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Exam : VCS-277

Title : Administration of Veritas

NetBackup 8.0 and
NetBackup Appliances 3.0

Version : V8.02

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1.How can an administrator copy an existing backup image of client1.example.com from an Advanced
Disk storage unit to a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP)?
A. run bpimport with the source and the destination storage unit
B. create a Storage Lifecycle Policy that contains a duplication to the MSDP pool
C. run bpduplicate with the backup ID and the destination storage unit
D. run nbreplicate with the backup ID and the destination storage unit
Answer: D

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

5 paths listed in the Backup Selections list
3 clients listed in the Clients list
Allow multiple data streams is selected
Max Jobs per Client value set to 4
How many jobs go Active when the job is started, excluding parent jobs?
A. 8
B. 9
C. 12
D. 15
Answer: C

3.How can an administrator determine the storage and database paths for a Media Server Deduplication
Pool?
A. run the Configure Disk Storage Server wizard for the MSDP
B. view Storage Unit > View Properties for the MSOP storage unit
C. view Disk Pool > Disk volumes for the MSDP disk pool
D. view Storage Server > Properties for the storage server
Answer: C

4.Which command can an administrator run to test and analyze connections between master servers,
media servers, and clients for multiple Net Back up ports?
A. bperror
B. bpconfig
C. bpresolver
D. bptestnetconn
Answer: D

5.A Netbackup environment suffers from intermittent network outages between the Media Server
Drduplication Pool (MSOP) media server and clients during the backup window. This results in multiple
backup failures.
Mow should an administrator overcome the backup failure issue?
A. enable Network Resiliency
B. configure client-side deduplication
C. increase the client connect timeout
D. increase the CR_STATS_TIMLR interval

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Answer: A

6.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?
A. encrypt the tapes using software encryption and use a storage lifecycle policy to perform automatic
ejects and create reports
B. enable the encryption attribute on the vault policy to perform automated ejects and create reports
C. use tape drives that support hardware encryption and use a vault policy to perform automated ejects
and create reports
D. use tape drives that support hardware encryption and use a storage lifecycle policy to perform
automated ejects and create reports
Answer: C

7.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 Net Backup jobs affected by the disk failure? (Select two.)
A. Media and Device Management > Device Monitor > Disk Pool
B. Net Backup Management > Reports > Disk Reports > Disk logs
C. Net Backup Management > Reports > Disk Reports > Disk Pool Status
D. Net Backup Management > Reports > Disk Reports > Disk Storage Unit Status
E. Net Backup Management > Reports > Media Logs
Answer: AD

8.An administrator has a scheduled policy has a scheduled policy 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 slate
in the Activity Monitor.
Mow should the administrator verify the incomplete job runs prior to the next scheduled backup?
A. run a manual job the client
B. resume the job
C. run a manual job for the mount point
D. resume the parent job
Answer: B

9.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? (Select two.)
A. use the bpexpdate command to change the expiration date of the image
B. use the bpretlevel command to customize the retention level
C. use the bpimmedia command to freeze the tape
D. use the bpduplicate command to create a copy with an infinite retention
E. use the vmchange command to change the expiration date of the tape
Answer: A, D

10.Refer to the exhibit.

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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 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?
A. Change volume C11201 to the scratch_pool volume pool
B. Change volume E02002 to the scratch_pool volume pool
C. Change volume E02004 to the scratch_pool volume pool
D. Change volume E02003 to the scratch_pool volume pool
Answer: C

11.Winch backup storage is unsupported with media server load balancing?

A. BasicDisk
B. Media Server Deduplication Pool
C. AdvancedDisk
D. Media Manager storage
Answer: D

12.Which two storage unit types can be configured in NetBackup? (Select two.)
A. deduplication
B. NDMP
C. robot
D. media manager
E. tape
Answer: B, D

13.A NetBackup policy is configured to back up the following paths for a client:
D:\stage
E:\data
E:\home
F:\production
Multistreaming is enabled for the backups, and multiplexing is set to 4. Backup streams are running

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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
Answer: B

14.Storage life-cycle 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 50MB
C. right-click SLP1 and select Manual Relocation to Final Destination
D. increase the priority for secondary operations in the SLP
Answer: D

15.An administrator configures a default Standard die 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 alter
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
Answer: A

16.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 Synthetic backup option available for selection?
A. create a differential or cumulative incremental backup schedule
D. 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
Answer: A

17.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 Network

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Answer: A

18.Backup images that reside In an MSDP storage pool have been manually expired using bpexpdate.
Which step must fin administrator perform to manually free the associated space in the storage pool?
A. run image cleanup on the media 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. fun content router queue processing on the master server
Answer: C

19.Which configuration file should an administrator modify to enable local fingerprint caching on a
Netbackup MSDP client?
A. spa.cfg
B. pd.conf
C. contentrouter.cfg
D. agent.cfg
Answer: B

20.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, the
overall performance of the disk storage unit is degraded.
Which setting should the administrator modify to reduce the number of concurrent streams writing to the
disk storage unit to 10 during the backup window?
A. enable the "Maximum Data streams" property
B. enable the "Limit Jobs per policy" attribute
C. set the "Maximum jobs per client" host property to 10
D. enable multiplexing for the storage unit and set the value to 10
Answer: B

21.Which two appliance 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
Answer: A, D

22.Which information is validated during an image verification operation?

