ABC.com has four applications (A, B, C, and D) that run daily as follows:
Application A has its consistent peak workload of 25 K IOPS with an average 8 KB blocksize for 3
hours from 10 A.M.
Application B has its consistent peak workload of 25 K IOPS with an average 4 KB blocksize for 4
hours from Noon
Application C has its consistent peak workload of 45 K IOPS with an average 4 KB blocksize for 3
hours from 1 P.M.
Application D has its consistent peak workload of 15 K IOPS with an average 4 KB blocksize for 4
hours from 11 A.M.
From a performance point of view, what is the minimum number of 2 Gb array ports that can
handle both the workload and 25% growth into a single array?

ABC.com is using Symantec NetBackup for backups in their environment. They have multiple
physical tape libraries that are used for backups and clone operations at the primary data center
and a disaster recovery site. The backup data is cloned daily to the remote disaster recovery site.
The customer’s backups are taking longer and are not able to complete the clone operations
within one day to meet their service level objectives. What should you recommend to manage the
clone operations efficiently and to improve the backup performance?

A law firm has approached EMC to assist them with consolidation of their Microsoft Exchange
2003 environment. After monitoring during peak hours, reports show 1.7 IOPS per user.
Which type of e-mail user profile would describe the law firm’s e-mail environment?

A DMX customer has identified a need for an out-of-region (greater than 1,000 km) disaster
recovery solution and they desire a recovery point objective of 5 minutes or better. Which
technology would suit their requirements?

ABC.com uses Replication Manager with Oracle 11g. What needs to be done before creating
online replicas?

ABC.com is planning for the number of ISLs to design into a full mesh fabric. What is EMC’s
recommended ratio of local-to-remote traffic to use when the customer prefers a single-tier logical
topology?

ABC.com uses EMC Centera to archive several different types of documents managed by different
applications. They have developed a new application that will need to read the objects belonging
to the other applications but will not need to write to the EMC Centera.
Which EMC Centera security feature should the application developers use to provide access to
the objects for the new application?

ABC.com migrated OLTP applications from servers with direct-attached storage to new servers
using a CLARiiON array. Users are complaining about poor application performance. The
following information is available for your review:
Performance Manager data on CLARiiON and SAN switches
Current CLARiiON configuration information
Oracle statistics for the applications
EMC Grabs on the new servers
You suspect that cache settings on the CLARiiON array are not appropriate. What is the best
method to validate your suspicions?

ABC.com has a DMX-3 that is replicated using SRDF/A and is experiencing SRDF/A drops due to
intermittent network link loss. Which features can be designed into the existing environment to
mitigate RPO exposure?

ABC.com wants to migrate their production data that is spread across 4,000 logical volumes from

a Symmetrix 8800 to a DMX within the same data center. They use a combination of Windows,
HP-UX, and Solaris servers.
Which EMC technology would allow for the fastest data migration?