PC Hardware

PC Hardware

What is FSB?

What are Vcore and Vi/o?

On what type of socket can you install a Pentium 4 CPU?

What is SMP?

Which Intel and AMD processors support SMP?

How do LGA sockets differ from PGA and SEC?

What is the difference between Pentium 4 and Pentium Core 2 Duo? Explain the new technology.

How does IRQ priority works?

What technology enables you to upgrade your computer's BIOS by simply using a software?

What happens if you dissemble the battery located on the Mother-Board?

How do L1, L2, and L3 work?

How should we install RAM on a Dual-Channel Motherboard?

What is the advantage of serial over parallel bus?

Is USB using serial or parallel bus? What about Firewire?

How much power is supplied to each USB port?

When should you change your bus-powered USB hub to a self-powered USB hub?

What is a UPS?

What is the difference between standby and online UPS?

What is LBA (in Hard-Disks)?

How many Hard Disks can you install on an E-IDE controller?

Can you configure two hard disks to use the Master setting on the same PC?

What is the difference between Narrow-SCSI and Wide-SCSI?

What is SAS?

What are the three main reasons for using RAID?

Is RAID 0 considered to be a redundant Solution? Why?

How many disks can be used for RAID 1?

How RAID 5 works?

What is the smallest number of disks required for RAID5?

What other types of RAID do you know?

What are the six steps for laser printing?

What is the difference between PCI-EX x1 and PCI-EX x16?

Microsoft-based Operating Systems

What is the difference between a workgroup and a domain?

What are the major advantages of working in a domain model?

What types of operating system installation methods do you know?

What is an answer file?

How would you create an answer file for Windows XP? How would you create one for Windows Vista?

How do you perform an unattended installation on Windows XP?

What is Sysprep?

How do you use Sysprep?

What is the major difference between Newsid and Sysprep?

What is the function of the pagefile.sys file?

What is the function of the hiberfil.sys file?

What is the Registry?

How can you edit the Registry? Name at least 3 ways of doing that.

What should you do if you receive a message stating: "The following file is missing or corrupt: 'WINDOWS'SYSTEM32'CONFIG'SYSTEM"?

How would you repair an unsuccessful driver update?

When should you use each of the fallowing tools: System Restore, LKGC and Recovery Console?

How do you set different print priority for different users?

How can you reset user's passwords if you don't know his current password?

What's the difference between changing a user's password and resetting it?

You want to grant a user the right to perform backups should you add him to the administrators group?

What is MMC?

What is gpedit.msc?

How would you use the MMC to manage other servers on your network?

You set a local policy for your Stand-alone XP Professional would the local policy effects the administrators group?

What new in the Windows Vista Local Policy?

What is the difference between User Privileges and User Permissions?

What is Safe Mode?

Which logs can be found in Event Viewer?

What is msconfig? On which OS can it be found?

Can you upgrade XP Home Edition to Server 2003?

Which permission will you grant a user for a folder he need to be able to create and delete files in, if you do not want him to be able to change permissions for the folder?

What is the difference between clearing the "allow" permission and checking the "deny"?

Technical Interview Questions Networking

What is a NIC?

What is a MAC Address?

When would you use a crosslink cable?

What are the main advantages and disadvantages of Fiber-Optic-based networks?

What is the difference between a Hub and a Switch?

On which OSI layer can a router be found?

What is CSMA/CD?

What is multicast?

What is Broadcast?

What is the difference between TCP and UDP?

Describe some of the settings that are added by TCP and by UDP to the packet's header.

What are TCP Ports? Name a few.

What is a TCP Session?

What three elements make up a socket?

What will happen if you leave the default gateway information empty while manually configuring TCP/IP?

What will happen if you execute the following command: "arp d *"?

What is ICMP?

When would you use the ping command with the "-t" switch?

What command-line tool would help you discover for which port numbers your computer is listening?

What is APIPA? How would you recognize it?

What is a Cyclic Redundancy Check?

What would you type in at a command prompt to view the IP settings for the computer that you are sitting at?

What command would you type in at a command prompt to view the IP address of the remote computer?

What is the W Value for class B?

What is the Net ID of an IP Address of 18.9.25.3 with Subnet Mask of 255.0.0.0?