A. data on the client is validated with data on the volume
B. data on the client is validated with data in the NetBackup catalog
C. data on the volume is validated with data in the NetBackup catalog
D. data on the client and the volume is validated with data in the NetBackup catalog
Answer: C

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23.What is the purpose of the Login and Password settings in the Disaster Recovery tab of a Net Backup
catalog backup policy?
A. to specify credentials required to access a network share
D. to encrypt the Net Backup catalog backup data
C. to require credentials to perform a catalog recovery
D. to encrypt the disaster recovery file
Answer: D

24.Which type of backup schedules ore 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
Answer: A

25.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. expiring images from the NetBackup catalog
Answer: C

26.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.
Answer: A

27.Weekly full backups run for client A on maeter1 using a storage unit that belongs to medial. The
administrator is required to retain client A’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 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
Answer: D

28.An administrator has a job that has failed. See the contents of the Job's Detailed Status tab from the

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NetBackup Activity Monitor provided below:

What may be the cause 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.
Answer: A

29.A NetBackup Master Server has commenced writing four long-running duplication jobs on an
AdvancedDisk disk pool. The value of Maximum concurrent jobs for the storage unit and Limit I/O streams
for 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
Answer: D

30.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?

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A. from the BAR console, select the tape backup to restore from
B. from the Net Backup Administration Console, promote copy 1 to the primary copy
C. from the Net Backup Administration Console, promote copy 2 to the primary copy
D. from the Net Backup Administration Console, promote copy 3 to the primary copy
Answer: C

31.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?
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
Answer: A

32.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
Answer: D

33.Refer to the exhibit.

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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.
Answer: C

34.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
Answer: C

35.An administrator is comparing the NetBackup Accelerator and Net Back up 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 Net Back up
FlashUackup 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
Answer: A

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36.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
Answer: D

37.Which two options are available to an administrator to bung 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 catalog shadow copy
E. repair the MSDP catalog using the recoverCR tool
Answer: BD

38.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
Answer: A

39.Refer to the exhibit.

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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?
A. increase the Media unmount delay
B. configure media multiplexing
C. enable backups to span tape media
D. enable media sharing
Answer: D

40.Which two Net Backup features are available to protect the Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP)
catalog? (Select two.)
A. Net Backup catalog backups
B. MSDP catalog policy
C. Optimized Catalog Duplication
D. MSDP shadow copies
E. Checkpoints
Answer: BC

41.An administrator took Media Server, mediaA, offline for maintenance and set up a new Media Server,
mediaB, with access to the previously backed up data. When restores are performed for data that was
backed up by mediaA, the restores fail.

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Which setting in the Host Properties must the administrator modify to allow successful restores?
A. From the Master Server, run the bpimage command to change the name of the Media Server from
mediaA to mediaB.
B. Verify both Media Servers are set up in the Media Server Host Properties > Restore Failover section.
C. In the BAR GUI, change the "Server to use for backup and restores" setting to MediaB.
D. Verify both Media Servers are set up in the Master Server Host Properties > Restore Failover section.
Answer: D

42.By using the robot front panel, an operator ejects media 000001 from robot TLD(1) and inserts it into
robot TLD(2).
Neither robot has a barcode reader.
Which two actions should the administrator in the administration console to update the EMM database
accordingly and show media 000001 at the new location? (Select two.)
A. run a robot inventory on both robots
B. move media 000001 to standalone
C. change the volume pool in media 000001 properties
D. label media 000001
E. move media 000001 from standalone to robot 2
Answer: DE

43.A restore has failed with the following job details:

Which two resources should the administrator use to troubleshoot this issue? (Select two)
A. the bpmedia command
B. the robtest command
C. the operating system logs
D. the logs from the NetBackup tar process
E. the nbdevconfig command
Answer: AE

44.Which disk type is unsupported in a Media Server Load Balancing storage unit group?
A. Pure Disk
B. BasicDisk
C. AdvancedDisk
D. Cloud Storage
Answer: B

45.Using the default values in the activity monitor, a failed job is discovered among hundreds of jobs that
ran during the evening. The administrator would like to view all related jobs to verify they completed

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successfully.
Where in the activity monitor can the administrator find all related jobs?
A. right-click the failed job and select View Job hierarchy
B. right-click the failed job and select Troubleshooter
C. double-click the failed job and select the Detailed Status tab
D. right-click the failed job and select Details
Answer: A

46.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 would the next backup run, if all prior backups completed successfully?
A. Friday at 2:00
B. Friday at 10:00
C. Monday at 2:00
D. Monday at 10:00
Answer: B

47.Refer to the exhibit.

Which diagram is supported for backups spanning BasicDisk storage?

A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
Answer: B

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48.An AdvancedDisk storage unit consistently reaches capacity, causing older, staged backups to expire.
How con the administrator control the prioritization of images that get removed?
A. change the priority for secondary storage lifecycle operations
B. use Data Classification
C. change the priority of relocation jobs in the staging schedule
D. modify Retention Levels
Answer: D

49.After creating a NBU-Catalog 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 an administrator to ensure the DR file is available for future use?
(Select two.)
A. ensure the folder DR file is on a non-root volume
B. ensure the DR file is created on a volume other than the NetBackup volume
C. specify a user that has credentials to the volume that contains NetBackup binaries
D. configure a valid email address of the administrator in the Send email option
E. specify the NBU-Catalog backup policy as a critical policy
Answer: B, D

50.NetBackup has frozen some of the tapes added to the robot.

