E20-329 Exam Questions

Based on EMC best practices, when sizing a NetWorker storage node, how many CPU MHz are recommended for each MB/s of data backed up?

A customer uses EMC NetWorker with a deduplication node. The deduplication node is physically located in a remote office connected by a slow link. The customer is using an AFTD to...

An EMC NetWorker customer is considering backup options for their VMware environment. What is an advantage of using the VMware Console Backup option?

An EMC customer has been using NetWorker backup and has recently added an Avamar system for file system backups. The customer wants to move all backups to the Avamar system to take...

An EMC NetWorker customer has been using an EMC Disk Library (EDL) for over 4 years. The EDL has reached its capacity limits. The customer is in the process of virtualizing as many...

The EMC account team has been asked to design a NetWorker backup solution for a VMware ESX environment with the following requirements: 1. Supports online backup of their Microsoft...

A customer is piloting a Data Domain system. Based on the Data Domain statistics represented in the exhibit, which type of data is being backed up?

A data center company is using two EMC NetWorker servers (NetWorker_A and NetWorker_B). Each server has three storage nodes to protect 650 server applications and data. The total a...

A customer has a large VMware environment that they are currently backing up using the EMC Avamar client option at the guest level. Performance has never been an issue. As the cust...

A customer has asked you to design an EMC Avamar and Data Domain integrated solution for their environment. As you review the design for the Microsoft Exchange portion of the solut...

You are designing an EMC NetWorker deduplication solution using EMC Avamar for a customer. When performing a backup containing multiple save sets to a deduplication node, what is t...

A customer is using Data Protection Advisor (DPA) to perform system monitoring of both Microsoft Windows and Solaris clients. When deciding where to place the Collector(s) in the e...

A customer has data at several remote offices that need to be backed up over a secure Internet connection to their data center. However, bandwidth is constrained. A major portion o...

A customer is concerned about data remaining on their new EMC Avamar system after an individual backup is deleted. The securedelete function has been run after the backup was delet...

You are having a preliminary discussion with a prospective customer. The customer would like to know the deduplication rates that are typically when running initial EMC Avamar back...

As shown in the exhibit, a customer has configured EMC Data Domain for management. They have noticed performance issues when using the configuration. How many Mtrees should be remo...

A customer performs weekly full backups and daily incremental backups. A typical full backup is 5 TB. A full backup completes in 10 hours v incremental backup completes in 4 hours....

A customer is running the backup and recovery configuration shown in the exhibit. They added a new VMware cluster with 100 virtual machines. They are now experiencing slow backups...

A customer is interested in using Data Protection Adviser (DPA) for monitoring TimeFinder replication on their Symmetric arrays. After discussing the Recoverability Analysis featur...

You are designing a Data Protection Advisor (DPA) solution for a customer. As a part of the engagement, you are required to configure the DPA stores. What is the minimum size you w...

A customer wants to know why their backup performance to an EMC Avamar multi-node server has decreased. Initially they were seeing an ingest rate of approximately 5 to 7 GB/hr/node...

You are designing a backup solution for an EMC NetWorker customer. Given a conservative estimate, how many CPU cycles are needed by the storage node when backing up clients over th...

A customer's environment consists of the following: Linux servers with an Oracle database Microsoft Windows with SQL Full weekly backups for Oracle with a one-month retention perio...

An EMC NetWorker customer is experiencing poor backup performance. Your analysis determines that significant host resources are used to manage low-level network handshaking operati...

A customer has a new EMC Avamar server with four 3.9 TB data nodes. This server is backing up two Avamar clients. The first client has 10 GB of RAM and two file systems. The first...

A customer is planning a new database rollout using Oracle and wants to perform online backups. Initial tests with EMC NetWorker have shown that the backups cannot be completed wit...

You are redesigning an EMC NetWorker customer's backup solution. Currently all file system clients are backing up to an EMC Avamar deduplication node The customer wants to add anot...

When sizing an EMC Avamar or Data Domain solution, what are important challenges that should be taken into consideration?

A customer is considering EMC Avamar for backing up servers in their remote offices. Currently they are facing WAN capacity issues and the backup of their Microsoft Exchange server...

An EMC Data Domain customer has ordered three expansion shelves to increase the active tier storage capacity for backup. After successfully installing the new expansion shelves, th...

The EMC account team has been asked to design an EMC NetWorker backup solution for a VMware ESX environment with the following requirements: 1. Online backup of the Microsoft Excha...

An EMC Data Domain customer is planning to implement a replication solution in order to have their production environment protected at a remote site. The bandwidth for their SRDF r...

An existing EMC Avamar customer wants to add a new file system client to their Avamar system. This is a moderately full Avamar single-node server running in steady state. What is t...

You are discussing various EMC assessments to a customer. They want to know the basic difference between Data Deduplication Assessments (DDAA) and Data Deduplication Assessments (D...

At a customer meeting, you discover that the backup administrator is new to the position. What can be used to determine the health of their backup environment?

An existing customer has an EMC Data Domain system that is the same model as that used in the Data Domain Archiver. The customer has decided to retain a portion of their backups fo...

A company purchased an EMC Avamar and Data Domain integrated solution six months ago. Their environment contains file system, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft SharePoint data. The...

An EMC NetWorker customer has an Oracle database client. To achieve acceptable backup performance, they have configured the backup to use multiple RMAN channels. The customer wants...

A new customer is using EMC NetWorker to manage backup and recovery within their environment. They would like to have all backup data go to Advanced File Type devices and be spread...

You are meeting with a customer regarding an EMC Avamar and Data Domain integrated solution. The customer states that they would like their backup window to be 24 hours. What is a...

A customer wants to change their backup and recovery strategy for their VMware Windows environment. They do not need to use encryption for the backup of the virtual machines. The c...

A company has a business model where they purchase small companies and let them run independently. Storage, backup and recovery, and server technology implementations vary between...

A customer is piloting an EMC Data Domain system. Based on the Data Domain statistics shown in the exhibit, which type of data is being backed up?

An EMC NetWorker customer has been using an EMC Disk Library (EDL) for over four years. The EDL has reached its capacity limits. The customer is in the process of virtualizing as m...

During final design conversations with an EMC Avamar customer, they indicate that they have certain data that needs to be carefully secured during transit. This data is typically t...

Refer to the Exhibit. A customer is planning to have a disaster recovery solution for their backup environment. As part of Phase 1, they want a replica for their EMC Data Domain sy...

An existing EMC NetWorker customer has been backing up their VMware environment using VMDKs to a CIFS-attached EMC Data Domain system. Recently, they have added another 80 TB to th...

An EMC Avamar customer is in the testing phase of their new solution. They have backed up several clients and are now doing some restore tests. They have found that the restore tim...

A new EMC Avamar customer wants advice on setting up their groups and schedules. They are migrating from a traditional tape backup solution with a mixed retention policy. Both Micr...

An EMC NetWorker customer is backing up all clients using EMC Avamar deduplication. They have a requirement for backup redundancy for disaster recovery. What is recommended to prov...