco Voice?
SIP Protocol belongs to which OSI layer?
Why Max-Forwards is a mandatory header field in SIP?
What is the difference between Transaction, Dialog and Session?
Why SDP Protocol is used with SIP protocol?
What is difference between call transfer and call redirect?
Brief introduction to SIP's layered Architecture?
Use of OPTION method in SIP?
What is the difference between SIP & H.323 Voice gateways and what are their TCP/UDP
port-numbers?
What is FXS & FXO?
What are media resources?
What do you mean by Transcoder, MTP, hardware Conference Bridge?
Describe Call Routing Elements and what are the key benefits of Call Routing elements?
What is call flow? Describe call flow of the MGCP gateways.
What really happens when I dial 911 from VoIP phone?
What is Extension mobility & cross cluster extension mobility?
What is geo location and why we use it?
What is the difference between gateway and gatekeeper?
If made changes in the CUCM how we get to know?
What is database Replication & how it is important?
What is CSS & partition?
What is DNA and describe its functionalities?
What is the role of boot-server, what is the default option number in DHCP server for boot-
server?
How to register the IP Phone via DHCP server?
How to filter call pattern in Cisco or Avaya PBX?
How to set up VoIP phone and computer with one network cable?
What is the diff b/w CM (Call Manager) and SM (Session Manager)?
Is VoIP Secure? Can people listen in on my calls?
How to connect PRI line in setup?
How many analog phone we can connect in one card? Is there any role of analog card in IP
Phone connectivity?
Define CCM Unity Server and CCM Publisher server?
Can we create configuration between CUG number and PRI number?
What is NTP? Define the roles of NTP in Voice networks.
What is QoS? Why it is necessary for unified communication?
Why Voice traffic needs better treatment than Data traffic?
Define QoS Models.
What is the difference between Integrated and Differentiated Services models?
What is the key benefit of using resource reservation protocol?
Which class (CoS) is reserved for Voice?