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?