Veritas Veritas Certifications VCS-278 Questions & Answers

• Question 31:

  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, 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 master 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

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 32:

  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. vmd

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 33:

  How can an administrator check deduplication ratios in the NetBackup Administration Console, apart from the Activity Monitor?

  A. NetBackup Management > Storage > Storage Units

  B. Media and Device Management > Devices > Disk Pools

  C. NetBackup Management > Host Properties > Media Servers

  D. Media and Device Management > Credentials > Storage Servers

  Correct Answer: D

  Reference: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/25074086-127355784-0/v28802759-127355784

• Question 34:

  Where can an administrator configure cloud storage throttling?

  A. NetBackup Management > Host Properties > Media Servers > Scalable Storage

  B. NetBackup Management > Host Properties > Master Servers > Scalable Storage

  C. NetBackup Management > Storage > Storage Unit > Properties of the cloud storage unit

  D. NetBackup Management > Host Properties > Clients > Scalable Storage

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 35:

  An administrator has an environment with four media servers connected to a single cloud storage server. The environment has ten application servers and 50 file and print servers that need to be backed up to the same cloud storage.

  How can the administrator ensure that the application servers have prioritized access to the cloud storage?

  A. add more media servers to the cloud storage server

  B. enable NetBackup Accelerator for the high priority clients

  C. configure separate storage units for the high and low priority clients

  D. configure Throttling in Scalable Storage settings

  Correct Answer: C

  Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/priority-queue

• Question 36:

  Which steps should an administrator perform to run an upgrade pre-check for multiple Windows and Linux clients using VxUpdate, without performing the upgrade?

  A. run a pre-check for each client manually using the nbinstallcmd command

  B. configure the pre-check to run for all clients concurrently in Deployment Policies > Schedules

  C. run a pre-check for each client manually using the nbrepo command

  D. configure the pre-check to run for all clients concurrently in Deployment Policies > Attributes

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 37:

  An administrator wishes to configure a backup for VMware clients using NetBackup Accelerator using third-party OST storage. The clients are running Windows as the guest OS.

  Which step must the administrator perform to ensure the backup completes successfully?

  A. ensure the hardware shows Accel_VMware as a supported feature in the Hardware Compatibility List

  B. enable the NTFS or ReFS change journal for the file systems in the virtual machine

  C. create at least one backup policy schedule with the Accelerator forced rescan option

  D. create the client track log by restarting the NetBackup Client Service after saving the policy

  Correct Answer: C

  Reference: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/18716246-126559472-0/v64001338-126559472

• Question 38:

  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 queued 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. change the job order in the job hierarchy

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 39:

  An administrator is experiencing a communication issue between the master and client and believes the certificate might be revoked.

  Which log can the administrator view to analyze a certificate issue?

  A. vnetd

  B. bprd

  C. nbemm

  D. nbrb

  Correct Answer: D

  Reference: https://sort.veritas.com/DocPortal/pdf/ka6j00000000A9lAAE

• Question 40:

  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

  Correct Answer: C