You are the Exchange administrator for your company. The Exchange organization contains three servers that run Exchange Server 2003.
All users send and receive e-mail messages by using Microsoft Outlook.
One Exchange server is configured as a bridgehead server for Internet e-mail.
The other two servers are configured as mailbox servers. Each mailbox server contains one storage group that contains one public store and two mailbox stores.
Each mailbox server has two CPUs and 1 GB of RAM.
Users report that Outlook requires more than one minute to open. Each e-mail massage requires more than two minutes to send or open.
You monitor the mailbox servers and discover that the primary bottleneck is insufficient RAM.
You add an additional 1 GB of RAM to each mailbox server. Users report no change in the performance of Outlook.
You need to modify each mailbox server to maximize its performance.
What should you do?
A.
Add the switch that enables physical address extensions to the Boot.ini file.
B.
Add the switch that increases user mode memory usage to the Boot.ini file.
C.
Add an additional physical disk and move the paging file to the new disk.
D.
Create an additional mailbox store and move half of the existing mailboxes to the new mailbox store.
Explanation:
If you have more than 1 GB of physical memory installed on a server that is running
Exchange Server 2003, you must make sure that Exchange Server 2003 can make
efficient use of that memory.
If you are running Exchange Server 2003 on a Windows Server 2003-based computer,
and if the /3GB switch is set, Microsoft recommends that you set the /USERVA=3030
parameter in the Boot.ini file. This configuration option increases the virtual address
space.
Incorrect answers:
A: The /PAE switch lets developers perform similar testing of device drivers by forwarding 64-bit addresses to kernel-mode components.
This feature is known as Physical Address Extension (PAE), and it may not work on all chip sets.
C: Adding a hard drive will not resolve the problem. In this case, the problem is coming from an incorrect memory configuration.
D: This answer is not relevant, as front-end servers do not have mailboxes configured on them.