1th Round interview questions:-

1. What are the Exchange Recipient types? Explain them.A recipient is any mail-enabled object in the Active Directory service to which Exchange can deliver or route messages. a. User mailbox: A mailbox that is assigned to an individual user in your Exchange organization. It typically contains messages, calendar items, contacts, tasks, documents, and other important business data. b. Linked mailbox: A mailbox that is assigned to an individual user in a separate, trusted forest c. Shared mailbox: A mailbox that is not primarily associated with a single user and is generally configured to allow logon access for multiple users d. Legacy mailbox: A mailbox that resides on a server running Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2000 Server. e. Resource mailboxes are mailboxes that represent conference rooms or shared equipment. Resource mailboxes can be included as resources in meeting requests, providing a simple and efficient way to utilize resources for an organization. f. Two types Room and Resource Mailboxes g. Room mailbox: A resource mailbox that is assigned to a meeting location, such as a conference room, auditorium, or training room. Room mailboxes can be included as resources in meeting requests, providing a simple and efficient way of organizing meetings for your users h. Equipment mailboxes are assigned to a resource that is not location specific, such as a portable computer projector, microphone, or company car .

2. What is a Distribution group? What are the supported distribution groups in Exchange Server 2007?

Distribution groups are mail-enabled Active Directory directory service group objects that are created to expedite the mass sending of e-mail messages and other information within an Exchange organization. Exchange 2007 supports the following types of distribution groups: a) Mail-enabled universal distribution groups These are Active Directory distribution group objects that are mail-enabled. They can be used only to distribute messages to a group of recipients. b) Mail-enabled universal security groups These are Active Directory security group objects that are mail-enabled. They can be used to grant access permissions to resources in Active Directory and can also be used to distribute messages. c) Mail-enabled non-universal groups These are Active Directory global or local group objects that are mail-enabled. In Exchange 2007, you can create or mail-enable only universal distribution groups. You may have mail-enabled groups that were migrated from previous versions of Exchange that are not universal groups. These groups can still be managed by using the Exchange Management Console or the Exchange Management Shell. d) Dynamic distribution groups These are distribution groups for which membership is based on specific recipient filters rather than a defined set of recipients. Dynamic distribution groups were called query-based distribution groups in Exchange 2003.

3. .CHK check point file, keeps track of which transactional logs moves into database files. Keep on check the log file entering the database in a current order.4. .LOG 2 types of transactional logs (a) Current Transactional log eoo.log file which write the current transactions into transactional logs. If it reaches 1 MB, it will rename the log file into E00000001.log.(b) Transactional log If Current Transactional log reaches 1 MB, it will rename the log file into E00000001.log.5. Temp.EDB Temporary database file, which will process the transactional logs that are to be to write in .EDB Database file.6. .JRS Reserved Log files if the size of the disk is full and you cant write any mails as transactional logs these files will help into action.7. Mail Flow - Site Cost8. Why we create HUB site for mailflow.9. Exchange 2007 Hub Role - Recover Edb.10. New Exchange Site Requirements11. CAS proxy how does work and configuration.12. High availability features involved in Exchange Server 2007.i) LCRii) CCRiii) SCRiv) SCC13. What is new exchange 2007 Sp3?14. How Autodiscover service process for internal/external access15. Splite DNS16. Dial Tone Recovery in Exchange Server 2007.17. What is Back Pressure in Exchange Server 2007?18. What situation we perform hard recovery for exchange 2007 DB?19. Explain the Message flow from Edge Transport Server to Hub Transport Server?

The flow of messages in an Exchange 2007 environment with Edge Transport Server to the inside organization by the following ways a) An incoming message from the Internet first goes to the Edge Transport server. b) The Edge Transport server performs first-level recipient validation as well as spam and virus filtering. The message is then passed on to the Hub Transport server. c) The Hub Transport server performs compliance content assessment and then looks at the internal routing for messages and forwards the message to another Hub Transport server or directly to a Mailbox server. d) The Mailbox server places the incoming message into the users mailbox and notifies the user that a message has arrived. e) The user launches Outlook, OWA, their Windows Mobile device, or another client System and connects to the Client Access server. The Client Access server confirms the destination point of the users mailbox and provides the user access to their mailbox data. f) In parallel, if a voice mail message comes in for a user, the Unified Messaging server processes the incoming voice message, and then takes the message and places the voice message into the users mailbox residing on the Mailbox server for the recipient.

20. What is the difference between standard and Enterprise Edition?Exchange 2007 functionsStandard EditionEnterprise Edition

Number of Data Stores Supported5 includes Mailbox/Public Folder50 combination of both

Clustering supportNo Yes

OS SupportWindows 2003 64 bitWindows 2003 64 bit