70-236, Lesson 10
Backing Up, Restoring, and Repairing Exchange
Practice Quiz
Fill in the Blank
1. Entries are created in a _________________ that indicates the email and public folder
items are successfully written from the transaction log to the database.
Answer: checkpoint file
Section Ref: How Exchange Databases Work
2. ______________________________ can be used to make point-in-time backups from
files that are open, locked, or in use.
Answer:Volume Shadow Copy Service
Section Ref; Selecting a Backup Program
3. A ________________________ can be used for mailbox restore operations and cannot
be accessed by email clients nor can it participate in policies, replication or clustering.
Answer: Recovery Storage Group (RSG)
Section Ref: Using the Recovery Storage Group
4. To perform a _______________________ for a corrupted mailbox database, you must
first create a RSG and restore a backup of the corrupted mailbox database to the RSG.
Answer: Dial Tone Recovery
Section Ref: Performing Dial Tone Recovery
5. The ___________________, found on the Hub role servers, contains all of the SMTP
communications that occurred on the send and receive connectors of those servers.
Answer: Protocol log
Section Ref: Backing up Hub Role Configuration
6. You should use the ______ parameter to perform an offline defrag with eseutil.exe.
Answer: /d
Section Ref: Backing up Exchange Server Role Configuration
7. The _________________ found in the Exchange Management Console is a graphical
tool can you use to analyze log drive space, repair databases, show database-related event
logs and verify database and transaction logs.
Answer: Database Recovery Management
Section Ref: Performing Dial Tone Recovery
8. Mailbox databases use the ________filename extension.
Answer: edb
Section Ref: How Exchange Databases work
Short Answer
1. What type of backup should you use if you need to restore a full backup followed by
one recent backup?
Answer: Differential backup
Section Ref: Selecting Backup Types
2. What is the easiest way to recreate the search index?
Answer: Stop the MSExchangeSearch service, delete the index folder, and restart the
MSExschangeSearch service.
Section Ref: Recreate a Search Index
3. What command should you use to copy mailboxes or emails from the RSG to the
original mailbox database?
Answer: Restore-Mailbox
Section Ref: Using the Recovery Storage Group
4. What command should you use to create a cloned configuration of the Edge role
server?
Answer: ExportEdgeConfig.ps1
Section Ref: Backing Up Edge Role Configuration