A customer is implementing a new Oracle database server that will host critical financial
data. Due to the importance of this database, the customer has determined that a loss of
any kind should be avoided. Which recommendation will significantly reduce the possibility
for data loss?

A customer has an EMC VNX Series NAS with seven million files on an NFS share and two
million files on a CIFS share. The customer is looking for a way to protect their data against
data loss. Which backup method is most cost effective and ensures that file attributes are
protected during the backup?

An EMC NetWorker customer is backing up several different applications to Data Domain
devices in their production data center. They want to replicate their daily sensitive database
backups to another Data Domain system located in their disaster recovery data center. Both
data centers are linked with only a 10 Mb link. Based on EMC best practice, which type of
replication should be used?

A company just converted its physical server environment to a virtual environment using

vSphere 5. They have asked you to assist with creating a backup strategy for their virtual
machines. The company wants to perform file level backups of their virtual machines
without installing backup agents on them. Which vSphere feature will provide this
capability?

An EMC customer is building a backup and recovery solution for their Microsoft SharePoint
environment. The solution being considered involves using Avamar to back up a SharePoint
distributed farm. The farm has two web front-end servers and three content databases.
According to EMC best practices, how many front-end Avamar VSS plug-ins should be
installed to support this environment?

An EMC customer is currently using NetWorker, Data Domain configured as an NDMP tape
server, and VNX. The Data Domain and the VNX both have supported HBAs. The customer
configured the NDMP backup in NetWorker and has noticed that the data is not traversing
over the HBA cards. Rather, the data is being set over the LAN. Why is the backup data
being backed up over the LAN directly to the Data Domain system?

A customer is using an EMC NetWorker server and NMSQL on all SQL servers. They would
like to use Data Domain as a backup device for the databases and special dump logs. What
is the recommended way to integrate Data Domain in the SQL backup environment?

An EMC NetWorker customer has added a NetWorker deduplication node to their existing
NetWorker environment. They have set up offsite cloning of all metadata. In addition, they
have setup replication to an offsite Avamar at their disaster recovery site. The customer
would like a review to assist in setting up the most efficient use of their existing storage.
Which steps are needed?

An EMC NetWorker customer has asked you to design a Microsoft SharePoint backup
solution using NMM. The SharePoint environment is configured as a distributed farm
consisting of two web frontend servers, three SQL database servers, and two query servers.
Which tasks need to be performed to backup the SharePoint distributed farm?

An existing EMC NetWorker customer has already integrated an EMC Avamar server with
NetWorker. They have tried to backup their clients to the deduplication node. However, a
message occurs stating that the backup session is waiting for a writable volume. What is the
possible cause for this message?