What is CIDR?

What is 255.255.255.255 used for?

What is the maximum number of hosts for a Class B Network?

What is the (default) class type of 195.152.12.1?

What is the subnet mask for 10.0.10.1/17?

What is the result when changing from a subnet mask of 255.255.224.0 to a subnet mask of 255.255.240.0?

How can you access a shared folder from a remote computer? Name at least 3 methods. What is an IP address? What is a subnet mask?

What is ARP?

What is ARP Cache Poisoning?

What is the ANDing process?

What is a default gateway? What happens if I don't have one?

Can a workstation computer be configured to browse the Internet and yet NOT have a default gateway?

What is a subnet?

What is APIPA?

What is an RFC? Name a few if possible (not necessarily the numbers, just the ideas behind them)

What is RFC 1918?

What is CIDR?

You have the following Network ID: 192.115.103.64/27. What is the IP range for your network?

You have the following Network ID: 131.112.0.0. You need at least 500 hosts per network. How many networks can you create? What subnet mask will you use?

You need to view at network traffic. What will you use? Name a few tools

How do I know the path that a packet takes to the destination?

What does the ping 192.168.0.1 -l 1000 -n 100 command do?

What is DHCP? What are the benefits and drawbacks of using it?

Describe the steps taken by the client and DHCP server in order to obtain an IP address.

What is the DHCPNACK and when do I get one? Name 2 scenarios.

What ports are used by DHCP and the DHCP clients?

Describe the process of installing a DHCP server in an AD infrastructure.

What is DHCPINFORM?

Describe the integration between DHCP and DNS.

What options in DHCP do you regularly use for an MS network?

What are User Classes and Vendor Classes in DHCP?

How do I configure a client machine to use a specific User Class?

What is the BOOTP protocol used for, where might you find it in Windows network infrastructure?

DNS zones describe the differences between the 4 types.

DNS record types describe the most important ones.

Describe the process of working with an external domain name

Describe the importance of DNS to AD.

Describe a few methods of finding an MX record for a remote domain on the Internet.

What does "Disable Recursion" in DNS mean?

What could cause the Forwarders and Root Hints to be grayed out?

What is a "Single Label domain name" and what sort of issues can it cause?

What is the "in-addr.arpa" zone used for?

What are the requirements from DNS to support AD?

How do you manually create SRV records in DNS?

Name 3 benefits of using AD-integrated zones.

What are the benefits of using Windows 2003 DNS when using AD-integrated zones?

You installed a new AD domain and the new (and first) DC has not registered its SRV records in DNS. Name a few possible causes.

What are the benefits and scenarios of using Stub zones?

What are the benefits and scenarios of using Conditional Forwarding?

What are the differences between Windows Clustering, Network Load Balancing and Round Robin, and scenarios for each use?

How do I work with the Host name cache on a client computer?

How do I clear the DNS cache on the DNS server?

What is the 224.0.1.24 address used for?

What is WINS and when do we use it?

Can you have a Microsoft-based network without any WINS server on it? What are the "considerations" regarding not using WINS?

Describe the differences between WINS push and pull replications.

What is the difference between tombstoning a WINS record and simply deleting it?

Name the NetBIOS names you might expect from a Windows 2003 DC that is registered in WINS.

Describe the role of the routing table on a host and on a router.

What are routing protocols? Why do we need them? Name a few.

What are router interfaces? What types can they be?

In Windows 2003 routing, what are the interface filters?

What is NAT?

What is the real difference between NAT and PAT?

How do you configure NAT on Windows 2003?

How do you allow inbound traffic for specific hosts on Windows 2003 NAT?

What is VPN? What types of VPN does Windows 2000 and beyond work with natively?

What is IAS? In what scenarios do we use it?

What's the difference between Mixed mode and Native mode in AD when dealing with RRAS?

What is the "RAS and IAS" group in AD?

What are Conditions and Profile in RRAS Policies?

What types or authentication can a Windows 2003 based RRAS work with?

How does SSL work?

How does IPSec work?

How do I deploy IPSec for a large number of computers?

What types of authentication can IPSec use?

What is PFS (Perfect Forward Secrecy) in IPSec?

