Veritas VCS-278 Dumps Help To Clear The VCS-278 Exam

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The VCS-278 Administration of Veritas NetBackup 8.1.2 exam is a challenging certification test for professionals who work with Veritas NetBackup software. To pass this exam, candidates need to have a deep understanding of these topics, as well as hands-on experience working with NetBackup. Using Veritas VCS-278 dumps can help candidates prepare for the exam by providing them with practice questions and answers that mirror the real exam. These VCS-278 dumps cover all the exam topics and are updated regularly to reflect changes in the exam format and content. By practicing with these Veritas VCS-278 dumps, candidates can identify their strengths and weaknesses, build their confidence, and improve their chances of passing the exam on the first try.

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1. To support spanning backups in basic disk storage unit groups, what needs to be performed?

Enable unrestricted media sharing, in the host properties.

Configure the storage unit selection: Spanning.

Allow backups to span disks, in the host properties.

Ensure each basic disk storage unit is configured on a separate media server.

2. Which incremental schedule type generates more files per backup?

Differences incremental

Differential incremental

Accumulation incremental

Cumulative incremental

3. An 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 host property must be configured to enable the backup job from all clients to run concurrently?

Policy storage unit > Maximum concurrent jobs

Global Attributes > Maximum jobs per client

Client Attributes > Maximum data streams

Policy storage unit > Enable multiplexing

4. Which command should an administrator use to show a list of incomplete copies of lifecycle managed images?

nbstl

bpimmedia

bpimage

nbstlutil

5. After creating a NBU-Catalog type backup policy, an administrator receives the following message:

Which two options are available to the administrator to ensure the DR file is available for future use? (Choose two.)

ensure the folder DR file is on a non-root volume.

ensure the DR file is created on a volume other than the NetBackup volume.

ensure the NetBackup catalog is on a non-root volume.

configure a valid email address of the administrator in the "Send email" option.

configure Auto Image Replication to send the DR file to a remote master server.

6. Which command is used by VxUpdate to upgrade clients?

vmupdate

nbrepo

nbinstallcmd

nbhostmgmt

7. An administrator needs to back up Windows and Linux file servers to an Advanced Disk storage unit targeting a high speed disk array. Backup traffic shares a busy network with mission critical application traffic.

Which feature can the administrator implement to optimize this backup environment?

network resiliency

client-side deduplication

NetBackup Accelerator

Synthetic backups

8. An administrator has created a new policy to back up Windows clients, and has created a single automatic schedule. On the scheduled date, the administrator notices that the backup job fails to launch automatically as expected.

Which debug log file should the administrator view to determine why the backup job failed to launch?

nbpem

nbjm

nbrb

nbemm

9. Which port is used by Smart Meter?

443

1556

10. Which characteristic applies to a catalog backup?

Catalog staging files deleted after a successful catalog backup.

A catalog backup can be configured to send disaster recovery information to an e-mail address.

A catalog backup must fit on a single tape.

A catalog backup shuts down the NetBackup database.

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11. Which command should an administrator use to view the expiry date of the local host-ID based certificate?

nbcertcmd ClistCertDetails

nbcertcmd ChostSelfCheck

nbcertcmd ClistCACertDetails

bpclntcmd -self

12. What should be selected as the source in the BAR console for a restore of individual files backed up using a VMware policy?

The hostname of the V

The media server that backed the client up.

The VMware backup host that performed the backup.

The identifier for the VM used in the VMware policy.

13. What is device serialization?

A method of reporting device errors to NetBackup.

A separate interface used to configure standalone tape drives.

The order in which devices are configured by the wizard.

A firmware feature that enables device identification and configuration.

14. Where in the NetBackup Administration Console should an administrator look to determine whether an AdvancedDisk storage server is configured?

NetBackup Management > Storage

Media and Device Management > Device Monitor

Media and Device Management > Devices

Media and Device Management > Credentials

15. Storage Lifecycle Policy (SLP) 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?

reduce the "Job submission interval" setting to 0.

reduce the "Minimum size per duplication job" setting to 50M

right-click SLP1 and select Manual Relocation to Final Destination.

increase the "Priority for secondary operations" in the SL

16. Which method is NOT able to provide performance information for previously run backup jobs?

running the All Log Entries report.

running nbperfchk on the command line.

viewing the detailed status of the job details in the Activity Monitor.

viewing the Disk & Tape Device Activity Reports in OpsCenter.

17. An administrator is comparing the NetBackup Accelerator and NetBackup 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 NetBackup FlashBackup in the situation?

the file system change rate.

the file system storage capacity.

the type of file system being used.

the file system folder depth.

18. An AdvancedDisk storage unit consistently reaches capacity, causing older, staged backups to expire.

How can the administrator control the prioritization of images that get removed?

change the priority for secondary storage lifecycle operations.

use Data Classification.

change the priority of relocation jobs in the staging schedule.

modify Retention Levels.

