EMC E20-816 Actual Free Exam Questions & Community Discussion

A customer is planning a new Exchange 2010 environment on their EMC VMAX. The customer asks how they can backup volumes containing passive mailbox database copies. What do you advise the customer?

A company plans to lay out their Oracle 11g OLTP database across four Symmetrix VMAX LUNs. Which Oracle component can be co-located with the Control Files without impacting performance?

A customer is planning an Oracle 11g implementation. You have been assigned to design the Oracle storage architecture. You recommend placing redo logs files on separate drives from other Oracle files. Your customer wants an explanation of this architecture choice. What best describes the reason for this EMC recommendation?

A company uses VMware ESXi Servers and Symmetrix VMAX storage arrays. Which EMC Virtual Storage Integrator feature allows the allocation of new Symmetrix VMAX storage to Virtual Machines from the VMware vSphere client?

Which change in a Symmetrix VMAX workload will typically result in an increase in the read hit rate?

In Windows 2003 SP1 and greater, which Windows utility is used to properly align partitions to track boundaries?

A colleague configured new thin volumes on an EMC Symmetrix VMAX in preparation for a customer's Exchange 2010 environment. The Exchange environment will be configured on a 4-node Windows 2008 Failover Cluster. The customer's storage environment is already oversubscribed and the new store volumes are quite large. The colleague wants to avoid fully allocating the thin volumes.
How should you format the volumes?

You are completing a detailed configuration for a VMAX that will support a new Oracle 11g instance and database. Which volume configuration is best for the Oracle Archive Log files?

A customer connected a new Microsoft Exchange 2010 server to their VMAX array. The server has PowerPath installed. The customer asks which failover policy they should use for best performance.
Which failover policy do you recommend?

What is the device write pending limit of the total writeable cache for a Symmetrix VMAX ?

When designing a VMware cluster, which VM storage adapter reduces CPU utilization and allows high I/O throughputs?

A company is investigating memory issues with a VMware vSphere implementation. How would the company determine if there are memory issues at the host level when monitoring through a vSphere vCenter Server?