Backup Recovery Systems and Architecture Exam

Which Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service component is responsible for the creation and maintenance of shadow copies?

A customer has a SAN-based storage system with extra storage capacity available. The customer wants to make this storage available to other hosts over the LAN.

What is your recommendation?

Which component is present in a virtual tape library but not in a physical tape library?

Which type of backup only copies the files that have changed since the last full backup?

You are planning the staging policy for disk-to-offsite tape backup media.
In addition to available disk space, which factor is most significant when determining how long to keep the backup data on disk?

In host-based replication, during the creation of a snapshot, what is the purpose of the metadata bitmap?

A customer has purchased a target-based deduplication solution from EMC to back up their production environment and replicate the data offsite. After implementing the solution and backing up data, the replication was started. However, the replication performance is not acceptable.

What is the most likely cause?

A customer is not meeting their current SLA on backups because of a bottleneck on their LAN and cannot expand the bandwidth on their LAN to relieve this bottleneck.

How does Avamar help the customer solve this problem?

A customer backup policy must meet the RPO management assigns.

What backup configuration items must be considered to achieve the appropriate RPO?

Which disk connectivity option supports the highest data transfer rate?