Backup and Recovery Solutions Exam for Technology Architects v8.0

If Data Domain is a target for backups, which environment will yield the highest deduplication compression ratio?

A host has a file system with files changing every day. Full backups are performed every
Sunday. The backup window during weekdays is limited. Full file system recovery should be accomplished in the shortest amount of time. Which type of backup should be performed every weekday to meet these requirements?

An EMC Avamar customer is expanding their backup environment to include their many virtual machines in addition to their physical file servers. Which Avamar deployment provides the least amount of change to their existing backup procedures?

In a Data Protection Advisor environment, what is monitored by Predictive Analysis Engine rules?

In addition to Microsoft Windows, which operating systems are supported by the Data
Protection Advisor server component?

You are asked to propose a backup solution with the following requirements:
-> A Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service hardware provider is used to create a snapshot of production data.
-> Rapid recovery of file systems and individual files from a snapshot.
Which EMC product would you recommend to support this environment?

An Avamar administrator wants to run multiple backups from their Celerra through their single NDMP accelerator node. Based on EMC best practices, what is the recommended maximum number of backup jobs that the administrator can run at once, assuming there is enough RAM?

A customer has purchased Data Protection Advisor and would like to collect system performance information from 100 HP_UX servers. How many Collectors are required in an environment with four data centers?

Due to a bottleneck on the LAN, a potential EMC customer is unable to meet their current
SLA on backups. Which Avamar characteristic addresses the customer's issue?

Which EMC NetWorker feature allows data from multiple client operating systems to reside on the same tape?

A customer is preparing for their Data Protection Advisor (DPA) implementation. Which
TCP port needs to be opened to allow the DPA server to talk to a Collector outside the firewall?

A large EMC Symmetrix customer wants to use the Data Protection Advisor's (DPA)
Recoverability Analysis feature to gather replication information about their environment.
Which operating system(s) can be used for hosting their DPA server?

You are asked to propose a serverless backup solution for the following environment:
-> Oracle database running on HP-UX 11i and all datafiles reside on an EMC
Symmetrix disk array.
-> EMC TimeFinder/Mirror is used to create a copy of the Oracle data.
-> Mirror copy of the Oracle data is backed up by a Sun Solaris 10 server.
Which EMC product would you recommend to support this environment?

The backup window of a customer using tape as a target for the current backup solution has increased over the allowed time. The customer needs to reduce the backup window by adding an intermediary process to a faster device before going to tape. What is that process?