Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Technical Interview Questions

This is the Part-I of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 technical interview questions. There are over 350 total questions on Exchange Server 2003. The Part-I includes general interview questions as well as questions on Installation of Exchange Server 2003. As you must be aware Exchange is a mail server for messaging and tightly integrates with Active Directory, I am planning to post technical interview questions on Active Directory as well.

1. What is Exchange Server?
2. Tell me a bit about the capabilities of Exchange Server.
3. What are the different Exchange 2003 versions?
4. What are the differences between Exchange Sever 2003 Standard and Enterprise Editions?
5. What are the main differences between Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000/2003?
6. What are the minimum hardware requirements for Exchange Server 2003?
7. What are the steps involved in Exchange Server installation?
8. Why not install Exchange on the same machine as a DC?
9. Which Services must be installed and running for Exchange Server installation?
10. What can you do and what will be the effect if ASP.NET service is not available while installing Exchange Server 2003?
11. What are Exchange Server 2003 deployment tools?
12. What are the Windows versions supported by Exchange Server 2003?
13. In which domains domainprep must be run?
14. What is ForestPrep?
15. What is DomainPrep?
16. Which two groups are created by DomainPrep?
17. What DomainPrep does?
18. Which of the servers does the system that will host the first Exchange Server 2003 server in a forest need to be able to contact during installation?
19. How to run ForestPrep?
20. How to run DomainPrep?
21. Which service pack is needed for Windows 2000 for installing Exchange Server 2003?
22. Which permissions are required to run ForestPrep?
23. Which permissions are required to run DomainPrep?
24. Which permissions are required to install Exchange server 2003 on the first server in a domain or on other systems within the domain?
25. What is reason behind the error messages services not available while installing Exchange Server 2003 on a domain running at Windows Server 2003 functional level?
26. What is name of log file that Exchange Server 2003 setup creates during installation?
27. What is location of Exchange Server Setup Progress?
28. How unattended installation of Exchange Server 2003 works?
29. When you can use the unattended installation of Exchange Server 2003?
30. When you cannot use unattended installation of Exchange Server 2003?
31. What is the command to create an answer file for unattended installation of Exchange Server 2003?
32. What is the command to start the unattended installation of Exchange Server 2003?
33. When you can specify the User account that will receive the Exchange Full Administrator permission?
34. Which account must be use to perform first Exchange installation?
35. Can Exchange 2000 servers run on Windows Server 2003?

The above technical interview questions are based on installation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and you will find the interview questions on other topics in the following articles.