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Microsoft 070-663 Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Exam Name: | Designing and Deploying Messaging Solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 |
| Exam Number: | 70-663 |
| Passing Score: | 700 |
| Available Languages: | Spanish, Japanese, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), French, English |
| Exam Format: | Scenario-based questions, Drag and drop, Case studies, Multiple choice |
| Exam Price: | USD 150 |
| Related Certifications: | Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuration MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator 2010 |
| Certificate Validity Period: | Certification retired; no longer valid for new certification paths |
| Real Exam Qty: | 40-60 |
| Exam Duration: | 150 minutes |
| Recommended Training: | Microsoft Learning - Exchange Server 2010 Training |
| Exam Registration: | Microsoft Certification Exam Registration (Pearson VUE) |
| Sample Questions: |  |
| Exam Way: | Computer-based exam delivered through authorized testing centers and online proctored options where available at the time. |
| Pre Condition: | Candidates were expected to have experience administering Exchange Server 2010 and typically needed to pass related MCTS exams such as 70-662 before achieving MCITP Enterprise Messaging Administrator certification. |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/learning/exams/70-663 |
Microsoft 070-663 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Objectives |
|---|---|
| Design Exchange Server 2010 Infrastructure | - Design Mailbox server solutions - Design Hub Transport and Edge Transport solutions - Design high availability and disaster recovery solutions - Design Client Access solutions |
| Design Messaging Security and Compliance Solutions | - Design transport rules and message policies - Design compliance and archiving solutions - Design anti-spam and anti-malware solutions |
| Design Exchange Management and Operations | - Design administrative delegation and management solutions - Design monitoring and troubleshooting strategies - Design backup and recovery strategies |
| Deploy Exchange Server 2010 Solutions | - Configure messaging services - Implement Exchange Server roles - Implement coexistence and migration solutions |
| Design and Plan Exchange Server 2010 Deployments | - Plan migration and coexistence strategies - Design Exchange Server roles and topology - Analyze messaging requirements and existing infrastructure - Plan Exchange organization configuration |
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Microsoft Pro: Designing and Deploying Messaging Solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Sample Questions:
Your company has a main office and 10 branch offices. Each office has a direct link to the Internet. Each branch office connects to the main office.
Your network consists of an Active Directory forest. Each office is configured as an Active Directory site.
You plan to deploy an Exchange Server 2010 Hub Transport server in each site.
You need to design a messages routing solution to meet the following requirements:
-Branch office connections to the Internet must be used to deliver e-mail
-Branch office servers must use the WAN link to the main office to deliver e-mail to other branch offices
-Branch office servers must be prevented from sending e-mail to the Internet by using the WAN link to the main office
The solution must minimize administrative overhead
What should you include in the solution?
- A. One SMTP site link for each site
- B. two Send connectors for each site
- C. 10 Send connectors for each site
- D. One Send connector for each site
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
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You have an Exchange Server 2003 organization. All e-mail messages sent to the organization from the Internet are delivered to an Exchange Server 2003 server.
You plan to transition the delivery of e-mail from the Internet to an Exchange Server 2010 Hub Transport server. You need to create a transition plan for e-mail delivery from the Internet.
What should you plan to modify?
- A. accepted domains
- B. Recover connectors
- C. address lists
- D. e-mail address policies
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
Your company has a Active Directory forest. The forest contains two sites named Site1 and Site2.
You plan to deploy Exchange Server 2010 servers in both sites.
You need to plan a high availability subnet for the Mailbox servers that meets the following requirements:
-Users must be able to access their mailboxes if a single server fails
-Users must be able to access their mailboxes remotely if a single site becomes unavailable
What should you include in the plan?
- A. Deploy two Mailbox servers in each site. Install and configure continuous cluster replication (CCR).
- B. Deploy one Mailbox server in Site1 and one Mailbox server in Site2. Install and configure continuous cluster replication (CCR).
- C. Deploy two mailbox servers in each site. Create two database availability groups (DAGs) named DAG1 and DAG2. Add the Mailbox server from Site1 to DAG1 and the Mailbox servers from Site2 to DAG2.
- D. Deploy one Mailbox server in Site1 and one Mailbox server in Site2. Install and configure continuous cluster replication (CCR).
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
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A corporate environment includes Exchange Server 2010 SP1 and Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).
