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Administration of Veritas NetBackup™ 8.1.2

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Sample Questions

1. Which two catalog components contain information on what has been backed up and its metadata in
NetBackup? (Select two.)

a. Media
b. Image
c. Volume
d. NBDB
e. Class

2. Which two pools are created by default in NetBackup? (Select two.)

a. Scratch pool
b. CatalogBackup pool
c. DataStore pool
d. Deduplication pool
e. Default pool

3. What does an administrator need to enable Smart Meter?

a. a text file with the NetBackup key

b. a json file
c. an xml file
d. the Java plugin

4. Which two media status designations are excluded in the count against maximum number of partially full
media? (Select two.)

a. Frozen
b. Imported
c. Active
d. Multi-Retlev
e. MPX

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5. Which two have a media and/or density type? (Select two.)

a. media set
b. robots
c. volume pools
d. drives
e. storage units

6. An administrator configures storage units STU-A and STU-B into a storage unit group in Failover mode.

If STU-A is busy, what happens to a new job going to the storage unit group?

a. queues and waits for STU-A to become available

b. queues and then initiates job to STU-B
c. fails over and writes backups to STU-B
d. fails with a status code 219: Required storage unit is unavailable

7. Which command can an administrator execute on a Windows NetBackup client to measure disk backup
performance?

a. bpbkar32 -nocont diskpath 1> nul 2> nul

b. nbperfchk -i diskpath
c. bpclntcmd -hn client –self
d. bpclient -client client -online_backup

8. What are two ways to include files for scheduled backups? (Select two.)

a. specify files to back up using Data Classifications

b. use storage lifecycle policies to specify files to back up
c. specify files to be backed up in the policy backup selections
d. use Client Properties > Windows client > Exclude list Exceptions
e. specify files using the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface

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9. Consider the configuration information for a single client displayed below.

Allow Multiple Data Streams is enabled.

ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES is specified.
Media multiplexing is set to 6.
Three tape drives are available in the storage unit and multiplex per drive is 2.
Max Jobs per Client is set to 8.
The client has 5 local file systems with no exclude list.

How many concurrent data streams will there be when the policy runs?

a. two
b. three
c. five
d. six
e. eight

10. What is the correct order in which to configure deduplication storage in NetBackup?

a. disk pool, storage server, storage unit

b. storage server, storage unit, disk pool
c. load balancing server, storage server, disk pool
d. storage server, disk pool, storage unit

11. Which two methods should an administrator use to automate duplication in NetBackup? (Select two.)

a. NetBackup Vault
b. bpduplicate command
c. OpsCenter
d. Storage Lifecycle Policies
e. OpenStorage API

12. The NetBackup Resource Broker (NBRB) maintains resource requests for jobs that are queued.

Which two criteria does NBRB use to evaluate the resource requests and provide resources to each job
sequentially? (Select two.)

a. job priority
b. date of last successful backup
c. data classification rank ID
d. time when NBRB receives the request
e. retention level

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13. How should an administrator enable client-side deduplication for specific clients of a policy?
a. set "Disable client-side deduplication" on the policy, and select "Prefer to use client-side deduplication"
in the Client Attributes host properties
b. set "Disable client-side deduplication" on the policy, and select "Always use client-side deduplication" in
the Client Attributes host properties
c. unset "Disable client-side deduplication" on the policy, and select "Always use the media server" in the
Client Attributes host properties
d. unset "Disable client-side deduplication" on the policy, and select "Prefer to use client-side
deduplication" in the Client Attributes host properties

14. 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? (Select two.)

a. remove the media server name from the additional servers list on the master server
b. run the bpclntcmd -hn command on the master server to confirm that the master server was able to
resolve its own hostname
c. telnet from the master server to the media server's VNETD port
d. verify that network access to the master server is available
e. verify that the nbemm and pbx_exchange daemons/services are running on the master server

15. An administrator must recover an expired image from a tape where only one remaining copy exists and there
are other unexpired images on the tape.

How should the administrator locate the tape which contains the image?

a. run the Tape Contents report

b. run the Images on Tape report
c. run the Tape Summary report
d. run the Images on Media report

16. An administrator of a multi-site, multi-domain NetBackup environment wants to be able to provide redundancy
for backups as well as protecting the NetBackup image database. All backups must have on-site and off-site
copies in multiple NetBackup domains as well as off-site tape copies.

Which NetBackup feature should the administrator use to implement the functionality?

a. Replication Director
b. Auto Image Replication
c. Optimized Duplication
d. Vault with Catalog Backups

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17. Which command can be used to recover the NBDB from the staging location?
a. bprecover
b. bprestore
c. nbdb_restore
d. nbdb_admin

18. A job fails with the following message:

Error bpbrm (pid=5942) Cannot connect to winclient.example.com
Info bpbkar (pid=0) done. status: 58: can't connect to client

The administrator verifies the default OS host name resolution order is in place in all the environments, but finds
an incorrect entry for the client in the media server's hosts file and corrects it. The hosts file on the client is
properly configured. The administrator restarts the job, but the job fails with the same error message.

Which action should the administrator perform to ensure the job completes successfully?

a. restart the NetBackup services on the master server

b. create a DNS record for the client
c. run bpclntcmd -clear_host_cache command on the media server
d. restart the NetBackup services on the client

19. An administrator has a media server with four empty disks with the following characteristics:

SSD1, SSD2: High-speed solid state drives

Disk3, Disk4: Medium-speed hard drives

What is the recommended disk storage configuration using these devices?

a. place disks in one AdvancedDisk pool with media server load balancing configured
b. place disks in one AdvancedDisk pool with round robin configured
c. place disks in one AdvancedDisk pool with failover configured, in the order: SSD1, SSD2, Disk3, Disk4
d. place disks in two AdvancedDisk pools: SSD1 and SSD2 in one pool, and Disk3 and Disk4 in the other
pool

20. An administrator is using Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLP) to back up to a local Advanced Disk pool, duplicate to
a local MSDP pool, replicate to an off-site MSDP pool, and finally duplicate to an off-site tape library
which needs to be kept for a period of three years.

Which retention type should the administrator select for the SLP import operation?
a. Expire after copy
b. Fixed
c. Capacity Managed
d. Target Retention

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Answers
1-b&d, 2-b&c, 3-b, 4-a&b, 5-d&e, 6-a, 7-a, 8-c&e, 9-c, 10-d, 11-a&d, 12-a&d, 13-d, 14-d&e, 15-a, 16-b, 17-c,
18-c, 19-d, 20-d

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