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A customer has a CX4 at their production site and a CX3 at the remote site. They want to replicate between the sites with a RecoverPoint CLR configuration using a Windows 2003 splitter.

Can the customer implement this with RecoverPoint/SE?
Yes, RecoverPoint/SE can be implemented
After the target RPA receives data from the source RPA, how many phases does it normally take to write the data to the replica storage?
5
A RecoverPoint CDP environment is using a host-based splitter. When is the I/O considered complete?
The splitter sends an ACK to the host
Which mechanism is used for initial data synchronization?
Ping-pong protocol
A customer has a CDP RecoverPoint environment with four RPAs. Due to hardware issues, RPA1 and RPA2 power down. What is the impact of this outage?
Cluster services fail; site leader is unavailable
The customer wants to replicate over Fibre Channel between two sites 100 km apart and achieve an RPO of 0.

What configuration would you recommend?
Four RPAs, two on each site, CG running in synchronous mode
You are adding a new pair of replication volumes to an existing consistency group. What will happen to the consistency group?
It will perform a volume sweep
A customer wants to implement synchronous CRR over a Fibre Channel network. The customer has four possible sites to use as a target at various distances from the source.

What is the greatest distance that can be used as a target site?
Site 1 – 195 km
What procedure does Deployment Manager allow you to perform?
Enables you to nondisruptively add new RPAs to existing RPA clusters
A customer is planning a new CRR implementation with four-node RPA clusters. How many new IP addresses must they request from their network team in order to complete this task?
18
What is the correct statement related to CRR over Fibre Channel
If WAN is also available, control messages will not be sent over FC
What is the minimum size, in GB, for a journal volume?
5
A customer has a CRR environment with 75 CGs evenly spread across three RPAs at each site.

They are going to do maintenance on RPA1 at both sites, so they move all of RPA1’s CGs to RPA3. After that, on Site 1 they shut down RPA1. By mistake RPA3 at Site 2 was shut down.

What will happen as a result?
All RPA3’s CGs will fail over to RPA2
You are tasked with enabling image access for a DR site in RecoverPoint. However, in the RecoverPoint Management Application, you notice all of the consistency groups are grayed out when you click on them.

What is a possible cause, and how would you enable image access?
The CGs are managed by SRM or Cluster Enabler. Use the Policy tab to set the groups to be managed by RecoverPoint
A customer wants to test an upgrade on their database on a logged image mounted to a QA host once a week, but during the test the QA host loses access due to log full.

What can be done to solve this issue without losing all snapshots?
Increase the CG's journal size
How many distributed consistency groups can be defined in a RecoverPoint cluster
8
Refer to the exhibit. What will the “Enable Compression” policy cause to this consistency group?
Data will be compressed before transferring over the WAN
After a permanent failover to the remote site in a CLR consistency group, and promoting the remote volume as production, what will happen to the original production site?
The user will have to choose a copy to remove
Which situation requires that SCSI-2 reservation be disabled on the AIX host when using a host splitter?
Standalone connected to a CLARiiON without PowerPath
Which OS requires the replicated device's FC SCSI I/O Controller Protocol Device attribute to be set to "fast fail" when using the host-based splitter?
AIX
A customer wants to be notified immediately by email when an error populates in their RecoverPoint environment. Where in the System settings of the RecoverPoint Management Application would the customer configure this?
Alert Settings
Which VMware feature is supported using a VM-based host splitter?
RDM in physical mode
When a consistency group is initialized for the first time, where is the first snapshot written by default?
Replica
Which user account is used to install and debug the RecoverPoint environment?
boxmgmt
A customer is getting ready to move the repository volume to a new array, but wants to ensure their environment returns back to its previous state after the move. What two commands should be run before disabling the environment?
save_settings and get_account_settings
A customer has two sites, each with a CX4 running FLARE 29. They wish to implement a RecoverPoint version 3.3 solution and use CLARiiON splitting.

What is the maximum number of RPA clusters that could be deployed at each site?
4
An organization plans to provide a disaster recovery solution for four separate customer sites. Currently, a RecoverPoint 3.3 solution is being proposed to replicate a CX4 production volume to a specific DR site.

Which feature can be recommended to support this environment?
CX splitter cluster ???
Your customer has recently purchased RecoverPoint 3.3 and wishes to use the CLARiiON splitter. They have many CLARiiON models running various FLARE levels.

Which CLARiiONs are currently valid options for splitter use?
Site 1 - CX3 at FLARE 26; Site 2 - CX4 at FLARE 29
RecoverPoint implementation uses Gen3 RPAs. In this case, which zoning method should be configured when using a CLARiiON splitter?
Zone all RPA ports to all CLARiiON ports
Which operating system requires the implementation of the Persistent FCID feature during deployment of SANTap?
HP-UX
You are implementing a RecoverPoint with SANTap environment using the SSM module.
What needs to be done to maximize the processing power of all available DPPs?
Create multi front-end VSANs, placing DVTs in each
In a RecoverPoint environment with SANTap, which component is used by RecoverPoint to maintain the SANTap service?
Control Virtual Target (CVT)
What are some of the zones that are required for a successful SANTap deployment?
Host HBA to DVT, storage to VI, RPA to CVT, RPA to storage, RPA to AVT
On a RecoverPoint cluster with two RPAs, using SANTap configured with a single FE and BE VSAN, one DPP of the SSM module reached its ITL limits.