Which log must be enabled to determine why the tapes were frozen?
A. ltid
B. robots
C. bptm
D. bpdm
Answer: C

51.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:

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.
Answer: C

52.An administrator has a job that has failed. Upon reviewing the Detailed Status tab for the job, the
administrator sees the following information:

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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 setting
Answer: D

53.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.
Answer: AB

54.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. application backup
E. automatic backup
Answer: B

55.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)
Answer: D

56.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 NetBackup Accelerator

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C. use change journal

D. use client-side deduplication
Answer: B

57.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 the deduplication disk pool to Limit I/O strtsinis
D. enable deduplication stream handlers for the clients
Answer: B

58.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
Answer: C

59.Which two restore types must be initiated from a client system rather than the Net Backup
Administration Console on the master server? (Select two.)
A. Oracle:
B. MS-SharePoint
C. MS-Exchange
D. MS SQL-Server
E. VMware
Answer: BE

60.An administrator needs to recover the Net Backup 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. bprecrover
B. nbcatsync
C. bpimport
D. cat_import
Answer: B

61.Which command should an administrator use to generate a list of all files backed up on a client for a
specific backup job?
A. bpimage
B. bplist
C. bpimagelist
D. bpdbjobs

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Answer: B

62.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.)
A. VMware Tools is installed and running in the virtual machine
B. disable Block-Level Incremental Backup in the policy
C. install the NetBackup plug-in for vSphere Web Client on the guest virtual machine
D. verify Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service within the guest virtual machine is working properly
E. enable snapshotting of the virtual machine’s memory on the vCenter server
Answer: A, D

63.Which volume pool must be manually created in NetBackup?

A. None pool
B. OataStore pool
C. Scratch pool
D. CatalogBackup pool
Answer: C

64.An administrator needs to prevent users on all client systems from performing user-directed restores
while ensuring they are able to view the contents of all previous backup images.
What should the administrator configure to accomplish this goal?
A. enable the Master Server Host Property - Browse timeframe for restores
B. enable the Master Server Host Property for clients listed in the Client Attribute - Allow browse
C. de-select the "Allow server file writes" parameter in the Host Properties of the Master Server
D. de-select the "Allow client restore" parameter in the Host Properties of the Master Server
Answer: D

65.An administrator tries to suspend an active job from the NetBackup Activity Monitor, but discovers that
the option is grayed out.
What is preventing the administrator from suspending the job?
A. child jobs are still active
B. the parent job is still active
C. Multiplexing is enabled
D. Checkpoint restart is disabled
Answer: D

66.An administrator has a MS-Windows type policy that has fatted 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:

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Which two logs will provide the most relevant information for troubleshooting and resolving the error?
(Select two.)
A. Operating system logs on the client
B. NetBackup bpfis logs on the media server
C. NetBackup bptm logs on the media server
D. Operating system togs on the media server
E. NetBackup bpfis logs on the client
Answer: DE

67.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?
A. after clicking the Restore button, in the Restore Marked riles dialog box
B. at the bottom of the options listed in File > NetDackup Client Properties > Network
C. in the Backup, Archive, and Restore window, under the Restore Files tab
D. within file > Specify Net Backup Machines and Policy type
Answer: B

68.Which parameter in NetBackup Management > Host Properties must be modified to change the
logging level to 5 for client1.domain?
A. Master Servers > [master_server_name] > Logging > Global logging level
B. Clients > [client_name] > Logging > Global logging level
C. Master Servers > [master_server_name] > Logging > Enable robust logging
D. Clients > [client_name] > Logging > Enable robust logging
Answer: B

69.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, four months is missing from the selection list.
Where should the administrator add the four-month retention period under Host Properties?

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A. Master Servers > master1 > Retention Periods

B. Clients > clientA > Global Attributes
C. Media Servers > media1 > Retention Periods
D. Master Servers > master1 > Global Attributes
Answer: A

70.Where should the administrator set the parameter in the Host Properties to enable failed restore jobs
to automatically retry on Client1?
A. Clients > Client1 > Universal Settings > Restore retries
B. Master Server > Client Attributes > Client1 > General > Restore retries
C. Clients > Client1 > Client Settings > Restore retries
D. Master Server > Client Attributes > Client1 > Restore retries
Answer: A

71.An administrator wants to specify which networks or interfaces to use for outgoing NetBackup traffic
from a selected host.
Which option under Master Server Host Properties should the administrator use to configure this?
A. Preferred Network
B. Port Ranges
C. Network Settings
D. Bandwidth
Answer: D

72.A NetBackup administrator configures a policy to perform file system backups of multiple client
systems using the Allow multiple data streams feature. All other policy attributes are at default settings.
Which Master Server parameter must be configured to enable the backup jobs from a client to run
concurrently?
A. Target storage unit: Maximum concurrent jobs
B. Global Attributes: Maximum jobs per client
C. Client Attributes: Maximum data streams
D. Target storage unit: Enable multiplexing
Answer: B

73.An administrator wants clients in a remote office to perform client-side deduplication instead of Media
Server deduplication.
Where should the administrator set the parameter in the Host Properties to ensure client-side
deduplication is performed?
A. Master Server > Client Attributes > client_hostname > General > Always use client-side deduplication
B. Clients > General > Always use client-side deduplication
C. Master Server > Client Attributes > General > Always use client-side deduplication
D. Clients > Deduplication > Always use client-side deduplication
Answer: A

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Where is the name of the VMware backup host entered in NetBackup?

