Exchange interview questions

This article is written for my students mostly. We have recently finished

Exchange 2003 Class. All my students become Certified Exchange
administrator. I am truly proud of with all of these guys. This is
outstanding performance and great achievement. I love to see more
people are joining into the Exchange community. Here is out school
website www.insytellc.com. I Have promised to my students to have
some question posted on my blog. Below are the exchange interview
questions for Junior Exchange administration position. Here is my
golden advice to you al, please be concise on your answers. When
someone ask you in the interview

What is an IP address, do not spent 5 minutes to explain what it is. Your

answers should be professional and short such as "It is 32 bits binary
number"

Top 10 Tasks for New Exchange Server Administrators

Also expect some basic networking questions as well as Classic ones

such as

Tell me about yourself, what you have been doing (Classic one).

• What is an IP address?
• What is DNS? (what port)
• What is DHCP? (what Port)
• IP address class range
• Private public IP range?
• Public IP address range
• what is subnet mask, why it is important

Port number and Usage Game,

Port 20
Port 21
Port 23
Port 25 Don't Mess with this
one !!!!!!!!!
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Port 53
Port 110
Port 80
Port 443
Port 3389
Port 3268
Port 3369

465
SMTP/SSL
993
IMAP4/SSL
563
IMAP4/SSL

• What is Protocol?
• Explain UDP
• Explain TCP
• How many ports available?

Well Known Ports are those in the range 0–1023

Registered Ports are those in the range 1024–
49151
Dynamic and/or Private Ports are those in the
range 49152–65535
Ports range 0-65535

• What is latest service pack Exchange 2003?

• What is latest service pack Exchange 2000?
• What is the name of Exchange Databases?
• How many databases in Standard Exchange version
• How many databases in Enterprise Exchange version
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• What is Storage Group?

• What is mail store?
• Explain Exchange transaction logs
• What is default size for Transaction logs?
• Why exchange is using transaction logs? Why not to write to data
directly to the Exchange database?
• How exchange database gets defragmented?
• What is white space, and how can it be reclaimed?
• What time online maintenance runs by default in Exchange?
• What event log exchange logs after online defragmentation