How can the number of ITLs across the SSM module's DPPs be load balanced?
Create multiple FE VSANs
You are troubleshooting a RecoverPoint 3.2 SP2 environment based on a SANTap splitter (SAN-OS 3.2.2c / SSI 3.2.2r). You find that when an RPA carries out a discovery on the SAN, it exceeds the ITL limits on some DPPs.

What can you do to decrease the number of Discovery ITLs?
Upgrade to NX-OS 4.1.3a and SSI 4.1.3i. Discovery ITLs = 0
After creating a CVT in the back-end VSAN, how many additional pWWN entries will the name server show when using the SSM module?
10
Which component in the Brocade SAS architecture is used to keep track of a write that has reached the target storage port but not the RPA?
Dirty region log
During preparation for a RecoverPoint deployment using the Brocade SAS fabric-based splitter on an ED-48000B director, it was discovered that the PB-48K-AP blade is not recognized in the switch.

Why is the PB-48K-AP blade not being recognized by the ED-48000B director?
Two PB-48K-18i and two PB-48K-16IP blades are installed on the ED-48000B director
You are installing the RecoverPoint driver for SAS splitting on a AP-7600. How do you copy the driver to the blade processor?
Telnet to the Eth0 address, log in as root, and use FTP to download the RecoverPoint splitter agent binary file
a RecoverPoint deployment with a Brocade splitter, when does the host data path change
After binding host initiators
A customer is implementing the Brocade splitter using frame redirect. After completing the first host to storage binding, what special zone configuration will be created?
r_e_d_i_r_c__fg
When logged in to the blade processor of an AP-7600B, from which directory do you run the kdrv status command to verify the status of the RecoverPoint agent?
BFOS:root> /thirdparty/recoverpoint/install/
BFOS:root> /thirdparty/recoverpoint/install/zoning_script.sh

What would be the result of running this command?
Creates the RPA target zone and RPA front-end zone
A customer has purchased two new RPAs. They want to add these to their existing cluster. What step is required before adding new RPAs using Deployment Manager?
Load the new RPAs with the same RecoverPoint version as the existing RPAs
A customer has a Gen I RecoverPoint environment and needs to upgrade from version 2.4 to version 3.3.

How will the upgrade be performed?
Perform a disruptive upgrade with the Upgrade Wizard from version 2.4 to version 3.3
During the Deployment Manager preupgrade preparation, you are checking for tweak parameters and signed scripts.

What is the name of the tweak parameters file?
tweak.params.overrides
You are performing an RPA upgrade using Deployment Manager. As the upgrade proceeds, you receive an error stating the MD5 checksum for the ISO is invalid.

On which step did the upgrade fail?
Prepare for Upgrade
A customer has decided to replicate the data and boot volumes on their Windows Server 2003 (W2K3) hosts with kdriver. However, they want consistency between the two types of volumes for each host. What do you recommend as the course of action?
For each W2K3 server, create one consistency group for the data volumes and another consistency group for the boot volumes. Then create a group set for these two consistency groups
What are the key variables used to calculate consistency group journal size?
New data write IOPS, required rollback time in seconds, and target-side log size
What is a characteristic of single-phase distribution?
The target RPA writes the initialization data directly to the replica volume (bypassing the journal)
You are deploying RecoverPoint with AIX and CLARiiON at a customer site. You are configuring the consistency group for the hosts. What policy settings should be defined in the consistency group?
Enable Reservations Support and select Host Type AIX
Consider the following Brocade fabric splitting configuration:

RecoverPoint with two RPAs per site. A single, dual-pathed Solaris host that accesses 10 volumes on a CLARiiON array through two storage ports. How many host ITLs will be consumed per site (both fabrics)?
40
A CG is enabled, and the splitter is splitting writes to the RPAs, but the writes are not replicated to the remote site. In what replication state is the CG?
Marking
You have been tasked to create a procedure for logs collection so Operator users can easily help Support on retrieving system information and uploading it to an external FTP server. A customer wants to avoid the use of SSH tools. What is the best way to do this using native RecoverPoint utilities?
Collect system information through the RecoverPoint Management Application
A customer fails to collect Host Info Collection (HIC) of an AIX-based host from the Installation Manager.

What is an alternative way to generate HIC?
Run info_collect.sh, under /kdriver/bin/
A customer has just opened a service request to investigate a RecoverPoint WAN degradation issue. You want to look at all warnings and errors within the past 24 hours.

Which command do you run as admin?
get_logs
A customer has recently upgraded their switches from 2 Gb to 4 Gb. The RPAs are reconnected to the new switches, and there are no errors or warnings on the RecoverPoint Management Application. However, the customer is concerned that the RPA is connected to the switches in 2 Gb mode.

What can they do to verify that?
ssh to RPA and log in as boxmgmt; run Fibre Channel diagnostics then choose View Fibre Channel details
A customer has logged a service request to solve an issue. They want to test an upgrade on their database on a logged image mounted to a QA host once a week, but during the test, the QA host loses access due to log full. They do not want to lose any of their journal history.

What should you advise them?
Increase the journal pool size
A customer has recently purchased eight RecoverPoint appliances that they wish to implement as a CRR solution. The customer sites have the following hardware:

Site 1 - Windows 2008 hosts, MDS 9124 switches, and a CLARiiON CX700
Site 2 - Windows 2008 hosts, MDS 9124 switches, and a DMX-3

Without the purchase of additional hardware or software, what would be the best choice of splitter?
kdriver
A customer just installed the kdriver on their Windows host. The installation completed and the host rebooted. How can they verify the installation was successful?
Run inq on the hosts; they should see several 980 MB LUNs