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Veritas certification is a highly valuable and sought-after certification for IT professionals seeking to enhance their knowledge and expertise. VCS-278 exam is specifically designed to validate the skills required to configure and maintain the Veritas Certified Professional (VCP) platform, which is widely used by businesses around the world. These VCS-278 exam dumps questions are specifically designed to help you prepare for the exam by testing your knowledge and providing you with valuable insights into the types of questions that you will encounter. Test free Veritas VCS-278 exam questions below.

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1. What must be confirmed during an interactive installation or upgrade to ensure certificate deployment is secure?

the SHA1 fingerprint of the certificate authority (CA)

the Hostname of the master server

the admin/root password of the master server

the MD5 fingerprint of the certificate authority (CA)

2. A backup job fails with the status code of 96. To troubleshoot the failure, the administrator wants to view the application log files written by the NetBackup Resource Broker.

Which command should the administrator run to find the date, time and message text from the log file?

vxlogview -o 118 --display D,T,x

vxlogview -p 51216 -d m,p,x

vxlogview -o 118 --display D,T,m

vxlogview -p 50936 --display D,T,m

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

nbdb_restore

nbdb_admin

bprecover

bprestore

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

Volume

NBDB

Image

Class

Media

5. 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

6. When configuring a NBU-Catalog policy type, you must use a volume pool configured as a catalog backup pool.

False

True

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

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

ensure at least one storage unit is without the On Demand Only option selected.

increase the Multiplexing value on the Storage Unit.

increase the "Maximum concurrent jobs" parameter on the Storage Unit.

assign a specific Storage Unit for that policy.

increase the "Limit I/O streams" parameter on the disk volume.

8. 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.

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

nbstl

bpimmedia

bpimage

nbstlutil

10. When NetBackup makes more than one image copy simultaneously during the backup, it is called.

Simultaneous copy

Inline copy

Duplication copy

Storage life backup

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

Differences incremental

Differential incremental

Accumulation incremental

Cumulative incremental

12. Which security algorithms are used for MSDP in NetBackup 8.1.2?

AES encryption and SHA-2 fingerprinting

Blowfish encryption and MD5 fingerprinting

AES encryption and MD5 fingerprinting

Blowfish encryption and SHA-2 fingerprinting

13. Backup images that reside in an MSDP storage pool have been manually expired using bpexpdate.

Which step must an administrator perform to manually free the associated space in the storage pool?

run image cleanup on the media server that hosts the MSDP storage server.

run an inventory on the MSDP storage pool.

run content router queue processing on the media server that hosts the MSDP storage server.

run content router queue processing on the master server.

14. A volume is no longer used for backups if it is past its expiration data or has reached its maximum number of mounts.

False

True

15. Which schedule type is unsupported for a NetBackup catalog backup policy?

Full backup with an “After each backup session” schedule

Cumulative Incremental backup with an “After each backup session” schedule

Differential Incremental backup with a “Frequency” schedule

Differential Incremental backup with a “Calendar” schedule

16. By default, how often does NetBackup check for completed backups when determining if a duplication session should be started?

Immediately

30 seconds

5 minutes

1 minute

17. By default, restores can be initiated by an administrator from the Backup, Archive and Restore interface or by a user on a client machine.

False

True

18. 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

19. Which command can an administrator run to test and analyze connections between master servers, media servers, and clients for multiple NetBackup ports?

bperror

bpconfig

bpresolver

bptestnetconn

20. Which storage unit group selection causes NetBackup to choose the least recently selected storage unit in the list as each new job is started?

Prioritized

Failover

Round Robin

Media Server Load Balancing

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21. 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

22. Which two pools are created by default in the NetBackup? (Choose two.)

Default pool

Deduplication pool

Scratch pool

CatalogBackup pool

DataStore pool

23. 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?

The media was created in volume pools other than the scratch pool.

The media is in an off-site location.

The media was written with multiplexed images.

The media is in a Suspended state.

24. 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

25. Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is analyzing the NetBackup environment with a view to optimizing backup performance. The environment has been mapped according to the diagram shown below.

What should the maximum possible throughput be for all backup traffic directed to the disk storage unit once the performance analysis and tuning is complete?

100Mb/s

200Mb/s

90Mb/s

180Mb/s

26. Which storage unit type supports a staging schedule?

BasicDisk

PureDisk

AdvancedDisk

Cloud Storage

27. 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.

28. The NetBackup Resource Broker (NBRB) maintains resource requests for jobs that are queued.

Which two criteria does NBRB use to evaluate the resource requests and provide resources to each job sequentially? (Choose two.)

job priority

retention level

time when NBRB receives the request

data classification rank ID

date of last successful backup

29. 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.

