A financial services firm has established stringent business continuity objectives for its core trading application. The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is near-zero, and the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is less than 5 minutes. The primary and secondary data centers are located within a 50 km radius. Which replication solution is the only one capable of meeting these aggressive requirements?
A backup administrator is tasked with optimizing backup storage for a large virtualized environment containing hundreds of virtual machines with similar operating systems. To maximize storage efficiency, a new deduplication solution is being implemented. Which TWO characteristics of a deduplication system are most critical for achieving the highest possible data reduction ratio in this specific scenario? (Select TWO)
An enterprise backup policy mandates a full backup on Sunday night, followed by differential backups from Monday to Saturday. A catastrophic server failure occurs on Friday afternoon, destroying all data. To perform a complete restoration of the server, how many backup media sets are required?
A healthcare provider is struggling with the escalating cost of its all-flash primary storage array. Analysis shows that patient medical records are accessed frequently for the first 90 days, after which access becomes rare. However, compliance regulations mandate a 7-year retention period for all records. The provider also needs to ensure the retained data is protected from modification or deletion by ransomware. The IT department needs to implement a solution that reduces the data footprint on the expensive primary storage, enforces the 7-year retention policy, and provides immutability for the retained data. Retrieval time for the offloaded data can be slower, but it must be reliably accessible for audits. Which solution should a storage consultant recommend?
A database application requires the highest level of data currency between a primary and a secondary site. The business cannot tolerate any data loss in the event of a primary site failure. The application's I/O profile is sensitive to latency. Which statement accurately describes the write I/O process for the required replication method?
An IT team is planning a technology refresh, migrating a mission-critical database from a legacy SAN storage array to a new Dell PowerStore array. A key project constraint is that the application downtime during the final cutover must be less than 10 minutes. Which migration method would best achieve this goal?
True or False: A data archive's primary purpose is to enable rapid recovery of individual files or entire systems to a recent point in time for operational purposes.
A media company uses a backup solution with source-side, variable-length block deduplication. An editor modifies a 50 GB video file by inserting a small 10-second clip at the very beginning. This action shifts all subsequent data in the file. How will this change impact the next incremental backup of the file?
A company is looking to improve its backup performance and reliability. Their current process involves backing up directly to a physical tape library, which is slow and causes contention during peak backup windows. They are considering a Virtual Tape Library (VTL). What is the primary benefit of implementing a VTL as a front-end to their existing physical tape library?
When designing an infrastructure for a critical application, an administrator implements a failover cluster. What is the main goal of this fault tolerance technique?