E20-895 Online Practice Questions and Answers

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?

A. Include all clients in the same group using one dataset and an advanced retention policy

B. Use a separate group for each operating system /retention combination

C. Enable the default group and use that group for all backups

D. Use one group for weekly backups and one for the other days of the week

A customer has an EMC Avamar 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. Which method(s) of encryption can be used in this environment?

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

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

C. Both in-flight encryption and encryption-at-rest are not supported

D. Enable both in-flight encryption and encryption-at-rest

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

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.

Refer to Scenario 6.

The customer has decided to add a second Data Domain server to HQ to meet database backup growth for Microsoft SharePoint which consists of many small databases. The customer advises you that HQ now has two Data Domain (DD)

servers paired to the single Avamar Gen4 server.

The disaster site has an integrated Avamar server with an expandable Data Domain server. However, the Avamar server is a single-node Gen4 that cannot be further expanded and is at capacity.

What must be done at the disaster recovery site to support replication from the HQ Avamar/DD system?

A. Migrate the Avamar server to a new multi-node server

B. Expand the DD system and migrate the Avamar server to a new multi-node server

C. Expand the DD system to match the second DD server at HQ

D. Expand the DD system and install a second Avamar single-node

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 customer has an Avamar server integrated with a Data Domain appliance. Their administrator noticed in the Avamar Administrator GUI that the Data Domain status bar icon is showing the Data Domain system as unresponsive. What is the most likely impact of the problem?

A. Avamar cannot retrieve information from the Data Domain system. However, backups and restores can continue during this condition.

B. Avamar cannot connect to the Data Domain system, or the Data Domain system is disabled in some way. Backups and restores do not occur during this condition.

C. DD Boost cannot be used for backup operations.

D. Only recovery operations can be performed.

A Dell EMC Avamar customer wants to restore a Microsoft SQL database to a certain point-in-time. They discover that Avamar was not able to perform a tail-log backup. What could be causing the point-in-time restore to fail?

A. Database was using the simple recovery model.

B. Database was online during the restore.

C. Restore to the same instance was attempted.

D. Last full backup failed.

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.

For an Oracle database backup to Dell EMC Avamar, which type of two-node cluster is supported in a high availability configuration?

A. Linux

B. AIX

C. HP-UX

D. Solaris