Study Veritas Certified Specialist VCS-278 Exam Questions To pass Easily

1. Which two methods are used to automate duplication in NetBackup? (Choose two.)

2. Which host types are supported in a Standard policy?

3. Which statement is correct?

4. To reduce network use by limiting the number of parallel backup streams, which cloud setting should be modified under the Scalable Storage host property?

5. What is the maximum age of the host's Certificate Revocation List (CRL) before communication with the host is prevented?

6. What are considerations in data protection planning?

7. An administrator views the following errors from the Detailed Status tab of a failed job in the Activity Monitor.





Which command should the administrator perform to test the communication between the master server and the client based on the output?

8. Which configuration file should an administrator modify to seed the local fingerprint caching configuration on a NetBackup MSDP client?

9. When an administrator creates a duplicate copy of an image, what will the retention be for the new copy?

10. An AdvancedDisk storage unit consistently reaches capacity, causing older, staged backups to expire.

How can the administrator control the prioritization of images that get removed?

11. Which NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu (CLISH) option should a NetBackup appliance administrator use to create user accounts that can execute NetBackup commands?

12. A backup image on tape is due to expire in one week. The administrator needs to keep the image available for restore indefinitely.

Which two methods can be used to accomplish this goal? (Choose two.)

13. Which type of backup schedule is available when using the "After each backup session" schedule type for an NBU-Catalog policy type?

14. Backup images that reside in an MSDP storage pool have been manually expired using bpexpdate.

Which step must an administrator perform to manually free the associated space in the storage pool?

15. Which two prerequisites must an administrator perform to allow restoration of individual objects and attributes in Active Directory? (Choose two.)

16. Which data is restored if the restore file is a symbolic link?

17. Refer to the exhibit.





Two media servers, sharing a library with 6 tape drives, exist in the NetBackup environment displayed in the exhibit. Both weekly Full and daily Differential Incremental backups need to run for the clients and each schedule has a different retention period. Because of network topology, some clients back up to Media server 1 and some back up to Media server 2. The environment suffers from multiple status 96 failures during the backup window.

How can the administrator minimize the number of failures?

18. Where are the NetBackup track logs located by default when backing up a NetApp filer using the NDMP policy type with NetBackup Accelerator enabled?

19. The nbemmcmd -getemmserver command on a new NetBackup media server produces the error displayed below.

Failed to initialize EMM connection.

Which two steps are used to diagnose the issue? (Choose two.)

20. An administrator has a backup policy with the following policy attributes:

3 paths listed in the Backup Selections list 5 clients listed in the Clients list

"Allow multiple data streams" is selected "Limit jobs per policy" is set to 4

How many jobs go Active when the job is started, excluding parent jobs, assuming there are enough storage resources to handle the expected jobs?

21. Which statement about VMware and Hyper-V backups is true in NetBackup?

22. Which command should an administrator run to display all images written to both disk and tape for a particular client?

23. An administrator has a backup for client Linux1 using the LinuxClients policy complete successfully. Even though the policy Backup Selections are NOT modified, the backup job fails the next day with the following status code:

Error 71: none of the files in the file list exist.

What is a possible reason the job failed?

24. After creating a NBU-Catalog type backup policy, an administrator receives the following message:





Which two options are available to the administrator to ensure the DR file is available for future use? (Choose two.)

25. Exclude dates are not available in frequency-based schedules.

26. Which command is used by VxUpdate to upgrade clients?

27. An administrator has a master server named master1.

When the administrator runs the bpclntcmd -pn command on the client, the administrator receives the following output:





What is a possible cause for this output?

28. An administrator working offsite is required to carry out a major upgrade to a NetBackup appliance. The appliance will need to be rebooted multiple times during the upgrade process.

How should the administrator connect to the appliance to monitor the upgrade progress without interruption?

29. Which command can an administrator run to test and analyze connections between master servers, media servers, and clients for multiple NetBackup ports?

30. An administrator has a scheduled policy that backs up 20 clients, each with multiple mount points and multiple data streams enabled. One of the jobs has failed and is in an Incomplete state in the Activity Monitor.

How should the administrator verify the incomplete job runs prior to the next scheduled backup?

31. Which of the following is not a selection type of storage unit groups?

32. An administrator has a master server running over 50,000 jobs per day.

What can the administrator do to reduce the load on the master server?