A. Access Management > Virtual Machine Servers
B. Host Properties > Clients > VMware Access Hosts
C. Host Properties > Master Server > VMware Access Hosts
D. Media and Device Management > Credentials > Virtual Machine Servers
Answer: C

75.Which two conditions must be met to change the volume group of a tape? (Select two.)
A. backup tapes must be in the same library or standalone
B. backup tapes must have barcode labels
C. backup tapes must be unassigned
D. backup tapes must be vaulted
E. backup tapes must have the same media type
Answer: A, E

76.Which two actions should an administrator take to allow NetBackup to manage the allocation of
volumes to volume pools? (Select two.)
A. define a scratch pool and add all of the volumes to it so NetBackup will move volumes to the other
pools as volumes are needed
B. assign volumes to all volume pools as required in the environment
C. define a scratch pool with assigned volumes so NetBackup will move the assigned volumes to other
pools as volumes are needed
D. create volume pools as required, but refrain from adding volumes to the pools
E. assign volumes to NetBackup and DataStore volume pools so NetBackup will move the assigned
volumes to other pools as volumes are needed
Answer: A, D

77.A tape library had the robot firmware upgraded and now the robot is reading the barcodes with
additional characters.
How should an administrator enable NetBackup 8.0to use the same characters as before the firmware
upgrade occurred?
A. update the Media ID Generation setting
B. update Media settings
C. update Device mappings
D. update the Barcode Rules setting
Answer: A

78.Where should an administrator look in the NetBackup Administration Console to determine whether an
AdvancedDisk storage server is configured?
A. Media and Device Management > Credentials > Disk Array Hosts
B. Media and Device Management > Device Monitor > Storage Servers
C. Media and Device Management > Devices > Storage Servers
D. Media and Device Management > Credentials > Storage Servers
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79.Which Storage Unit Group option causes NetBackup to choose the least recently selected storage unit
in the list as each new job is started?
A. Prioritized
B. Failover
C. Round Robin
D. Media Server Load Balancing
Answer: C

80.Which value under Storage Unit Properties reflects the total amount of space allocated to a basic disk
storage unit?
A. Usable size
B. Capacity
C. Raw size
D. Available or Available space
Answer: B

81.Which utility should an administrator use to verify library device functionality?

A. nbdevconfig
B. robtest
C. bpmedia
D. tpconfig
Answer: C

82.Which utility should an administrator use to verify tape device configuration?

A. nbdevquery
B. tpext
C. bpmedia
D. tpconfig
Answer: B

83.What should an administrator do to enable backups to span multiple BasicDisk storage units?
A. configure a storage unit group and add BasicDisk storage units from multiple Media Servers
B. configure a storage unit group that consists only of disk storage units defined on a single Media Server
C. confirm that a load balancing storage unit is selected at the group level
D. select Storage Units > Storage Unit > Allow backup to span disks
Answer: B

84.Which two prerequisites must an administrator perform to enable restoration of individual objects and
attributes in Active Directory? (Select two.)
A. install the NetBackup File System daemon (nbfsd) on the client
B. choose the "Enable granular recovery" option in the policy
C. choose the "Use Accelerator" option in the policy
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E. enable the Network File System (NFS) on the client

Answer: B, E

85.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?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 12
D. 15
Answer: B

86.What happens if the Maximum data streams property is enabled for a particular client?
A. NetBackup ignores Maximum jobs per client and uses either Limit jobs per policy or Maximum indexing
jobs per indexing server, whichever is lowest
B. NetBackup ignores Maximum jobs per client and uses either Maximum data streams or Limit jobs per
policy, whichever is lowest
C. NetBackup ignores Maximum indexing jobs per indexing server and uses Maximum jobs per client or
the Limit jobs per policy, whichever is lowest
D. NetBackup ignores Limit jobs per policy and uses either Maximum data streams or Maximum jobs per
client, whichever is lowest
Answer: B

87.Which statement applies to a NetBackup calendar based schedule in a Windows policy type?
A. the backup may run on a day with a closed backup window with Retries allowed after runday
B. an Exclude date may be configured to occur on an included recurring day of the week
C. configuring a start window spanning midnight is invalid
D. a calendar based schedule can run twice a day
Answer: B

88.A policy is created using the Standard policy type. The default settings are used. Linux hosts s1 and s2
are added in the client list and ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES is specified in the Backup Selection.
Host s1 has the mount points listed below:
/
/opt
/usr
/usr/home
Host s2 has the mount points listed below:
/
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/usr
How many streams will be created when the policy runs for both clients?
A. two
B. four
C. five
D. eight
Answer: A

89.Which policy directive(s) should an administrator place in the Backup Selections tab to ensure the
system is protected when backing up a Windows server?
A. ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and System State:\
B. ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and Shadow Copy Components:\
C. ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES
D. ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and System State:\ and Shadow Copy Components:\
Answer: C