19. Which is not valid media state?

Suspended

Full

Empty

Frozen

20. 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?

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

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

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

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

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21. Where are the NetBackup track logs located by default when backing up a NetApp filer using the NDMP policy type with NetBackup Accelerator enabled?

on a NetBackup client

on the NetApp filer

on a user defined network share

on the NetBackup master and media server

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

data on the master server is validated with data in the NetBackup catalog

data on the client is validated with data in the NetBackup catalog

data on the backup storage is validated with data in the NetBackup catalog

data on the client and the backup storage is validated with data in the NetBackup catalog

23. What is the Certificate Authority (CA) for NetBackup?

an OpsCenter Server

a media server

a master server

an Appliance Management Server

24. What is in the Backup Selections list for an Oracle backup policy?

The device names or drive letters of the disks

The file names of all files using by Oracle

The file names of the transaction logs

A script to be interpreted by Oracle

25. Which action is performed by the NetBackup deduplication plug-in?

writing data segments into the MSDP containers.

processing MSDP transaction logs.

performing file fingerprinting actions.

performing queue processing.

26. 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?

Vault with Catalog Backups

Auto Image Replication

Optimized Duplication

Replication Director

27. Which command should an administrator use to generate a list of all files backed up on a client for a specific backup job?

bpimage

bplist

bpimagelist

bpdbjobs

28. 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?

remove the client from the Restore Failover list in the master server host properties.

modify the auth.conf file on the master server to exclude the line: * ADMIN=JBP JBP=ENDUSER+BU+AR

de-select the "Allow server file writes" parameter in the master server host properties in client attributes.

de-select the "Allow client restore" parameter in the master server host properties in client attributes.

29. 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.

Which setting must the administrator modify to allow successful restores?

from the master server, run bpimage to change the host name of the media server from mediaA to mediaB

set “Enable unrestricted media sharing for all media servers” in the master server host properties in the Media section

in the BAR console, change the “Server to use for backup and restores” setting to mediaB

verify both media servers are set up in the master server host properties in the “Restore Failover” section

30. 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?

vnetd

bprd

nbemm

nbrb

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31. Refer to the exhibit.

A backup policy uses a Full backup schedule with a schedule type of Frequency: 1 day.

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 will the next backup run, if all prior backups completed successfully?

Friday at 2:00

Friday at 10:00

Monday at 2:00

Monday at 1:00

32. 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? (Choose two.)

Verify that the nbemm and pbx_exchange daemons/services are running on the master server.

Telnet from the master server to the media server's VNETD port.

Verify that network access to the master server is available.

Remove the media server name from the additional servers list on the master server.

Run the bpclntcmd -hn command on the master server to confirm that the master server was able to resolve its own hostname.

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

Volume

NBDB

Image

Class

Media

34. 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?

suspend the job and resume the job after changing the policy job priority

change the job priority for the job in the policy

increment the job priority in the Activity Monitor for the job

change the job order in the job hierarchy

35. 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 to use the same characters that were used before the firmware upgrade?

update the Media ID Generation setting

update Media settings

update the device mapping files

update the Barcode Rules setting

36. Backups can be initiated by many methods.

Which method does not apply?

As a user scheduled backup.

Manually from the command line.

Manually from the NetBackup Administration Console.

Automatically, based on a policy schedule.

37. During a catalog backup, the NBDB and configuration files are backed up directly to the storage unit.

True

False

38. Which statement is correct?

You can read NetBackup unified logs using vxlogview.

You can read NetBackup logs in the NetBackup Administration Console.

You can read NetBackup legacy logs using vxlogview.

You can read NetBackup logs in OpsCenter.

39. Which type of backup schedule is available when using the "After each backup session" schedule type for an NBU-Catalog policy type?

Full

Differential Incremental

Vault Catalog Backup

Application Backup

40. 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?

Queues and then initiates job to STU-

Fails with a status code 219: Required storage unit is unavailable.

Queues and waits for STU-A to become available.

Fails over and writes backups to STU-

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41. What are considerations in data protection planning?

Retention periods

Backup window availability

All of the above

Maximizing the availability of data

Protecting systems and applications

42. Several clients in the same network experience consistent, short-term network failures. The clients are sending data to a media server using a storage unit group. The network failures are causing job failures.

Which setting reduces the job failures in this situation?

the Preferred Network master server host property

the Resilient Network master server host property

the Failover attribute in a storage unit group

the Throttle Bandwidth master server host property

43. An administrator configures a default Standard file 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 after failures?

configure the '"Take checkpoints every" policy setting.

increase the "Job retry delay" host property setting.

use the "Resume Job" action instead of "Restart Job".

increase the "Client connect timeout" host property setting.

