Objective 6.2 Exchange 2010

Question 1

The exam might test that you know that a ______ is a mailbox database that you can use to mount a restored mailbox database and extract data from the restored database as part of a recovery operation.

Answer 1

Recovery Database (RDB)

Question 2

You are expected to know the various features and limits of an RDB. For example: ______.

Answer 2

1. All client protocol access to a RDB (including SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4) is blocked.
2. RDB mailboxes cannot be connected to user accounts.
3. MAPI access to a RDB is available only to recovery tools and applications.
4. A RDB cannot be deleted by the system during the recovery process.
5. You cannot use a RDB to recover public folder data.
6. You can mount only one RDB on a Mailbox server at any time.
7. A RDB can be used to recover Exchange Server mailbox databases only.

Question 3

You can use the EMS ______ cmdlet to extract data from an RDB. After extraction, the data can be exported to a folder or merged into an existing mailbox.

Answer 3

Restore-Mailbox

Question 4

Before you can move a recovered or restored mailbox database into an RDB and then extract data from the recovered database, you first need to create an RDB for this purpose. You use the EMS ______ cmdlet to create an RDB.

Answer 4

New-MailboxDatabase

Question 5

The following command creates the RDB RecoverDB on the Mailbox server VAN-EX1: ______.

Answer 5

New-MailboxDatabase -Recovery -Name RecoverDB -Server VAN-EX1

Question 6

You use an RDB in the following scenarios: ______.

Answer 6

1. Same-server dialtone recovery
2. Alternate-server dialtone recovery
3. Mailbox recovery
4. Specific item recovery

Question 7

You should not use an RDB in the following four scenarios: ______.

Answer 7

1. when you are recovering public folder content,
2. when you need to restore entire servers,
3. when you need to restore multiple databases, or
4. when you need to change or rebuild your Active Directory topology.

Question 8

All databases restored to an alternate restore location are in a dirty shutdown state, by default; you need to use the ______ tool in recover mode to put the database in a clean shutdown state before moving the restored database data into an RDB.

Answer 8

Eseutil

Question 9

You use the Eseutil tool to put a mailbox database in a clean shutdown state. You use the ______ tool to repair a mailbox database but not to bring a mailbox database that is in a dirty shutdown state into a clean shutdown state. No EMS cmdlet can be used to put a mailbox database in a clean shutdown state.

Answer 9

Isinteg

Question 10

The exam might test that you know how portability enables a user to have a mailbox in a ______ database for sending and receiving email while her original mailbox is being restored or repaired, and that during this time, clients that support Autodiscover, such as Outlook 2010, are automatically redirected to the new server without the need to manually update the user’s desktop profile.

Answer 10

dialtone

Question 11

You should be aware that the recovery process using dialtone portability is called a ______.

Answer 11

dialtone recovery

Question 12

A dialtone recovery involves creating an ______ database (the dialtone database) on a Mailbox server to replace a failed database. Any mailboxes that are available in the database being recovered are copied into the dialtone database. The dialtone database is now operating as the recovered production database.

Answer 12

empty

Question 13

The following command creates a dialtone database named MyDialToneDB on the Mailbox server VAN-EX1: ______.

Answer 13

New-MailboxDatabase -Name MyDialToneDB –Server VAN-EX1 -EdbFilePath C:\DialTone\MyDialToneDB.edb

Question 14

The following command transfers the user mailboxes hosted on the database being recovered (for example, MyOriginalDB) into the dialtone database: ______.

Answer 14

Get-Mailbox -Database MyOriginalDB | Set-Mailbox -Database MyDialToneDB

Question 15

After the failed database is recovered and moved into the RDB (for example, RecoverDB), the data from the RDB is merged into the dialtone database. You would use a command similar to the following: ______.

Answer 15

Get-Mailbox -Database MyDialToneDB | Restore-Mailbox -RecoveryDatabase RecoverDB

Question 16

The exam might test that you know that by using deleted mailbox retention, you can recover mailboxes after they have been ______ (or disconnected) without the need to restore them from backup.

Answer 16

removed

Question 17

You can use the EMS ______ cmdlet to configure the deleted mailbox retention period.

Answer 17

Set-MailboxDatabase

Question 18

The following command changes the deleted mailbox retention time to 20 days for mailboxes in the database MyMailboxDatabase: ______.

Answer 18

Set-MailboxDatabase –Identity “MyMailboxDatabase” -MailboxRetention 20.00:00:00

Question 19

You should be aware that Exchange 2010 introduced ______ recovery functionality and the Recoverable Items folder, and that this helps you to ensure that deleted and modified items are retained and can be recovered.

Answer 19

single-item

Question 20

The exam might test that you know that the Recoverable Items folder is given a ______, and that all items in a user’s Recoverable Items folder are indexed and are moved when a move request is implemented.

Answer 20

quota

Question 21

Items are retained when the single-item recovery feature is enabled for a mailbox, even if end users purge these items from their Recoverable Items folders. The Recoverable Items folder contains the following subfolders: ______.

Answer 21

1. Purges
2. Deletions
3. Versions

Question 22

Whether single-item recovery is disabled or enabled, Messaging Policy and Compliance automatically purges items from the Recoverable Items folder after 14 days, by default, except for calendar items, which are purged after ______ days.

Answer 22

120

Question 23

You can use the EMS ______ cmdlet to configure single-item recovery settings on a mailbox and the ______ cmdlet to configure single-item recovery settings on a mailbox database.

