Exchange Question Bank

Beginners 1. What is Exchange server

What is Exchange Server 2007? A.

Exchange Server 2007 is the next version of Exchange Server, the industry's leading server for e-mail, calendaring, and unified messaging. The release of Exchange Server 2007 is closely aligned with the Microsoft Office 2007 wave of products, which together deliver a best-in-class enterprise messaging and collaboration solution.

What’s new in Exchange Server 2007? Exchange Server 2007 provides built-in protection technologies to help keep the e-mail system up and running and insulated from outside threats while allowing employees to work virtually anywhere, using clients such as Microsoft Office Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Web Access, and mobile devices. Exchange Server 2007 makes it easier for IT administrators to deliver these new capabilities to their organizations in a manageable and cost-effective manner. To learn more, read the product overview and explore the new features and enhancements.

2. What are the different versions of Exchange 3. What is the min size required to install exchange 2003 4. What are prerequisites of exchange 5. What is the GUI called to admin the exchange environment 6. What is Active Directory

7. What is LDAP 8. Where the Exchange information is stored/ Mailbox information is stored

9. How many Storage groups/Stores can be created in an Exchange server

10.What is IP Address

11.What are the default services to be installed before installing exchange ?

12.How will u check the installation was successful ?

13. What are the basic tools to check the users / mailboxes ?

14.What is mail-enabled and mailbox-enable recipients ?

15.What is the contacts ? 16. What is GAL ? If you don’t want an user to be visible by other users, what will u do ?

17. What is Public folder ? What are the utility of the PF

18.How can the Exchange –Advanced tab, security tab visible ?

19.How outlook communicates with exchange ? Protocol ? How Exchange communicates with Exchange ?

20.Heard of dcpromo ? Why is it used ? Intermediate 1. Where the Exchange information is stored/ Mailbox information is stored

2. How many Storage groups/Stores can be created in an Exchange server

3. What is RSG? Can a RSG be online?

4. What is dial tone database? Why is it required?

5. What is exmerge? Why is it used?

6. What is EXBPA, EXPTA, Jetstress?

7. If a mailbox is deleted, what is the way to recover it?

8. What is RUS? How many RUS type?

9. What is free-busy schedule?

10. If a mail is shift-deleted by user, where it goes? How to recover it?

11.What is OWA?

12.What are the different services Exchange uses

13.What is the global catalog, RPC, SMTP , LDAP ports

14.What are difference bw Front end, Back end servers

15.How can I prevent a user from sending and receiving Internet mail? 16. What type of backups is done for Exchange DB. What are the differences?

17. If a Db is corrupted on Thursday. How will u restore the DB? 18.What is online defragmentation? If the drive is running out of space can it be defragmented?

19.What is Circular logging? When is it used?

20.What are the formats and technology of exchange DB?

21.What is .chk and .stm files? 22. What is SMTP forwarder?

23.Where will you set the default recipient mail size limit and block sender?

24.What are the different modes of Exchange org. what are the differences?

25.What is Administrative group , routing group?

26. What is a connector? Why is it used? What type of connectors are there?

27.What is bridgehead server? Why is it used?

28.What is RPC-o-HTTP?

29. What are the different folders in VSI? What is badmail folder?

30. What type of policies are in Exchange 2003 ?

31. What are the different types of groups ? What is send as permission ?

32.What is NDR ? 33. How a message is tracked ? 34. What are the different security groups in Exchange administration ? What are the differences ? 35. What is the default permission of a Public folder to be visible to everyone ? 36.Can u mail enable public folder ? 37.How can u edit schema ? What is ADSIEdit ? 38.If you move a mailbox from one store to another, is there any need of change of configurations in client side ? 39. What will be the case if a log is deleted and a .chk is deleted ? 40. What is the switch to check the missing logs in a corrupted DB ? 41.What is Global Catalog ? 42.What is the GUID/ SID ? 43.What is the difference bw security group and distribution group ?

Advanced 1. Name a tool to fix OAB issues 2. OABInteg – which switch is used to find the skipped entries of GAL 3. What is the switches of eseutil to repair/restore DB 4. How will you confirm the domain prep / forest prep was successfully performed in the domain/forest 5. What are the different components of SA 6. How the authentication is done by IIS 7. How can I prevent a user from sending and receiving Internet mail? 8. Suppose a log drive is going to be full. What can be done without taking the DB offline? 9. What is online defragmentation? If the drive is running out of space can it be defragmented? What is the switch used?

10. If an exchange server is totally crashed and unrecoverable, what will be the way out? 11. Commands of SMTP… 12. Can a routing group can have > 1 BH? 13. Can an exchange server be moved from one RG to another? Or one Admin group to another? 14. If a patch is to be installed in all exchange servers, which server you will install first? 15. If you want to remove the domain name while login in OWA, where the configuration has to be changed? 16. What are the different authentication types in IIS? 17. What is the difference bw isinteg and eseutil ? 18. What is the switch to install an exchange server directing to a specific DC ? 19.What are the FSMO roles? What are they? 20. How will u configure RPC-o-HTTP 21.What is pickup, drop and badmail folder? 22. What is MX record? Where is it set? What is the command to check the MX record? 23. Which bw Routing group connector/SMTP connector are more secured? 24. What is Query based DL? What is Expansion server ? 25. What is the difference bw hard bouce and soft bounce ? 26. Why restore.env is used ? 27. If u see a corrupted duplicate mailbox in a store, what will u do ? 28. If u attach a repaired DB in an existing SG, will it mount ? 29. If u delete the exchange logs to clean up spaces, what will be the disadvantage ? 30. What is the command to check the consistency and sequence of logs ? 31.What is /3GB /USERVA=3030 switch ? 32. By default a exchange Full admin has the capacity to send mail from an user’s a/c ? 33. Can u set rules in public folder? If so, how? 34. What is Sync – issues ? Why it happens ? 35. What are the different queues in ESM ? 36. If u delete the .chk file, what will happen ? If a log file is deleted manually,what will happen ? 37. What is cleansweep ? 38. What is the registry to fix OOF ? 39. Is there any way to set the max no of recipients for mail sent from an user homing in a specific server ? 40. Which Virtual folder in IIS is responsible for OWA ?