Implementing High Availability and Recovery Flashcards

1
Q

How many copies of an Exchange database can you have in an organization?

A

One active copy and 15 passive copies

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2
Q

What are the four steps to perform a dial tone recovery?

A
  1. Create an empty dial tone database to replace the failed database.
  2. Restore the old database.
  3. Swap the dial tone database with the restored database.
  4. Merge the databases.
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3
Q

What parameter must you specify in the cmdlet to seed the database copy from a passive copy of the database?

A

the SeedingPostponed parameter

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4
Q

For which Exchange server role should you NOT use setup /m:RecoverServer to rebuild and recreate a lost server?

A

the Edge Transport server

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5
Q

What cmdlet can you use to repair mailboxes while leaving the mailbox database online?

A

New-MailboxRepairRequest

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6
Q

What feature in Exchange 2010 SP1 maintains a list of servers that are unavailable so that these servers are filtered out when applying round robin logic for load balancing?

A

Healthy Server Selector

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7
Q

What two ways can you load balance a Client Access server?

A

Create an NLB cluster or use a physical load balancer

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8
Q

What cmdlet should you use to create a Recovery Database (RDB)?

A

New-MailboxDatabase

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9
Q

Which script in Exchange 2010 SP1 aggregates statistics across all public folder replicas?

A

The AggregatePFData.ps1 script

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10
Q

What cmdlet should you use to re-home the user mailboxes to a dial tone database?

A

Set-Mailbox

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11
Q

What script in Exchange 2010 SP1 detects and takes action on excessive log growth that can cause the health of the Mailbox server to be at risk?

A

The Database Log Growth Troubleshooter script (Troubleshoot-DatabaseSpace.ps1)

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12
Q

Which cmdlet in Exchange 2010 SP1 allows you to permanently remove soft-deleted and disconnected mailboxes?

A

setup /m:RecoverServer

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13
Q

Which cmdlet in Exchange 2010 SP1 allows you to permanently remove soft-deleted and disconnected mailboxes?

A

Remove-StoreMailbox

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14
Q

Which Exchange 2007 command was replaced by the setup /m:RecoverServer command in Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2010 SP1?

A

setup /recoverCMS

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15
Q

What is the process in which a database, either a blank database or a copy of the production database, is added to the target copy location on another Mailbox server in the same DAG as the production database?

A

seeding

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16
Q

What cmdlet should you use to import data into a mailbox on an Exchange 2007 mailbox server from an Exchange 2010 mailbox that the client has exported to a .pst file?

A

the Exchange 2007 Import-Mailbox cmdlet

17
Q

What parameter of the cmdlet configures a passive copy of a mailbox database to be a seeding source instead of an active copy in a different Active Directory site?

A

the SeedingPostponed parameter

18
Q

Which cmdlet in Exchange 2010 SP1 replaces the Isinteg.exe tool from previous Exchange versions and corrects replication issues in the public folder database?

A

New-PublicFolderDatabaseRepairRequest

19
Q

What URL does the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer Tool use?

20
Q

How should you back up all virtual directory configuration settings that are stored in Internet Information Services (IIS) on a Client Access role?

A

Use the Get-OwaVirtualDirectory cmdlet to retrieve the settings and export them to a file

21
Q

What parameter in the Set-ClientAccessServer cmdlet would you use to allow clients to get Autodiscover information from the closest Active Directory site?

A

the -AutodiscoverSiteScope parameter, with the name of closest AD site as the value

22
Q

What feature prevents the deletion of a delayed message from the Transport database until the Transport server verifies that all of the next hops for that message have completed delivery?

A

shadow redundancy

23
Q

What is the minimum number of witness servers required to serve as a witness for three different Database Availability Groups (DAG)?

A

1

24
Q

What cmdlet do you use to merge data from a .pst file to an Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2010 SP1 mailbox?

A

the Import-Mailbox cmdlet

25
Q

When more than one Hub Transport server exists in a remote Active Directory site, what determines the routing path?

A

round-robin load balancing

26
Q

What can you use to back up passive mailbox database copies?

A

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager

27
Q

What version of the Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system is required for a Mailbox server role to be part of a Database Availability Group (DAG)?

A

The Enterprise Edition of Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2

28
Q

Since a Client Access server (CAS) does not maintain user data, what on the CAS must you back up?

A

You must back up copies of the certificates on the computer.

29
Q

What new feature of Exchange 2010 SP1 helps prevent a message received from a host that don’t support shadow redundancy from being lost in transit?

A

shadow redundancy promotion

30
Q

What cmdlet is used to extract data from a Recovery Database (RDB)?

A

Restore-Mailbox

31
Q

How should you configure the Mail Exchange (MX) record priority for three Edge Transport servers named Edge1, Edge2, and Edge3, while ensuring that Edge1 and Edge2 are used for load-balancing, and Edge3 is used as a backup when Edge1 and Edge2 are unavailable?

A

Configure the same priority for Edge1 and Edge2, and a higher priority for Edge3.

32
Q

What replaces the Exchange 2007 Move-Mailbox cmdlet in Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2010 SP1?

A

the MoveMailbox.ps1 script

33
Q

Which script can you run to create a cloned configuration by exporting all user-configured settings and data from a source Edge Transport server?

A

ExportEdgeConfig.ps1