Veritas Administration of Veritas NetBackup 8.0 and NetBackup Appliances 3.0 - VCS-277 Exam Practice Test
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Two media servers, sharing a library with 10 tape drives, exist in the NetBackup
8.0environment 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?

Two media servers, sharing a library with 10 tape drives, exist in the NetBackup
8.0environment 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?
Correct Answer: C
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An administrator wants to review the throughput of backup clients to improve performance.
Which area of the NetBackup Administration Console displays the throughput of backups for all clients?
Which area of the NetBackup Administration Console displays the throughput of backups for all clients?
Correct Answer: C
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Which utility should an administrator use to verify tape device configuration?
Correct Answer: B
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A storage unit group is configured that has disk and then tape listed. During a backup session, jobs start retrying and then running on the tape device only.
What is a likely cause of the change?
What is a likely cause of the change?
Correct Answer: D
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An administrator has an environment that runs over one thousand jobs a night. Some nights there are hundreds of jobs queued waiting for a resource.
Which action should the administrator take in the event that specific jobs need to run when a resource next becomes available during that evening's backup session?
Which action should the administrator take in the event that specific jobs need to run when a resource next becomes available during that evening's backup session?
Correct Answer: D
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The MSDP catalog on a Media Server has become corrupted.
Which two methods are available to bring the MSDP pool back online? (Select two.)
Which two methods are available to bring the MSDP pool back online? (Select two.)
Correct Answer: A,B
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A restore must be performed. An administrator is attempting to view the valid images for a client, but the following error occurs:
WARNING: Server does not contain any valid images.
Which two parameters may be configured incorrectly? (Select two.)
WARNING: Server does not contain any valid images.
Which two parameters may be configured incorrectly? (Select two.)
Correct Answer: D,E
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Which statement applies to a NetBackup calendar based schedule in a Windows policy type?
Correct Answer: A
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Backups of a newly added Windows Server 2008 guest virtual machine are failing with the following status:
156: snapshot error encountered
The associated bpfis process log indicates that the attempt to quiesce this virtual machine failed.
Which two steps should the administrator review to help resolve the issue? (Select two.)
156: snapshot error encountered
The associated bpfis process log indicates that the attempt to quiesce this virtual machine failed.
Which two steps should the administrator review to help resolve the issue? (Select two.)
Correct Answer: D,E
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The administrator of a large bank needs to preserve financial information for an extended period of time. The bank's NetBackup 8.0catalog is now over 800GB in size, causing the catalog backups to contend for resources with production system backups.
How can the administrator shorten the time needed to back up the catalog?
How can the administrator shorten the time needed to back up the catalog?
Correct Answer: B
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On which system(s) is the NetBackup 8.0LiveUpdate agent installed by default?
Correct Answer: D
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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?
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?
Correct Answer: B
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Which bonding mode requires configuration on the network switch?
Correct Answer: A
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An administrator wishes to modify the Override default job priority option for on MS
Windows type restore job before the restore job begins.
Where in the Microsoft Windows Backup, Archive, and Restore console can the administrator configure this option?
Windows type restore job before the restore job begins.
Where in the Microsoft Windows Backup, Archive, and Restore console can the administrator configure this option?
Correct Answer: B
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