Designing and Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 — Question 111

You manage an Exchange Server 2016 organization that spans two sites. The sites are located in Los Angeles and New York.
You have a database availability group (DAG) named DAG1 that contains four members, two in each site.
The names and location of each DAG1 member are as follows:
✑ EX01 and EX02 are in the New York site.
✑ EX03 and EX04 are in the Los Angeles site.
A user has a mailbox on a database that is currently active on EX03.
The Front End Transport service on EX01 receives a message from the Internet. The message is addressed only to the user.
Based on this information, how will the Front End Transport service always attempt to route the first delivery attempt of the message?

Answer options

• A. The Transport service on EX01
• B. The Transport service on EX03
• C. The Transport service on one of the servers in the New York site
• D. The Transport service on one of the servers in the Los Angeles site

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B because the Front End Transport service routes messages based on the mailbox database's active server location, which is EX03 in this case. Options A, C, and D are incorrect as they either refer to the wrong server or do not consider the active database's server.