33. A restore using the Java BAR is being attempted. Care has been taken to select the appropriate source client, but no backup image content is displayed.

What could be a reason for this to happen?

34. How is the expiration date of an imported image determined during an import?

35. Which feature is compatible with the NBU-Catalog policy type?

36. Manual backups apply only to automatic schedules.

37. Which statement is true about client-side deduplication?

38. Which statement describes how Catalog backups can be scheduled?

39. Some NetBackup jobs are affected by the failure of a disk in an Advanced Disk pool, but the jobs are unavailable to view in the Activity Monitor.

In which two places can the administrator view NetBackup jobs affected by the disk failure? (Choose two.)

40. What is the maximum number of policies that NetBackup can be configured to use?

41. A NetBackup environment suffers from intermittent network outages between the MSDP media server and clients during the backup window. This results in multiple backup failures.

How should an administrator overcome the backup failure issue?

42. By default, restores can be initiated by an administrator from the Backup, Archive and Restore interface or by a user on a client machine.

43. Which statement is true about OpsCenter?

44. Which security algorithms are used for MSDP in NetBackup 8.1.2?

45. An administrator has a Linux client that has a backup job failing with the following error message:





Which step should the administrator perform to ensure the backup job completes successfully?

46. An administrator is working with a Linux media server and has received a status code 80 with the following error message:

Media Manager device daemon (ltid) is not active

After attempting to start the daemon ltid manually, the administrator continues to receive the same error.

Which configuration file should the administrator change to enable VERBOSE level to this daemon (ltid)?

47. A disk volume is a.

48. Which two NetBackup features are available to protect the MSDP catalog? (Choose two.)

49. An administrator has configured a Storage Lifecycle Policy (SLP) to protect a large number of clients which directs backups to Advanced Disk, then duplicates the images to tape. The administrator is experiencing an SLP backlog, which is causing backups to fail.

The current values of key configuration settings are listed below:

Host Properties - Maximum data streams per client = 1

Policy Settings - Maximum jobs per policy = 20

Disk Pool Settings - Maximum I/O streams = 20

Storage Unit Settings - Maximum concurrent jobs = 20

Storage Unit Settings - Multiplexing level = 20

Which parameter should the administrator change to reduce the SLP backlog and allow the backups to complete successfully?

50. Which statement is false about NetBackup deduplication?

51. Backup jobs end with the following series of messages in the Job Details:





Which process is failing to respond?

52. Refer to the Exhibit.





Which diagram is supported for backups spanning BasicDisk storage?

53. An administrator needs to store secure tape copies of protected data to an offsite location.

How can the administrator automatically eject tape media daily and create detailed reports?

54. What is the certificate deployment and management behavior when the security level is set to High?

55. Which feature is enabled after adding a master server to the Trusted Master Servers tab?

56. Refer to the exhibit.

A backup job configured with a retention level of 2 and “Policy volume pool” set to the “server_tapes” is failing due to status code 96: Unable to allocate new media for backup.

See the output of the available_media command below:





Which task in the NetBackup Administration Console should the administrator perform to resolve the status code 96 error?

57. Which volume pool holds cleaning media?

58. NetBackup commands can be used in UNIX shell or Windows batch scrips to perform reusable custom operations.

59. An administrator has a Synthetic backup that fails with a status code 1, and the error message: No images were found to synthesize (607)

Which steps should the administrator take to determine why the backup failed?

60. What must be confirmed during an interactive installation or upgrade to ensure certificate deployment is secure?

61. Which action is performed by the NetBackup deduplication plug-in?

62. An administrator is performing a backup and receives the following error message:

129 Message: Disk storage unit is full

Which Netbackup command should the administrator use to report the potential free space of AdvancedDisk storage units?

63. An administrator has a MS-Windows type policy that has failed for a Microsoft Windows NetBackup client. The policy uses the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES backup selection.

See the extract from the end of the job details below:





Which two logs will provide the most relevant information for troubleshooting and resolving the error? (Choose two.)

64. A restore has failed with the following jobs details:





Which two resources should the administrator use to troubleshoot this issue? (Choose two.)

65. An administrator wishes to configure a backup for VMware clients using NetBackup Accelerator using third- party OST storage. The clients are running Windows as the guest OS.

Which step must the administrator perform to ensure the backup completes successfully?

66. Which NetBackup utility should an administrator use to determine real-time I/O performance of the appliance storage?