Exchange server

Question 1

What are 3 mailbox types?

Answer 1

User
Disconnected
Resource

Question 2

What is a user mailbox?

Answer 2

• default type of mailbox
• Any AD user account can have a user mailbox
• user account doesn’t have to be an existing AD account

Question 3

What do the resource mailboxes support?

Answer 3

• Rooms, equipment:
• reservations,
• calendar
  (can be automated or moderated)

Question 4

What are mailbox databases?

Answer 4

• actual storage of mailboxes
• can have multiple database servers per mailbox
• by default database files are spread across all databases

Question 5

Where is the database files located? (just here as a helpful reference)

Answer 5

Program files\Microsoft\exchange servers\V15\mailbox

EDB files

Question 6

What should be refreshed after creating a database?

Answer 6

Microsoft Exchange Information Store

Task Manager- Services

Question 7

What are features a database availability group (DAG)?

Answer 7

• provides high availability for mailboxes
• required multiple mailbox servers
• uses features of fail over clustering to do the work to provide high availability and site resilience.

Question 8

For an exchange server Environment each sever has a _______ and ________ (the latter is a replication)

Answer 8

Active and passive

Question 9

When you create a DAG, it’s initially empty. When you add the first server to a DAG, a _________ ________ is automatically created for the DAG

Answer 9

failover cluster

Question 10

In Exchange Server, mail flow occurs through the __________ _________.

Answer 10

transport pipeline

Question 11

What are the components of the transport pipeline?

Answer 11

Front End Transport service on Mailbox servers
Transport service on Mailbox servers
Mailbox Transport service on Mailbox servers
Transport service on Edge Transport servers

Question 12

What is Front End Transport service on mailbox servers?

Answer 12

acts as a stateless proxy for all inbound and (optionally) outbound external SMTP traffic for the Exchange Server organization

Question 13

What is Transport service on Mailbox servers?

Answer 13

handles all SMTP mail flow for the organization, performs message categorization, and performs message content inspection.

Question 14

What is the Mailbox Transport Submission service:?

Answer 14

• connects to the local mailbox database using an Exchange remote procedure call (RPC) to retrieve messages.
• The service submits the messages over SMTP to the Transport service on Mailbox servers

Question 15

What are the two components of the Mailbox Transport service on Mailbox servers?

Answer 15

Mailbox Transport Submission service

Mailbox Transport Delivery service

Question 16

What is the Mailbox Transport Delivery service?

Answer 16

• receives SMTP messages from the Transport service on Mailbox servers and connects to the local mailbox database using RPC to deliver the messages.

Question 17

If you have an _____ _______ server installed in the perimeter network, all mail coming from the Internet or going to the Internet flows through the Transport service ______ ________ server.

Answer 17

Edge Transport

Question 18

_________ _________ _______ are used only by the Mailbox Transport service to send messages to or receive messages from the local mailbox database

Answer 18

Remote procedure calls (RPCs)

Question 19

What exchange powershell command do we use to show databases?

Answer 19

get-mailboxdatabase “name” |get:mailbox

Question 20

Role groups enable you to ?

Answer 20

grant permissions to administrators and specialist users.

Question 21

Role assignment policies enable you to?

Answer 21

grant permissions to end users to change settings on their own mailbox or distribution groups that they own.

Question 22

SPF (sender policy framework) records are ?

Answer 22

• a specially formatted TXT record in DNS.

- SPF records make sure that only the organization that owns a domain is actually sending email from that domain.

Question 23

What are MX records?

Answer 23

provide an easy way for mail servers to know where to send email. You can think of the MX record as a type of postal address. If you want Office 365 to receive all email addressed to anyone@contoso.com, the MX record for contoso.com should point to Office 365

Question 24

Spam scanning is the _____ connection point to the Office 365 service.

Answer 24

initial

Question 25

what does Spam filtering look at when sending a message??

Answer 25

• Who is sending the message
• the IP address of the server that originally sent the message,
• the behavior of the connecting mail server

Question 26

If you grant full mailbox access permission on the user mailbox to the other users, a user mailbox can work as a ______ _______,

Answer 26

shared mailbox

Question 27

Disabling a mailbox removes ________ details from the AD user account, but the AD user account is preserved.

Answer 27

Exchange

Question 28

Exchange 2016 Standard Edition comes with ________ databases. (number)
How large can these databases be?

Answer 28

Standard edition has 5 databases, can be 16TB.

Question 29

Exchange 2016 Enterprise Edition comes with ___________ databases (number)
How large can these databases be?

Answer 29

Enterprise edition has 100 databases, can be UNLIMITED IN SIZE!!!!!!!!!!