30. What is the certificate deployment and management behavior when the security level is set to High?

Certificates are deployed automatically for known hosts and the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) is refreshed every 4 hours.

Certificates are deployed automatically for all hosts and the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) is refreshed every hour.

Certificates are deployed automatically for known hosts and the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) is refreshed every hour.

Certificates are deployed with a token for all hosts and the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) is refreshed every 4 hours.

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31. 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

32. An administrator must recover an expired image from a tape where only one remaining copy exists and there are other unexpired images on the tape.

How should the administrator locate the tape which contains the image?

run the Tape Contents report

run the Images on Tape report

run the Tape Summary report

33. Prior to initiating a restore, an administrator realizes that media needed for the restore was written by a server that is unavailable. The administrator does have another server that can perform the restore and that is connected to the same library.

Which two commands can the administrator perform to change the server ownership, so the restore can be performed? (Choose two.)

bpimage

bpimmedia

bpimagelist

bpmedia

bpimport

34. The master server catalog is being recovered to a new server.

The administrator receives the message displayed below:

In the NetBackup Administration Console, barcode GBP178S4 is associated with media ID P178S4.

How should the administrator proceed?

use bplabel to change the media ID > re-inventory the library > perform recovery

use nbdelete to remove the media id > use vmadd to re-add the media id > re-inventory the library > perform recovery

delete the tape > set the media ID generation rule accordingly > re-inventory the library > run recovery

delete the tape > set the barcode rule accordingly > re-inventory the library > run recovery

35. An administrator is experiencing a backup failure, which may be due to lack of connection between the media and master server.

The status of the media server is shown below: Media server showing offline

Which command can the administrator run to change the status of the media server?

bptestbpcd

nbdb_admin

nbemmcmd

bpminlicense

36. Which statement about Microsoft Exchange backups is true in NetBackup?

Individual mail messages can be restored.

Exchange must be shut down to be backed up consistently.

The entire Exchange database must be restored as a whole.

Individual Exchange mailboxes can be restored, but not individual messages.

37. A NetBackup environment suffers from intermittent network outages between the MSDP media server and clients during the backup window. This results in multiple backup failures.

How should an administrator overcome the backup failure issue?

configure client-side deduplication

increase the CR_STATS_TIMER interval

enable network resiliency

increase the client connect timeout

38. 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

39. 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, each server has no more than ten paths, and the overall performance of the disk storage unit is degraded.

Which setting should the administrator modify to ensure only ten jobs write concurrently to the disk storage unit during the backup window?

set the "Allow multiple data streams" policy attribute.

enable the "Limit Jobs per policy" attribute.

set the "Maximum jobs per client" host property.

enable multiplexing for the storage unit and set the value.

40. Which NetBackup components can be updated with VxUpdate?

media servers

media servers and master servers

clients

media servers and clients

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41. Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator has created a policy that has three new Full schedules as shown in the exhibit. All the schedules are set to run on Friday, from 0200 to 0600.

What is the order of priority for the schedules on Friday?

Full-Quarterly > Full-Monthly > Full-Weekly

Full-Weekly > Full-Monthly > Full-Quarterly

Full-Monthly > Full-Weekly > Full-Quarterly

Full-Quarterly > Full-Weekly > Full-Monthly

42. Which two actions should an administrator perform to ensure NetBackup will successfully erase a tape volume? (Choose two.)

ensure the volume is in the NetBackup Pool.

ensure the volume is unassigned.

ensure the volume has been deleted from inventory.

ensure the images for the volume have expired.

ensure the volume has been ejected from the library.

43. 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.

44. A disk pool is a.

Disk enclosure

None of the above

Logical grouping of media servers

Collection of disk volumes presented as a single entity

45. A NetBackup master server has commenced writing four long-running duplication jobs to an AdvancedDisk disk pool. The value of "Maximum concurrent jobs" for the storage unit and "Limit I/O streams" for the disk pool are both set to 4.

There are 35 jobs queued on the master server that require this disk pool: 5 replication jobs with priority 9999

10 backup jobs with priority 999

20 duplication jobs with priority 99

Two restore jobs that require this disk pool are then submitted with default priority.

Which job type goes active next?

Backup

Duplication

Replication

Restore

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

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

ltid

robots

bptm

vmd

47. Where is the option to allow communication with NetBackup 8.0 and earlier hosts without certificates?

NetBackup Administration Console > Security Management > Global Security Settings > Secure Communication tab.

NetBackup Administration Console > Host Properties > Master Servers > Access Control

NetBackup Administration Console > Host Properties > Master Servers > Firewall

NetBackup Administration Console > Security Management > Global Security Settings > Access Management

48. What happens if the “Maximum data streams” property is enabled in the General tab of Client Attributes for a particular client?

