Identify Best Practices for Configuring an Avamar Backup Environment AVAMAR-OPERATE Practice Questions (Page 2)

Questions 6–10

1. 6application · medium

   A manufacturing company is deploying Avamar to protect 50 virtual machines (VMs) on VMware. The backup administrator wants to ensure that the backups are crash-consistent and that the VM's file system is in a consistent state. What should the administrator configure?

   • AEnable VMware Tools' file system quiescing and use Avamar's vSphere client with the 'Quiesce' option enabled.
   • BConfigure the backup to run without quiescing to speed up the backup process.
   • CSchedule a full backup of the VM only once a week and rely on the hypervisor's snapshot for daily protection.
   • DUse Avamar's generic file system client to back up the VMDK files directly from the datastore.
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2. 7application · medium

   A law firm is using Avamar to back up a large Exchange Server database. The backup administrator needs to ensure that the backups are application-consistent and can be used for item-level recovery. What should the administrator configure?

   • AUse Avamar's generic file system client to back up the Exchange database files (.edb) directly.
   • BUse Avamar's Exchange client with the 'VSS' (Volume Shadow Copy Service) option enabled.
   • CEnable the 'Log Truncation' option on the Exchange client to reduce storage usage.
   • DConfigure the backup to run during off-peak hours without any special options.
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4. 8application · medium

   A company is using Avamar to protect a large NAS device. The backup administrator wants to ensure that the backup process does not interfere with the NAS's primary function of serving files to users. What should the administrator configure?

   • AUse Avamar's NDMP client to back up the NAS device.
   • BDisable deduplication on the NAS backup to reduce CPU usage.
   • CUse a file system client to back up the NAS device over CIFS/NFS.
   • DSchedule the backup to run during peak hours to ensure it completes quickly.
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5. 9application · medium

   A government agency is configuring Avamar to back up a critical database server. The database is 2 TB in size, and the backup window is limited to 4 hours. The agency wants to minimize the impact of backups on the database server's performance. What should the administrator configure to meet the backup window while reducing the load on the database server?

   • AUse Avamar's Database Client (e.g., for Oracle or SQL Server) with the appropriate backup mode, such as RMAN or VSS.
   • BUse Avamar's File System client to back up the database files directly from disk.
   • CSchedule the backup to run during off-peak hours and accept that it may take longer than 4 hours.
   • DConfigure the Avamar client to use more backup streams to parallelize the backup and complete it faster.
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6. 10expert · medium

   A company is using Avamar to protect a critical SQL Server database. The backup administrator needs to perform a restore of the database to a point in time that is not the most recent backup. The company's RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is 15 minutes. What should the administrator do to meet the RPO?

   • AUse Avamar's file system client to back up the SQL Server data files every 15 minutes.
   • BRely on the daily full backup and accept that the RPO is 24 hours.
   • CUse Avamar's SQL client to perform transaction log backups every 15 minutes, in addition to regular full backups.
   • DPerform a full backup of the database every 15 minutes.
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