VCS-285 Sample Questions & Answers
Expect ground covered across setting up primary, media and client components, plus disk- and cloud-based storage, backup policies and protection plans, monitoring images and jobs, tuning NetBackup and its appliances, and troubleshooting failed jobs and devices.
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- Question 1Intermediate
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? A.the “Maximum concurrent jobs” storage unit settingB.the Global Attributes > “Maximum jobs per client” primary server host propertyC.the Timeouts > “Client read timeout” primary server host propertyD.the “Limit jobs per policy” policy setting

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Correct answer: D
- Question 2Intermediate
An administrator views the following errors from the Detailed Status tab of a failed job in the Activity Monitor.Which command should the administrator perform to test the communication between the primary server and the client based on the output? A.nbdb_pingB.bpclntcmd -selfC.bptestbpcdD.bptestnetconn -s

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Correct answer: C
- Question 3Intermediate
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 new 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? A.change volume C11201 to the “scratch_pool” volume poolB.change volume E02002 to the “scratch_pool” volume poolC.change volume E02003 to the “scratch_pool” volume poolD.unfreeze volume E02004 in the “server_tapes” volume pool

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Correct answer: C
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