A customer plans to deploy Oracle on their new EMC 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?

You have been tasked with gathering performance data for a clustered Microsoft SQL server
database that will be migrated to a Symmetrix VMAX. Which Perfmon counter must you measure
prior to designing a disk layout?

You are planning the deployment of a new Symmetrix VMAX array for two different applications.
The two applications should not share back-end directors, ports, or disks. How should you allocate
the storage for the two applications?

A customer recently reconfigured their Exchange 2010 environment. They placed the log and
system files on the L:\ drive and mounted the mailbox stores on L:\SG1DBMP. They report they

updated the associated Replication Manager replica job to reflect the change, but the mounts to
the backup server fail. What do you advise the customer?

Your customer decided to implement FAST VP on a two engine VMAX. The requirement is
approximately 1.5TB for the Enterprise Flash Drive Tier. Which drive configuration option provides
a balanced backend design with the best performance?

A customer is planning an Oracle 11g implementation. You have been assigned to design the
Oracle storage architecture. You recommend placing redo logs 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 company has three data centers that they use to run Concurrent SRDF/Star. All links between
the workload and synchronous target sites were temporarily unavailable. They are unsure about
the sequence of actions during the transient fault recovery process. When do they need to run the
symstar reset command?

A customer requires a restartable Oracle database up to and including the last committed
transaction. Which SRDF best practice solution would you architect?

A company is considering different options in the storage placement of a VMware vSphere 5.0
swap file. When considering placement options, what type of storage would vMotion performance
be reduced via the placement of the swap file in that location?

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