An EMC Avamar customer has noticed that their NetWorker deduplication node is 90% full. They want to delete all backups older than 60 days. What is the correct process flow for deleting deduplication backups in NetWorker?
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1. Backup is marked for deletion by the NetWorker server on the deduplication node. 2. Backup is purged from metadata on the storage node. 3. NetWorker server performs cleanup on the deduplication node.
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1. Backup is purged from metadata on the storage node. 2. Backup is marked for deletion by the NetWorker server on the deduplication node. 3. NetWorker server performs cleanup on the deduplication node.
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1. Backup is marked as recyclable in NetWorker. 2. Manually run nsrmm < deduplication node name >. 3. Backup is purged from metadata on the storage node.
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1. Backup is marked for deletion at the next scheduled nsrim -X. 2. Backup is marked for deletion by the NetWorker server on the deduplication node. 3. Backup is purged from metadata on the storage node.
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A Dell EMC Avamar backup administrator wants to recover a few email messages from a backup of a Microsoft Exchange server. They are determining whether to use RDB or the GLR option. What is one difference between GLP and RDB?
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GLR can be used to restore a single email message, RDB cannot
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RDB can extract items to a .pst datafile; GLP cannot
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GLR will not transfer the entire database over the network; RDB will
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RDB does not require data to be staged on a separate server, GLR does
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Which tape backup application is supported with ADMe?
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ExplanationReferences: https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-7910
A Dell EMC Avamar has been performing image backups of a VMware virtual machine (VM) running SLES. The backup administrator has decided to change the backup strategy of this VM to use guest backups instead. What is required for successful guest backups to occur?
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Avamar client software must be installed on the vCenter server
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A proxy server must be deployed on the ESXi server
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VMware Tools must be installed
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The VM needs a network connection
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ExplanationReferences: https://www.emc.com/collateral/TechnicalDocument/docu89887.pdf (22)
An EMC Avamar backup administrator notices that the file cache on a backup client is under-sized. The client is using the monolithic caching strategy for the file cache. What rule is used to size the file cache?
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N x 44 MB x 2, where N is the number of millions of files in the backup
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N x 44 MB x 4, where N is the number of millions of files in the backup
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N x 44 MB x 2, where N is the number of millions of files in the restore
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N x 44 MB x 4, where N is the number of millions of files in the restore
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An EMC Avamar administrator upgraded a client to version 7.0 and performed a new backup of the client. What is the impact on the cache files?
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Entries from f_cache.dat were migrated to f_cache2.dat
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Demand-paging is used for the p_cache by default
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Monolithic caching is used on both cache files
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Demand-paging is used for p_cache2.dat only
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A customer is backing up a 1 TB Oracle database to an EMC Avamar server. They plan to reconfigure it to use an incremental strategy. Their goals are to shorten the backup runtime while maintaining the simplest recovery procedure possible. What is the recommended configuration?
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Configure differential Level-1 backup. Activate Block Change Tracking. Increase RMAN channels, periodically schedule a new Level-0.
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Configure cumulative Level-1 backup. Activate Block Change Tracking. Increase RMAN channels, periodically schedule a new Level-0.
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Configure differential Level-1 backup. Activate Block Change Tracking. Increase RMAN channels.
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Configure cumulative Level-1 backup. Activate Block Change Tracking. Increase RMAN channels.
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A customer is performing Dell EMC Avamar backups to a Dell EMC Data Domain.What path does Data Domain use to store incomplete or cancelled backups?
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avamar-<serial number>/STAGING/<cid>/BACKUP-<GUID>/
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avamar-<serial number>/STAGING/BACKUP-<GUID>/
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avamar-<dpnid>/STAGING/BACKUP-<GUID>/
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avamar-<dpnid>/STAGING/<cid>BACKUP-<GUID>/
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An EMC NetWorker customer plans to implement deduplication for their file server backups. They are currently keeping their monthly backups for one year and daily backups for 1 month. They want to keep the same retention for daily and monthly backups. In addition, they need monthly backups stored on tapes. Which cost effective solution would you recommend that the customer install?
