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 front-end 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?