A backup administrator is tasked with monitoring PowerProtect DD capacity metrics. The administrator is backing up 4 TB of data daily with a reduction rate at 5x. After data reduction, subsequent full backups compress down to 200 GB. The initial backup requires 800 GB with a 10 percent increase in the data each day.
Incremental backups are 400 GB. After data reduction, each incremental backup is 40 GB.
What is the weekly burn rate (GB) after four daily incremental backups and one weekly backup?
- A . 220
- B . 260
- C . 400
- D . 440
A backup administrator is tasked with monitoring changes in space availability and compression in relation to the cleaning process on the PowerProtect DD system.
Which chart in DDSM is used specifically to identify these trends?
- A . Pre-Comp Used
- B . Consumption
- C . Space Usage
- D . Daily Written
What is a characteristic of PowerProtect DD remote logging?
- A . CLI command for remote logging is log watch
- B . The basic CLI command for remote logging is log host
- C . Must be enabled and verified through System Manager
- D . Communicates only through TCP ports
Which of the following protocols are supported by PowerProtect DD for data movement to a cloud provider?
- A . FTP and FTPS
- B . VTL and DD Boost
- C . CIFS and NFS
- D . HTTP and HTTPS
An administrator is migrating their old cloud tier-enabled Data Domain to a new PowerProtect DD appliance with cloud tier. During migration, the administrator recognizes that file system cleaning on the source system is not possible.
What is the most likely cause of this behavior?
- A . Filesystem is disabled on source system
- B . Source system is running in restricted mode
- C . Migration will restrict all activities on both systems
- D . Migration will restrict all activities on source system
What is the recommended sizing of the MaxCapacity parameter in IBM Spectrum Protect when using a PowerProtect DD appliance?
- A . 2 GB
- B . 100 GB
- C . 200 GB
- D . 500 GB
An administrator monitors the performance statistics of a PowerProtect DD appliance. Low disk-write rates are shown, and the network inbound traffic is high.
What is the most likely cause of this behavior?
- A . Expired segments
- B . Known segments
- C . Disk failure
- D . NVRAM failure
What are some possible network bottlenecks for a PowerProtect DD?
- A . Configuration, wire speeds, switches and routers
- B . Connectivity, firewalls, and routing protocols
- C . Connectivity, routing protocols, and configuration
- D . Routing protocols, switches and routers, and wire speeds
When should using Virtual Synthetic backups be considered?
- A . Daily incremental backups are larger than 15% of a normal full backup
- B . PowerProtect DD appliance has more than 10 disks
- C . Backups are nonfile system data such as databases
- D . Backups are large and localized
Which two elements does DD Boost distribute parts of the deduplication process in a backup environment to enable faster and more efficient backup and recovery? (Select 2)
- A . Production storage
- B . Backup server
- C . Application client
- D . PowerProtect DD
A company has SMT and VTL enabled on a PowerProtect DD appliance. They back up their data to virtual tape under a VTL pool named "finance".
Where is the backup data stored on the PowerProtect DD appliance?
- A . /data/col1/<tenantname>/vtl/finance
- B . /data/col1/<tenantname>/finance
- C . /data/col1/finance
- D . /data/col1/vtl/finance
What is the preferred method to ensure backups are protected against deletion or corruption?
- A . Dell EMC Cloud Tier
- B . Encryption
- C . Retention Lock
- D . Data Invulnerability Architecture
A company has DD Retention Lock Compliance enabled on an MTree. The file system is disabled due to tampering of the system clock.
Which user role has the privilege required to enable the file system?
- A . Security Officer
- B . Admin
- C . Limited Admin
- D . Tenant Admin
When using the DD VTL Tape Out to Cloud feature, which status will the tape report on the backup server once the tape is ready for long-term retention?
- A . Mountable
- B . Archived
- C . Offsite
- D . Nonmountable
When following Dell recommendations what adjustments should a customer make on the Microsoft Windows client when using CIFS on a PowerProtect DD appliance?
- A . Adjust session timeout values and SNMP parameters.
- B . Adjust SNMP parameters and TCP/IP parameters.
- C . Adjust NTP parameters and SNMP parameters.
- D . Adjust session timeout values and TCP/IP parameters.
Which PowerProtect DD feature can be used if the existing backup solution is designed using a tape-based logic?
- A . DD Retention Lock
- B . DD VTL
- C . BoostFS
- D . DD Boost
A backup administrator needs to retrieve an encrypted file that is in Azure Blob Storage.
To retrieve the file, what must the administrator do first?
