A customer recently reconfigured their Exchange 2010 environment. They placed the log and
system files on the L:\ drive and mounted the mailbox stores on L:\SG1DBMP. They report they

updated the associated Replication Manager replica job to reflect the change, but the mounts to
the backup server fail. What do you advise the customer?

Your customer decided to implement FAST VP on a two engine VMAX. The requirement is
approximately 1.5TB for the Enterprise Flash Drive Tier. Which drive configuration option provides
a balanced backend design with the best performance?

A customer is planning an Oracle 11g implementation. You have been assigned to design the
Oracle storage architecture. You recommend placing redo logs files on separate drives from other
Oracle files. Your customer wants an explanation of this architecture choice. What best describes
the reason for this EMC recommendation?

A company has three data centers that they use to run Concurrent SRDF/Star. All links between
the workload and synchronous target sites were temporarily unavailable. They are unsure about
the sequence of actions during the transient fault recovery process. When do they need to run the
symstar reset command?

A customer requires a restartable Oracle database up to and including the last committed
transaction. Which SRDF best practice solution would you architect?

A company is considering different options in the storage placement of a VMware vSphere 5.0
swap file. When considering placement options, what type of storage would vMotion performance
be reduced via the placement of the swap file in that location?

Prior to creating your Symmetrix VMAX architecture for SQL, you are given a Perfmon Log view
containing data for your database LUN. The file contains read and write IOPS collected over the
past week, at 3-minute intervals.
Which method should you use to determine the correct IOPS target for calculating the appropriate
number of RAID corrected spindles?

Which data protection benefit does Symmetrix Service Credential provide?

A company is using VMware vSphere 5.0 and plans to use the Large Memory Page Size option.
What is the page size ESXi assigns to the guest VM?

You are designing a new Symmetrix VMAX storage array to replace a client’s Symmetrix DMX4.
Performance data is captured and examined for the DMX4. During the discovery phase, the client
states that their critical business application has increased response times when establishing
SRDF for 20 logical volumes. Examination of the current configuration of the logical volumes used
for the application reveals the following:
– Ten 4way meta volumes at 200 GB
– Five 8 way meta volumes at 472 GB
– Five logical volumes at 59 GB
Performance analysis shows that the device write pending counts for the five logical volumes at 59
GB are higher than other volumes used by the application.
The client expects migration events to require a complete establishment of their DR environment
logical volumes. How should all the devices be configured on the target Symmetrix VMAX storage
array?