How do I monitor IPSec?

Looking at IPSec-encrypted traffic with a sniffer. What packet types do I see?

What can you do with NETSH?

How do I look at the open ports on my machine?

Technical Interview Questions Active Directory

What is Active Directory?

What is LDAP?

Can you connect Active Directory to other 3rd-party Directory Services? Name a few options.

Where is the AD database held? What other folders are related to AD?

What is the SYSVOL folder?

Name the AD NCs and replication issues for each NC

What are application partitions? When do I use them

How do you create a new application partition

How do you view replication properties for AD partitions and DCs?

What is the Global Catalog?

How do you view all the GCs in the forest?

Why not make all DCs in a large forest as GCs?

Trying to look at the Schema, how can I do that?

What are the Support Tools? Why do I need them?

What is LDP? What is REPLMON? What is ADSIEDIT? What is NETDOM? What is REPADMIN?

What are sites? What are they used for?

What's the difference between a site link's schedule and interval?

What is the KCC?

What is the ISTG? Who has that role by default?

What are the requirements for installing AD on a new server?

What can you do to promote a server to DC if you're in a remote location with slow WAN link?

How can you forcibly remove AD from a server, and what do you do later? Can I get user passwords from the AD database?

What tool would I use to try to grab security related packets from the wire?

Name some OU design considerations.

What is tombstone lifetime attribute?

What do you do to install a new Windows 2003 DC in a Windows 2000 AD?

What do you do to install a new Windows 2003 R2 DC in a Windows 2003 AD?

How would you find all users that have not logged on since last month?

What are the DS* commands?

What's the difference between LDIFDE and CSVDE? Usage considerations?

What are the FSMO roles? Who has them by default? What happens when each one fails?

What FSMO placement considerations do you know of?

I want to look at the RID allocation table for a DC. What do I do?

What's the difference between transferring a FSMO role and seizing one? Which one should you NOT seize? Why?

How do you configure a "stand-by operation master" for any of the roles?

How do you backup AD?

How do you restore AD?

How do you change the DS Restore admin password?

Why can't you restore a DC that was backed up 4 months ago?

What are GPOs?

What is the order in which GPOs are applied?

Name a few benefits of using GPMC.

What are the GPC and the GPT? Where can I find them?

What are GPO links? What special things can I do to them?

What can I do to prevent inheritance from above?

How can I override blocking of inheritance?

How can you determine what GPO was and was not applied for a user? Name a few ways to do that.

A user claims he did not receive a GPO, yet his user and computer accounts are in the right OU, and everyone else there gets the GPO. What will you look for?

Name a few differences in Vista GPOs

Name some GPO settings in the computer and user parts.

What are administrative templates?

What's the difference between software publishing and assigning?

Can I deploy non-MSI software with GPO?

You want to standardize the desktop environments (wallpaper, My Documents, Start menu, printers etc.) on the computers in one department. How would you do that?

Technical Interview Questions - Windows Server 2008/R2 Active Directory

What is Active Directory?

What is LDAP?

Where is the AD database held? What other folders are related to AD?

Talk about all the AD-related roles in Windows Server 2008/R2.

What are the new Domain and Forest Functional Levels in Windows Server 2008/R2?

What is the SYSVOL folder?

What are the AD naming contexts (partitions)s and replication issues for each NC?

What are application partitions?

What applications or services use AD application partitions? Name a couple.

How do you create a new application partition?

What are the requirements for installing AD on a new server?

What can you do to promote a server to DC if you're in a remote location with slow WAN link?

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How do you view replication properties for AD partitions and DCs?

What is the Global Catalog?

How do you view all the GCs in the forest?

Why not make all DCs in a large forest as GCs?

Talk about GCs and Universal Groups.

Describe the time synchronization mechanism in AD.

What is ADSIEDIT? What is NETDOM? What is REPADMIN?

What is DCDIAG? When would you use it?

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What are sites? What are they used for?

What's the difference between a site link's schedule and interval?

What is the KCC?

What is the ISTG? Who has that role by default?

Talk about sites and GCs.

Talk about sites and Exchange Server 2007/2010.

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What is GPO?

Describe the way GPO is applied throughout the domain.

What can you do to prevent inheritance from above?

