A customer has approached you to advise them on how their backup environment will
integrate into their new iSCSI application server deployment. Which network characteristic

would have the greatest impact on their backup environment?

A customer has a database server with 300 GB of Oracle database data. Using the default
hash cache setting, what is the total amount of physical RAM required on the client?

What is a key consideration when assessing a nested mount file system and an NDMP
Volume Based Backup (VBB) backup strategy?

An EMC NetWorker customer is considering using an EMC Disk Library as a target as
shown in the exhibit. Two storage nodes need to access the same pool of virtual tapes. In
addition, the customer wants to load balance the usage of virtual tape drives across the
available connections. Based on EMC best practices, which satisfies these requirements?

A customer has twofiles that have been locked and backed up to Data Domain appliance
with the following parameters: – File1=atime=20 years. – File1=atime=5 years. The Data
Domain global retention periods are configured as follows: – Min=2 years. – Max=10 years.
The administrator changes the Data Domain maximum retention period to 4 years. After
how many years can File 2 be deleted?

An EMC NetWorker customer has an Oracle database client. To achieve acceptable backup
performance, they have configured the backup to use four RMAN channels. The customer
wants to benefit from adding Avamar deduplication for this backup. What is a consideration
before proposing this design change?

A customer has asked you to design a backup solution that has a NAS device with several
terabytes of encrypted data spread across three different file systems. Which backup option
should be avoided in this environment?

What are the key concerns when discussing the implementation of a Celerra two-way
NDMP backup design utilizing the SnapSure feature?

An EMC NetWorker customer is experiencing poor backup performance, Your analysis
determines that significant host resources are used to manage low-level network
handshaking operations during backup. Based on EMC recommendations, what can you do
to alleviate the handshake issue?

A customer has purchased Data Protection Advisor (DPA) to provide a single enterprise
report on backup compliance across their 24 geographically disperse locations. How many
DPA servers should be installed?