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1. How can an administrator copy an existing backup image of client1.example.com from an Advanced Disk storage unit to a Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP)?

2. An administrator has a backup policy with the following attributes:

Allow multiple data streams is selected

Max Jobs per Client value set to 4

How many jobs go Active when the job is started, excluding parent jobs?

3. How can an administrator determine the storage and database paths for a Media Server Deduplication Pool?

4. Which command can an administrator run to test and analyze connections between master servers, media servers, and clients for multiple Net Back up ports?

5. A Netbackup environment suffers from intermittent network outages between the Media Server Drduplication Pool (MSOP) media server and clients during the backup window. This results in multiple backup failures.

Mow should an administrator overcome the backup failure issue?

6. An administrator needs to store secure tape copies of protected data to an offsite location.

How can the administrator automatically eject tape media daily and create detailed reports?

7. Some NetBackup jobs are affected by the failure of a disk in an Advanced Disk pool, but the jobs are unavailable to view in the Activity Monitor.

In which two places can the administrator view Net Backup jobs affected by the disk failure? (Select two.)

8. An administrator has a scheduled policy has a scheduled policy 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 slate in the Activity Monitor.

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

9. 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? (Select two.)

10. Refer to the exhibit.

A backup job configured with a retention level of 2 and Policy volume pool set to the server_tapes is failing due to Status Code 96: Unable to allocate media for backup. See the output of the available_media command below:

Which task in the NetBackup Administration Console should the administrator perform to resolve the status code 96 error?

11. Winch backup storage is unsupported with media server load balancing?

12. Which two storage unit types can be configured in NetBackup? (Select two.)

13. 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?

14. Storage life-cycle policy 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?

15. An administrator configures a default Standard die 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 alter failures?

16. 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 unable to be selected.

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

17. An administrator is preparing to perform disaster recovery for many clients whose backups are stored on multiplexed tapes.

Which host property should the administrator modify, prior to the restores, to ensure the best recovery time?

18. Backup images that reside In an MSDP storage pool have been manually expired using bpexpdate. Which step must fin administrator perform to manually free the associated space in the storage pool?

19. Which configuration file should an administrator modify to enable local fingerprint caching on a Netbackup MSDP client?

20. 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?

21. Which two appliance performance scenarios benefit from seeding the MSDP pool? (Select two.)

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

23. What is the purpose of the Login and Password settings in the Disaster Recovery tab of a Net Backup catalog backup policy?

24. Which type of backup schedules ore available when using the After each backup session schedule type for an NBU-Catalog policy type?

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

26. 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?

27. Weekly full backups run for client A on maeter1 using a storage unit that belongs to medial. The administrator is required to retain client A’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?

28. An administrator has a job that has failed. See the contents of the Job's Detailed Status tab from the NetBackup Activity Monitor provided below:

What may be the cause for the failure?

29. A NetBackup Master Server has commenced writing four long-running duplication jobs on 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?

30. 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?

31. An administrator has a master server running over 50,000 jobs per day.

What can the administrator do to reduce the load on the master server?

32. Where in the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface for Microsoft Windows can an administrator define the source and destination client for a restore job?

33. Refer to the exhibit.

What is the outcome of the policy shown in the exhibit?

34. 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?

35. An administrator is comparing the NetBackup Accelerator and Net Back up 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 Net Back up FlashUackup in the situation?

36. 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?

37. Which two options are available to an administrator to bung the Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) catalog back online in the case of a hardware problem that caused corruption? (Select two.)

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

39. Refer to the exhibit.

Two media servers, sharing a library with 10 tape drives, exist in the NetBackup 8.0environment displayed in the exhibit. Both weekly full and daily differential incremental backups need to run for the clients and each schedule has a different retention period. Because of network topology, some clients back up to Media Server 1 and some back up to Media Server 2. The environment suffers from multiple status 96 failures during the backup window.

How can the administrator minimize the number of failures?

40. Which two Net Backup features are available to protect the Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) catalog? (Select two.)

41. 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 in the Host Properties must the administrator modify to allow successful restores?

42. By using the robot front panel, an operator ejects media 000001 from robot TLD(1) and inserts it into robot TLD(2).

Neither robot has a barcode reader.

Which two actions should the administrator in the administration console to update the EMM database accordingly and show media 000001 at the new location? (Select two.)

43. A restore has failed with the following job details:

Which two resources should the administrator use to troubleshoot this issue? (Select two)

44. Which disk type is unsupported in a Media Server Load Balancing storage unit group?

45. Using the default values in the activity monitor, a failed job is discovered among hundreds of jobs that ran during the evening. The administrator would like to view all related jobs to verify they completed successfully.

Where in the activity monitor can the administrator find all related jobs?

46. Refer to the exhibit.

A backup policy uses a Full Backup schedule with a schedule type of Frequency: 1 days. 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 would the next backup run, if all prior backups completed successfully?

47. Refer to the exhibit.

Which diagram is supported for backups spanning BasicDisk storage?

48. An AdvancedDisk storage unit consistently reaches capacity, causing older, staged backups to expire. How con the administrator control the prioritization of images that get removed?

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

DR file is on the same partition as your catalog and will be unusable in an actual disaster or disk failure.

