E20-895 Online Practice Questions and Answers

An EMC Avamar backup administrator wants to use their company login account for administering an Avamar server. The procedures were followed successfully to update the configuration for external LDAP authentication. However, they still cannot successfully log into Avamar Administrator with the account. Which action is needed?

A. Assign a default password to the account in Avamar

B. Add the account to the Avamar server O/S

C. Add the user account to Avamar and assign a role

D. Add an Avamar domain with the same name as the LDAP domain

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A current EMC Avamar customer is having trouble completing replication on a nightly basis. The customer's networking team sees that Avamar is only utilizing about 40% of the available bandwidth on their 45 Mb WAN link. The latency or round trip time on the WAN link is 78 ms. The customer would like to tune Avamar replication to use more of the available bandwidth What is the Bandwidth Delay Product for this link?

A. 428 KB

B. 489 KB

C. 512 KB

D. 604 KB

A customer is adding a new IBM DB2 client to their existing EMC Avamar server environment. They have ensured that they have root privileges on the system and DB2 is up and running properly on the AIX 5.3 server. In addition, they have installed the AIX Avamar client and can ping the Avamar server by hostname from the DB2 server.

The installation of the DB2 Avamar client plug-in is failing but passes an MD5sum check. What is the probable cause of the failure?

A. AIX 5.3 servers are not supported with the DB2 Avamar client plug-in

B. Avamar AIX client must be registered with the Avamar server

C. DB2 instance must be suspended prior to installation of the plug-in

D. DB2 server is connected to the Avamar server through a VIO server

A customer is performing a restore of a Microsoft SQL database with the tail-log backup option. However, the restore process is failing.

What is a possible cause of this behavior?

A. Transaction log has been corrupted.

B. Database is set to use the full recovery model.

C. Database is online.

D. Point-in-time specified is after the last full backup.

A customer is successfully running full backups of their Oracle database nightly. They have decided that they need to start backing up the database at Level 1 during the week. They change the dataset to start performing Level 1 backups; however, the next backup ran as long as a full backup. What would have caused this to happen?

A. A Level 0 backup had to be performed prior to a Level 1 backup being run.

B. The database is not configured to allow Block Change Tracking.

C. The amount of data changed in the database is too large for a Level 1 backup to be performed.

D. Oracle does not support Level 1 backups after a full backup.

An EMC customer has a file server with 5 TB of data and 6 million files. They want to back up the data to Avamar. The file server is running Avamar 6.1 and has 4 GB of RAM. They are unable to get the initial backups completed on time.

What should you advise the customer to complete the initialization?

A. Start with smaller datasets to back up.

B. Minimize the maintenance window size.

C. Increase the RAM capacity on the client.

D. Upgrade the Avamar client agent to version 7.0.

An EMC employee has been assigned to run securedelete against two clients for a total of 20 GBs on an Avamar server. During a planning discussion with the customer, they want to know what the impact on their Avamar server would be while securedelete is running.

What is the correct response to the customer?

A. GSAN will be in admin mode and no backups can be run.

B. Avamar will continue to function with a limited amount of available threads.

C. All storage nodes will operate in data=journal mode.

D. Backups and restores in progress may continue to run.

An Avamar 7.0 file system client is running on limited RAM. The backup administrator notices that the client RAM is paging during its daily backups. Currently, the client is using default settings. Which avtar flag can be adjusted to reduce the RAM used?

A. Decrease the value of --cache-max-pages-resident.

B. Increase the value of --cache-page-size.

C. Decrease the value of --filecachemax.

D. Increase the value of --cache-musthave-threshold.

An EMC Avamar customer has used Avamar Administrator to configure backups of their Oracle databases using two RMAN channels. They also use RMAN scripts to run backups of the databases to the Avamar server using four RMAN channels.

According to best practices, what should you advise the customer?

A. Do not mix RMAN and server-initiated backups.

B. Use a single set of cache files.

C. Minimize the number of RMAN channels.

D. Disable RMAN backup optimization.

A backup administrator wants to create file system consistent backups of eligible VMs when backing up their VMware environment via the VADP interface. Which types of VMs are eligible?

A. Windows VMs with VSS support and VMware Tools installed

B. Linux and Windows VMs with VMware Tools installed

C. Linux VMs with VSS support

D. Windows VMs with VMware Tools installed