90.A UNIX client has the mount points listed below:

/var
/usr
/opt
/home
A backup policy for this client has "Allow multiple data streams" enabled and contains a backup selections
list with the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive. It also contains an exclude list that excludes /home.
What happens when this backup policy runs?
A. all backup jobs complete successfully
B. backup jobs are created for all mount points except for /home
C. the backup job for /home is partially successful because /home is excluded
D. the backup job for /home fails because /home is excluded
Answer: D

91.An administrator needs to back up 100 clients using 10 LTO5 tape drives.
Which policy setting will perform the backup fastest?
A. Allow multiple data streams
B. Limit jobs per policy
C. Media multiplexing
D. Use Accelerator
Answer: C

92.Auto Image Replication is being used to replicate New York backups to London. The New York
backups have completed.
What is the next step?
A. images are replicated to London using a storage lifecycle policy to a disk staging storage unit
B. images are replicated to London using a storage lifecycle policy to an AdvancedDisk type storage unit
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D. images are replicated to London using a storage lifecycle policy to an NDMP storage unit
Answer: C

93.Which option is available with a Trusted Master Server?

A. Backup of other Master Server domains
B. Duplications
C. Automatic Image Replication
D. Catalog backups
Answer: C

94.What is the default length of time that true image restore (TIR) information is retained in the NetBackup
catalog?
A. 1 day
B. 3 days
C. 28 days
D. 30 days
Answer: A

95.Which scenario accurately describes the creation of a full synthetic backup using tape?
A. a single drive can be used for both the read and write of the backup
B. a separate read drive and write drive can be used on the same Media Server
C. a read and write drive can be used on different Media Servers
D. a disk storage unit must be used prior to copying the backup to tape
Answer: B

96.Which command should an administrator use to determine which storage lifecycle policy's image
copies are incomplete?
A. nbstl
B. nbreplicate
C. bpimage
D. nbstlutil
Answer: C

97.What is the image removal behavior for relocated images from a disk staging storage unit when the
high water mark is reached during a backup?
A. NetBackup removes the oldest images until the low water mark is reached.
B. NetBackup removes images alphabetically until the low water mark is reached.
C. NetBackup removes the largest images until the low water mark is reached.
D. NetBackup removes images with the lowest rank data classification until the low water mark is
reached.
Answer: A

98.What is required to implement Auto Image Replication?

A. BasicDisk or AdvancedDisk storage units and at least one Master Server

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B. OST-compliant appliances or MSDP and at least one Master Server

C. OST-compliant appliances or MSDP and at least two Master Servers
D. BasicDisk or AdvancedDisk storage units and at least two Master Servers
Answer: C

99.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 disk copies as well as off-site tape copies and must be restorable at all times, even if a
single NetBackup server/storage failure occurs.
Which NetBackup feature should the administrator use to implement the functionality?
A. Replication Director
B. Automated Image Replication
C. Storage Lifecycle Policies
D. Vault
Answer: B

100.In which two places can an administrator view the amount of space used in the Media Server
Deduplication Pool? (Select two.)
A. Reports > Disk Reports > Disk Storage Unit Status
B. Device Monitor > Disk Pools
C. Reports > Disk Reports > Disk Logs
D. Devices > Disk Pools
E. Reports > Disk Reports > Disk Pool Status
Answer: D, E

101.An administrator is configuring a remote client over a high latency WAN network.
Which setting should be modified to improve the performance of the first backup using client
deduplication?
A. Use Accelerator in the policy
B. WAN Resiliency on the client
C. WAN Optimization on the Media Server
D. FP_CACHE_CLIENT_POLICY in pd.conf on the client
Answer: D

102.An MSDP Media Server is experiencing performance issues when running multiple deduplication
backup jobs concurrently over 10 GbE. When switched to AdvancedDisk on the same Media Server, the
backups perform well.
Which step can be utilized to mitigate the performance issues?
A. reduce network congestion between clients and the Media Server
B. increase the size of the MSDP disk pool on the Storage Server
C. add load balancing Media Servers for the Storage Server
D. set the clients to back up over SAN
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103.Which capability is provided by rebasing in an MSDP storage pool?

A. garbage collection
B. integrity checking
C. backup image defragmentation
D. image deletion
Answer: C

104.What are two possible causes for job failure when a Windows policy is configured to use Accelerator?
(Select two.)
A. client-side deduplication is disabled
B. use of the NTFS Change Journal is disabled
C. the backup target is AdvancedDisk
D. insufficient space in the NetBackup installation directory
E. the policy lacks a forced rescan schedule
Answer: C, D

105.Backup jobs to an MSDP storage unit of a large EXT3 file system for a Linux client connected via a 1
GbE network are taking excessive time.
Which two settings should an administrator change to improve the performance of the backups? (Select
two.)
A. enable client-side deduplication
B. enable multiplexing
C. enable Use Change Journal for the client
D. enable Use Accelerator for the policy
E. enable WAN optimization
Answer: A, D

106.How frequently does content router queue processing (CRQP) run, by default?
A. every 6 hours
B. every 12 hours
C. every 24 hours
D. every week
Answer: B

107.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?
A. use the NetBackup 8.0Agent for Symantec Enterprise Vault to perform an online archive of the catalog
B. create a catalog archive policy and execute it from the command line using the bpcatarc command
C. use the NetBackup 8.0client-side deduplication feature to shorten the time it takes to perform a catalog
backup
D. back up the catalog by scheduling an online Sybase database backup policy to allow the backup to run
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Answer: B

108.Which two schedule types are allowed for the NBU-Catalog policy type? (Select two.)
A. Automatic Backup
B. Vault Catalog Backup
C. Full Catalog Backup
D. Full Backup
E. Application Backup
Answer: B, D

109.On which system(s) is the NetBackup 8.0LiveUpdate agent installed by default?

