ABC.com is setting up a new Oracle environment and costs need to be minimized. According to
best practices, which RAID configuration should be recommended?

ABC.com has a Celerra NS80 presenting iSCSI LUNs for MS Exchange. The customer is
concerned about the ability to place the applications in the proper state either for backup or restart.
What represents the best solution for this situation?

The number of logical tiers in a SAN topology is based on the number of switches traversed
between the server and the storage to which it is zoned. What is EMC’s recommended maximum
number of “hops” between the server and its storage?

ABC.com is setting up an Oracle environment. According to best practices, which RAID level
configuration should you recommend for the control file(s)?

ABC.com would like to implement a bare-metal disaster recovery solution and has purchased the
EMC HomeBase application for their environment. The customer would like to install the EMC
HomeBase client component on all their application servers and wants to know which component
to install.
Which EMC HomeBase component should be installed on the application servers?

A small business customer performing data backups for all hosts connected to a CLARiiON array
has backup times that are getting too long. The customer is currently backing up 10 hosts, one at
a time, over their 100 Mb network to a backup server with a SCSI AIT -3 tape drive.
Which architectural change should you recommend to reduce the backup times for the
environment?

ABC.com is looking for a de-duplication backup solution for their environment and is evaluating
EMC Avamar. The customer backs up five test clients of various platforms in their environment to
the Avamar server for one week. They are disappointed by the percentage of de-duplication that is
occurring.
What is the reason for this lower than expected de-duplication performance?

ABC.com has mirrored fabrics. The application environment consists of dual-pathed production
hosts and a small number of single-pathed hosts dedicated to backup. The customer notices
significant performance degradation on production hosts during backup operations.
Further investigation reveals that a production host exhibits equally distributed IOPS across its
HBAs during this time period. What is a likely cause of this problem?

A potential EMC Center ABC.com has the following requirements, in order of priority, for archive
storage:
1. Enhanced collision resistance
2. Enhanced performance
3. Optimum storage utilization
Which configuration combination should you propose?

A customer has a Cisco-based SAN infrastructure in two data centers that are connected by a
metropolitan gigabit link. They want to combine the two fabrics to allow them to use a different
backup strategy.
Which Cisco technology meets this requirement?