Members of the Legal security group must be able to do the following:
-Perform keyword searches across all mailboxes.
-Store the search results in a secure mailbox.
You need to recommend a solution that meets the requirements.
Which two actions should you recommend? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution.Choose two.)
- A. Add members of the Legal security group to the Discovery Management role group.
- B. Perform searches by running the Export-Mailbox cmdlet, and export search results to a discovery mailbox.
- C. Perform searches from the Exchange Control Panel, and export search results to a discovery mailbox.
- D. Add members of the Legal security group to the Organization Management role group.
Correct Answer: A,C 🗳️
You are designing the Exchange organization for Margies Travel.
You need to ensure that all of the emails sent to the Internet by the Margie's Travel users have return email addresses in the required format.
What should you include in the design?
Case Study Title (Case Study): Contoso Ltd
Company Overview
Contoso, Ltd. is a wholesale travel agency.
Physical Locations
The company has offices in New York and Seattle. Each office has a call center. All IT staff and help desk staff are located in the New York office.
Existing Environment
Contoso has a single domain named contoso.com. An Active Directory site exists for each office. The sites connect to each other by using a high-speed WAN link. The WAN link has an average utilization rate of 90 percent during business hours.
The domain contains three domain controllers. The domain controllers are configured as shown in the following table.
The network has an Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SPl) organization that contains four servers. The servers are configured as shown in the following table.
Each mailbox database is 400 GB.
All of the servers have the following hardware configurations:
-64 GB of RAM
-One dual quad-core Intel Xeon processor
-Two l-gigabit per second Ethernet network adapters
-One RAID 10 disk array that has 12 300-GB, 15,000-RPM SAS disks for data
-one RAID 1 disk array that has two 73-GB, 10,000-RPM SAS disks for program files
-One RAID 1 disk array that has two 73-GB, 10,000-RPM SAS disks for the operating system
Requirements Business Goals
Contoso has the following general requirements that must be considered for all technology deployments:
-Minimize costs whenever possible.
-Minimize administrative effort whenever possible.
-Minimize traffic on the WAN link between the offices.
Planned Changes
Contoso acquires a company named Margie's Travel. Margie's Travel has 3,000 employees.
Margie's Travel has the following email infrastructure:
-A call center, where 200 employees work
-UNIX-based email hosts that users access by using POP3 and SMTP
-Three departments that use the SMTP domains of margiestravel.com, east.margiestravel.com,
-and blueyonderairlinesxam. Users are assigned only one email address that uses the SMTP domain of their department
You plan to deploy a new Exchange Server 2010 SP1 organization to Margie's Travel. The new email infrastructure must meet the following implementation requirements:
-All employees must have access to their mailbox if a single server fails.
-Call center employees must use windows Internet Explorer 8 to access their mailbox.
-The administration of the Margie's Travel Exchange organization must be performed by a dedicated team.
-Call center employees must be prevented from accessing the calendar or journal features of Outlook Web App.
-All employees who do not work in the call center must have access to all of the Outlook web App
features.
-All email messages sent to recipients outside of Margie's Travel must have a return address in the [email protected] format.
The new email infrastructure for Margie's Travel must meet the following security requirements:
-Contoso administrators must be prevented from viewing or modifying the settings of the mailboxes of Margie's Travel users.
-All inbound and outbound Internet email to and from the Margie's Travel domains must be routed
through the Hub Transport servers of Contoso.
-All email messages that contain confidential customer information must be encrypted automatically while in transit and the recipients of the messages must be prevented from forwarding them to other users.
Compliance Requirements
Contoso must meet the following compliance requirements:
-Each email message sent by an attorney from the Contoso legal department must be approved by the manager of the legal department.
-Attorneys must be able to classify email messages as "attorney-client privileged".
-All messages classified as "attorney-client privileged" must contain a legal disclaimer automatically.
User Requirements
All users who have a portable computer use Microsoft Outlook 2010 when they work online and offline.
When the users work offline, they must be able to read existing email messages and create new email
messages.
Users who have a large mailbox must minimize the amount of hard disk space used by the mailbox on their
portable computer.
- A. an Edge Transport server and address rewrite entries
- B. a Hub Transport server and Hub Transport rules
- C. an Edge Transport server and Edge Transport rules
- D. a Hub Transport server and address rewrite entries
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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