How can you override blocking of inheritance?

Name some of the major changes in GPO in Windows Server 2008.

What are ADM files? What replaced them in Windows Server 2008?

What's the GPO repository? How do you use it?

What are GPO Preferences?

Which client OSs can use GPO Preferences?

What are GPO Templates?

What are WMI Filters?

What is the concept behind GPO Filtering?

How can you determine what GPO was and was not applied for a user? Name a few ways to do that.

A user claims he did not receive a GPO, yet his user and computer accounts are in the right OU, and everyone else there gets the GPO. What will you look for?

You want to standardize the desktop environments (wallpaper, My Documents, Start menu, printers etc.) on the computers in one department. How would you do that?

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What are the major changes in AD in Windows Server 2008?

What are the major changes in AD in Windows Server 2008 R2?

What is the AD Recycle Bin? How do you use it?

What is tombstone lifetime attribute?

What are AD Snapshots? How do you use them?

What is Offline Domain Join? How do you use it?

What are Fine-Grained Passwords? How do you use them?

Talk about Restartable Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2008/R2. What is this feature good for?

What are the changes in auditing in Windows Server 2008/R2?

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How can you forcibly remove AD from a server, and what do you do later?

Can I get user passwords from the AD database?

What tool would I use to try to grab security related packets from the wire?

Talk about PowerShell and AD.

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How do you backup AD?

How do you restore AD?

Talk about Windows Backup and AD backups.

How do you change the DS Restore admin password?

Why can't you restore a DC that was backed up 7 months ago?

What's NTDSUTIL? When do you use it?

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What are RODCs?

What are the major benefits of using RODCs?

How do you install an RODC?

Talk about RODCs and passwords.

What is Read Only DNS?

What happens when a remote site with an RODC loses connectivity to the main site?

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Talk about Server Core and AD.

How do you promote a Server Core to DC?

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What are the FSMO roles? Who has them by default? What happens when each one fails?

How can you tell who holds each FSMO role? Name a 2-3 of methods.

What FSMO placement considerations do you know of?

You want to look at the RID allocation table for a DC. What do you need to do?

What's the difference between transferring a FSMO role and seizing one? Which one should you NOT seize? Why?

Technical Interview Questions - Windows Server 2008/R2 TS/RDS

What is presentation virtualization?

Describe the benefits of using TS/RDS.

Describe the drawbacks of using TS/RDS.

Describe the main TS role services in Windows Server 2008.

Describe the main RDS role services in Windows Server 2008 R2.

What are the major changes between the Windows Server 2008 TS and the Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS roles in relation to Windows Server 2003 TS.

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What is the TS/RDS Session Host?

What are the benefits of using 64-bit hardware and OS vs. using the 32-bit version?

Describe your experience in using TS/RDS.

How can you configure TS/RDS session limits? Describe a couple of methods.

What is GPO Loopback Processing?

How do you standardize user profiles and settings across a TS/RDS farm?

What are the major drawbacks of using Roaming User Profiles?

Working with Outlook on TS/RDS, what can you tell me about using cached modes?

How do you install applications on a TS/RDS Session Host? Describe a couple of methods.

What are the TS/RDS command line management tools?

How would you achieve high availability with RD Session Hosts?

What is "Virtual Machine Redirection" and when would it be used?

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Talk about TS/RDS licensing.

Is there any difference in RDS licensing in Windows Server 2008 R2?

What is the licensing grace period?

Where would you install the RD Licensing server? Talk about small implementation and large implementation scenarios.

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What is RDS RemoteApp?

Describe the benefits of using RDS RemoteApp.

How do you publish a RemoteApp?

What's the difference between using .RDP files and .MSI files when publishing a RemoteApp to the users' desktops?

In Windows 7, it's possible to use RemoteApp in conjunction with RDS Web Access in a different manner. Can you describe this process?

Needing to control which users get access to which RemoteApp. How can you do that?

Describe the way RemoteApps integrate with the Windows desktop.

Besides RemoteApp, what other ways or software lifecycle management solutions are you aware of?

Talk about digital signatures and their relevance to RemoteApp publishing.

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What is RDS Web Access?

Describe the benefits of using RDS Web Access.

