A customer uses EMC Avamar to backup 1000 servers. The servers have a combined raw
capacity of 90 TBs and 75 TBs useable. The Avamar grid is licensed for 25 TB capacity.
How would the Data Protection Advisor backup option be licensed?

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

What is a requirement for remote data collection of Fibre Channel switches in Data Protection
Advisor (DPA)?

Which Data Protection Advisor database remains at approximately the same size?

A customer wants to run Data Protection Advisor on a Solaris host without using the embedded
database. Which alternate database is supported?

A customer has an EMC NetWorker server running on a Microsoft Windows host, one storage
node running on a Windows host, and two storage nodes running on Solaris hosts. Data
Protection Advisor (DPA) will be installed on a separate Windows host. The customer requires that
system performance information be collected from the backup server and all storage nodes.
A Collector will be installed on the DPA server by default. At a minimum, how many additional
Collectors need to be deployed to gather performance information assuming all permissions are
granted?

You are helping a new Data Protection Advisor (DPA) user to integrate the product into their
environment. They want to save reports in a portable format that they could use outside of DPA.
Which formats can they use?

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 have recently configured Data Protection Advisor (DPA) for Recoverability Analysis in your
environment. You are now explaining to new users how DPA gathers, maps, and reports on data
for recoverability analysis. Which process is responsible for receiving data from the Collector and
storing it in the database?

You are describing the different processes that make up the EMC Data Protection Advisor (DPA)
system to a new DPA user. Which process is responsible for extracting data from the datamine
database?