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Avamar deduplication node only
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Avamar deduplication node and media access node
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Avamar Virtual Edition with Tapeout
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Question 10
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A customer wants to protect their DB2 databases with EMC Avamar. You have configured some test databases and have performed several successful backups of various types. They would now like to restore the databases to complete their testing. In order to restore from an online backup with archive logs, which prefix should they look for when choosing a backup file?
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Question 11
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Refer to Scenario 2. A customer's database administrators need to know that they can meet their RTO. In addition, they want to know how to test the throughput rate when recovering all data and how to format the recovery command to guarantee throughput. What is a recommendation for testing the throughput rate and recovery?
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Using a recovery rate of 75 GB/hr/node, three nodes will meet the RTO. Use --validate for testing of recovery throughput and --allnodes for recoveries.
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Using a recovery rate of 37.5 GB/hr/node, one node will meet the RTO. No additional switches are needed beyond a simple recovery.
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Using a recovery rate of 37.5 GB/hr/node, three nodes will meet the RTO. No additional switches are needed beyond a simple recovery.
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Using a recovery rate of 75 GB/hr/node, two nodes will meet the RTO. Use --validate and --sequencenumber for throughput testing and recovery.
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Question 12
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For an Oracle database backup to Dell EMC Avamar, which type of two-node cluster is supported in a high availability configuration?
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ExplanationReferences: https://www.emc.com/collateral/TechnicalDocument/docu89879.pdf (19)
Question 13
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A Dell EMC Avamar administrator is having difficulty backing up one of their file servers. They are able to ping the Avamar server from the client and ping the client from the server. However, they are unable to browse the client directories when selecting data for backup. What should be done to correct this issue?
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Deactivate the client and then activate it
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Open Firewall port 27000 on the client.
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Enter the Avamar server address into the avscc.cmd file
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Recreate the .dtb file on the client only.
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Question 14
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A customer has a EMC Avamar desktop/laptop environment consisting of 100 clients distributed across three Avamar domains. Compliance requirements mandate that 15 clients with 2 TBs of data on each must have their backups written to tape. Avamar Data Transport (ADT) with three 2 TB transport nodes will be used to accomplish the tapeout process. Which changes are required to accommodate this environment?
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Configure each of the clients in their own dedicated domain
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Configure a dedicated transport node per Avamar domain
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Configure a dedicated transport node, each containing five of the clients
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Configure three domains, each containing five of the clients
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Question 15
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An EMC Avamar backup administrator wants to use their company login account for administering an Avamar server using LDAP authentication. The directory service was added successfully using Avamar Administrator. However, they still cannot successfully log into Avamar Administrator with the account. What action is needed?
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Associate LDAP user groups with Avamar domains
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Add all LDAP users and passwords to the applicable Avamar domain
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Restart the MCS process on the utility node
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Specify the LDAP domain in the domain field of the login screen
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Question 16
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A company has a large Oracle 11g database backed up nightly to an Avamar server. The backup is exceeding their backup window. What recommendations can you give to the company to help fit into their backup window?
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Increase channel count to 10 Enable Oracle Block Change Tracking
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Increase memory allocation for the Oracle plug-in Use two avtar threads
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Increase channel count Disable Oracle Block Change Tracking overhead
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Increase CPU and memory for the Oracle plug-in Set up Oracle RAC
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Question 17
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A customer has a Hyper-V 2012 Cluster with CSV environment and wants to perform image level backups of their virtual machines (VMs). Where must the Hyper-V plug-in be installed?
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Question 18
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An EMC Avamar customer is performing a file level restore (FLR) from an image backup on a Microsoft Windows 2008 virtual machine. During the restore process, the customer cancels the restore to change the destination folder on the target client. After cancelling the restore, the customer attempts the restore again but they are not able to do so. Why is the customer unable to perform the restore?
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Browsing capability for all FLR restores is suspended for five minutes
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Target virtual machine has become unstable and gone offline
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Samba, on the FLR proxy, is not responding to MCS on the Avamar server
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New destination path is more than 165 characters long
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Question 19
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An EMC Avamar customer is running a backup that is being directed to a Data Domain system. The backup has completed successfully; however, it is no longer needed. From Avamar Administrator, the customer manually deletes the backup. When is the backup data deleted from the Data Domain system?
