Windows Questions

Q: What management tool has been removed in exchange 2019 and replaced by a web-based tool?

A: ECP

Q: What role has been removed in exchange 2019

A: hub transport server role or Unified Messaging (UM)

Q: What is an example of a message transport system?

A: SMTP

Q: What are examples of client programs that allow users to read their mail and send mail?

A: Thunderbird, Outlook, Outlook web app

Q: What is the author meaning when he says message-hygiene system?

A: Something that will get rid of spam, trojan, viruses

Q: RPC OVER HTTPS is also known as?

A: RPC over HTTP (Remote Procedure Call over HTTP) is a protocol that allows a client on the Internet to
connect securely to a Microsoft Exchange Server without having to log into a virtual private network
(VPN) first.

Q: What is ECP?

A: Exchange Control Panel, GUI tool to manage exchange server

Q: What can an end-user do in ECP?

A: They can create and join distribution groups, create away messages etc.

Q: Microsoft replication technologies use transaction logs? T/F

A : True
Q : Transaction logs are used to rebuild a database by replaying all transactions since the last full backup
of the database. T/F

A: True

Q: Why do mailbox servers need access to active directory?

A: All sorts of reasons to authenticate users, determining what permissions you may have on mailboxes

Q: Why do client access servers need access to active directory?

A: Active sync, outlook web app user restrictions

Q: What are IOPS?

A: Input Output Operations Per Second – performance measurement used to benchmark computer
storage devices

Q: What is a PST file?

A: It is a personal folder file for outlook. Local copy of data stored on your computer

Q: What is the downside of a PST file ?

A: Problem is its stored locally on your computer, if your pc crashes you lose all data

Q: What are some recipient management tasks ?

A: Assigning certain tasks to user accounts that can be actioned on a specific mailbox

Q: What are some monitoring tasks?

A: Make scripts to do monitoring, i.e monitor disk space, doing backups, make sure backups can be
restored

Q: What does DAG stand for?

A: Database Availability Groups, one of your servers will be the primary and it makes sure that log
files from other databases are written to the other servers. Provides automatic database-level
recovery from failures that affect individual servers or databases. A DAG could include up to 16
mailbox servers.
Q: What are some features of Microsoft's remote connectivity analyzer?
A: Tools provided by Microsoft. Check active sync, check outlook anywhere, connectivity tests for
outlook, make sure your web services are running, try sending emails, receiving emails etc.

Q: Will exchange 2019 run on a 32-bit processor? Y/N

A: No

Q: What server roles did exchange 2007 and exchange 2010 have besides unified messaging?

A: Client Access server role, mailbox server role, hub transport server role

Q: The mailbox server role handles what features in exchange 2019

A: Mailboxes, Public folder mailboxes, Database Replication, Transport services, unified messaging

Q: What is the Autodiscover service in exchange 2019?

A: Discover what ports are available and make exchange/mailbox setup easier for clients. When Exchange

2019 is installed, it creates a virtual directory called Autodiscover under the default web site in Internet

Information Services (IIS)

Q: What is one of the biggest enemies of high availability?

A: The amount of time it takes to restore your database if something goes down.

Q: A DAG can contain a maximum of how many exchange server 2019 mailbox servers?

A: 16, no restriction on exchange servers but a single database can only reside on 16

Q: What does EMS stand for?

A: Exchange Management Shell

Q: What are retention policies?

A: Retention policies deal with types of your mail, how long mail can stay in the primary mailbox,
how long once you delete a message does it stay for, etc.
Q: What is an In-Place hold?

A: Deleted items are held for a certain period of time

Q: What are some of the tasks you can do with transport rules?

A: Make rules for whatever task you need. Put disclaimers on messages, set sizes of messages, can
specify incoming sizes of messages etc.

Q: What are some of the new and improved outlook web app features?
A: Added ability to access mailboxes when you are offline, and features like being able to see
multiple calendars

Q: What is a feature that was removed in exchange 2019

A: Inbound fax functions

Q: What is an incremental backup?

A: Backup that only backs up data that has been altered since the last incremental or full backup. If you
must restore from incremental, you must restore your full backup and then every single incremental
backup up until the date of restoring

Q: What is a differential backup?

A: A differential backup is a cumulative backup of all changes made since the last full backup, i.e., the
differences since the last full backup. The advantage to this is the quicker recovery time, requiring
only a full backup and the last differential backup to restore the entire data repository.

Q: What is VSS?

A: Volume Shadow Copy Service. Takes a snapshot and keeps a record of everything that changed.
VSS coordinates the actions that are required to create a consistent shadow copy (also known as
a snapshot or a point-in-time copy) of the data that is to be backed up.

Q: Does exchange require access to active directory?

A: Yes
Q: What are the differences between software raid, bios raid and hardware raid?

A: Software raid – software that can do raid but takes performance away from your computer. BIOS

raid – same as software but it is in BIOS software.

Hardware raid – uses dedicated raid controller and does not take as much away from performance.

Q: What is a SAN?

A: Storage area network (SAN) is a computer network which provides access to consolidated, block-level

data storage. Primarily used to enhance accessibility of storage devices to servers so that they appear as

locally-attached devices. A SAN is typically a dedicated network of storage devices not accessible through the

local area network (LAN) by other devices, thereby preventing interference of LAN traffic in data transfer.

Q: What can be done to reduce power consumption and cooling in a corporate network?

A: Go to virtualization. Virtualize your hardware so you can end up with less overall computers needed.

Q: What can be done to reduce your environmental impact in a corporate network?

A: Like power consumption just go to virtualization

Q: Does all server hardware support virtualization?

A: No. Older server hardware can have CPUs that don’t support virtualization (requires 64-bit

processors and operating systems).

Q: What are some file level protocols?

A: NFS, SMB, etc.

Q: Is ISCSI a file level protocol?

A: No. It is an IP-based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities. It provides

block-level access to storage devices by carrying SCSI commands over a TCP/IP network.

Q: When using Get-Mailbox, select the user Doug.Dacey on the server CST8242

A: Get-Mailbox -Identitiy “Doug.Dacey” -Server CST8242

Q: Using tab completion, what would “Get-Distri” produce?

A: Get-DistributionGroupMember

Q: How would you set every mailbox on the server “CST8242” to have its custom attribute 15 set to
“Algonquin” using EMS?

A: Get-Mailbox -Server CST8242 | Set-Mailbox -CustomAttribute15 Algonquin

Q: What EMS command would show displayname, itemcount, storagelimistatus and lastlogontime for all
mailbox objects of server CST8242?

A: Get-Mailbox -Server CST8242 | Get-MailboxStatistics DisplayName, ItemCount, StorageLimitStatus,

LastLogonTime

Q: How would you display only, DisplayName, ItemCount, TotalItemSize for user Doug Dacey on current
server?

A: Get-MailboxStatistics “Doug Dacey” | FT DisplayName, ItemCount, TotalItemSize

Q: What does the following do?

Get-MailboxStatistics -Server CST8242 | Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending | Select-Object

DisplayName, ItemCount, TotalItemSize | Export-CSV C:\Reports\StorStats.csv

A: Gets all mailbox statistics for the server CST8242, Sorts them from highest to lowest TotalItemSize.
Only display DisplayName, ItemCount and TotalItemSize. Exports to spreadsheet file named
StorStats.csv under the Reports directory.

Q: Which of the following Autodiscover lookups would take place first?

Https://dm002.cst8242.com/Autodiscover/autodiscover.xml
Https://autodiscover.dm002.cst8242.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml

A: Https://dm002.cst8242.com/Autodiscover/autodiscover.xml