Answer 23

Set-Mailbox,

Set-MailboxDatabase

Question 24

The following command sets the Recovery Items folder quota limit to 10 GB for the Don Hall Mailbox, at which point, a warning event is entered in Event Viewer: ______.

Answer 24

Set-Mailbox -Identity “Don Hall” -RecoverableItemsWarningQuota 10GB

Question 25

The following command sets the hard limit for the Recovery Items folder in the Don Hall Mailbox to 20 GB: \_\_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 25

**Set-Mailbox -Identity "Don Hall" -RecoverableItemsQuota 20GB**

Question 26

The following command sets the hard limit quota for the Recovery Items folder for all mailboxes that reside on the Research mailbox database to 25 GB: \_\_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 26

**Set-MailboxDatabase -Identity Research -RecoverableItemsQuota 25GB**

Question 27

The exam might test that you know you can merge the databases by exporting the data from the RDB and importing it into the original database, one mailbox at a time, by using the EMS ______ cmdlet.

Answer 27

**Restore-Mailbox**

Question 28

The following command merges the contents of the RDB RecoverDB into the mailbox database MyDatabase: \_\_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 28

**Get-Mailbox -Database MyDatabase | Restore-Mailbox -RecoveryDatabase RecoverDB**

Question 29

You can select the information that you want to merge. For example, the following command merges messages into the Don Hall mailbox that have the subject Conference, with the message body containing the word Exchange, and with the message location either in the Inbox or Calendar folder: \_\_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 29

**Restore-Mailbox -Identity "Don Hall" -RecoveryDatabase RecoverDB -SubjectKeywords "Conference" -ContentKeywords "Exchange" -IncludeFolders \Inbox,\Calendar**

Question 30

The following command recovers all messages located in the Inbox folder of the DonHall mailbox that contain the word Marketing in the subject and places them in the DonMarketing folder of the KimAkers mailbox: \_\_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 30

**Restore-Mailbox –Identity DonHall –RecoveryDatabase RecoverDB –SubjectKeywords "Marketing" –IncludeFolders \Inbox –RecoveryMailbox KimAkers –TargetFolder DonMarketing**

Question 31

The exam might expect you to know how to list the deleted mailboxes in the Recoverable Items folder (previously known as the dumpster) on a Mailbox server and the dates on which they were deleted. For example, to do this on Mailbox server VAN-EX1, you would issue the following EMS command: \_\_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 31

**Get-MailboxStatistics -Server VAN-EX1 | where {$\_DisconnectDate -ne $null} | select DisplayName,DisconnectDate**

Question 32

A mailbox can be disconnected but not yet marked as disconnected. You can use the EMS ______ cmdlet to scan Active Directory for such mailboxes in a mailbox database and update the status of those mailboxes in the Exchange mailbox store.

Answer 32

**Clean-MailboxDatabase**

Question 33

You recover a disconnected mailbox by connecting it to a user account that already exists in AD DS but does not have an associated mailbox. The following command reconnects a disconnected mailbox in the Research mailbox database to user Paul West: \_\_\_\_\_\_. You can also use the EMC Connect Mailbox Wizard to connect a disconnected mailbox.

Answer 33

**Connect-Mailbox -Database "Research" -Identity "Paul West" –User "Paul West"**

Question 34

The exam might test that you know you can perform the following four types of backup of a server with a Windows Server 2008 SP2 or Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system that is running Exchange 2010: \_\_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 34

1. Normal/full backup 2. Copy backup 3. Differential backup 4. Incremental backups

Question 35

Windows Server 2008 R2 backup, by default, creates ______ backups.

Answer 35

incremental

Question 36

The exam might test that you are aware that Windows Server Backup lets you schedule full or incremental backups (typically \_\_\_\_\_\_) so that they occur one or more times per day.

Answer 36

incremental

Question 37

You should know how to configure backup jobs that perform manual backups and schedule these jobs by using \_\_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 37

Windows Task Scheduler

Question 38

You can run the ______ enable backup subcommand to configure or modify a daily backup schedule.

Answer 38

wbadmin

Question 39

Tthe following command schedules backups of hard disk drive C:, saves the files to the disk DiskID, and runs backups daily at 9:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M: \_\_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 39

wbadmin enable backup -addtarget:DiskID -schedule:09:00,18:00 -include:c:

Question 40

You have restored a mailbox database to an alternate restore location and need to move the restored database data into an RDB. What action must you take before you can do this?

Answer 40

You need to use the Eseutil tool in recover mode to put the database in a clean shutdown state.

Question 41

You need to retrieve all messages from the Kim Akers mailbox that have “Research” as a subject and contain the word “confidential” in the message body. The message can be either in the Calendar or Inbox folders. What two actions do you need to take, and what EMS cmdlets do you use?

Answer 41

You create an RDB by using the **New-MailboxDatabase** cmdlet. You then restore messages that have the subject of “Research” and the word “confidential” in the message body by using the **Restore-Mailbox** cmdlet.

Question 42

What EMS command do you issue to merge the contents of the RDB RecoverDB into the mailbox database MyDatabase?

Answer 42

You issue the **Get-Mailbox -Database MyDatabase | Restore-Mailbox -RecoveryDatabase RecoverDB** command.

Question 43

What command do you use in an elevated command prompt to schedule backups?

Answer 43

You use the wbadmin enable backup command.

Question 44

What EMS command reconnects a disconnected mailbox in the Sales mailbox database to user Don Hall?

Answer 44

The **Connect-Mailbox -Database “Sales” -Identity “Don Hall” –User “Don Hall”** command.