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      Premier Field Engineer Exchange Interview

      17 Sept 2013
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Toronto, ON
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Toronto, ON) in Jan 2013

      Interview

      first I Had an interview from non -technical guy , he asked me 10 Q I must answer 8 at least to pass .they were easy Questions about exchange 2007 H\A and exchange 2010 DAG ,like yes NO Questions.and also these Questions : 1-why do you want to work for MS? 2-Why did you apply for this position PFE? 3-how would you help MS to Improve this product ? 4-are you welling to re-locate? 5-what is your current package salary in detail? 6-are you welling to travel as PFE must travel 70 %? second interview was with PFE senior level he was asking about exchange server different version 2007 2003 2010 2013 he was so smart once he feel you are good at it he keeps drill down till you break lol third interview was also with PFE senior level very very tough interview also in exchange scenarios and about some projects that I have done . Notes : 1-don't expect easy soft interview with MS Engineers 2-you must understand the core concept , every thing about the product even log files size and shipping ,

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1-exchange server log shipping , log reply , replication , compare between Exchange 2007 and 2010 2-I\O exchange ratio 3-DAG and active manager 4-hows e-mail works store in RAM then HDD ...etc 5-ports numbers 6-EDGE role 7-Mail box DB recovery 8-error number 1018 I thing IF DB corrupted 9-DAC mode in DAG between sites 10-log file size ...etc 11-requirement to deploy exchange server 2010 HW and to consider the I/O ratio and so many Question that I can't remember ,but most of them tough and deep :)
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