Talk about the implementation scenarios of RDS Web Access.

Describe the process of securing RDS Web Access.

How would you publish an RDS Web Access site?

Can you use Web Access with other Microsoft-based solutions? Name a few.

What's the alternative for using RDS Web Access?

Talk about digital signatures in relation to RDS Web Access.

How can you control who has access to the RDS Web Access website?

What would you do in order to publish RemoteApps from multiple RD Session Hosts through one RD Web Access server?

What would you do in order to publish RemoteApps from multiple RD Session Hosts through one RD Web Access server?

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What's RDS Gateway?

What are the main usage scenarios for RDS Gateway?

What are RAPs?

What are CAPs?

Describe the process of securing RDS Gateway.

Talk about digital signatures in relation to RDS Gateway.

What type of RD clients can be used with RD Gateway?

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What is the RD Session Broker?

What was the original role of the RD Session Broker, and what where the names this role used in previous versions of Terminal Services?

When would you need to implement a RD Session Broker?

Talk about RD Session Broker and VDI.

Talk about the entire process of using all RDS components along with RS Session Broker.

How would you achieve high availability with RD Session Brokers?

Technical Interview Questions - Windows Server 2008/R2 Hyper-V and Virtualization

What is virtualization (in general)?

What are the 4 major virtualization areas?

Describe the major benefits of Server Virtualization.

What is the difference between hosted virtualization and hypervisor-based virtualization?

What's the idea behind Type 1 and Type 2 methods of virtualization?

Talk briefly about the history of Microsoft-based virtualization products.

What is Hyper-V?

Name a few competitive products that can be compared (even roughly) with Hyper-V.

What are the major differences between Hyper-V RTM and Hyper-V R2? Name some of the major differences.

What are the hardware requirements for Hyper-V?

How many logical CPUs does Hyper-V R2 support?

How much RAM can be assigned to VMs in Hyper-V R2?

What's Microsoft Hyper-V Server?

Describe the process of installing Hyper-V from scratch on a brand new Dell R710 machine.

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What types of network connections does Hyper-V allow?

When building a new Hyper-V host, what would your networking considerations be?

Why is it important to leave one physical NIC for the host OS?

Talk about MAC address ranges and potential issues with Hyper-V RTM. How was this solved in R2?

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What are the different virtual disk options in Hyper-V?

When considering performance, what type 0f virtual disk would you use?

What are pass-through disks?

Talk about hot adding and hot removing disks in Hyper-V R2.

What are VM snapshots?

Talk about performance considerations and other "issues" with VM snapshots.

What's the difference between applying, deleting and reverting to snapshots?

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Describe the process of creating a new VM from scratch.

Where does Hyper-V place the files and settings for VMs, by default? How do you change that?

What are synthetic drivers?

What are emulated drivers?

When creating a new VM that'll run Windows Server 2008, what type of NIC would you create?

Following the previous question, what type of NIC would you create for a WIN PE-based VM? Why?

Migrating a Windows Server 2003 VM from Virtual Server 2005, what type of NIC would you need to use?

Creating a new VM, what type of disk controller would you need to use for the VM's system disk?

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What are Integration Components?

Talk about certain issues with hosting DCs virtually.

What are "Enlightened Partitions"?

What OSs are supported on Hyper-V?

What types of backups can you use for VMs?

Talk about performing backups of VMs and VSS.

How do you export a VM? Mention a couple of methods.

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Talk about domain membership considerations for Hyper-V hosts.

Where can you manage Hyper-V hosts from?

What is RSAT?

How would you manage Hyper-V from a Windows 7-based machine?

Talk about permission issues in regards of managing Hyper-V hosts.

What is AZMAN?

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Talk about the licensing benefits of Hyper-V under the various editions of Windows Server 2008.

Wanting to create a failover cluster on 2 Hyper-V nodes in Windows Server 2008 R2, what edition of Windows would you prefer? Why?

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Talk about Hyper-V-based high availability.

What's Quick Migration?

What's Live Migration?

Talk about downtime issues with Quick Migration vs. Live Migration.

Talk about the steps needed to be taken in order to setup a Live Migration setup.

What is CSV?

Can you create a Live Migration setup without CSV? Explain.

