The EMC account team has been asked to design a NetWorker backup solution for a
Microsoft SharePoint server. The customer’s environment consists of a Microsoft
SharePoint Server 2007 distributed farm deployment on a CLARiiON disk array with EMC
VSS Provider and an EMC Disk Library. The customer wants to leverage a Microsoft VSS
framework to provide disaster recovery of the SharePoint Saver 2007 distributed farm
environment. What is an important design consideration?

In a Microsoft Windows environment, how fast does a split have to occur for VSS to work?

A customer wants to know why their backup performance to the Avamar multinode f\\grid
has decreased. Initially they were seeing an ingestion rate of around 5 to 7 GB/hr/node.
Recently they estimated that it has slowed to around 3 to 5 GB/hr/node. What is a probable
cause for the decrease in the average ingestion rate?

An EMC NetWorker customer has three backup servers with four storage nodes reporting to
each of the backup servers. All servers run Microsoft Windows. A dual-engine EMC Disk
Library with Active Engine Failover is being proposed for this environment with embedded

storage nodes for to physical tape. What is a consideration for this solution?

A customer is planning a new database rollout using Oracle and wants to perform online
backups. Initial tests with NetWorker have shown that the backups cannot be completed
within the backup window of 6 hours. You have analyzed your backup environment and
there are adequate resources to meet this stringent backup window. What is one of the first
things to check in NetWorker or RMAN to increase performance without adding cost and
complexity?

A customer with an existing VMware infrastructure is interested in Avamar as a potential
backup solution. The customer needs to back up 10 virtual machines with a total of 2.9 TB
of data. The daily change rate is 6 GB per day. Which solution would you recommend?

A customer has requested assistance with several backup and recovery challenges. You
use the EMC backup scripts to perform the data collection. Which type of data is collected
using the backup quick scripts?

A customer has Oracle 9i running on a Microsoft Windows server. They want to deploy hot
backups because the database cannot be shut down. What is a design consideration for
backups when using the Avamar plug-in for Oracle?

An EMC Avamar customer wants to start backing up their VMware environment. The
customer’s goal is to have image-level backup while having a low impact on the ESX server.
In addition, they want the ability to perform file-level restores of their Microsoft Windows
clients. Which backup method will meet the customer’s needs?

A single-engine EMC Disk Library (EDL) is being proposed with Remote Copy functionality
replicate data to a remote EDL. One of the EDLs will have four network connections while
the other one will have two network connections. How many ports will be used in each EDL
during a replication session?