The URD Corporation decided to consolidate its storage onto a Symmetrix. URD has a mix of
Windows and UNIX workstations. URD wants one copy of data for creating backups each night. It
also wants another copy to be made during the day. This second copy would be a standby to
perform a fast recovery in the event of data corruption. The cost of the solution is important to
URD. Your survey of URD environment shows that the read/write ratio of its application is 3:1. The
application appears to be insensitive to disk response times. Which solution do you recommend?

What are the most important metrics to use for storage performance reporting in the
Hosts/Application tier?

A law firm has approached EMC to design an MS Exchange consolidation. After monitoring during
peak hours, reports show 1.7 IOPS per user. Which type of email user profile would describe the
law firm’s email environment?

You are a ABC.com designer. ABC.com requests a design for a SAN and NAS solution that must
contain the following:

One CX700 CLARiiON with 4TB of FC and 8TB of ATA diskOne NS702G CelerraSix LTO2 tape
drives to add to its existing tape library
Which method would you propose for backing up the Celerra with Legato Networker?

ABC.com is planning a second data center 20 miles (30km) away. The second site will be a
Disaster Recovery (DR) site. The second site will also be a second tier data repository for less
important data. As part of the information gathering process, you determine that the company can
tolerate up to 30 minutes of the data loss. It has a total of 1000 LUNs that will need to be
replicated.
You have gathered Performance Manager data for a normal working day. You note the following
values:
Write response time: 5ms
Read Response time: 14ms
Write/s: 400
Reads/s: 700
Which solution do you recommend?

ABC.com has a DMX 1000 at its production site. It is planning to buy another DMX 1000 for its
Disaster Recovery (DR) site 20 miles (30km) from the production site. As part of the information
gathering process, you determine that its RPO is 30 minutes. The company has a total of 30 LUNs
that will need to be replicated to the remote site. It has a T3 link available between the two sites.
The company application is sensitive to response times. You gathered Performance Analyzer data
for a normal working day. You note the following Analyzer values:
Write Response time: 5ms
Read Response time: 14ms
Average I/O Size: 4 KB
Write/s : 400
Reads/s: 700
Which solution do you recommend?

ABC.com has an imaging application and is currently capturing images of its contracts, saving
them to tape, and shipping them to a secondary datacenter for offsite storage. The government
requires ABC.comto hold on to certain records, but the local administrator informs you that he has
to delete items periodically to comply with local privacy laws. In a discussion, the CIO mentions
that ABC.comrecently lost a storage administrator and that the three remaining administrators are
overworked. He also described how ABC.com’s business has been growing rapidly, and that they
are preparing to purchase a new tape silo for their environment. In addition, the CIO complains
about tape corruption issues and rising tape management costs. Which vital information has to be

acquired while collecting information?

ABC.com is having a performance issue with its Microsoft Exchange Environment. You have been
tasked with assessing the customer’s Exchange environment. You plan to compare the results to
Microsoft best practices. What is the best tool to use to provide this assessment?

Which activity would probably be seen in an Operational engagement?

You are a designer for ABC.com. ABC.com has a mix of Windows and UNIX workstations in their

environment, and plans to consolidate its storage onto a CLARiiON. ABC.com. ABC.com’s other
confirmed objective is to utilize point-in-time copies of data to make backups easier. ABC.com
wants to be able to use the point-in-time copies to carry out a fast recovery in the event of
accidental file deletion. The solution has to be cost effective. Your analysis of ABC.com’s
environment confirms that the read/write ratio of their application is 3:1 and the application look as
if it is insensitive to disk response times. Which solution would you recommend based on the
assembled information?