Veritas VCS-284 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 23,2026- Exam Code: VCS-284
- Exam Name: Veritas NetBackup 10.x Administrator
- Certification Provider: Veritas
- Latest update: Oct 23,2026
An administrator needs to back up Windows and Linux file servers to an Advanced Disk storage unit targeting a high speed disk array. Backup traffic shares a busy network with mission critical application traffic.
Which feature can the administrator implement to optimize this backup environment?
- A . network resiliency
- B . client-side deduplication
- C . NetBackup Accelerator
- D . Synthetic backups
Which steps should an administrator perform to run an upgrade pre-check for multiple Windows and Linux clients using VxUpdate, without performing the upgrade?
- A . configure the pre-check to run for all clients concurrently in Deployment Policies > Attributes
- B . configure the pre-check to run for all clients concurrently in Deployment Policies > Schedules
- C . run a pre-check for each client manually using the nbrepo command
- D . run a pre-check for each client manually using the nbinstallcmd command
What should an administrator do to enable backups to span multiple BasicDisk storage units?
- A . configure a storage unit group and add BasicDisk storage units from multiple Media Servers
- B . configure a storage unit group that consists only of disk storage units defined on a single Media Server
- C . confirm that a load balancing storage unit is selected at the group level
- D . select Storage Units > Storage Unit > Allow backup to span disks
How can an administrator determine the storage and database paths for a Media Server Deduplication Pool?
- A . run the Configure Disk Storage Server wizard for the MSDP
- B . view Storage Unit > View Properties for the MSOP storage unit
- C . view Disk Pool > Disk volumes for the MSDP disk pool
- D . view Storage Server > Properties for the storage server
An administrator has a media server with four empty disks with the following characteristics:
SSD1, SSD2: High-speed solid state drives
Disk3, Disk4: Medium-speed hard drives
What is the recommended disk storage configuration using these devices?
- A . place disks in one AdvancedDisk pool with media server load balancing configured
- B . place disks in one AdvancedDisk pool with round robin configured
- C . place disks in one AdvancedDisk pool with failover configured, in the order: SSD1, SSD2, Disk3, Disk4
- D . place disks in two AdvancedDisk pools: SSD1 and SSD2 in one pool, and Disk3 and Disk4 in the other pool
An administrator needs to enable the media server to detect backup anomalies. To do this, the administrator needs to copy the NB_Anomaly.db file from the anomaly_detection folder on the primary server to the anomaly_detection folder on the media server.
On which path can the administrator locate the anomaly_detection folder in the primary server?
- A . /usr/openv/netbackup/dbext
- B . /usr/openv/netbackup/ext/dbext
- C . /usr/openv/netbackup/db
- D . /usr/openv/var/global
A restore must be performed. An administrator is attempting to view the valid images for a client, but the following error occurs: WARNING: Server does not contain any valid images.
Which two parameters may be configured incorrectly? (Select two.)
- A . Schedule type for restores
- B . Destination client for restores
- C . Server to use for backups and restores
- D . Media Server for backups and restores
- E . Policy type for restores
Which schedule type is unsupported for a NetBackup catalog backup policy?
- A . Cumulative Incremental backup with an "After each backup session" schedule
- B . Full backup with an "After each backup session" schedule
- C . Differential Incremental backup with a "Calendar" schedule
- D . Differential Incremental backup with a "Frequency" schedule
Which statement or statements describe the Scratch volume pool?
- A . The Scratch pool donates volumes to pools that need additional available volumes.
- B . There is one Scratch volume pool per NetBackup domain.
- C . All of the above.
- D . The Scratch volume pool is an optional volume pool.
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 . verify 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