January 6, 2010

Top 50 Microsoft Exchange Server Interview Questions

Filed under: Interview Questions and Answers — exchange2k10 @ 7:06 am

These interview questions are asked at the following companies with less than 3 years of
Experience in Exchange Server Administration. I’ll Post the Top 50 Microsoft Exchange Server
Interview Questions for More than 3 years experience candidate soon…

IBM, TCS, CTS, WIPRO, LOGICA, Net Access, Maples

Before going for an Exchange Server Administrator interview, make sure you have the answer
for this basic 5 things. Though you may have some technical knowledge on troubleshooting, you
should be prepared to answers to these five questions

1. What is your technical Experience in Exchange Server?

2. Are you able to give introduction in a way to show that you are Exchange Server Expert?
3. Do you know the current technologies that are introduced recently in Exchange Server
New versions?
4. What are the technical issues that you faced and how you handled in your previous
company?
5. What are your job role and any achievements in your previous company and your
expected salary?

If you fail to answers this question, definitely you are not eligible to attend the interview. If
you know the answers or how to present your answers for the above questions to your Juniors,
please leave your comments on this blog

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And here we go for Top 50 interview Questions.

Try to answers these questions by own without referring anything.

Please know something on Migration, Transition and In-Place upgrade on Exchange servers.

1. What is Exchange Server and what are the Exchange Servers versions released by
Microsoft?
2. What are the supportable operating systems for the Exchange Servers releases?
3. What is the main difference between Exchange Server 5.5, 2000, 2003 and 2007?
4. Difference between standard and enterprise edition in Exchange Server 2003 and 2007?
5. Explain the AD partitions? What are DS Access and DS Proxy?
6. What are DNS server & WINS Server? Is there any manual process required to replicate
zones?
7. What are the basic requirements to install Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server
2007?
8. What is forest prep and domain prep? What will happen if you run these two
preparations?
9. Explain about Site Replication in AD? What is the meaning of cost in site replication?
10. What is storage groups in Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Serve 2007?
11. What is front-end and Back-end server architecture in Exchange Server 2003?
12. What are the considerations in implementing front-end and back-end architecture?
13. Explain Network Load balancing and Clustering in Exchange Server 2003?
14. What is SMTP, NNTP, POP3, IMAP4, MAPI, OWA, OMA, Exchange Active Sync &
RPC over HTTP?
15. Explain the Exchange Server 2003 Services?
16. What are Dumpster, DS2MB, Smart Host, Mail Relay, Send As and Send on Behalf
permission?
17. What are the Exchange Server Administrative permission in Exchange Server 2003 &
2007?
18. What is Administrative group and what is Routing Group? What is Routing Group
Master?
19. Explain Mixed Mode and Native Mode in Exchange Server 2003?
20. Explain the file structure in Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007?
21. Explain the Transactional Log Mechanism in Exchange Server? What is circular logging?
22. What are Exchange Server recipients? And what are address lists? And what is cached
mode?
23. What is distribution group and query based distribution group?
24. What is a Mail relay and Smart host? What is the default transactional log size and max
DB size?
25. Explain the virtual Servers in Exchange Server 2003?
26. What is ESEUTIL, ISINTEG, S/MIME, White Space, IMF and Address Rewrite?
27. What are public folders in Exchange Server? How to manually perform public folder
replication?
28. Why not to install Exchange Server in Domain Controller?
29. What are the connectors available and what is Link State table in Exchange Server 2003?
30. What is Recipient update Service and Recipient update policies? How to manually update
RUS?
31. Explain the backup options available in Exchange and differentiate online & offline
backup?
32. Explain the recovery options available in Exchange Server 2003? How you receover a
single Mailbox?
33. What is a bridgehead server and where we are using it?
34. What’s new in Exchange Server 2007?
35. What’s same with Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007?
36. What options are missing in Exchange Server 2007 that is available in Exchange server
2003?
37. Explain the Exchange Server 2007 Roles?
38. What is EMS, EMC, UM Auto Attend, Remote Wipe, journaling, disclaimer and MRM?
39. What is the importance of Active directory in Exchange Server 2007?
 40. Explain the mail flow in Exchange Server 2007?
41. What are the high availability options in Exchange Server 2007?
42. What is unified messaging, what are the new features included in Exchange Server 2007?
43. What are the security features introduced in Exchange Server 2007?
44. Explain the four New Services that are available in Exchange 2007 Client Access Server
Role?
45. Explain the Administrative Roles and permissions in Exchange Server 2003 and 2007?
46. Suggest a Good Storage Solution for Exchange Servers?
47. What are the port setting considerations in Exchange Server 2003 and 2007?
48. Explain the functions of High Availability options like LCR, CCR, SCC, and SCR?
49. What is Exchange Hosted Service? Explain the AV and AS feature in Edge Server role?
50. What you know about Exchange Server 2010? What’s New in Exchange server 2010?

I assure you that you will be selected in the interview if you know the answer for these 50
interview questions.If I miss something, please be sorry for that…