The EMC account team has been asked to design a NetWorker backup solution for a Microsoft
SharePoint server. The customer’s environment consists of a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007
distributed farm deployment on a CLARiiON disk array with EMC VSS Provider and an EMC Disk
Library.
The customer wants to leverage a Microsoft VSS framework to provide disaster recovery of the
SharePoint Saver 2007 distributed farm environment. What is an important design consideration?

In a Microsoft Windows environment, how fast does a split have to occur for VSS to work?

A customer wants to know why their backup performance to the Avamar multinode f\grid has
decreased. Initially they were seeing an ingestion rate of around 5 to 7 GB/hr/node. Recently they
estimated that it has slowed to around 3 to 5 GB/hr/node.
What is a probable cause for the decrease in the average ingestion rate?

An EMC NetWorker customer has three backup servers with four storage nodes reporting to each
of the backup servers. All servers run Microsoft Windows. A dual-engine EMC Disk Library with
Active Engine Failover is being proposed for this environment with embedded storage nodes for to
physical tape.
What is a consideration for this solution?

A customer is planning a new database rollout using Oracle and wants to perform online backups.
Initial tests with NetWorker have shown that the backups cannot be completed within the backup
window of 6 hours.
You have analyzed your backup environment and there are adequate resources to meet this
stringent backup window. What is one of the first things to check in NetWorker or RMAN to

increase performance without adding cost and complexity?

A customer with an existing VMware infrastructure is interested in Avamar as a potential backup
solution. The customer needs to back up 10 virtual machines with a total of 2.9 TB of data. The
daily change rate is 6 GB per day.
Which solution would you recommend?

A customer has requested assistance with several backup and recovery challenges. You use the
EMC backup scripts to perform the data collection.
Which type of data is collected using the backup quick scripts?

A customer has Oracle 9i running on a Microsoft Windows server. They want to deploy hot
backups because the database cannot be shut down. What is a design consideration for backups
when using the Avamar plug-in for Oracle?

An EMC Avamar customer wants to start backing up their VMware environment. The customer’s
goal is to have image-level backup while having a low impact on the ESX server. In addition, they
want the ability to perform file-level restores of their Microsoft Windows clients.
Which backup method will meet the customer’s needs?

A single-engine EMC Disk Library (EDL) is being proposed with Remote Copy functionality
replicate data to a remote EDL. One of the EDLs will have four network connections while the
other one will have two network connections.
How many ports will be used in each EDL during a replication session?