NetBackup ignores “Maximum concurrent jobs” per storage unit and uses either “Limit jobs per policy” or “Maximum data streams", whichever is lowest.

NetBackup ignores “Maximum jobs per client” and uses either “Maximum data streams” or “Limit jobs per policy", whichever is lowest.

NetBackup ignores “Maximum concurrent jobs” per storage unit and uses “Maximum jobs per client” or the “Limit jobs per policy”, whichever is lowest.

NetBackup ignores “Limit jobs per policy” and uses either “Maximum data streams” or “Maximum jobs per client”, whichever is lowest.

49. 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.

50. In which scenario is ''Use Accelerator" unavailable in a backup policy?

for VMware virtual machines with a Linux guest O

for virtual machines hosted on a Hyper-V Host using WM

for a NetApp NDMP filer.

for an Exchange database availability group (DAG).

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

an OpsCenter Server

a media server

a master server

an Appliance Management Server

52. A file system on a server that has different files changing daily becomes corrupt, and a restore is required. The system is being backed up using True Image Restore with move detection enabled.

The most recent backups of this file system are displayed below:

✑ Monday: A full backup

✑ Tuesday: A differential incremental backup

✑ Wednesday: A cumulative incremental backup

✑ Thursday: A differential incremental backup

✑ Friday: A differential incremental backup

What is the minimum number of backup images that will be used to fully restore the server to its most current state?

one

two

three

four

five

53. Which feature is unavailable for all NetBackup cloud providers when configuring cloud storage using the Cloud Storage Server Configuration wizard?

Compression

Encryption

Spanning volumes

Use Secure Sockets Layer

54. An administrator has a MS-Windows type policy that has failed for a Microsoft Windows NetBackup client. The policy uses the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES backup selection.

See the extract from the end of the job details below:

Which two logs will provide the most relevant information for troubleshooting and resolving the error? (Choose two.)

Operating system logs on the client

NetBackup bpfis logs on the media server

NetBackup bptm logs on the media server

Operating system logs on the media server

NetBackup bpfis logs on the client

55. A BasicDisk storage unit is 500GB and is running out of space.

The disk and file system is resized to 800GB.

What must occur to use this new disk space?

Initiate a backup operation to the BasicDisk storage unit.

Restart the Disk Manager (bpdm) process.

Run bpstsinfo to update the high water mark.

Run nbdevquery to refresh the disk inventory.

56. What if the definition of a Storage Unit?

It is a label that lets the administrator create a storage plan.

It is a label that the Media Manager associates with physical storage.

It is a label that defines where storage is physically located.

It is a label that NetBackup associates with physical storage.

57. Which feature is compatible with the NBU-Catalog policy type?

Disable client-side deduplication

Bare Metal Restore

Checkpoint restart

Enable granular recovery

58. To reduce network use by limiting the number of parallel backup streams, which cloud setting should be modified under the Scalable Storage host property?

Metering > Metering interval

Network Connections > Maximum concurrent jobs

Throttling > Total available bandwidth

Throttling > Sampling interval

59. 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

60. Refer to the exhibit.

The following Storage Lifecycle Policy was used to back up data from a client. All duplication jobs have completed, and none of the backups have expired.

How should an administrator restore data from the tape using NetBackup?

from the BAR console, select the tape backup to restore from.

from the NetBackup Administration Console, promote copy 1 to the primary copy.

from the NetBackup Administration Console, promote copy 2 to the primary copy.

from the BAR console, start the restore and NetBackup will automatically select the tape copy.

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61. A backup image on tape is due to expire in one week. The administrator needs to keep the image available for restore indefinitely.

Which two methods can be used to accomplish this goal? (Choose two.)

use the bpexpdate command to change the expiration date of the image

use the bpretlevel command to customize the retention level

use the bpmedia command to suspend the tape

use the bpduplicate command to create a copy with an infinite retention

use the vmchange command to set the tape to never expire

62. An image of the volume past is expiration date or has reached its maximum number of mounts is no longer available for restores.

True

False

63. How is the expiration date of an imported image determined during an import?

by using the original backup date plus infinity.

by using the original backup date plus the original retention.

by using the import date plus seven years.

by using the import date plus the original retention.

64. 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.

65. A peername file needs to be created for a client to perform redirected restores.

What is the name of the directory where the peername file needs to be created on a master?

clients

config

images

altnames

66. 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?

The disk pool containing the images is unavailable.

Secondary SLP operations on the images are incomplete.

The tape containing the images is frozen.

The tape containing the images is suspended.

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