VCS-277 Exam Details

  • Exam Code
    :VCS-277
  • Exam Name
    :Administration of Veritas NetBackup 8.0 and NetBackup Appliances 3.0
  • Certification
    :Veritas Certifications
  • Vendor
    :Veritas
  • Total Questions
    :168 Q&As
  • Last Updated
    :Jul 11, 2026

Veritas VCS-277 Online Questions & Answers

  • Question 111:

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

    A. NetBackup ignores Maximum jobs per client and uses either Limit jobs per policy or Maximum indexing jobs per indexing server, whichever is lowest
    B. NetBackup ignores Maximum jobs per client and uses either Maximum data streams or Limit jobs per policy, whichever is lowest
    C. NetBackup ignores Maximum indexing jobs per indexing server and uses Maximum jobs per client or the Limit jobs per policy, whichever is lowest
    D. NetBackup ignores Limit jobs per policy and uses either Maximum data streams or Maximum jobs per client, whichever is lowest

  • Question 112:

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

    A. the backup may run on a day with a closed backup window with Retries allowed after runday
    B. an Exclude date may be configured to occur on an included recurring day of the week
    C. configuring a start window spanning midnight is invalid
    D. a calendar based schedule can run twice a day

  • Question 113:

    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

  • Question 114:

    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.)

    A. use the bpexpdate command to change the expiration date of the image
    B. use the bpretlevel command to customize the retention level
    C. use the bpimmedia command to freeze the tape
    D. use the bpduplicate command to create a copy with an infinite retention
    E. use the vmchange command to change the expiration date of the tape

  • Question 115:

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

    A. Pure Disk
    B. BasicDisk
    C. AdvancedDisk
    D. Cloud Storage

  • Question 116:

    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?

    A. The version of NetBackup installed on the master server and media server is higher than the version installed on the client.
    B. The media server is unable to resolve the hostname of the client to any IP address.
    C. The required NetBackup processes need to be started on the client.
    D. The media server failed to perform a reverse name lookup of the IP address associated with the client.

  • Question 117:

    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.)

    A. VMware Tools is installed and running in the virtual machine
    B. disable Block-Level Incremental Backup in the policy
    C. install the NetBackup plug-in for vSphere Web Client on the guest virtual machine
    D. verify Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service within the guest virtual machine is working properly
    E. enable snapshotting of the virtual machine's memory on the vCenter server

  • Question 118:

    Backup jobs end with the following series of messages in the Job Details:

    Error bpbrm(pid= ) db_FLISTsend failed: Unable to connect to the database (2505)

    12/05/2013 15:39:45 - job 63389 was restarted as job 63390

    Failed to get status code information (2505)

    Which process is failing to respond?

    A. nbjm
    B. nbemm
    C. bpdbm
    D. bpbrm

  • Question 119:

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

    A. Prioritized
    B. Failover
    C. Round Robin
    D. Media Server Load Balancing

  • Question 120:

    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.)

    A. The checkpoint restart is disabled for the replication Jobs.
    B. There are network connectivity issues between the source and target domains.
    C. The NetBackup host ID-based certificate was revoked.
    D. There is insufficient storage space on the target storage server.
    E. There are insufficient tapes in the replication volume pool.

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