A. Master Server only
B. Master Server and Media Server only
C. Master Server, Media Server, and client
D. Media Server and client only
Answer: C

110.Which file contains LiveUpdate server configuration?

A. pd.conf
B. bp.conf
C. nblu.conf
D. vm.conf
Answer: C

111.In which order should an administrator perform upgrades to a major release in a NetBackup
environment?
A. Master Server, OpsCenter Server, Media Server, Clients
B. OpsCenter Server, Master Server, Media Server, Clients
C. Master Server, Media Server, OpsCenter Server, Clients
D. Master Server, Media Server, Clients, OpsCenter Server
Answer: A

112.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 ensure the image is retained?
A. run the Images on Tape report
B. run an import on the tape
C. duplicate the unexpired images
D. verify the tape
Answer: B

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An assigned backup tape contains four images, two of which are expired. A new backup is initiated.
How does NetBackup write the new image?
A. it appends new images to the last file marker on the tape
B. it writes new images to the space where the expired images once resided on the tape
C. it overwrites the expired data on the tape with the new images
D. it writes the new image to an alternate tape
Answer: A

114.Which operation compares the contents of an image to the NetBackup catalog?

A. Verify
B. Duplicate
C. Import
D. Rehydrate
Answer: D

115.An administrator discovers that backup images configured with a fixed two-week retention are failing
to expire.
What is a possible cause of this issue?
A. the disk pool containing the images is unavailable
B. secondary SLP operations on the images are incomplete
C. the tape containing the images is frozen
D. the disk storage unit is capacity-managed
Answer: B

116.An organization needs to have backups span between different BasicDisk storage units. The "Allow
backups to span disk" setting has been enabled in Host Properties.
Which additional requirement must an administrator meet to allow backups to span disks?
A. enable the "Enable standalone drive extension" setting in host properties
B. put the BasicDisk storage units in a storage unit group
C. create a disk pool with all the appropriate disk volumes
D. configure the Media Server as a Storage Server
Answer: B

117.How should an administrator limit the total number of backup or duplication jobs that write to or read
from an AdvancedDisk pool concurrently?
A. set the Maximum concurrent jobs value on the Disk Pool
B. set the Maximum I/O streams value on the Disk Storage Server

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C. set the Maximum I/O streams value on the Disk Pool

D. set the Maximum concurrent jobs value on the Disk Storage Server
Answer: C

118.The MSDP catalog on a Media Server has become corrupted.

Which two methods are available to bring the MSDP pool back online? (Select two.)
A. restore the MSDP catalog from the NetBackup catalog backup
B. recover the MSDP catalog from the 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 using the recoverCR tool
Answer: B, D

119.Which command is used to determine the state of an AdvancedDisk storage server?

A. nbdevconfig
B. nbdevquery
C. nbemmcmd
D. nbstserv
Answer: B

120.In the NetBackup Administration Console or Java console, how should an administrator change a
disk pool to down status?
A. Device Monitor > Disk Pools > right-click and select Down Disk Pool
B. Devices > Disk Pools > right-click and select Down Disk Pool
C. Credentials > Storage Servers > right-click and select Down Disk Pool
D. Media and Device Management > Devices > Disk Pools > right-click and select Down Disk Pool
Answer: A

121.Which disk backup method is unsupported with Media Server load balancing?
A. BasicDisk
B. Media Server Deduplication Pool
C. AdvancedDisk
D. OpenStorage
Answer: A

122.Which command should an administrator run to display all images written to both disk and tape for a
particular client?
A. bplist
B. bpimmedia
C. bpimage
D. bpstulist
Answer: B

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the storage lifecycle secondary processing?

A. bpimage
B. nbstlutil
C. nbstl
D. nbreplicate
Answer: A

124.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?
A. suspend the job and resume the job after changing the policy job priority
B. change the job priority for the job in the policy
C. increment the job priority in the activity monitor for the job
D. cancel the job and restart the job after changing the policy job priority
Answer: C

125.An administrator needs to duplicate a backup that completed successfully earlier that same day.
How can this be accomplished?
A. locate the original backup from NetBackup Management > Reports > Images on Media, right click and
select duplicate
B. locate the policy for the original backup and initiate a manual backup
C. locate the original backup in the activity monitor, right click and select restart
D. locate the original backup from NetBackup Management > Catalog, right click and select duplicate
Answer: D

126.An administrator has a scheduled policy that backs up 20 clients, each with multiple mount points and
multiple streams enabled. One of the jobs has failed and is in an Incomplete state.
How should the administrator verify the incomplete job runs prior to the next scheduled backup?
A. run a manual job for the client
B. resume the job
C. run a manual job for the mount point
D. resume the parent job
Answer: B