44. 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?

increase the “Maximum concurrent jobs” for the MSDP storage unit

increase the size of the MSDP disk pool on the storage server

add load balancing media servers for the storage server

increase the “Job priority” on the MSDP backup policy

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

Disk storage server 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 NetBackup 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?

bpgetconfig

nbemmcmd

nbdevquery

bpstsinfo

46. What are the minimal policy directive(s) to ensure all components of a Windows server system are protected when performing a backup?

ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and System State:

ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and Shadow Copy Components:

ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES

ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and System State: and Shadow Copy Components:

47. A NetBackup policy is configured to back up the following paths for a client:

Multi-streaming is enabled for the backups, and multiplexing is set to 4. Backup streams are running slowly.

Which step should the administrator consider to improve backup performance?

increase the multiplexing level.

back up only one stream from each physical device on the client.

disable multistreaming.

increase the number of data buffers.

48. Which two have a media and/or density type? (Choose two.)

volume pools

media set

drives

robots

49. How can an administrator determine the storage and database paths for an MSDP?

run the Configure Disk Storage Server wizard for the MSD

view Storage Unit > View Properties for the MSDP storage unit.

view Disk Pool > Disk volumes for the MSDP disk pool.

view Storage Server > Properties for the storage server.

50. Where can an administrator configure cloud storage throttling?

NetBackup Management > Host Properties > Media Servers > Scalable Storage

NetBackup Management > Host Properties > Master Servers > Scalable Storage

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

NetBackup Management > Host Properties > Clients > Scalable Storage

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51. Which data is restored if the restore file is a symbolic link?

the link file object and the data contained in it

the link file object and the linked file

the file that the link points to

the link file object

52. In which two locations within the NetBackup Administration Console can an administrator monitor the progress of active restore tasks? (Choose two.)

Backup, Archive, and Restore > Restore Files tab

View > Options in the taskbar

Backup, Archive, and Restore > Task Progress tab

NetBackup Management > Catalog > Results tab

Activity Monitor > Jobs tab

53. A tape containing valid backup images is damaged and is unusable. The administrator removes the tape from the robot to avoid trying to use it again for backup or restore operations.

Which two tasks should the administrator perform next? (Choose two.)

Label the damaged tape.

Delete the damaged tape.

Move the damaged tape to the scratch pool.

Expire all the backup images located on the damaged tape.

54. An administrator navigates to NetBackup Management > Catalog, and selects Action: Import.

After clicking the Search Now button, the following message appears:

Which step must the administrator perform in order to get search results?

increase the "Catalog cleanup wait time" in the Clean-up host property

run the "Recover the catalogs" wizard

enable Catalog > Override default priority, and increase the Job Priority value

run the Initiate Import command in the Catalog > Action menu

55. An administrator has a scheduled policy that 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 state in the Activity Monitor.

How should the administrator verify the incomplete job runs prior to the next scheduled backup?

run a manual job for the client

resume the job

run a manual job for the mount point

resume the parent job

56. Which action does the DISALLOW_SERVER_FILE_WRITES in a Client's configuration perform?

It blocks restores from being initiated from the master server.

It prohibits the administrator from performing a client restore.

It prohibits the client from writing a backup without asking for permission.

It blocks the administrator from redirecting restores to another client.

57. Exclude dates are not available in frequency-based schedules.

False

True

58. What is the maximum age of the host's Certificate Revocation List (CRL) before communication with the host is prevented?

48 hours

5 days

7 days

30 days

59. From where is the Cleanup Wizard for Instant Recovery launched?

From the NetBackup Administration Console

From the vSphere Client for Windows

From the NetBackup Plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client

From the command line on the NetBackup Master Server

60. An administrator has a Synthetic backup that fails with a status code 1, and the error message: No images were found to synthesize (607)

Which steps should the administrator take to determine why the backup failed?

check the policy backup selection list.

check the schedule's Storage Unit for compatibility.

check the policy schedules.

check the client attributes in Host Properties.

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61. When troubleshooting backup operation issues, which status code indicates that the start window was closed?

196

62. 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 greyed out and therefore unable to be selected.

What must the administrator do to the policy to make the Synthetic backup option available for selection?

create a differential or cumulative incremental backup schedule.

select a backup destination that supports synthetic backups.

enable Collect true image restore information with move detection.

create a full backup schedule with Accelerator forced rescan enabled.

63. A restore using the Java BAR is being attempted. Care has been taken to select the appropriate source client, but no backup image content is displayed.

What could be a reason for this to happen?

All of the above.

The wrong policy type has been specified.

The date range is incorrect.

The path does not exist in the images that have been selected.

64. What is the state of the catalog backup media after successful completion of a catalog recovery using the Catalog Recovery Wizard?

Suspended

Active

Imported

Frozen

65. Which two media status destinations are excluded in the count against maximum number of partially full media? (Choose two.)

Imported

Active

MPX

Multi-Retlev

Frozen

66. To which VMware component does the backup host require direct access for SAN backups?

Datastore

VMware tools

vCenter server

vStorage API

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