VCS-276.exam Number: VCS-276 Passing Score: 800 Time Limit: 120 min File Version: 1.0 VCS-276 Administration of Veritas NetBackup 8.0 Version 1.0
Exam A QUESTION 1 A NetBackup policy is configured to back up the following paths for a client: D:\stage E:\data E:\home F:\production Multi-streaming is enabled for the backups, and multiplexing is set to 4. Backup streams are running slowly. Which step should the administrator consider to improve backup performance? A. increase the multiplexing level B. back up only one stream from each physical device on the client C. disable multistreaming D. increase the number of data buffers Correct Answer: B /Reference: QUESTION 2 Storage lifecycle policy SLP1 is used to perform a backup and duplication. The backup is always a small, 100MB backup. The master server host properties for SLP Parameters are set to the default values. How can the administrator ensure the duplications run as soon as possible after the backup completes? A. reduce the Job submission interval setting to 0
B. reduce the Minimum size per duplication job setting to 50 MB C. right-click SLP1 and select Manual Relocation to Final Destination D. increase the Priority for secondary operations in the SLP Correct Answer: D /Reference: QUESTION 3 An administrator configures a default Standard file system backup policy, which backs up very large file systems from a set of clients. There are multiple scheduled backup attempts configured. How can the administrator reduce the amount of time needed to complete these backup jobs after failures? A. configure the Take checkpoints every policy setting B. increase the Job retry delay host property setting C. use the Resume Job action instead of Restart Job D. increase the Client connect timeout host property setting Correct Answer: B /Reference: QUESTION 4 An administrator is attempting to configure a new backup policy using synthetic backups. When creating a new full backup schedule, the Synthetic backup option is unable to be selected. What must the administrator do to the policy to make the Synthenic backup option available for selection? A. create a differential or cumulative incremental backup schedule B. select a backup destination that supports synthetic backups C. enable Collect true image restore information with move detection D. create a full backup schedule with Accelerator forced rescan enabled
Correct Answer: A /Reference: QUESTION 5 An administrator is preparing to perform disaster recovery for many clients whose backups are stored on multiplexed tapes. Which host property should the administrator modify, prior to the restores, to ensure the best recovery time? A. set Enable unrestricted media sharing for all media servers B. increase Restore retries C. increase Delay on multiplexed restores D. add the client IP addresses to Resilient Networks Correct Answer: A /Reference: QUESTION 6 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? A. run image cleanup on the medial server that hosts the MSDP storage server B. run an inventory on the MSDP storage pool C. run content router queue processing on media server that hosts the MSDP storage server D. run content router queue processing on the master server Correct Answer: C /Reference:
QUESTION 7 Which configuration file should an administrator modify to seed the local fingerprint caching configuration on a NetBackup MSDP client? A. spa.cfg B. pd.conf C. contentrouter.cfg D. agent.cfg Correct Answer: C /Reference: QUESTION 8 A Windows policy protects over 100 servers using the directive ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES. The backup window for this policy is a two-hour window that is unused by any other policy. When the jobs run, each server has no more than ten paths, and the overall performance of the disk storage unit is degraded. Which setting should the administrator modify to ensure only ten jobs write concurrency to the disk storage unit during the backup window? A. set the Allow multiple data streams policy attribute B. enable the Limit Jobs per policy attribute C. set the Maximum jobs per client host property D. enable multiplexing for the storage unit and set the value Correct Answer: B
/Reference: QUESTION 9 Which two performance scenarios benefit from seeding the MSDP pool? (Select two.) A. new client backups over WAN B. new application backups over SAN C. new VADP VMWare backups using media server as the backup host D. new replication to a new DR site E. new clients with large file systems containing small files Correct Answer: AD /Reference: QUESTION 10 Which information is validated during an image verification operation? A. data on the master server is validated with data in the NetBackup catalog B. data on the client is validated with data in the Backup catalog C. data on the backup storage is validated with data in the NetBackup catalog D. data on the client and the backup storage is validated with data in the NetBackup catalog Correct Answer: C /Reference: QUESTION 11 What is the purpose of the Logon and Password settings in the Disaster Recovery tab of a NetBackup catalog backup policy? A. to specify credentials required to access a network share B. to encrypt the NetBackup catalog backup data
C. to require credentials to perform a catalog recovery D. to encrypt the disaster recovery file Correct Answer: A /Reference: QUESTION 12 Which type of backup schedules are available when using the After each backup session schedule type for an NBU-Catalog policy type? A. Full B. Differential Incremental C. Vault Catalog Backup D. Application Backup Correct Answer: C /Reference: QUESTION 13 Which action is performed by the NetBackup deduplication plug-in? A. writing data segments into the MSDP containers B. processing MSDP transaction logs C. performing file fingerprinting actions D. performing queue processing
