Veritas VCS-285 Veritas NetBackup 10.x and NetBackup Appliance 5.x Administrator Online Training
Veritas VCS-285 Online Training
The questions for VCS-285 were last updated at Jun 19,2025.
- Exam Code: VCS-285
- Exam Name: Veritas NetBackup 10.x and NetBackup Appliance 5.x Administrator
- Certification Provider: Veritas
- Latest update: Jun 19,2025
Refer to the exhibit.
A backup job configured with a retention level of 2 and "Policy volume pool" set to the "server_tapes" is failing due to status code 96: Unable to allocate new media for backup.
See the output of the available_media command below:
Which task in the NetBackup Administration Console should the administrator perform to resolve the status code 96 error?
- A . change volume C11201 to the "scratch_pool" volume pool
- B . change volume E02002 to the "scratch_pool" volume pool
- C . change volume £02003 to the "scratch_pool" volume pool
- D . unfreeze volume E02004 in the "server_tapes" volume pool
An administrator views the following errors from the Detailed Status tab of a failed job in the Activity Monitor.
03/01/2016 11:54:25 – Info bpbrm (pid=7220) connect failed STATUS (18) CONNECT_FAILED
03/01/2016 11:54:25 – Info bpbrm (pid=7220) status: FAILED, (24) BAD_VERSTON; system: (10036) A blocking operation is currently executing.; FROM 192.168.10.201 TO CLIENTIAME 192.168.10.251 bpcd VIA pbx
03/01/2016 11:54:25 – Info bpbrm (pid=7220) status: FATIED, (42) CONNECT_REEUSED; system: (10061) No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.; FROM 192.168.10.201 TO CLENTNAME 192.168.10.251 bpcd VIA vnetd
03/01/2016 11:54:25 – Info bpbrm (pid=7220) status: FATIED, (42) CONNECT_REEUSED; system: (10061) No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.; FROM 192.168.10.201 TO CLENTNAME192.168.10.251 bpcd
03/01/2016 11:54:25 – Error bpbrm (pid=7220) Cannot connect to CLIENTNAME
03/01/2016 11:54:25 – Info apibkar32 (pid=0) done. status: 58: can’t connect to client
03/01/201611:54:25 – end writing can’t connect to client (58)
Which command should the administrator perform to test the communication between the primary server and the client based on the output?
- A . nbdb_ping
- B . bpclntcmd -self
- C . bptestbpcd
- D . bptestnetconn -s
An administrator observes intermittent connectivity issues between the appliance and clients.
Which NetBackup Appliance Shell Menu (CUSH) command can the administrator use to assist in diagnosing the problem?
- A . Main_Menu > Support > NBDNA
- B . Main_Menu > Network > Show Status
- C . Main_Menu > Support > DataCollect
- D . Main_Menu > Support > ping
An administrator wants to use a client as the VMware backup host.
Where is the name of the VMware backup host entered in NetBackup?
- A . Media and Device Management > Credentials > Virtual Machine Servers
- B . Host Properties > Clients > VMware Access Hosts
- C . Host Properties > Primary Server > VMware Access Hosts
- D . Access Management > Virtual Machine Servers
An administrator configures a policy to perform file system backups of multiple client systems using the "Allow multiple data streams" feature. All other policy attributes are at default settings.
Which primary server host property must be configured to enable the backup job from all clients to run concurrently?
- A . Global Attributes > Maximum jobs per client
- B . Client Attributes > Use Global Settings
- C . Policy storage unit > Maximum concurrent jobs
- D . Policy Attributes > Limit Jobs per Policy
An administrator needs to ensure the channel on which NetBackup clients send metadata and data to NetBackup servers is secure.
Which NetBackup feature should the administrator select to ensure the requirement is met?
- A . External CA and external certificates
- B . NetBackup CA and NetBackup certificates
- C . data-in-transit encryption
- D . NetBackup client encryption
Which feature is unavailable for all NetBackup cloud providers when configuring cloud storage using the Cloud Storage Server Configuration wizard?
- A . Encryption
- B . Use Secure Sockets Layer
- C . Spanning volumes
- D . Compression
Which storage unit group selection is based on a capacity-managed approach?
- A . Media Server Load Balancing
- B . Failover
- C . Prioritized
- D . Round Robin
Which storage unit type supports a staging schedule?
- A . Advanced Disk
- B . Cloud Storage
- C . Basic Disk
- D . Pure Disk
An administrator needs to ensure backed up data is protected from being encrypted or deleted.
Which option should the administrator select when creating an MSDP storage unit?
- A . On demand only
- B . Lock until expiration
- C . Enable WORM
- D . Maximum concurrent jobs