E20-591 Online Practice Questions and Answers

An EMC NetWorker customer has added the following application to their environment:

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 residing on an EMC CLARiiON disk array. A Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service hardware provider is used to create point-in-time copies of production data.

What is a requirement to perform serverless backups?

A. NetWorker storage node software needs to be installed on the Exchange server

B. NetWorker Module for Microsoft Applications needs to be installed on the proxy server

C. NetWorker Module for Exchange and NetWorker VSS Client for Microsoft Windows

D. NetWorker Module for Exchange needs to be installed on the NetWorker server

An EMC NetWorker customer needs to improve the RTO for all backups retained onsite. Most of the backup jobs consist of images and other scientific data. The customer requires daily tape out for long-term offsite retention. Which product addresses these challenges?

A. EMC Disk Library

B. NetWorker deduplication node

C. Avamar

D. Data Domain

A customer is using NetWorker with a tape library to perform full backups at the end of the month and daily incrementals. The restore process takes a long time as tapes must unload and reload. The customer needs to achieve a faster recovery. What will help achieve the right RTO?

A. Dedicated backup LAN

B. Virtual tape library

C. Faster tape drive

D. Faster backup server hardware

An Avamar administrator wants to run multiple backups from their Celerra through their single NDMP accelerator node. Based on EMC best practices, what is the recommended maximum number of backup jobs that the administrator can run at once, assuming there is enough RAM?

A. 2

B. 4

C. 8

D. 16

When does the Avamar server run garbage collection?

A. During the morning and evening cron jobs

B. During the blackout window

C. During the maintenance window

D. During the morning cron job

What is the access mode of the EMC Avamar server during the garbage collect activity?

A. Read/write throughout garbage collection

B. Read/write at the beginning and read-only at the end of garbage collection

C. Read-only at the beginning and read/write during garbage collection

D. Read-only throughout garbage collection

A customer has two sites with 50 clients at each site. The customer wants the backup to occur locally on tape media at each site and would like to have a single EMC NetWorker datazone for the entire environment. A NetWorker server has already been deployed at one site. Which NetWorker component should be deployed at the second site?

A. Dedicated storage node

B. Deduplication node

C. Storage node

D. NetWorker server

An EMC NetWorker customer is implementing an EMC Disk Library with the Embedded Storage Node feature on both engines. Active Engine Failover is also configured. In case of a failover, which component from the failed engine will be missing on the surviving engine?

A. Remote Copy Policy configuration

B. Fibre Channel WWNs

C. Embedded Storage Node

D. SAN client configuration

Which capability is provided by the Data Domain Data Invulnerability Architecture (DIA)?

A. Verification

B. Encryption

C. Deduplication

D. Replication

A customer is using the NetWorker Module for Microsoft Applications (NMM) to protect the following environment:

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 using Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) that resides on an EMC CLARiiON disk array. A Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service hardware provider is used to create point- in-time copies of production data.

What is a characteristic of an NMM backup operation?

A. NMM needs to be reconfigured after an Exchange CCR role change

B. NMM can back up to a device on the Exchange CCR passive node

C. NMM automatically recognizes the passive node after an Exchange CCR role change

D. NMM synchronizes the Exchange CCR passive node before the backup operation

An EMC NetWorker client is backing up to a deduplication node. Where does the Client File Index reside for the files backed up to this node?

A. NetWorker server

B. Utility node

C. NetWorker storage node

D. Backup client

In EMC NetWorker, what enables the flexibility to be able to move a storage node from one O/S platform to another platform of a different O/S type?

A. Open Tape Format

B. Multiplexing

C. Parallelism

D. Cloning

How many 'nsrmmd' daemons/processes run in a single EMC NetWorker datazone?

A. One per enabled device

B. One per storage node

C. One per client

D. One per server

A new backup and recovery solution needs to be designed for a customer with the following characteristics:

Large NAS servers in the data center Three-month retention period

In addition, the customer has a number of small remote offices that need to be protected with minimal operational cost. Which product is most suitable to address this environment?

A. Avamar

B. HomeBase

C. Data Domain

D. NetWorker with a deduplication node

In an EMC Data Protection Advisor environment, what is monitored by Predictive Analysis Engine rules?

A. Missed service levels

B. Apple MAC clients

C. HomeBase server uptime

D. Tape drive shoeshining statistics