VCS-285 Exam Preparation Material | Veritas NetBackup 10.x and NetBackup Appliance 5.x Administrator

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Question#1

Which type of backup schedule is available when using the "After each backup session" schedule type for an NBU-Catalog policy type?

A. Full
B. Differential Incremental
C. Vault Catalog Backup
D. Application Backup

Question#2

The MSDP catalog on a Media Server has become corrupted.
Which two methods are available to bring the MSDP pool back online? (Select two.)

A. restore the MSDP catalog from the NetBackup catalog backup
B. recover the MSDP catalog from the MSDP catalog backup
C. repair the MSDP catalog using the crchk tool
D. restore the MSDP catalog from an MSDP catalogshadow copy
E. repair the MSDP catalog using the recoverCR tool

Question#3

Backup jobs to an MSDP storage unit of a large EXT3 file system for a Linux client connected via a 1 GbE network are taking excessive time.
Which two settings should an administrator change to improve the performance of the backups? (Select two.)

A. enable client-side deduplication
B. enable multiplexing
C. enable Use Change Journal for the client
D. enable Use Accelerator for the policy
E. enable WAN optimization

Question#4

Storage life-cycle policy SLP1 is used to perform a backup and duplication. The backup is always a small 100MB backup. The master server host properties for SLP Parameters are set to the default values.
How can the administrator ensure the duplications run as soon as possible after the backup completes?

A. reduce the Job submission Interval setting to 0
B. reduce the Minimum size per duplication job setting to 50MB
C. right-click SLP1 and select Manual Relocation to Final Destination
D. increase the priority for secondary operations in the SLP

Question#5

An administrator is attempting to configure a new backup policy using synthetic backups. When creating a new full backup schedule, the Synthetic backup option is unable to be selected.
What must the administrator do to the policy to make the Synthetic backup option available for selection?

A. create a differential or cumulative incremental backup schedule
B. select a backup destination that supports synthetic backups
C. enable Collect true image restore information with move detection
D. create a full backup schedule with Accelerator forced rescan enabled

Exam Code: VCS-285
Q & A: 159 Q&As         Updated:  Oct 08,2026

 

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Exam Code: VCS-285
Q & A: 159 Q&As
Updated:  Oct 08,2026

 

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