E20-895 Online Practice Questions and Answers

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?

A. Perform daily guest level backups of the critical files, and then perform image backups on the weekends

B. Perform daily image backups of the critical files

C. Perform daily image backups, and then perform guest level backups of the critical files on the weekends

D. Perform daily guest level backups of the entire system

An EMC Avamar customer has a requirement to backup SQL databases with multiple filegroups. As a test of data recovery procedures, the backups need to be restored to a different server. Which restore method should be used?

A. Redirected restore using a SQL backup format file

B. Redirected restore from a differential SQL backup

C. Redirected restore using a SQL transaction log file

D. Redirected restore from an incremental SQL backup

An EMC Avamar customer needs a snapshot in order to backup their central administration content database in their SharePoint farm. What is required to accomplish this task using the SharePoint VSS plug-in?

A. Partial backup of the entire SharePoint farm

B. Full backup of the entire SharePoint farm

C. Full backup of the entire IIS metabase

D. Partial backup of the entire IIS metabase

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?

A. 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.

B. 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.

C. 1. Backup is marked as recyclable in NetWorker.

2. Manually run nsrmm

An EMC Avamar customer has an IBM DB2 server with multiple instances; i.e., A, B, and C.

Refer to Scenario 10.

The customer wants to backup their production VMs using the Avamar VMware image level backup technology. What is the minimum number of Avamar Image Proxy machines that need to be deployed?

A. 3

B. 4

C. 5

D. 6

A customer has an EMC Avamar server integrated with a Data Domain system as a backup solution. They would like to use encryption for the backups that are directed to the Data Domain system. What should you advise the customer?

A. Enable encryption-at-rest only on the Data Domain system.

B. Enable in-flight encryption between the client and the Data Domain.

C. Neither in-flight encryption nor encryption-at-rest are supported.

D. Both in-flight encryption and encryption-at-rest are supported.

A customer's SharePoint environment consists of:

-3 Web front end (WFE) servers

-2 Application servers

-1 Configuration database server

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2 Content database servers

The customer installed it according to EMC best practices for a Federated SharePoint environment by installing software on one of the three WFE servers and all of the other servers.

The WFE with the client installed fails just prior to the beginning of the backup. The customer decides to install the client software on a second WFE and perform the backup via the alternate WFE.

What is the result?

A.

The backup completed successfully and Avamar treats the backup as a new farm.

B.

The backup failed due to an inconsistency in the farm.

C.

The backup completed successfully and Avamar treats the backup as the same farm.

D.

The backup failed because the WFE cannot be changed.

A customer has an EMC Avamar system backing up a Celerra running DART 6.0 using a single 36 GB NDMP accelerator node. They are also going to back up a VNX OE 7.0 system using the same NDMP accelerator node.

Each NAS device has 6 GB RAM and four volumes configured on it. Backups will be configured on the Avamar system for both NAS storage devices to start at the same time.

What will occur when the NDMP backups start using default settings?

A. One NAS device will start its backup with four streams; the other will queue.

B. Both backups will start, each with two active streams.

C. One NAS device will start its backup with one stream; the other will queue.

D. Both backups will start, each with one stream.

A new VMware virtual machine has been created and will be protected with Avamar guest level backup. In addition, image level backups are not able to be performed in this environment. What can be done to provide quick, full system restores with an RPO of one day while keeping backup times low?

A. Create a VM template and perform daily backups of unique data.

B. Perform backups of the full file system every day.

C. Perform daily CBT backups from the guest machine.

D. Perform daily system state backups.

A customer has been performing VMware image level backups of a Linux virtual machine (VM) to their Avamar server. They find that they are unable to restore a file from the image backup. What is a possible cause of this issue?

A. The Linux VM uses an Ext4 file system.

B. Linux file level restores are not supported.

C. No proxy server is enabled for file level restore.

D. Avamar Agent is not running on the VM.

A Dell EMC Avamar server is performing image backups of a Windows VM on a Hyper-V standalone server. The administrator wants to restore a single file from an image backup back to its original location. The Windows VM cannot have Avamar software installed onto it.

What must the administrator do to restore the file as soon as possible?

A. Restore the image using the manual provisioning option, and then use third-party tools to extract the file

B. Restore the file directly from the Avamar server to the VM

C. Restore the image to a new virtual machine, and then transfer the file to the VM

D. Restore the file to a Windows host with the GLP plug-in, and then transfer it to the VM

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?

A. GLR can be used to restore a single email message, RDB cannot

B. RDB can extract items to a .pst datafile; GLP cannot

C. GLR will not transfer the entire database over the network; RDB will

D. RDB does not require data to be staged on a separate server, GLR does

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?

A. Avamar client software must be installed on the vCenter server

B. A proxy server must be deployed on the ESXi server

C. VMware Tools must be installed

D. The VM needs a network connection

A DB2 server has been performing backups of its databases to a Dell EMC Avamar server. The database administrator notices that a single row of a table in a database is corrupted and wants to perform a GLR. What is the smallest object that the administrator can recover from Avamar?

A. Corrupted row of data

B. Table space containing the corruption

C. Database containing the corruption

D. Table containing the corruption