Interview Question for active diectory and exchange

Interview Question for active diectory and exchange

Little bit of ADS, like Netlogon not starting, users not able to logon to domain… only from the troubleshooting side.

Any Exchange Connectivity issues ?

Exchange migration to 5.5 to 2003?

How important is IIS for exchange?

Experience on database crashes?

Mails are stuck in the local queues? What could be the problem?

Have you faced any issues when Information store is not starting? What will you do?

Have you faced any issues when System Attended is not starting? What will you do?

Mails are stuck in SMTP queue? What will you do?

Any experience on Antivirus?

Any experience on Clusters?

How can you know wheatear exchange is being backed up completely?

Have you been in a situation where you have troubleshooted ADS?

Any DNS issues?

Difference between WINS and DNS?

Any troubleshooting experience on OS?

Any experience in memory dump troubleshooting

Why and when GC or ADS is used while sending a mail.

What is Stub zone?

How is DHCP integrated with ADS?

No users r able to check their mails using outlook.. resolve.

No users r able to logon to the ADS?

Exchange Database size (Std and Ent) (Without SP and with SP)

Check out all the PORTS.

Have you worked on disaster recovery	Yes / No.
What is native mode and mixed mode of Exchange	Native mode: Only E2K / E2K3 servers. Mixed Mode: 5.5 and E2K / E2K3 servers
What is SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
What is SPAM	Mail Abused Protection System
What is MX record	Mail Exchanger entry in DNS
What is PST stands for	Personal Storage file
Which port does SMTP & POP 3 connect to	25 / 110
What is level of permission that you have on the Exchange Server	a) Exchange administrator b) Exchange Full Administrator c) View only
What is the difference between Exchange server std edition and Enterprise edition	a) Standard edition can go up to 16GB store limit only
	b) Enterprise edition has no store limit size
What is an stm file	a) Streaming file in Exchange 2000 onwards, used for Internet based e-mails
What is a Recovery Storage Group?	a) Exchange 2003 introduced for recovering the mail boxes, with no downtime of the production server
What protocol does Outlook use to connect to an Exchange server ?	RPC
What is circular logging	a) After 5 log files of 5 MB each, the first is over written (Not recommended)
Number of Database and Storage group supported in Exchange?	a) 1 Storage group can have 5 stores. We can go up to 5 storage group
What is a checkpoint file ?	a) Keeps the track (index) of committed transactions and the log files
What are the core components of Exchange 5.5	a) Directory Services, System Attendant, MTA, Information store,
What are the different types of connectors in E55	a) IMC, Site Connector, DRAS, X.400,
What are the files required/used by the Information Store Service ?	a) priv.edb, pub.edb, edb.log
What is a Native Mode Windows 2000 Domain ?	a) All Domain controllers are 2000 and above (2003)