MCSE related INTERVIEW QUESTIONS..PART2

1. Tell me a bit about the capabilities of Exchange Server.
2. What are the different Exchange 2003 versions?
3. Name some of the main differences between Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000/2003?
4. What are the major network infrastructure requirements for installing Exchange 2003?
5. What is the latest Exchange 2003 Service Pack? Name a few changes in functionality in that SP.
6. What are the disk considerations when installing Exchange (RAID types, locations and so on).
7. 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)
8. Why shouldn't you install Exchange on the same machine as a DC?
9. Why shouldn't you install Outlook on the same machine as an Exchange server?
10. Are there any other installation considerations?
11. How would you prepare the AD Schema in advance before installing Exchange?
12. What type or permissions do you need in order to install the first Exchange server in a forest? In a domain?
13. How would you verify that the schema was in fact updated?
14. What type of memory optimization changes could you do for Exchange 2003?
15. How would you check your Exchange configuration settings to see if they're right?
16. What are the Exchange management tools? How and where can you install them?
17. What types of permissions are configurable for Exchange?
18. How can you grant access for an administrator to access all mailboxes on a specific server?
19. What is the Send As permission?
20. What other management tools are used to manage and control Exchange 2003? Name the tools you'd use.
21. What are Exchange Recipient types? Name 5.
22. You created a mailbox for a user, yet the mailbox does not appear in ESM. Why?
23. You wanted to change mailbox access permissions for a mailbox, yet you see the SELF permission alone on the permissions list. Why?
24. What are Query Based Distribution groups?
25. What type of groups would you use when configuring distribution groups in a multiple domain forest?
26. Name a few configuration options for Exchange recipients.
27. What's the difference between Exchange 2003 Std. and Ent. editions when related to storage options and size?
28. Name a few configuration options related to mailbox stores.
29. What are System Public Folders? Where would you find them?
30. How would you plan and configure Public Folder redundancy?
31. How can you immediately stop PF replication?
32. How can you prevent PF referral across slow WAN links?
33. What types of PF management tools might you use?
34. What are the differences between administrative permissions and client permissions in PF?
35. How can you configure PF replication from the command prompt in Exchange 2003?
36. What are the message hygiene options you can use natively in Exchange 2003?
37. What are the configuration options in IMF?
38. What are virtual servers? When would you use more than one?
39. Name some of the SMTP Virtual Server configuration options.
40. What is a Mail Relay? Name a few known mail relay software or hardware options