VCS-279 Sample Questions Answers

An administrator is configuring a new device and receives the following error message:

Unable to determine robot type

What are two possible solutions? (Choose two.)

How can an administrator determine the storage and database paths for an MSDP?

Which command should an administrator run on each appliance as part of completing the pre-upgrade tasks?

An administrator wants to look at configuration information: status, drivers loaded, port and device information and connections to remote appliances for all Fibre Channel HBAs installed on an appliance.

Which NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu (CLISH) command should the administrator use to display the information?

What is the definition of a Storage Unit?

What is the Certificate Authority (CA) for NetBackup?

How can an administrator locate NetBackup job activity using the appliance interfaces?

Refer to the exhibit.

A backup policy uses a Full backup schedule with a schedule type of Frequency: 1 days. The start window for the schedule is configured as shown in the exhibit:

The administrator runs a manual backup at 10:00 on Thursday.

When will the next backup run, if all prior backups completed successfully?

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?

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

DR file is on the same partition as your catalog and will be unusable in an actual disaster or disk failure.

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

An administrator is experiencing a backup failure, which may be due to lack of connection between the media and master server. The status of the media server is shown below:

Media server showing offline

Which command can the administrator run to change the status of the media server?

Which type of punctuation is used to separate multiple interface name entries in the Network > Show Properties [InterfaceNames] command in the NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu (CLISH)?

An administrator is attempting to protect 500TB of Windows file system data in a 4-hour backup window, when the file servers are idle. The daily change rate for the data is below 1%, and an Initial full backup has been performed to a high performance disk array configured as an Advanced Disk storage unit.

What can the administrator do to ensure subsequent backups complete within the backup window?

Which two tasks should an administrator perform prior to upgrading NetBackup Appliances to version 3.1.2? (Choose two.)

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?

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?

Which method is NOT able to provide performance information for previously run backup jobs?

Where can an administrator add or list the service providers for cloud storage?

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?

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?

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

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?

A new storage shelf is added to an existing appliance.

Which command under Manage > Storage must the administrator perform first after a new shelf is connected to the appliance and the appliance is powered on?