Mention a few methods for initiating a Live Migration movement of VMs between one host and another.

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How do you monitor the performance of your VMs?

How do you know how much memory a specific VM uses?

How do you know what's the I/O used on a Hyper-V host?

How do you monitor the bandwidth used by a specific VM?

Talk about SCVMM, SCOM, SCCM and Hyper-V.

Talk about WMI and Hyper-V.

Technical Interview Questions Exchange 2003

Tell me a bit about the capabilities of Exchange Server.

What are the different Exchange 2003 versions?

Name some of the main differences between Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000/2003?

What are the major network infrastructure requirements for installing Exchange 2003?

What is the latest Exchange 2003 Service Pack? Name a few changes in functionality in that SP.

What are the disk considerations when installing Exchange (RAID types, locations and so on).

You got a new HP DL380 (2U) server, dual Xeon, 4GB of RAM, 7 SAS disks, 64-bit. What do you do next to install Exchange 2003? (considering you already have AD in place)

Why shouldn't you install Exchange on the same machine as a DC?

Why shouldn't you install Outlook on the same machine as an Exchange server?

Are there any other installation considerations?

How would you prepare the AD Schema in advance before installing Exchange?

What type or permissions do you need in order to install the first Exchange server in a forest? In a domain?

How would you verify that the schema was in fact updated?

What type of memory optimization changes could you do for Exchange 2003?

How would you check your Exchange configuration settings to see if they're right?

What are the Exchange management tools? How and where can you install them?

What types of permissions are configurable for Exchange?

How can you grant access for an administrator to access all mailboxes on a specific server?

What is the Send As permission?

What other management tools are used to manage and control Exchange 2003? Name the tools you'd use.

What are Exchange Recipient types? Name 5.

You created a mailbox for a user, yet the mailbox does not appear in ESM. Why?

You wanted to change mailbox access permissions for a mailbox, yet you see the SELF permission alone on the permissions list. Why?

What are Query Based Distribution groups?

What type of groups would you use when configuring distribution groups in a multiple domain forest?

Name a few configuration options for Exchange recipients.

What's the difference between Exchange 2003 Std. and Ent. editions when related to storage options and size?

Name a few configuration options related to mailbox stores.

What are System Public Folders? Where would you find them?

How would you plan and configure Public Folder redundancy?

How can you immediately stop PF replication?

How can you prevent PF referral across slow WAN links?

What types of PF management tools might you use?

What are the differences between administrative permissions and client permissions in PF?

How can you configure PF replication from the command prompt in Exchange 2003?

What are the message hygiene options you can use natively in Exchange 2003?

What are the configuration options in IMF?

What are virtual servers? When would you use more than one?

Name some of the SMTP Virtual Server configuration options.

What is a Mail Relay? Name a few known mail relay software or hardware options.

What is a Smart Host? Where would you configure it?

What are Routing Groups? When would you use them?

What are the types of Connectors you can use in Exchange?

What is the cost option in Exchange connectors?

What is the Link State Table? How would you view it?

How would you configure mail transfer security between 2 routing groups?

What is the Routing Group Master? Who holds that role?

Explain the configuration steps required to allow Exchange 2003 to send and receive email from the Internet (consider a one-site multiple server scenario).

What is DS2MB?

What is Forms Based Authentication?

How would you configure OWA's settings on an Exchange server?

What is DSACCESS?

What are Recipient Policies?

How would you work with multiple recipient policies?

What is the "issue" with trying to remove email addresses added by recipient policies? How would you fix that?

What is the RUS?

When would you need to manually create additional RUS?

What are Address Lists?

How would you modify the filter properties of one of the default address lists?

How can you create multiple GALs and allow the users to only see the one related to them?

What is a Front End server? In what scenarios would you use one?

What type of authentication is used on the front end servers?

When would you use NLB?

How would you achieve incoming mail redundancy?

What are the 4 types of Exchange backups?

What is the Dial-Tone server scenario?

When would you use offline backup?

How do you re-install Exchange on a server that has crashed but with AD intact?

What is the dumpster?

What are the e00xxxxx.log files?

What is the e00.chk file?

What is circular logging? When would you use it?

What's the difference between online and offline defrag?

