Veritas VCS-284 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 21,2026- Exam Code: VCS-284
- Exam Name: Veritas NetBackup 10.x Administrator
- Certification Provider: Veritas
- Latest update: Oct 21,2026
Exclude dates are not available in frequency-based schedules.
- A . False
- B . True
Which event can cause a NetBackup appliance to shut down?
- A . multiple disk failures that put data at risk
- B . fan failure
- C . RAID battery backup failure
- D . power supply input voltage overload
A disk volume is a _____________.
- A . Collection of media in a volume
- B . Pool of volumes
- C . Data Store Pool
- D . Logical unit of disk storage
Which two pools are created by default in NetBackup? (Select two.)
- A . Scratch pool
- B . CatalogBackup pool
- C . DataStore pool
- D . Deduplication pool
- E . Default pool
A job fails with the following message:
Error bpbrm (pid=5942) Cannot connect to winclient.example.com
Info bpbkar (pid=0) done. status: 58: can’t connect to client
The administrator verifies the default OS host name resolution order is in place in all the environments, but finds an incorrect entry for the client in the media server’s hosts file and corrects it.
The hosts file on the client is properly configured. The administrator restarts the job, but the job fails with the same error message.
Which action should the administrator perform to ensure the job completes successfully?
- A . restart the NetBackup services on the master server
- B . create a DNS record for the client
- C . run bpclntcmd -clear_host_cache command on the media server
- D . restart the NetBackup services on the client
Which volume pool must be manually created in NetBackup?
- A . None pool
- B . OataStore pool
- C . Scratch pool
- D . CatalogBackup pool
An administrator has a backup for client Linux1 using the LinuxClients policy complete successfully, even though the policy Backup Selections are NOT modified, the backup job fails the next day with the following status code: Error 71: none of the files in the file list exist.
What is a possible reason the job failed?
- A . The Enable granular recovery option was unset.
- B . The client was added to another backup policy.
- C . The file systems have been unmounted on the client.
- D . The client was temporarily shut down.
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 master server and the client based on the output?
- A . bptestbpcd
- B . bpclntcmd -self
- C . bptestnetconn -s
- D . nbdb_ping
In which scenario is ”Use Accelerator" unavailable in a backup policy?
- A . for virtual machines hosted on a Hyper-V Host using WMI.
- B . for a NetApp NDMP filer.
- C . for VMware virtual machines with a Linux guest OS.
- D . for an Exchange database availability group (DAG).
The administrator has a master server running over 50,000 jobs per day.
What can the administrator do to reduce the load on the master server?
- A . replicate the backups to another master server domain
- B . configure a new master server to distribute the backup load
- C . add additional media servers to the environment
- D . configure client-side deduplication and load balancing media servers