Question 1
A customer contacts you for assistance with performance troubleshooting of their backup environment because over the last few days they notice increasing times for backup completion They see no apparent reason for this, since the data volume to be backed up did not change unusually compared to the previous days and weeks.
You also notice that the deduplication ratio, historically steady at about 20:1. is now gradually declining Is this a potential cause of the problem?
Solution:Ransomware is encrypting data, making the dairy incremental backups grow and lowering the deduplication ratio due to new content.
Question 2
A customer has deployed a hyperconverged environment based on HPE SimpliVity at a number of their sites.
Before migrating workloads to the environment, you ask them about the backup policies in an HPE SimpliVity solution to protect the actual data.
Is this a design consideration that you should mention to your customer?
Solution:The types of applications running In the resource pools
Question 3
Is this a correct statement about the HPE StoreEver Tape Library Management software?
Solution:Tape Assure Advanced verifies system health and runs the tests that trigger an alert If there Is a problem with a tape drive or cartridge.
Question 4
Is this a valid statement regarding Commvault components?
Solution: For larger environments where high availability Is critical, the CommServe server can be clustered
Question 5
As It relates to application consistent backups, does this statement accurately describe the volume Shadow copy Service (VSS)?
Solution:The use of the VSS mechanism is only possible on Windows based VM's