- A . Delete the file in Azure Blog Storage
- B . Decrypt the file on the cloud tier
- C . Decrypt the file in Azure Blob Storage
- D . Recall the file to the cloud tier
A PowerProtect DD system is configured to with VTL. The backup application requires a minimum tape capacity of 1.5 TiB.
What is the minimum tape type to support this requirement?
- A . LTO-3
- B . LTO-5
- C . LTO-6
- D . LTO-4
Which protocol is used by Avamar to back up to PowerProtect DD?
- A . DD Boost
- B . VTL
- C . CIFS
- D . NFS
What is the correct sequence of steps to configure storage for Dell EMC Cloud Tier in the DD System Manager?
What is one advantage of using PowerProtect DD instead of backing up to other disk-based file systems?
- A . Data can be restored to any client operating system.
- B . Data is stored locally on the client for fast restore.
- C . Only deduplicated blocks of data are needed for full recovery.
- D . Only deduplicated data is sent across the network.
A backup administrator has enabled the Retention Lock feature on their PowerProtect DD appliance. Over time, the administrator noticed an increase in file system utilization.
Upon further investigation, the administrator discovered expired files are still present on the appliance.
What is the most likely reason for this issue?
- A . The atime of the file was set below the minimum retention period
- B . File system cleaning was disabled
- C . Backup application failed to delete the file after expiration
- D . Retention Lock feature was disabled before the expiration date
A customer needs help deploying a shared PowerProtect DD. They ask for best practices when configuring SMT.
What network-related attributes must they configure to increase the security of each tenant unit?
- A . – Tenant Unit IP Addresses
– Tenant Unit Firewall Ports
– Remote Data Access IP
– Addresses Default Gateway - B . – Remote Data Access IP
– Addresses Default Gateway
– Tenant Unit Virtual Interfaces
– Tenant Unit Hostname - C . – Local Data Access IP addresses
– Remote Data Access IP Addresses
– Default Gateway
– Tenant Unit Firewall Ports - D . – Tenant unit Hostname
– Local Data Access IP addresses
– Remote Data Access IP Addresses
– Default Gateway
What happens to the data when it is moved from the active tier to cloud tier?
- A . It is deduplicated and stored in a file system in the native format
- B . It is compressed and stored as object storage in a new format
- C . It is compressed and stored in block storage in a new format
- D . It is deduplicated and stored in object storage in the native format
A NetBackup administrator is using PowerProtect DD as a backup device with VTL.
Which component will perform the backup and restore operations to PowerProtect DD?
- A . Backup Client
- B . Storage Node
- C . Primary Storage
- D . Master Server
What is the maximum number of concurrently active MTrees that are supported on any PowerProtect DD appliance with DDOS 7.3?
- A . 64
- B . 100
- C . 256
- D . 512
An administrator is configuring Dell Cloud Tier with two cloud units. The first cloud unit is writing data to Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket and the second cloud unit is writing to an Azure Blob storage account.
What is the total capacity available to the second cloud unit?
- A . Total capacity of the AWS S3 bucket
- B . The maximum capacity of the active tier
- C . Twice the capacity of the active tier
- D . Total capacity of the Azure Blob storage account
What should be considered when using replication with Dell EMC Cloud Tier?
- A . Cloud Tier-enabled systems must use collection replication
- B . Source system must be running DDOS 5.7 or higher to support replication to the cloud
- C . Replicated file is placed in the active tier first when Cloud Tier is enabled
- D . Replicated file is placed in a cloud unit first if Cloud Tier is enabled
What is a requirement to use the PowerProtect DD HA feature?
- A . A single set of shared storage
- B . Dual set of shared storage configuration
- C . Head units and notes require an active/active configuration
- D . Each head unit requires its own FS25 shelf
Which cloud storage providers are included in the list of supported options for PowerProtect DD system?
- A . Dell Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - B . Dell Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Oracle Cloud
Microsoft Azure - C . Oracle Cloud
IBM Cloud
Alibaba Cloud
Dell Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) - D . IBM Cloud
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Alibaba Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
How can remote logging with a syslog server be configured on a PowerProtect DD system?
- A . Use the CLI command log host enable
- B . Use the DDSM to enable the remote logging
- C . Remote logging is enabled by default
- D . Use the DDMC to enable the remote logging
Which port must be open for DD Boost to communicate with the PowerProtect DD appliance for clone-controlled replication?
- A . 2051
- B . 111
- C . 2049
- D . 80
What is a key differentiator of Dell PowerProtect DD systems in terms of data handling during the write process?