Correct Answer: C /Reference: QUESTION 14 Backups are failing with status code 96 because tapes have NOT returned to the scratch volume pool after all the images on the tapes have expired. What may be preventing the media from returning to the scratch pool? A. The media was created in volume pools other than the scratch pool. B. The media is in an off-site location. C. The media was written with multiplexed images. D. The media is in a Suspended state. Correct Answer: A /Reference: QUESTION 15 Weekly full backups run for clienta on master1 using a storage unit that belongs to media1. The administrator is required to retain clienta S full backups for a period of four months. When the administrator modifies the full schedule, an option for 4 months is missing from the Retention drop-down list. How can the administrator add a four-month retention? A. modify an existing retention level in the mater server host properties, under Retention Periods B. ignore the selection list and type in the desired retention period directly C. add a new retention period in the media server host properties, under Retention Periods D. increase the Image cleanup interval in the master server host properties, under Clean-up Correct Answer: C
/Reference: QUESTION 16 An administrator has a job that has failed. See the contents of the job s Detailed Status tab from the NetBackup Administration Console Activity Monitor provided below:
What may be caused for the failure? A. The version of NetBackup installed on the master server and media server is higher than the version installed on the client. B. The media server is unable to resolve the hostname of the client to any IP address. C. The required NetBackup processes need to be started on the client. D. The media server failed to perform a reverse name lookup of the IP address associated with the client. Correct Answer: A /Reference: QUESTION 17 A NetBackup master server has commenced writing four long-running duplication jobs to an AdvancedDisk disk pool. The value of Maximum concurrent jobs for the storage unit and Limit I/O streams fir the disk pool are both set to 4. There are 35 jobs queued on the master server that require this disk pool: 5 replication jobs with priority 9999 10 backup jobs with priority 999 20 duplication jobs with priority 99 Two restore jobs that require this disk pool are then submitted with default priority. Which job type goes active next? A. Backup B. Duplication C. Replication D. Restore Correct Answer: D /Reference: QUESTION 18 Refer to the exhibit. The following storage lifecycle policy was used to back up data from a client. All duplication jobs have completed, and none of the backups have expired.
How should an administrator restore data from the tape using NetBackup? A. from the BAR console, select the tape backup to restore from B. from the NetBackup Administration Console, promote copy 1 to the primary copy C. from the NetBackup Administration Console, promote copy 2 to the primary copy D. from the NetBackup Administration Console, promote copy 3 to the primary copy Correct Answer: C /Reference: QUESTION 19 The 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? A. replicate the backups to another master server domain B. configure a new master server to distribute the backup load C. add additional media servers to the environment D. configure client-side deduplication and load balancing media servers
Correct Answer: C /Reference: QUESTION 20 Where in the Backup, Archive, and restore interface for Microsoft Windows can an administrator define the source and destination client for a restore job? A. File > Select Files and Folders to Restore B. File > NetBackup Client Properties> General C. File > NetBackup Client Properties > Host Properties D. File > Specify NetBackup Machines and Policy Type Correct Answer: A /Reference: QUESTION 21 Refer to the exhibit. What is the outcome of the policy shown in the exhibit?
A. The client encrypts then compresses the data before sending it to the media server. B. The client compresses and the media server encrypts the data before sending it to the tape drive. C. The client compresses then encrypts the data before sending it to the media server. D. The client sends the data to the media server, which compresses and then encrypts the data. Correct Answer: C /Reference: QUESTION 22
An administrator notices that backups are failing for clients added to a new backup policy. The backups attempt to run again after 10 minutes. How can the administrator modify the time between backup attempts? A. modify the Job retry delay host property B. modify the Policy update interval host property C. modify the Schedule backup attempts host property D. modify the Take checkpoints every value in the backup policy Correct Answer: C /Reference: QUESTION 23 An administrator is comparing the NetBackup Accelerator and NetBackup FlashBackup features to determine which feature should be used for backup of a very large file system with millions of files. Which consideration is irrelevant when determining whether to use NetBackup Accelerator or NetBackup FlashBackup in the situation? A. the file system change rate B. the file system storage capacity C. the type of file system being used D. the file system folder depth Correct Answer: A /Reference: QUESTION 24 A NetBackup environment with a single tape storage unit is experiencing performance issues when running full backups of a Windows file server with over a million small files. Backups for all other clients on the same network are performing adequately. What should the administrator modify to improve performance for the client?
