EMC ISM v2: Business Continuity, Backup, Replication, and Archiving

Overview/Description
This course covers the importance of Business Continuity, the factors that can affect Information Availability, and the consequences of information unavailability. It also details the Business Continuity planning process and technology solutions, specifically on eliminating single points of failure. It goes on to discuss backup granularities and backup operations. It also focuses on various backup targets and data deduplication. It details backup in a virtualized environment, and data archiving, as well as various methods and technologies for local replication. This course is part of a series that cover the objectives for EMC Proven Professional certification exam E10-001 Information Storage and Management Exam Version 2.

Target Audience
Experienced IT professionals who wish to be or currently are responsible for information storage or for planning, designing, deploying, managing, or leveraging information infrastructure

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

EMC ISM v2: Business Continuity, Backup, Replication, and Archiving

calculate Information Availability, given a scenario

identify the formula for calculating Information Availability

recognize ways in which technologies can be used to improve Business Continuity

describe the difference between RPO and RTO

calculate MTBF, MTTR, and availability for a given system

recognize backup methods

match types of backups used in a NAS environment with their corresponding descriptions

recognize the difference between traditional and image-based backup in a virtual environment

identify the components of an archiving solution

identify characteristics of two options for local replication

recognize strategies for achieving consistency between source data and a replica

match local replication methods with their corresponding descriptions

identify methods of replication

recognize EMC backup, archive, and replication products

recommend a backup and recovery solution for a given organization

recommend an appropriate local replication solution, given a scenario