ABC.com is concerned that their SnapView activity is negatively impacting the overall performance
of their array. The customer would also like to understand where to quickly find out how many
reads are coming from the Source LUNs as opposed to the snapshots.
Where can the customer quickly locate this information?

Your customer wants you to design the data layout for their imaging database.
The data read size and write size are 256 KB
Accesses are sequential
The application is single-threaded
Which RAID type and configuration would you recommend?

Using SAN Copy, a source Windows LUN of 100 GB has been copied to a 200 GB target LUN.
After assigning the target LUN to the new host and running Disk Administrator to recognize the
drive,what must be done to the Windows partition on the new host to see the LUN as 100 GB?

ABC.com has been running a CX3-40 for the past year to present SAN LUNs. The customer
wants to use network shares for a number of clients. You want to propose a new NS40G for the
account.
Which information must you have to ensure that the proposed solution will meet the customer’s
needs?

After you have a fully replicated copy on the BCVs that contain an Oracle database, which two
files need to be incrementally copied in order to have a consistent database?

A customer has asked you to review their procedures for securing backup media that contains
sensitive data. As part of your review, you discover that there are no details concerning how the
vendor actually transfers the tapes between the data center and the long-term offsite storage
facility.
Which concern should you discuss with the customer?

ABC.com has an application running on JBOD and wants to install a CLARiiON to host the
application data. You determine that the application has a read/write ratio of 3:1 and a total of
1,000 4 KB random I/Os per second. Assume that the disks you will use in the CLARiiON are
capable of 130 IOPS.
How many disks will you need if you use only 4+4 RAID 1/0 groups?

ABC.com is managing an EMC NetWorker environment with one EMC NetWorker server and one
storage node that backs up approximately 70 clients. The amount of data to back up increases
over a period of time that results in backups taking more than 24 hours to complete.
You use EMC Backup Advisor to analyze the current environment and find that the tape
infrastructure and the network are performing fine.
What would you recommend to improve the backup performance for this environment?

ABC.com has dual-mirrored Cisco fabrics with Invista virtualization. What is the impact on virtual
volume availability when one node of the Control Path Cluster (CPC) fails?

When designing a storage solution, what is a common best practice used to estimate response
times from a given resource as utilization increases?