Introduction to Microsoft Exchange Server

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Phil Fenton — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:03:31 +0000

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Final Exam Review

Phil Fenton — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:20:40 +0000

The following post covers the questions from the last three chapters of your text. All other questions on the final will come from the first three tests. The Review Questions for each of these tests are already posted on the blog so technically speaking this will be a relatively short review. Here goes:

Chapter 12

Know diagnostic logging – 2 questions
Know about queue viewer – 2 questions
know protocol logging – 2 questions

Chapter 13

Know the link and server monitors – 2 questions
Know the SMTP queues – 2 questions
Know preventive maintenance – 2 questions
know the monitoring/troubleshooting utils – 3 questions

Chapter 14 Review Questions

Phil Fenton — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:23:54 +0000

1. What services are available in Exchange 5.5 are not supported by 2003.

2. What are the six steps of of the Exchange Upgrade process?

3. List the steps for upgrading an Exchange cluster?

4. What tools are used to migrate NT accounts during an Exchange upgrade?

5. What is a connection agreement? What are the four types?

6. What tool is used to configure public folder replication from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003.

7. What is the interorg replication utility?

Chapter 13 Review Questions

Phil Fenton — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:30:40 +0000

List the two different types of monitors provided by Exchange Server 2003
What resources do server monitors allow you to track?
What services can you monitor using server monitors?
What are the tasks that part of Information Store Maintenance?
What maintenance utilities can you use to perform maintenance on your server 2003 Exchange installation?
What are the different options available for ESEUTIL?
How does database fragmentation occur?
What are the categories of ISINTEG tests?
What protocols are tested by RPC Ping?
What function does the MTA Check utility perform?

Study Guide

Introduction to Exchange – Chapter 13 – Monitoring and Troubleshooting the Server

Chapter 12 Review Questions

Phil Fenton — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:26:20 +0000

What is diagnostic logging?
What are the four levels of logging supported by diagnostic logging?
What information can be found the event properties dialog box of the application and system logs?
What information does Queue Viewer allow you to see?
What are the valid states for queues available in Queue Viewer?
What kind of connectivity issues can you identify with Protocol logging?
What type of information can you find when using message tracking?
What information will WinRoute provide you?
What are the three DSN categories for Nondelivery reports?
What are the most common causes of AD transport issue in Exchange Server 2003?
List the most common routing issues that occur in Exchange Server 2003.

Study Guide

Introduction to Exchange – Chapter 12 – Troubleshooting Connectivity

Exam 3 Review Questions

Phil Fenton — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:59:29 +0000

Chapter 9

Know the enhancements to SMTP provided by Exchange Server 2003
KNow the logs created by the ESE
Know the benefits of having multiple storage groups
KNow SIS/Circular Logging
Know context indexing
know disk storage configurations
know utilities fro moving index files.

Chapter 10

Know about delegating authority
Know the two different key-based cryptography methods
Know the difference between cross-certification hierarchy and rooted hierarchy
Know the scenarios for enabling SSL/TLS

Chapter 11

Know how to prevent data disasters
Know the different backup types
Know about restoring exchange
Alternate Recovery forest
Recovery Storage Group
Clusters

Chapter 11 Review Questions

Phil Fenton — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:32:37 +0000

List the preventative measures that can be taken to minimize loss of data in the event of a disaster.
What basic tasks should be part of disaster recovery planning?
What concepts are necessary to understand in order to effectively perform backups of of Exchange 2003?
Explain the difference between a brick-level backup and restore and Volume Shadow Copy?
Explain the difference in the recovery process for a failed version of Microsoft Exchange server and a corrupted version.
List some of the reasons you might need to recover a mailbox or message.
What are the four methods that can be used to restore missing messages or mailboxes?
What is an Alternate Recovery Forest? What are the advantages of employing and Alternate Recovery Forest?
What is a Recovery Storage Group?
What are the limitations of using a Recovery Storage Group?
List the differences / issues related to recovering a failed Exchange Server install and a corrupted Exchange install in an Exchange cluster.

Study Guide

Intro To Exchange Chapter 11- Backup and Recovery

Chapter 10 Review Questions

Phil Fenton — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:36:52 +0000

How many types of permissions are there in Active Directory? What are they?
What are the three roles the Exchange Administration Delagation Wizard supports?
What is PKI?
Explain the difference between symmetric and asymmetric cryptography.
Define the following terms: certificate, certificate authority, rooted hierarchy, cross-certification heirarchy.
What type of communications can be secured using SSL/TLS?
What protocol allows users to send secure e-mail?

Study Guide

Intro 2 Exchange – Chapter 10 – Securing Exchange 2003

PKI Diagram