OCP 1Z0 053 160

160.Which two statements are true about the duplexing of the backups taken by RMAN? (Choose two.) 
A. It's only supported for the backups performed on the tape 
B. It is not supported for backup operations that produce image copies 
C. Duplex backups need a parallelism for the device to be equal to number of copies 
D. Duplex backups can be performed to either disk or tape, but cannot be performed on tape and disk 
simultaneously 
Answer: BD 

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/backup.112/e10642/rcmbckad.htm#BRADV145

Duplexing Backup Sets

RMAN can make up to four copies of a backup set simultaneously, each an exact duplicate of the others. A copy of a duplexed backup set is a copy of each backup piece in the backup set, with each copy getting a unique copy number (for example, 0tcm8u2s_1_1 and 0tcm8u2s_1_2). It is not possible to duplex backup sets to the fast recovery area.

You can use BACKUP ... COPIES or CONFIGURE ... BACKUP COPIES to duplex backup sets. RMAN can duplex backups to either disk or tape, but cannot duplex backups to tape and disk simultaneously. For DISK channels, specify multiple values in the FORMAT option to direct the multiple copies to different physical disks. For SBT channels, if you use a media manager that supports Version 2 of the SBT API, then the media manager automatically writes each copy to a separate medium (for example, a separate tape). When backing up to tape, ensure that the number of copies does not exceed the number of available tape devices.

Duplexing applies only to backup sets, not image copies. It is an error to specify the BACKUP... COPIES when creating image copy backups, and the CONFIGURE... BACKUP COPIES setting is ignored for image copy backups.