127.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.)
A. Schedule type for restores
B. Destination client for restores
C. Server to use for backups and restores
D. Media Server for backups and restores
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Answer: C, E

128.A NetBackup Master Server has many backups running each night to an MSDP pool that take a long
time to complete. While these backups are running, replication jobs are queued.
Which action should the administrator perform to ensure replications can occur without waiting for the
backups to complete?
A. increase the replication job priority
B. create a new disk storage unit to be used for replications
C. increase the maximum concurrent jobs for the disk storage unit
D. increase the maximum I/O streams for the disk pool
Answer: D

129.A file system on a server is corrupt and a restore is required. The system is being backed up using
True Image Restore with move detection enabled.
The most recent backups of this file system are displayed below.
- Monday: A full backup
- Tuesday: A differential incremental backup
- Wednesday: A cumulative incremental backup
- Thursday: A differential incremental backup
What is the minimum number of backup images that will be used to fully restore the server?
A. one
B. two
C. three
D. four
Answer: C

130.Which command can an administrator execute on a NetBackup client to measure backup

performance?
A. bpbkar
B. bptestnetconn
C. bpclntcmd
D. bpclient
Answer: A

131.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?
A. Status of Backups
B. Device Monitor
C. All Log Entries
D. Client Backups
Answer: C

132.Which status code applies only to disk storage units?

A. 129

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B. 86
C. 219
D. 2805
Answer: A

133.Backup jobs end with the following series of messages in the Job Details:
Error bpbrm(pid= ) db_FLISTsend failed: Unable to connect to the database (2505)
12/05/2013 15:39:45 - job 63389 was restarted as job 63390
Failed to get status code information (2505)
Which process is failing to respond?
A. nbjm
B. nbemm
C. bpdbm
D. bpbrm
Answer: C

134.Backups to a storage device fail with the following error message:

Disk storage is down (2106)
The storage server is an OpenStorage (OST) host, and the Master Server and Media Server are both
acting as Media Servers under Credentials > Storage Servers in the Administration Console. The disk
pool is in an Up state and the storage server is in a Down state. Troubleshooting confirmed the OST
plug-ins on the servers are mismatched.
Which command should an administrator use to check the plug-in version installed on the servers?
A. bpgetconfig
B. nbftconfig
C. nbdevquery
D. bpstsinfo
Answer: D

135.An administrator initiated a manual backup of clientA on master1. The backup failed with the
message:
client is offline(1000)
Which Host Properties setting should an administrator modify to resolve this issue?
A. Clients > clientA > Windows Client > Client Settings > Offline until
B. Clients > clientA > Universal Settings > Offline until
C. Master Servers > master1 > Client Attributes > clientA > General > Offline until
D. Master Servers > master1 > Client Attributes > clientA > Connect Options > Offline until
Answer: C

136.A VMware policy has been configured to back up a Linux virtual machine.
Which condition must be met to ensure all data is flushed from memory to disk?
A. SYMCquiesce utility must be installed
B. exclude swap and paging files must be unchecked
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D. VMware Tools services must be stopped

Answer: A

137.An administrator runs the following command on the Master Server to test connectivity to a client:
bptestbpcd -client clientA
The administrator receives the following message:
<16> bptestbpcd main: Function ConnectToBPCD (clientA) failed: 25 cannot connect on socket
Which two reasons may cause the error message? (Select two.)
A. an incorrect entry for the Master Server in the client's hosts file
B. the NetBackup processes on the client are stopped
C. the Master Server is unknown to the client
D. an incorrect entry for the client in the Master Server's hosts file
E. vnetd is stopped on the Master Server
Answer: B, D

138.A Windows 2008 R2 64-bit client backup job hung. The NetBackup administrator cancelled the job in
the Administration Console and restarted the NetBackup Client Service on the client. The administrator
initiated another backup of the client, and it also hung.
Which NetBackup client process should be terminated to allow new backups to occur?
A. bpcd
B. bpbkar
C. bpbkar32
D. bpbkar64
Answer: C

139.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?
A. The disk storage unit is full.
B. The tape device was listed first in the storage unit group.
C. The tape device was listed second in the storage unit group.
D. The disk storage unit is staging to tape.
Answer: B

140.Which NetBackup 8.0command is used to report the potential free space of AdvancedDisk storage
units?
A. nbdevquery
B. nbdevconfig
C. nbemmcmd
D. bpstsinfo
Answer: A

141.An administrator has backups failing with status code 96 due to tapes being prevented from returning
to the scratch volume pool after the images they contain expire.

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What prevented the media from returning to the scratch pool?

