VCS-272 Online Practice Questions and Answers

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

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

A. nbdevquery

B. tpext

C. bpmedia

D. tpconfig

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

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:\

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

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

Which capability is provided by rebasing in an MSDP storage pool?

A. garbage collection

B. integrity checking

C. backup image defragmentation

D. image deletion

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

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 compression

B. use Accelerator

C. use change journal

D. use client-side deduplication

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 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

Which command can an administrator execute on a NetBackup client to measure backup performance?

A. bpbkar

B. bptestnetconn

C. bpclntcmd

D. bpclient

Which status code applies only to disk storage units?

A. 129

B. 86

C. 219

D. 2805

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.

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

Which command can be used to recover the NBDB from the staging location?

A. bprecover

B. bprestore

C. nbdb_restore

D. nbdb_unload