When using Performance Manager to analyze an application, you notice that the application has almost no writes but has an extremely high read hit ratio. Which kind of application does this profile most likely represent?

You want to configure Concurrent SRDF/Star using Enginuity 5874 and Solutions Enabler 7.x. The workload site will be at Site A, the synchronous target will be at Site B, and the asynchronous target will be at Site C.
Which type of RDF devices will be needed at each site?

A storage administrator has presented thin LUNs to a vSphere cluster from an EMC Symmetrix VMAX array. The vSphere administrator then uses those thin LUNs to create VMFS partitions to store virtual disks. When the vSphere administrator creates new virtual machines, a new 100 GB virtual disk was also created.
The virtual disks use 100 GB even though an operating system has not been installed on the guest. Why are the virtual disks using 100 GB of actual array space once they are created and before any data is put on them?

A company has a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 database running on Windows Server 2008.
The Windows server contains users with dynamic mailbox growth requirements. In order to efficiently use capacity while still allowing room for extended growth, the company is considering implementing virtual provisioning on their Symmetrix VMAX for this specific mailbox database.
The company is trying to determine which option to use when performing a volume format on the NTFS partition that will contain the mailbox database. Which option should be used and why?

A company wants to configure a three-site disaster tolerant SRDF solution. The production site will be at Site A, the nearby target will be at Site B, and the distant target at Site C. The company has large amounts of Symmetrix storage but wants to minimize the cost of network bandwidth.
Which data center solution would you recommend?

A company plans to lay out their Oracle 11g OLTP database across four EMC Symmetrix VMAX LUNs. Which Oracle component can be co-located with the control files without impacting performance?

A company has activated a consistent clone replica of an Oracle database without using hot backup mode on February 26th. The Oracle instance continues to run until March 6th. On March 7th, the company realizes that an application problem occurred on February 28th.
To which point can the database be recovered?

A company is using Replication Manager to backup their Microsoft Exchange 2010 environment using Microsoft Volume Shadow Service (VSS). Following a database corruption, the company wants to perform a database restore using Replication Manager from the previous night’s backup.
When trying to perform the restore, you receive a VSS error.
What is the most likely reason for the VSS error?

You have been tasked with gathering performance data for a Microsoft SQL Server database that resides on a Symmetrix VMAX LUN. Which Perfmon counter must be used to collect the write IOPS metric?

A company has a large vSphere environment with multiple EMC Symmetrix VMAX arrays connected to it. Management of this environment has become challenging for both vSphere and SAN administrators. They have agreed that Virtual Storage Integrator should be implemented to help manage their environment.
The companys management states that only the storage administrator should be able to provision storage. Provisioning storage from within vSphere should be prohibited.
Which component of the VSI software suite should be left out of the deployment?