Veritas Veritas Certifications VCS-256 Questions & Answers

• Question 71:

  An administrator is evaluating the suitability of an application to be clustered using Veritas InfoScale Availability. Which condition prevents the application from being made highly available?

  A. The application requires the use of solid state drives for performance.

  B. The application requires multiple systems accessing shared data simultaneously.

  C. The application has a dependency on the host name of the system on which it is running.

  D. After a crash, the automated clean-up takes at least one minute before the application can be restarted.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 72:

  Due to a high security risk, a mandatory shutdown of Ethernet switches is scheduled in a data center where the switches are used for two private heartbeat links on a local cluster. A low-priority heartbeat link, which has been configured over a public interface, is unaffected by the shutdown. I/O fencing is disabled.

  Which cluster behavior is expected when the private switches are both shut down for the upgrade?

  A. All nodes in the cluster panic.

  B. The cluster remains online, but the service groups go offline.

  C. Private cluster communications are rerouted over the public network.

  D. The service groups go into ADMIN-WAIT state.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 73:

  What happens when a split-brain occurs and I/O fencing is disabled?

  A. All nodes are placed in jeopardy membership.

  B. All service groups are autodisabled.

  C. Nodes on each side of the split try to bring service groups online.

  D. Any available network interface is automatically added as an LLT link.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 74:

  What are two resource types that Proxy resources can reference? (Select two.)

  A. NIC

  B. IP

  C. Mount

  D. DNS

  E. ElifNone

  Correct Answer: AB

  Reference: https://origin-download.veritas.com/resources/content/live/DOCUMENTATION/5000/DOC5881/en_US/vcs_bundled_agents_601_lin.pdf

• Question 75:

  An administrator needs to set up a three-node cluster with the following characteristics:

  The cluster manages an application that depends on a database.

  The application and database can be online on the same or a different node.

  If the database faults, the application must continue to be online.

  Which type of service group dependency should be created to ensure this behavior?

  A. online global soft, where the application is the parent

  B. online global soft, where the database is the parent

  C. online global firm, where the application is the parent

  D. online global firm, where the database is the parent

  Correct Answer: A

  Reference: https://sort.veritas.com/public/documents/sf/5.0/hpux11iv3/html/vcs_users/ch_vcs_group_dependencies6.html

• Question 76:

  An administrator wants to make a single instance Oracle database highly available and take advantage of Veritas Cluster File System. Which solution should the administrator deploy?

  A. InfoScale Enterprise

  B. InfoScale Availability

  C. InfoScale Storage

  D. InfoScale Foundation and InfoScale Availability

  Correct Answer: C

  Reference: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/129688893-129688896-0/uxrt-731_v59732780-129688896

• Question 77:

  The administrator of a four-node Veritas cluster has configured notifications as highly available for all notification methods. How many notification manager resources are running when all nodes are considered?

  A. only one

  B. one for each ServiceGroup

  C. one for each node

  D. two resources (one for SMTP, one for SNMP)

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 78:

  Which two standard Veritas Cluster Server resource types can determine if an application is taken offline unexpectedly outside the cluster's control? (Select two.)

  A. Process

  B. FileOnOnly

  C. CoordPoint

  D. Application

  E. Phantom

  Correct Answer: AE

• Question 79:

  Which log can an administrator review to determine why a resource failed to come online?

  A. /etc/VRTSvcs/conf/config/main_A.log

  B. /var/VRTSvcs/log/messages_A.log

  C. /var/VRTSvcs/log/resources_A.log

  D. /var/VRTSvcs/log/engine_A.log

  Correct Answer: D

  Reference: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100010472

• Question 80:

  What is the primary benefit of implementing the Intelligent Monitoring Framework feature for resources?

  A. monitoring of cluster-to-cluster heartbeat

  B. monitoring of Virtual machines

  C. immediate notification of resource state change

  D. monitoring application outside cluster configuration

  Correct Answer: C

  Reference: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100013636