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Immediately on the Data Domain system
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Manually deleted on the Data Domain system by the administrator
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Next time the Avamar system runs garbage collection
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Next time the Data Domain file system cleaning operation runs
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Question 20
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A customer is using deduplication nodes in their EMC NetWorker environment. They have configured a deduplication node to replicate to an alternate deduplication node and are cloning the metadata to a secondary device. After several successful backups, the customer wants to validate that they can recover data from the replication target. What can be done to ensure the data is recovered from the replication target?
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Set RECOVER_FROM_REP_HOST environment variable on the NetWorker server
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Set RECOVER_FROM_REP_HOST environment variable on the client system
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Initiate the recovery from the metadata clone volume
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Modify the client deduplication node setting to the replication target prior to running the recovery
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Question 21
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A customer is transporting 16 TB of data from their 3.9 TB single node Avamar server to tape using EMC Avamar Extended Retention. The media access node has 7.8 TB of licensable capacity. How many export jobs will be created for this export?
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Question 22
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An EMC Avamar customer has a SQL database that successfully completed a full backup. On the next night, a differential was cancelled due to scheduling concerns. What should be considered for the next backup schedule?
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Schedule another differential backup at the next backup schedule
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Schedule a differential backup after running a tail-log backup
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Schedule a full backup at the next backup schedule
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Schedule a full backup after a tail-log backup
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Question 23
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A newly hired backup administrator has taken control of a Dell EMC Avamar server that is protecting an Exchange DAG environment with 3 nodes. Backups of the DAG are running successfully. The administrator wants to perform an on-demand backup of the entire Exchange DAG, but cannot find a client that represents the DAG. What is a possible reason for this?
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The DAG is in an IP-less configuration
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The client that represents the DAG is powered off
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The Cluster Configuration Tool has not been run
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Only DAGs with 5 or more nodes have a client representing the DAG
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Question 24
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A Dell EMC Avamar backup administrator is tuning the hash cache size to accommodate the backup of a 512 GB database. The database server has 8 GB RAM. To what value should the hashcachemax value be set?
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Question 25
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A current EMC NetWorker customer is backing up a mix of Microsoft Windows and Linux servers in their environment. They have decided to integrate two Avamar servers into their environment as deduplication nodes. Clients will be configured to back up to the first node with Avamar replication configured between the two. Remote office backups will be performed over a WAN connection with limited bandwidth. Additionally, many of the backup clients are on older hardware. This requires that the load increase by backups on the clients be minimized as much as possible. What can be done to minimize the backup load on the clients with minimal resources?
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Configure clients to back up with only a single stream.
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Increase the size of the Avamar cache files on the clients.
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Use a larger number of smaller savesets for the clients.
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Configure clients to back up faster by using more streams.
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Question 26
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A Dell EMC Avamar customer wants to add the backups of their 30,000 employee workstations to the backup environment. They currently have an Avamar server with 10 storage nodes. They estimate that after the initial backups have completed, each backup will take approximately 15 minutes. How many backups can be completed in one hour?
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Question 27
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An EMC customer has a Celerra NAS device that hosts user home drives. The Celerra is being backed up using an Avamar NDMP Accelerator. A request is issued to restore a Home directory to a Microsoft Windows 2003 host. How can this data be restored while preserving the ACLs?
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Restore the data directly to the Celerra
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Restore directly to the Windows 2003 host
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Modify the client type in the drop down menu of the restore screen
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Use 'More Options' and select 'overwrite existing files= never'
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Question 28
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A Dell EMC Avamar administrator is performing backups of a physical Microsoft Exchange server to an integrated Data Domain. Since the Exchange server is remote, they are concerned about meeting the RTO. What should be done to decrease restore times?
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Restore from a replicated Data Domain
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Use the -ddr-compressed-restore flag
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Use the Instant Access feature
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Disable encryption on restores
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ExplanationReferences: https://www.emc.com/collateral/software/data-sheet/h2568-emc-avamar-ds.pdf
Question 29
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A Dell EMC Avamar customer is running a backup that is being written to a Dell EMC Data Domain system. The Data Domain cleaning schedule runs at 8 A.M. on Tuesday mornings. Avamar maintenance runs daily at 6 A.M. A backup has completed successfully; however, it is no longer needed. The customer manually deletes the backup on Wednesday afternoon using the Avamar Administrator. When is the space reclaimed on the Data Domain system?