- A . Data is deduplicated after it is written to disk.
- B . Data is stored in its original format without any optimization.
- C . Data is encrypted after it is written to disk.
- D . Data is deduplicated and encrypted inline as it is written to disk.
What is the maximum number of supported tape drives that can be configured using PowerProtect DD with at least 60 CPU cores?
- A . 256
- B . 512
- C . 1080
- D . Unlimited
What is a benefit of the PowerProtect DD Secure Multi-Tenancy feature?
- A . Enables deployment of DDVE systems in a public cloud
- B . Provides a single cloud model for protection storage
- C . Allows different cloud models for protection storage
- D . Can be managed with DDSM
A backup administrator is tasked with monitoring PowerProtect DD capacity metrics. The administrator is backing up 2 TB of data daily with a reduction rate at 5x. After data reduction, subsequent full backups compress down to 100 GB.
The initial backup requires 400 GB with a 10 percent increase in the data each day. Each incremental backup is 200 GB. After data reduction, each incremental backup is 20 GB.
What is the weekly burn rate (GB) after four daily incremental backups and one weekly backup?
- A . 180
- B . 200
- C . 400
- D . 440
What is the maximum capacity for an on-premises DDVE with no cloud storage?
- A . 64 TB
- B . 96 TB
- C . 128 TB
- D . 256 TB
Following best practices for a PowerProtect DD NFS environment, what is the recommended value for rsize and wsize?
- A . 22768
- B . 30008
- C . 32768
- D . 42768
An administrator has retained snapshots for a single MTree and is trying to create a new one. An error message is received.
What is the reason for the failure?
- A . The maximum number of snapshots has been exceeded
- B . The DDOS needs to be upgraded
- C . The user does not have the permission to retain more snapshots
- D . There are not enough snapshot licenses
A PowerProtect DD administrator and a backup administrator are preparing for a new deployment. The PowerProtect DD system has two 1 GB NIC ports and two 10 GB NIC ports.
What is the recommended NIC configuration when the backup clients are using the DD Boost protocol to write to the PowerProtect DD?
- A . One 1 GB and one 10 GB as failover and one 1 GB and one 10 GB IFGROUP
- B . Two 1 GB as failover and two 10 GB as IFGROUP
- C . Two 10 GB as failover and two 1 GB
- D . Two 10 GB as failover and two 1 GB as IFGROUP
For encryption at rest, when is encryption performed?
- A . Tuesdays at 6am
- B . After the data is written to disk
- C . Tuesdays at 6pm
- D . Before the data is written to disk
When following Dell best practices, what needs to be considered when creating tapes for a PowerProtect DD VTL configuration?
- A . Use larger-sized tapes since some backup applications require block size of 256 KB or larger.
- B . Use smaller tapes across many drives for greater throughput by using more data streams.
- C . Use smaller tapes since traditional backup applications require block size of 64 KB by default.
- D . Use larger-sized tapes across fewer drives for keeping configuration simplicity.
An administrator is using a BoostFS agent running on both Linux and Microsoft Windows servers.
What is the benefit of using BoostFS?
- A . Backup window and replication improvement
- B . More data compression
- C . Link aggregation with dynamic interface groups
- D . Capacity efficiency
Which of the following describes bringing data from the cloud tier to the active tier in protection storage?
- A . File recall
- B . Data movement policy
- C . File restore
- D . Tape out to cloud
A backup administrator is tasked with verifying the compression settings of a DDVE instance.
Which compression algorithm will be enabled by default?
- A . gzfast
- B . lzw
- C . lz
- D . gz
A backup administrator is using retention lock.
What happens when the retention period expires?
- A . Files can be deleted but not modified
- B . Files cannot be modified or deleted until manual unlock
- C . Files can be modified and deleted
- D . Files can be modified but not deleted
Following best practices for a PowerProtect DD CIFS environment, what is the recommended SESSTIMEOUT value in seconds?
- A . 2600
- B . 3000
- C . 3600
- D . 4600
What is a property of the PowerProtect DD VTL feature?
- A . PowerProtect DD physical and virtual systems support VTL.
- B . VTL is a technology based on the NDMP protocol.
- C . VTL backups can be performed with other backup operations simultaneously.
When using the DD VTL Tape Out to Cloud feature, which status will a tape show once it is in the cloud tier vault?
- A . Vaulted
- B . Archived
- C . Offline
- D . Offsite
Which component of PowerProtect DD is Data Invulnerability Architecture a feature of?
- A . DDOS
- B . CIFS
- C . VTL
- D . DD Boost