250-271 Online Practice Questions and Answers

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

By default, how long will a failed restore job remain in an Incomplete state prior to being moved to a Done state?

A. one day

B. three days

C. seven days

D. until the administrator cancels the restore job

Which two characteristics of a backup are defined in the storage unit configuration? (Select two.)

A. which master server is used

B. which media server is used

C. which storage device is used

D. which volume group is used

E. which volume pool is used

A site needs to perform file system backups of Solaris, Red Hat, Windows 2003, and Windows 2008 clients. Backups are initiated by the Symantec NetBackup 7.5 scheduler and the backup of specific files are also initiated by the administrators of the client hosts. Both full and differential backups must be performed. What is the minimum number of policies and schedules that must be configured?

A. 2 policies with 3 schedules in each policy

B. 2 policies with 4 schedules in each policy

C. 4 policies with 2 schedules in each policy

D. 4 policies with 3 schedules in each policy

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?

A. All backup jobs complete successfully.

B. Backup jobs are created for all mount points except for /home.

C. The backup job for /home is partially successful because /home is excluded.

D. The backup job for /home fails because /home is excluded.

An administrator initiated a manual backup of a clientA on master1. The backup failed with the message "client is offline(1000)". Which Host Properties setting should be modified to resolve this issue?

A. Clients > clientA > Windows Client > Client Settings > Offline until

B. Clients > clientA > General Server > Offline until

C. Master Servers > master1 > Client Attributes > clientA > Offline until D. Master Servers > master1 > Windows Clients > clientA > Offline until

Which two factors must be considered when estimating the space required for the image catalog? (Select two.)

A. number of policies

B. number of files protected

C. average file size

D. retention period

E. file system size

The Symantec NetBackup administrator is concerned that the media server deduplication pool is using more space than estimated. In which two places can the administrator find the amount of space used in the media server deduplication pool? (Select two.)

A. Reports > Disk Storage Status

B. Device Monitor > Disk Pools

C. Reports > Disk Logs

D. Devices > Disk Pools

E. Reports > Disk Pool Status

An administrator has a tape that has been previously used by Symantec NetBackup 7.5 for client backups but no longer contains valid data. The barcode has been changed and the tape has been moved to a different Symantec NetBackup domain. Which action will allow this tape to be used in the new domain?

A. move the tape to the scratch volume pool

B. relabel the tape

C. deassign the media

D. inventory the robotic library

A Symantec NetBackup 7.5 master server has a Microsoft Windows policy that protects over 500 servers using the directive ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES. The backup window for this policy is between 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM and is unshared with any other policy. When the backup window for this policy is open, the overall performance of the disk storage unit gets 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?

A. disable multiplexing on the policy schedules

B. set the "Maximum backup copies" host property to 10

C. enable multiplexing for the storage unit and set the value to 10

D. enable the "Limit Jobs per policy" attribute