Symantec SCS 250-271 Questions & Answers

• Question 91:

  An administrator creates a policy with checkpoint restart enabled and the target destination is a Fibre-connected tape drive. What will happen to the backup job if Symantec NetBackup encounters a 30 second interruption on the Fibre Channel?

  A. The job will fail and restart from the last checkpoint.

  B. The job will be resumed from where the interruption occurred.

  C. The job will be suspended until the issue is resolved.

  D. The job will fail and restart from the beginning.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 92:

  A media server has four configured LTO5 drives. Two are configured to one HBA and two are configured to the other. A Symantec NetBackup administrator needs to add redundancy and reconfigure the tape drives so that each HBA sees all four LTO5 drives. After the zoning and OS configuration has been completed, the administrator wants to add and test one of the new paths to a drive to ensure the environment runs correctly. How should the administrator add an additional path to one of the existing drives?

  A. rerun the Device Configuration Wizard for all devices

  B. use the Add Path dialog box to an existing drive

  C. use the Add Drive dialog and add the path as a new drive

  D. use the Add Path Device Configuration Wizard

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 93:

  The administrator of a large bank needs to preserve financial information for an extended period of time. The bank's Symantec NetBackup 7.5 catalog is now over 800 GB in size, causing the catalog backups to contend for resources with production system backups. How can the administrator shorten the time needed to back up the Symantec NetBackup catalog?

  A. use the Symantec NetBackup 7.5 Agent for Symantec Enterprise Vault to perform an online archive of the Symantec NetBackup Catalog

  B. create a catalog archive policy and execute it from the command line using the catarc command

  C. use the Symantec NetBackup 7.5 client-side deduplication feature to shorten the time it takes to perform a Symantec NetBackup Catalog Backup

  D. back up the Symantec NetBackup catalog by scheduling an online Sybase database backup policy to allow the Catalog Backup to run without contending for resources with the production system backups

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 94:

  The configuration parameters MIN_GB_SIZE_PER_DUPLICATION_JOB and IMAGE_EXTENDED_RETRY_PERIOD_IN_HOURS are part of the configuration for which feature?

  A. Catalog Replication

  B. Disk Staging

  C. Storage Lifecycle Policy

  D. NetBackup Vault

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 95:

  A backup job failed. The backup administrator needs to collect log files for the services and daemons that use Unified-style logging. Which step must be performed by the backup administrator before sending the collected log files to Symantec technical support for analysis?

  A. create log directories for the Symantec NetBackup services and daemons

  B. set the Global logging level setting to a value of 5

  C. run nbsu on the master server

  D. run nbcplogs on the master server

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 96:

  A Symantec NetBackup administrator configures a Standardpolicy type for synthetic backups. What is required for a successful Synthetic Full if the client is offline?

  A. successful traditional Full and Synthetic Incremental backup

  B. bring the client online, successful traditional Full and Incremental backup

  C. bring the client online, successful traditional Full and Synthetic Incremental backup

  D. successful traditional Full and Incremental backup

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 97:

  An organization needs to automatically back up a server's data every other Sunday with a backup start window from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM. It is expected that manual backups will never be run. How can this backup schedule be configured to ensure it runs every other Sunday at 7:00 PM?

  A. Schedule type: Calendar Calendar Schedule: Recurring Week Days: 1st and 3rd Sunday

  B. Schedule type: Calendar Calendar Schedule: Recurring Week Days: 2nd and 4th Sunday

  C. Schedule type: Frequency, once per 2 weeks

  D. Schedule type: Frequency, once per 13 days

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 98:

  Which types of information are backed up by a cumulative incremental backup schedule?

  A. files and folders that have changed since the last differential incremental, cumulative incremental, or full backup

  B. files and folders that have changed since the last cumulative incremental or full backup

  C. files and folders that have changed since the last full backup

  D. files that have changed since the last incremental or full backup

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 99:

  Which two tasks does the catalog backup perform? (Select two.)

  A. ensures the catalog backup is created in a safe location

  B. automatically assigns tapes to the CatalogBackup pool

  C. appends to existing data on tape

  D. backs up the catalog only when there are no client backups in progress

  E. copies the NBDB to a staging area before backing it up

  Correct Answer: CE

• Question 100:

  Which script moves client software to a remote UNIX client from a UNIX master server?

  A. ftp_to_client

  B. install_client_files

  C. client_config

  D. send_client_files

  E. update_client

  Correct Answer: B