• Tell me a bit about the capabilities of Exchange
Server.
• What are the different Exchange 2003 versions?
• What's the main differences between Exchange 5.5
and Exchange 2000/2003?
• What are the major network infrastructure for
installing Exchange 2003?
• What is the latest Exchange 2003 Service Pack? Name
a few changes in functionality in that SP.
• What are the disk considerations when installing
Exchange (RAID types, locations and so on).
• You got a new HP DL380 (2U) server, dual Xeon, 4GB
of RAM, 7 SAS disks, 64-bit. What do you do next to install
Exchange 2003? (you have AD in place)
• Why not install Exchange on the same machine as a
DC?
• Are there any other installation considerations?
• How would you prepare the AD Schema in advance
before installing Exchange?
• What type or permissions do you need in order to
install the first Exchange server in a forest? In a domain?
• How would you verify that the schema was in fact
updated?
• What type of memory optimization changes could you
do for Exchange 2003?
• How would you check your Exchange configuration
settings to see if they're right?
• What are the Exchange management tools? How and
where can you install them?
• What types of permissions are configurable for
Exchange?
• How can you grant access for an administrator to
access all mailboxes on a specific server?
• What is the Send As permission?
• What other management tools are used to manage and
control Exchange 2003? Name the tools you'd use.
• What are Exchange Recipient types? Name 5.
• You created a mailbox for a user, yet the mailbox
does not appear in ESM. Why?
• You wanted to change mailbox access permissions for
a mailbox, yet you see the SELF permission alone on the
permissions list. Why?
• What are Query Based Distribution groups?
• What type of groups would you use when configuring
distribution groups in a multiple domain forest?
• Name a few configuration options for Exchange
recipients.
• What's the difference between Exchange 2003 Std.
and Ent. editions when related to storage options and size?
• Name a few configuration options related to mailbox
stores.
• What are System Public Folders? Where would you
find them?
• How would you plan and configure Public Folder
redundancy?
• How can you immediately stop PF replication?
• How can you prevent PF referral across slow WAN
links?
• What types of PF management tools might you use?
• What are the differences between administrative
permissions and client permissions in PF?
• How can you configure PF replication from the
command prompt in Exchange 2003?
• What are the message hygiene options you can use
natively in Exchange 2003?
• What are the configuration options in IMF?
• What are virtual servers? When would you use more
than one?
• Name some of the SMTP Virtual Server configuration
options.
• What is a Mail Relay? Name a few known mail relay
software or hardware options.
• What is a Smart Host? Where would you configure it?
• What are Routing Groups? When would you use them?
• What are the types of Connectors you can use in
Exchange?
• What is the cost option in Exchange connectors?
• What is the Link State Table? How would you view
it?
• How would you configure mail transfer security
between 2 routing groups?
• What is the Routing Group Master? Who holds that
role?
• Explain the configuration steps required to allow
Exchange 2003 to send and receive email from the Internet
(consider a one-site multiple server scenario).
• What is DS2MB?
• What is Forms Based Authentication?
• How would you configure OWA's settings on an
Exchange server?
• What is DSACCESS?
• What are Recipient Policies?
• How would you work with multiple recipient
policies?
• What is the "issue" with trying to remove email
addresses added by recipient policies? How would you fix
that?
• What is the RUS?
• When would you need to manually create additional
RUS?
• What are Address Lists?
• How would you modify the filter properties of one
of the default address lists?
• How can you create multiple GALs and allow the
users to only see the one related to them?
• What is a Front End server? In what scenarios would
you use one?
• What type of authentication is used on the front
end servers?
• When would you use NLB?
• How would you achieve incoming mail redundancy?
• What are the 4 types of Exchange backups?
• What is the Dial-Tone server scenario?
• When would you use offline backup?
• How do you re-install Exchange on a server that has
crashed but with AD intact?
• What is the dumpster?
• What are the e00xxxxx.log files?
• What is the e00.chk file?
• What is circular logging? When would you use it?
• What's the difference between online and offline
defrag?
• How would you know if it is time to perform an
offline defrag of your Exchange stores?
• How would you plan for, and perform the offline
defrag?
• What is the eseutil command?
• What is the isinteg command?
• How would you monitor Exchange's services and
performance? Name 2 or 3 options.
• Name all the client connection options in Exchange
2003.
• What is Direct Push? What are the requirements to
run it?
• How would you remote wipe a PPC?
• What are the issues with connecting Outlook from a
remote computer to your mailbox?
• How would you solve those issues? Name 2 or 3
methods
• What is RPC over HTTP? What are the requirements to
run it?
• What is Cached Mode in OL2003/2007?
• What are the benefits and "issues" when using
cached mode? How would you tackle those issues?
• What is S/MIME? What are the usage scenarios for
S/MIME?
• What are the IPSec usage scenarios for Exchange
2003?
• How do you enable SSL on OWA?
• What are the considerations for obtaining a digital
certificate for SSL on Exchange?
• Name a few 3rd-party CAs.
• What do you need to consider when using a client-
type AV software on an Exchange server?
What are the different clustering options in Exchange 2003?
Which one would you choose