How would you know if it is time to perform an offline defrag of your Exchange stores?

How would you plan for, and perform the offline defrag?

What is the eseutil command?

What is the isinteg command?

How would you monitor Exchange's services and performance? Name 2 or 3 options.

Name all the client connection options in Exchange 2003.

What is Direct Push? What are the requirements to run it?

How would you remote wipe a PPC?

What are the issues with connecting Outlook from a remote computer to your mailbox?

How would you solve those issues? Name 2 or 3 methods

What is RPC over HTTP? What are the requirements to run it?

What is Cached Mode in OL2003/2007?

What are the benefits and "issues" when using cached mode? How would you tackle those issues?

What is S/MIME? What are the usage scenarios for S/MIME?

What are the IPSec usage scenarios for Exchange 2003?

How do you enable SSL on OWA?

What are the considerations for obtaining a digital certificate for SSL on Exchange?

Name a few 3rd-party CAs.

What do you need to consider when using a client-type AV software on an Exchange server?

What are the different clustering options in Exchange 2003? Which one would you choose and why.

Technical Interview Questions - Exchange Server 2007/2010

What are the Exchange 2007/2010 server roles?

What are the benefits of using roles, vs. the way Exchange 2000/2003 worked?

What are the Exchange 2003 equivalents of the various Exchange 2007/2010 roles?

Name the system prerequisites for installing Exchange 2007/2010 in your existing Active Directory forest.

You have an Exchange 5.5 organization and finally decided to move forward and upgrade to Exchange 2007/2010. What's your next obvious step?

You're looking to install Exchange 2007/2010 and Outlook on the same machine. Should you do that? Why?

Where does Exchange store its configuration settings?

How do you prepare the AD for Exchange 2007/2010? Name 2 methods.

What permissions do you need to prepare the AD for Exchange 2007/2010?

How would you verify that the schema was in fact updated?

In the installation folder root you see setup.com and setup.exe. Which would you use and when?

How would you easily install all the Windows Server 2008/R2 roles and features required for Exchange 2007/2010?

How would you check your Exchange configuration settings to see if they're right?

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What is the latest Exchange 2007 Service Pack? Name a few changes in functionality in that SP.

Looking to install Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008. What SP version do you need? And for R2?

What's a Rollup Update? What's the latest RU for Exchange 2007/2010?

How can you easily integrate a RU in the Exchange 2007/2010 installation media?

Name a few reasons for using 64-bit hardware and OS version for Exchange 2007/2010.

Exchange 2007 came in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Name a couple of reasons for ever needing the 32-bit version.

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Wanting to manage Exchange 2007/2010 from a remote computer, name a few of your management options.

Name a few changes that were made in Exchange 2003 Management Console (EMC) when compared to Exchange 2003 System Manager (ESM).

What's PowerShell and why do we care?

Name one major benefit of PowerShell v2 over V1.

What are the different Exchange Recipient types?

What are resource mailboxes? When would you use them?

What are Dynamic Distribution groups?What type of groups would you use when configuring distribution groups in a multiple domain forest?

How can you grant access for an administrator to access all mailboxes in your organization?

How can you grant access for an administrator to access all mailboxes on a specific Exchange server?

Describe the differences in the permission model between Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2010.

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What are the major changes in the way Exchange 2007 stores work?

What's the difference between the Enterprise and Standard editions of Exchange in relation with the number and size of the stores on the server?

What are the major changes in the way Exchange 2010 stores work? Name some of the changes in comparison with Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007.

What's the major difference in store high availability in Exchange 2007?

What's the major difference in store high availability in Exchange 2010?

What is the GAL?

When would you decide to create more than one GAL?

How would you modify the filter properties of one of the default address lists?

What is the OAB? When is it used?

What are the OAB distribution options?

You are at a client's location, and you see no Public Folders on any of the Mailbox servers. How can that be?

You don't have any Public Folder, but now you've got a bunch of laptop users that use Outlook 2003. What issues would you see? How would you fix these issues?

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In Exchange 2007, what are the minimum requirements for implementing a high availability topology, in relation to the server roles and server numbers?

In Exchange 2010, what are the minimum requirements for implementing a high availability topology, in relation to the server roles and server numbers?