A. enable Windows Change Journal B. modify data buffer settings for the data path C. enable the Use Accelerator policy attribute D. use Flashbackup-Windows policy type Correct Answer: D /Reference: QUESTION 25 Which two options are available to an administrator to bring the Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) catalog back online in the case of a hardware problem that caused corruption? (Select two.) A. restore the MSDP catalog from the NetBackup catalog backup B. recover the MSDP catalog from a MSDP catalog backup C. repair the MSDP catalog using the crchk tool D. restore the MSDP catalog from an MSDP catalogshadow copy E. repair the MSDP catalog the recovercr tool Correct Answer: BD /Reference: QUESTION 26 To reduce network use by limiting the number of parallel backup streams, which cloud setting should be modified under the Scalable Storage host property? A. Metering > Metering interval B. Network Connections > Maximum concurrent jobs C. Throttling > Total available bandwidth D. Throttling > Sampling interval Correct Answer: B
/Reference: QUESTION 27 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?
A. increase the Media unmount delay B. configure media multiplexing C. enable backups to span tape media D. enable media sharing Correct Answer: D /Reference: QUESTION 28 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? A. The Enable granular recovery option was unset. B. The client was added to another backup policy. C. The file systems have been unmounted on the client. D. The client was temporarily shut down. Correct Answer: C /Reference: QUESTION 29 An administrator has a job that has failed. Upon reviewing the Detailed Status tab for the job, the administrator sees the following information:
Which setting value prevented the job from running during the backup window? A. the Global Attributes > Maximum jobs per client master server host property B. the Timeouts > Client read timeout master server host property C. the Maximum concurrent jobs storage unit setting D. the Limit jobs per policy policy setting Correct Answer: A /Reference: QUESTION 30 Upon arriving at work on a Monday, an administrator sees several replication jobs that have failed with the following error message: no images were successfully processed
Which two reasons may be the cause for the error code? (Select two.) A. The checkpoint restart is disabled for the replication jobs. B. There are network connectivity issues between the source and target domains. C. The NetBackup host ID-based certificate was revoked. D. There is insufficient storage space on the target storage server. E. There are insufficient tapes in the replication volume pool. Correct Answer: AB /Reference: QUESTION 31 Which schedule can be configured as a synthetic backup in addition to the full backup schedule type? A. Differential incremental backup B. Cumulative incremental backup C. User backup D. Automatic backup Correct Answer: B /Reference: QUESTION 32 In which scenario is Use Accelerator unavailable in a backup policy? A. for VMware virtual machines with a Linux guest OS B. for virtual machines hosted on a Hyper-V Host using WMI C. for a NetApp NDMP filer D. for an Exchange database availability group (DAG)
Correct Answer: C /Reference: QUESTION 33 An administrator needs to decrease the total amount of time required to back up a UNIX file server, but requires a full backup every night for recovery purposes. How should the administrator proceed? A. use policy compression B. use the NetBackup Accelerator C. use change journal D. use client-side deduplication Correct Answer: B /Reference: QUESTION 34 An administrator wants deduplication clients in a remote office to perform backups so that less data is sent over the wide area network (WAN). Which action should the administrator perform to reduce the total amount of data sent over the WAN? A. set client attributes to Always use the media server B. set client attributes to Always use client-side deduplication C. set deduplication disk pool to Limit I/O streams D. enable deduplication stream handlers for the clients Correct Answer: B
/Reference: QUESTION 35 Which feature is enabled after adding a master server to the Trusted Master Servers tab? A. backup of clients in other master server domains B. remote console to another master server C. targeted Auto Image Replication D. remote catalog backups Correct Answer: C /Reference: QUESTION 36 Which two restore types must be initiated from a client system rather than the NetBackup Administration Console on the master server? (Select two.) A. Oracle B. MS-SharePoint C. MS-Exchange D. MS-SQL-Server E. VMware Correct Answer: AE /Reference: QUESTION 37 An administrator needs to recover the NetBackup master server catalog at a disaster recovery site, but the DR files are unavailable. Which command should the administrator use to recreate the DR file?
A. bprecover B. nbcatsync C. bpimport D. cat_import Correct Answer: B /Reference: