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Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Technical Interview Questions Part XII

This is the final part of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 technical interview questions series. It contains all misc interview questions on Exchange 2003 which I have not covered in earlier posts.

• What are the Exchange Server clients?
• What is Forest and Domain funtional levels?
• What is cache mode in Outlook 2003?
• When using the Cache mode available in Outlook 2003, which modes of operation are available from which to choose?
• What is IP address?
• What is MX record?
• What is Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)?
• What is Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP)?
• What is Workgroup?
• What is Five nines availability?
• Which utility can you use to verify that port 25 is open on a remote SMTP server?
• What are important Ports for firewall configuration?
• What is MBSA?
• To run MBSA your account must be a member of which group?
• What is DMZ?
• Which distinct values can a decimal quad in a subnet mask have?
• What is ESEUTIL?
• What size is each page of data in the database?
• What type of memory optimization changes could you do for Exchange 2003?
• Which parameters needs to added in boot.ini file if your Exchange Server 2003 computer has more than 1 GB of RAM installed?
• What is open relay?
• What is Active Directory Schema?
• What is X 400 Connector?
• What is a storage group?
• What are the advantages of implementing multiple Exchange databases (mailbox store & public folder store)?
• What is Volume Shadow Copy service?
• How to enable Volume Shadow Copy service?
• What is the Size of Exchange log file?
• For how many days deleted mailboxes are not permanently purged by default?
• What is use of Full-text indexing?
• What are the types of population for Full-text indexing?
• What is Incremental Population?
• What is Full Population?
• Which are the Exchange virtual servers?
• Which virtual servers are operational by default?
• Can you reconnect a deleted mailbox that has never been used?
• Which messaging protocols are supported by Exchange Server 2003?
• How to create a new Virtual server?
• How to limit the inbound connections to Virtual servers?
• How to configure the SMTP Relay settings?
• How to configure External DNS servers for external name resolution in Exchange Server 2003?
• How to configure auditing in Exchange?
• What is the purpose of Logging in Microsoft Exchange?
• How to enable Logging?
• What are the log file formats are available with Logging?
• What is the location of log files for Logging?
• How to enable Logging on HTTP virtual server?
• How to install OWA and OMA?
• What is an IPSec policy?
• What are the preconfigured IPSec policies Windows Server 2003 comes with?
• What are the options for giving remote user access to Exchange?
• What are the Exchange Server 2003 core services?
• What other services are associated with Exchange Server 2003?
• What is the default mailbox size in Exchange Server 2003?
• What is the maximum database size with Exchange Server 2003 standard edition?
• What is the use of ESEUTIL?
• Where is Eseutil located?
• What are the different Eseutil modes and switches associated with them?
• How much free disk space is needed for defragmenting a database with ESEUTIL?
• What is the command to run the Eseutil defragmentation on a specific database?
• What need to be done before performing the defragmentation with Eseutil?
• How to run Eseutil on a computer without Exchange Server?
• Explain the Message flow in Exchange server 203.

I am ending the Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 technical interview questions series with this post. I have covered more than 350 interview questions for Exchange 2003 which would be definitely helpful to clear the L1 interview on Exchange 2003.