Describe the concept behind Log Shipping.

What's the difference between LCR, CCR and SCR?

What's SCC?

You've installed Exchange 2007 RTM and are looking to enable SCR but cannot find the option to do so in the EMC or in PS. Why?

Describe DAG in Exchange 2010.

Considering DAGs in Exchange 2010, why does Microsoft claim that you can run "Raidless"?

Would you run "Raidless" even when implementing DAGs in Exchange 2010? Why?

Would you run "Backup-less" even when implementing DAGs in Exchange 2010? Why?

How do you enable LCR?

Why does Microsoft suggest using NTFS mount points when using LCR?

What Exchange edition version do you need for LCR? What Windows edition version do you need for LCR?

How do you recover from a store corruption when using LCR? Name the procedures you would use.

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What are streaming backups?

What are VSS backups?

How would you backup Exchange 2007/2010 on a Windows Server 2008/R2 machine without using 3rd-party tools?

What's a Brick-Level backup?

What backup solutions are you familiar with in Exchange 2007/2010?

What's a Recovery Storage Group? How do you work with one?

Can you use Exmerge in Exchange 2007/2010? Why?

How do you export a mailbox content in Exchange 2007/2010?

What's a Dial Tone recovery?

What built-in tool do you have to allow you to manage Exchange store recoveries?

What's the difference between online and offline defrag?

In Exchange 2010, is there any change in the way online and offline defrags are used (or should be used)?

What is Eseutil?

What is Isinteg?

Name a few scenarios for using both tools?

What are the major considerations for using these tools?

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Where does Exchange 2007/2010 get its routing topology from?

What protocol is used for the Mailbox to HT transport?

How would you achieve incoming mail redundancy?

Name all the client connection options in Exchange 2007/2010.

What happened to OMA?

Name some of the major changes in OWA in relation to Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2003? And in relation to Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007?

What's the ECP in Exchange 2010 OWA?

A user opens an OWA session from an external computer. Which role does that user connect to?

What are the major changes in Outlook 2010 in relation to Exchange 2010, when compared to Outlook 2007/Exchange 2007?

What's a mailbox move request in Exchange 2010?

What is Online Mailbox Move in Exchange 2010?

Describe the issues you're facing when attempting to obtain a digital certificate for Exchange 2007.

What's one of the changes that was made to the digital certificate request process in Exchange 2010 in relation to Exchange 2007?

What are SAN certificates?

Name a few commercial CAs you could use to obtain digital certificates.

What is Cached Mode in Outlook 2007/2010?What are the benefits and "issues" when using cached mode? How would you tackle those issues?What is S/MIME? What are the usage scenarios for S/MIME?

What is Outlook Anywhere?

Describe the method for enabling Outlook Anywhere.

You've just bought a new Internet domain name, and are looking to set up an Exchange organization to receive e-mail for that domain. Name ALL the steps you would need to take in order to successfully be able to work with that domain name.

You've installed Exchange 2007/2010 and now you need to be able to send e-mail externally (to the Internet). What do you need to do?

What's Accepted Domains?

Where in EMC would you look to configure Send Connectors?

What is a Mail Relay? Name a few known mail relay software or hardware options.

What's a Smart Host? When would you use it?

Wanting to configure a Send Connector to the world, what address would you use?

What are Receive Connectors?

In Exchange 2007/2010, what's the major issue blocking you from receiving e-mail from the world, considering you've enabled the right port(s) on the firewall, and properly configured MX records for your domain(s)?

What's the difference between the "Client" and the "Default" Receive Connectors?

You're looking to troubleshoot e-mail delivery issues. Name 4 options/tools/logs that are built into Exchange 2007/2010 that can help you in your task.

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You're looking to enable Anti-Spam features on Exchange. Which role would you use to do so?

Let's say you're wanting to use Anti-Spam features on the HT role. You're looking to enable these features but cannot find them. What do you need to do?

Where does Edge role store its settings?

You have a need to enable high-availability and load balancing on your Edge role. How do you achieve that?

What's Edge synchronization?

What's Edge subscription?

How do you enable Edge subscription?

What's the default replication interval for Edge sync?

What ports do you need to open between the DMZ holding the Edge role and your internal network?