Veritas Certification Sample Exam

Veritas NetBackup 10.x Administrator

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ANSWERS ............................................................................................................................................................. 5

Sample Questions

1. An administrator needs to enable the media server to detect backup anomalies. To do this, the administrator needs to copy the
NB_Anomaly.db file from the anomaly_detection folder on the primary server to the anomaly_detection folder on the media
server.

On which path can the administrator locate the anomaly_detection folder in the primary server?

a. /usr/openv/netbackup/dbext
b. /usr/openv/netbackup/ext/dbext
c. /usr/openv/netbackup/db
d. /usr/openv/var/global

2. Which type of workload assets are supported for malware scan?

a. Cloud
b. Apache Cassandra
c. VMware
d. AHV

3. What is the default value for the data-in-transit encryption setting on the primary server after an upgrade to NetBackup 10.0?

a. Preferred On
b. Enforced
c. Preferred Off
d. Automatic

4. What is the default value of the SLP.MIN_SIZE_PER_REPLICATION_JOB Storage Lifecycle Policy (SLP) parameter?

a. 2 GB
b. 4 GB
c. 6 GB
d. 8 GB

5. What is the default value of Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) mode in NetBackup?

a. Enabled
b. Disabled
c. Active
d. Inactive

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6. Which command should an administrator use to enable Intelligent Catalog Archiving (ICA)?

a. bpconfig
b. bparchive
c. bpsetconfig
d. bpclient

7. Which servers are listed when selecting the client package during the creation of a new deployment policy?

a. only media servers

b. media servers and client servers
c. only client servers
d. media servers and primary servers

8. An administrator is using Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLP) to perform the following operations:

• back up to a local Advanced Disk pool

• duplicate to a local MSDP pool
• replicate to an off-site MSDP pool
• duplicate to an off-site tape library which needs to be retained for three years

Which retention type should the administrator select for the SLP import operation?

a. Expire after copy

b. Fixed
c. Capacity Managed
d. Target Retention

9. How should an administrator enable client-side deduplication for specific clients of a policy?

a. set "Disable client-side deduplication" on the policy, and select "Prefer to use client-side deduplication" in the Client
Attributes host properties
b. set "Disable client-side deduplication" on the policy, and select "Always use client-side deduplication" in the Client
Attributes host properties
c. unset "Disable client-side deduplication" on the policy, and select "Always use the media server" in the Client
Attributes host properties
d. unset "Disable client-side deduplication" on the policy, and select "Prefer to use client-side deduplication" in the Client
Attributes host properties

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

a. a text file with the NetBackup key

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

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

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

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

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

SSD1, SSD2: High-speed solid state drives

Disk3, Disk4: Medium-speed hard drives

What is the recommended disk storage configuration using these devices?

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

13. 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, assuming there are enough storage resources to
handle the expected jobs?

a. 3
b. 4
c. 12
d. 15

14. 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.

15. 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. configure multiplexing
c. enable the Use Accelerator policy attribute
d. use Flashbackup-Windows policy type

16. A backup job is showing the following error message:

Dec 5, 2018 4:11:02 PM - Info nbjm (pid=40455) starting backup job (jobid=369) for client WIN-
TN3QANTSQ1B.vrtslab.br, policy Oracle_SO_Dedup, schedule FULL
Dec 5, 2018 4:11:02 PM -
Info nbjm (pid=40455) requesting STANDARD_RESOURCE resources from RB for backup job (jobid=369, reque
st id:{201EBB46-F8B9-11E8-B5BA-A118CF05FA8E})
Dec 5, 2018 4:11:02 PM - requesting resource __ANY__

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 Dec 5, 2018 4:11:02 PM - requesting resource nbumasterapp.vrtslab.br.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.WIN-
TN3QANTSQ1B.vrtslab.br
Dec 5, 2018 4:11:02 PM -
Error nbjm (pid=40455) NBU status: 2111, EMM status: All storage units are configured with On Demand Onl
y and are not eligible for jobs requesting ANY storage unit
All storage units are configured with On Demand Only and are not eligible for jobs requesting ANY storage
unit (2111)

Which two actions can an administrator perform to ensure the backup completes successfully? (Select two.)

a. ensure at least one storage unit is without the On Demand Only option selected
b. increase the Multiplexing value on the Storage Unit
c. increase the "Maximum concurrent jobs" parameter on the Storage Unit
d. assign a specific Storage Unit for that policy
e. increase the "Limit I/O streams" parameter on the disk volume

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

Which log must be enabled to determine why the tapes are frozen?

a. ltid
b. robots
c. bptm
d. vmd

18. Which default RBAC role is unable to provide any job level access to users?

a. Default VMware Administrator

b. Default Cloud Administrator
c. Default AHV Administrator
d. Default Universal Share Administrator

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

a. Default Universal Share Administrator Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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