A customer is planning a new Microsoft Exchange 2010 environment on their Symmetrix
VMAX. The customer wants to know how they can backup volumes containing passive
mailbox database copies. What advice should be provided to the customer?

You have been assigned to gather performance data for a Microsoft SQL server database
that will be migrated to a Symmetrix VMAX. Which Perfmon counter must be measured prior
to designing a disk layout?

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

A customer plans to deploy Oracle on their new Symmetrix VMAX. They are concerned
about the performance of the redo log files. You recommend isolating these files to their own
set of disks and deploying them on striped metavolumes. Why would you recommend
striped metavolumes?

A customer is planning an Oracle 11g implementation. You have been asked to design the
Oracle storage architecture. You recommend placing redo log 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 customer has implemented an Oracle application on a Symmetrix VMAX with a mix of
Enterprise Flash Drives (EFD) and FC 15K drives. EFD are configured in RAID 5, and FC
15K drives are configured both in RAID 5 and RAID 1. In terms of IOPS activity, reads are
predominant over writes. The customer decided to place a portion of the database in each
tier. Which Oracle database object(s) is suitable for placing on the FC 15K RAID 1 drives?

Which database workload is suitable for an EFD configuration?

What is the most important advantage of implementing an ASM, Oracle 11g application on
an existing Symmetrix array?

A customer plans to migrate existing AIX, EMC-UX, and Windows hosts from a Symmetrix
DMX-3 to a new VMAX array. You need performance data from the existing array to
configure the layout of the new VMAX volume configuration. Which tools can be used to
collect Symmetrix array performance data?

The SiRT feature is enabled on the RA in an SRDF/S configuration. When does the host
receive the acknowledgement of a write?