A. media was created in volume pools other than the scratch pool
B. media was in an off-site location
C. media was written with multiplexed images
D. an application other than NetBackup wrote to the media
Answer: A

142.What is the state of the catalog backup media after successful completion of a catalog recovery using
the Catalog Recovery Wizard?
A. Suspended
B. Active
C. Imported
D. Frozen
Answer: D

143.The Master Server catalog is being recovered to a new server. The administrator receives the
message displayed below:
Please insert the following media and run the volume configuration wizard
or the vmupdate command to update the NetBackup database.
Host - train1
MediaID - GBP847
Barcode - GBP847S1
In the Administration Console, barcode GBP847S1 is associated with media ID P847S1.
How should the administrator proceed?
A. use bplabel to change the media ID > re-inventory the library > perform recovery
B. use nbdelete to remove the media id > use vmadd to re-add the media id > re-inventory the library >
perform recovery
C. delete the tape > set the media ID generation rule accordingly > re-inventory the library > run recovery
D. delete the tape > set the barcode rule accordingly > re-inventory the library > run recovery
Answer: C

144.Which command can be used to recover the NBDB from the staging location?
A. bprecover
B. bprestore
C. nbdb_restore
D. nbdb_unload
Answer: C

145.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?
A. Add operation to add a new disk
B. scan operation to scan for new slot age
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D. Partitions operation to define the data partitions

Answer: B

146.An administrator received previously used media. The administrator inserted the media into the
library, ran a inventory, updated the volume configuration, and initiated a backup. The backup ran and
froze every tape that had been recently added.
Which NetBackup configuration must the administrator change to prevent this scenario from recurring?
A. assign the media to a volume pool
B. allow media overwrite
C. change the barcode tag
D. change the media ID generation rule
Answer: B

147.How should a NetBackup appliance administrator grant access to additional user's to enable running
NetBackup commands manually on the appliance using CLISH?
A. Main Menu > Support > Maintenance > elevate
B. Main Menu > Settings > Authentication > Import LDAP File
C. Main Menu > Manage > NetBackupCLI
D. Main Menu > Shell > Users
Answer: C

148.What causes a NetBackup appliance RAID controller to be in write-through mode for a data volume?
A. failure of a single Hard Disk drive
B. failure of the RAID controller battery
C. failure of one of the links to the storage
D. a RAID volume is in a degraded state
Answer: B

149.An administrator has downloaded a patch from the NetBackup appliance support website to a
Windows client. The administrator plans to move the patch to the appliance through a file share.
Accessing the \\<appliance-name>\incoming patches folder from the Windows client fails.
What does the administrator need to perform?
A. login to Windows as a NetBackupCLi user
B. install the Microsoft NFS Client package on the Windows client
C. use the share Open command in the CLISH
D. use the copy /k> command to join the split tar files
Answer: A

150.An administrator discovers that backup images configured with a fixed two-week retention are failing
to expire. What is a possible cause of this issue?
A. the disk pool containing the images is unavailable
B. secondary SLP operations on the images are incomplete
C. the tape containing the images is frozen
D. the tape containing the images is suspended

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Answer: B

151.In which two places can an administrator view the available space for a Media Server Deduplication
Pool? (Select two.)
A. Reports > Disk Reports > Images on Disk
B. Device Monitor > Disk Pools
C. Reports > Disk Reports > Disk Logs
D. Devices > Disk Pools
E. Reports > Disk Reports > Disk Pool Status
Answer: DE

152.On which system(s) is the NetBackup 8.0 UveUpdate agent installed by default?
A. Master Server only
B. Master Server and Media Server only
C. Master Server, Media Server, and client
D. Media Server and client only
Answer: C

153.Which interface is pre-configured with the 192.168.229.233 IP address?

A. lo
B. eth0
C. eth1
D. IPMI
Answer: B

154.Which bonding mode requires configuration on the network switch?

A. 802.3ad
B. active-backup
C. balance-alb
D. balance-rr
Answer: D

155.An administrator is configuring a new MSDP pool

4.5TB of internal storage
36TB external shelf 1
36TB external shelf 2
How should the administrator allocate storage to
on an appliance that contains:
ensure maximum performance?
A. assign only one external shelf to the new MSDP pool
B. assign both external shelves to the new MSDP pool
C. assign all internal and external storage to the new MSDP pool
D. assign one external shelf to the new MSDP pool as storage, and one external shelf as catalog.
Answer: D

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156.An administrator wants to receive emails regarding appliance configuration changes.

Which setting should the administrator configure to ensure email notifications from the appliances are
received properly?
A. Settings > Alerts > CallHome
B. Settings > Alerts > Email
C. Support > Email
D. Support > CallHome
Answer: B

157.What is the primary purpose of implementing load balancing Media Servers with Netbackup
appliances?
A. to distribute the deduplication storage and increase the overall capacity of the MSDP pool
B. to offload the deduplication processing and reduce the network impact on the appliance
C. to offload the deduplication processing and reduce the CPU and RAM requirement on the appliance
D. to distribute the deduplication processing and increase the rehydration performance when restoring
data
Answer: C

158.In a NetBackup environment with only appliances, there is a mixture of 1GbE and 10GbE networks
as well as Fibre channel SAN.
Which two performance tuning scenarios result in optimized backup throughput? (Select two.)
A. create a single bonded interface using all available interfaces, disable client-side deduplication
throughout the environment, and enable network resiliency to improve network throughput
B. create separate bonded interfaces from the available 1GbE and 10GbE interfaces and configure the
Fibre Transport Media Server option to back up busy application servers
C. create separate bonded interfaces from the available 1GbE and 10GbE interfaces, leverage network
resiliency, and enable WAN optimization to improve network throughput
D. create separate bonded interfaces from the available 1GbE and 10GbE interfaces and leverage
client-side deduplication for all suitable LAN based clients
E. create a single bonded interfaces from all the available interfaces and leverage client-side
deduplication for all suitable LAN based clients
Answer: B, D

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