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

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

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

51. An administrator has a backup for client Linux1 using the LinuxClients policy complete successfully, even though the policy Backup Selections are NOT modified, the backup job fails the next day with the following status code:

What is a possible reason the job failed?

52. An administrator has a job that has failed. Upon reviewing the Detailed Status tab for the job, the administrator sees the following information:

Which setting value prevented the job from running during the backup window?

53. Upon arriving at work on a Monday, an administrator sees several replication Jobs that have failed with the following error message:

No images were successfully processed

Which two reasons may be the cause for the error code? (Select two.)

54. Which schedule can be configured as a synthetic backup in addition to the full backup schedule type?

55. In which scenario is Use Accelerator unavailable in a backup policy?

56. 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?

57. An administrator wants deduplication clients in a remote office to perform backups so that less data is sent over the wide area network (WAN).

Which action should the administrator perform to reduce the total amount of data sent over the WAN?

58. Which feature is enabled after adding a master server to the Trusted Master Servers tab?

59. Which two restore types must be initiated from a client system rather than the Net Backup Administration Console on the master server? (Select two.)

60. An administrator needs to recover the Net Backup master server catalog at a disaster recovery site, but the DR files are unavailable.

Which command should the administrator use to recreate the DR file?

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

62. Backups of a newly added Windows Server 2008 guest virtual machine are failing with the following status:

156: snapshot error encountered

The associated bpfis process log indicates that the attempt to quiesce this virtual machine failed.

Which two steps should the administrator review to help resolve the issue? (Select two.)

63. Which volume pool must be manually created in NetBackup?

64. 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?

65. An administrator tries to suspend an active job from the NetBackup Activity Monitor, but discovers that the option is grayed out.

What is preventing the administrator from suspending the job?

66. An administrator has a MS-Windows type policy that has fatted 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? (Select two.)

67. An administrator wishes to modify the Override default job priority option for on MS Windows type restore job before the restore job begins.

Where in the Microsoft Windows Backup, Archive, and Restore console can the administrator configure this option?

68. Which parameter in NetBackup Management > Host Properties must be modified to change the logging level to 5 for client1.domain?

69. 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, four months is missing from the selection list.

Where should the administrator add the four-month retention period under Host Properties?

70. Where should the administrator set the parameter in the Host Properties to enable failed restore jobs to automatically retry on Client1?

71. 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?

72. A NetBackup 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 parameter must be configured to enable the backup jobs from a client to run concurrently?

73. An administrator wants clients in a remote office to perform client-side deduplication instead of Media Server deduplication.

Where should the administrator set the parameter in the Host Properties to ensure client-side deduplication is performed?

74. An administrator wants to use a client as the VMware backup host.

Where is the name of the VMware backup host entered in NetBackup?

75. Which two conditions must be met to change the volume group of a tape? (Select two.)

76. Which two actions should an administrator take to allow NetBackup to manage the allocation of volumes to volume pools? (Select two.)

77. 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 8.0to use the same characters as before the firmware upgrade occurred?

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

79. Which Storage Unit Group option causes NetBackup to choose the least recently selected storage unit in the list as each new job is started?

80. Which value under Storage Unit Properties reflects the total amount of space allocated to a basic disk storage unit?

81. Which utility should an administrator use to verify library device functionality?

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

83. What should an administrator do to enable backups to span multiple BasicDisk storage units?

84. Which two prerequisites must an administrator perform to enable restoration of individual objects and attributes in Active Directory? (Select two.)

85. 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?

86. What happens if the Maximum data streams property is enabled for a particular client?

87. Which statement applies to a NetBackup calendar based schedule in a Windows policy type?

88. A policy is created using the Standard policy type. The default settings are used. Linux hosts s1 and s2 are added in the client list and ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES is specified in the Backup Selection.

Host s1 has the mount points listed below:

/

/opt

/usr

/usr/home

Host s2 has the mount points listed below:

/

/proc

/tmp

/usr

How many streams will be created when the policy runs for both clients?

89. 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?

90. A UNIX client has the mount points listed below:

/var

/usr

/opt

/home

A backup policy for this client has "Allow multiple data streams" enabled and contains a backup selections list with the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive. It also contains an exclude list that excludes /home.

What happens when this backup policy runs?

91. An administrator needs to back up 100 clients using 10 LTO5 tape drives.

Which policy setting will perform the backup fastest?

92. Auto Image Replication is being used to replicate New York backups to London. The New York backups have completed.

What is the next step?

93. Which option is available with a Trusted Master Server?

94. What is the default length of time that true image restore (TIR) information is retained in the NetBackup catalog?

95. Which scenario accurately describes the creation of a full synthetic backup using tape?

96. Which command should an administrator use to determine which storage lifecycle policy's image copies are incomplete?

97. What is the image removal behavior for relocated images from a disk staging storage unit when the high water mark is reached during a backup?

98. What is required to implement Auto Image Replication?

99. 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 disk copies as well as off-site tape copies and must be restorable at all times, even if a single NetBackup server/storage failure occurs.

Which NetBackup feature should the administrator use to implement the functionality?

100. In which two places can an administrator view the amount of space used in the Media Server Deduplication Pool? (Select two.)