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At the next Data Domain file system cleaning
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Next time ddrmaint runs on the Data Domain system
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At the next scheduled Avamar garbage collection
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After the next scheduled Data Domain sanitization process
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Question 30
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An administrator is backing up 15 million files in a single dataset from an NDMP device. They are experiencing performance issues and ask you for advice. According to Dell EMC best practice, what is the maximum number of files per dataset recommended for backup in this environment?
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Question 31
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An EMC Avamar customer has a large virtual machine (VM) with a small backup window available. On the weekends, there is a larger backup window available. Most of the files on the VM do not change daily but the few that do change are critical. How can the customer protect the critical files every day without exceeding the daily backup window while still meeting their SLAs to protect the entire VM image?
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Perform daily guest level backups of the critical files, and then perform image backups on the weekends
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Perform daily image backups of the critical files
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Perform daily image backups, and then perform guest level backups of the critical files on the weekends
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Perform daily guest level backups of the entire system
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Question 32
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An EMC Avamar customer has a Celerra running DART 6.0 with 20 TB of data. There are approximately 10 million files distributed across two Data Movers. They would like to backup the NAS in approximately five hours. What is the maximum number of streams that can be configured?
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Question 33
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A VMware environment is being setup for Avamar VADP image level backups. The customer has performed the following tasks: - Installed the EMC Avamar agent onto their vCenter server - Setup authentication between the Avamar and the vCenter server - Deployed three Avamar Image Proxy virtual machines (VMs) in their ESX 4.1 environment - Activated 20 Microsoft Windows VMs to their Avamar When the customer attempts to start an on-demand backup, it fails. What is a possible cause for the error?
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No datastores have been selected for the VM Proxy Appliance
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VM contained an additional RDM disk that could not be backed up
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EMS has not been restarted
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VM is powered off and is unable to backup
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Question 34
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A customer has a Hyper-V 2012 cluster with SMB environment and wants to perform image level backups of their virtual machines (VMs). Where must the Hyper-V plug-in be installed?
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Question 35
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Refer to Scenario 10.  The customer has raised a concern about the RTO of their Windows servers in their development environment. Which backup method would provide the lowest RTO?
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Deploy a template of the O/S that is preinstalled with the Avamar agent and perform restores using system state backups
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Capture VSS backups of the server and boot from the recovery ISO to restore the server
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Use an Avamar VMware Image Proxy set to Windows and restore the VM with CBT enabled
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Use an Avamar VMware Image Proxy set to Windows/Linux and restore the VM with CBT enabled
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Question 36
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Dell EMC Avamar client backup/restore performance depends on what factors?
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Average file size, client CPU, RAM, I/O capability, and network connection between client and Avamar server
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Average file size, disk space on client, RAM, I/O capability, and network connection between client and Avamar server
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Client CPU, RAM, I/O capability only
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Average file size, client CPU, I/O capability only
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Question 37
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A backup administrator needs to recover some deleted emails in an Exchange 2007 environment and decides to use the RSG method. When the recovery from Avamar is started it immediately fails. What could be the cause of the recovery failure?
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The RSG information was missing.
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The RDB information was missing.
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The mail transaction logs were invalid.
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The mail transaction logs were missing.
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Question 38
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A new EMC Avamar customer wants help in setting up their backup groups and schedules. They are migrating from a traditional tape backup solution with full backups performed once a week and incrementals in between. They have a regulatory requirement to keep an annual backup for seven years but want to keep all other backups for one month. Both Microsoft Windows and Linux clients will be backed up. Based on best practices, what should be recommended?
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Include all clients in the same group using one dataset and an advanced retention policy
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Use a separate group for each operating system /retention combination
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Enable the default group and use that group for all backups
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Use one group for weekly backups and one for the other days of the week
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Question 39
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A customer has been using EMC Avamar for deduplication backups of VMware. They have been performing guest level backups and now want to perform VMware image backups for disaster recovery. In order to perform image backups, what is recommended for this environment?
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Avamar client installed on the ESX server
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Avamar client running on the vCenter server
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