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VCS-278 Practice Exam Questions with Answers Administration of Veritas NetBackup 8.1.2 Certification

Question # 6

What are the minimal policy directive(s) to ensure all components of a Windows server system are protected when performing a backup?

A.

ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and System State:\

B.

ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and Shadow Copy Components:\

C.

ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES

D.

ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and System State:\ and Shadow Copy Components:\

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Question # 7

Which incremental schedule type generates more files per backup?

A.

Differences incremental

B.

Differential incremental

C.

Accumulation incremental

D.

Cumulative incremental

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Question # 8

Refer to the Exhibit.

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Which diagram is supported for backups spanning BasicDisk storage?

A.

A

B.

B

C.

C

D.

D

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Question # 9

Which restore method enables simplified search and retrieval across multiple NetBackup domains?

A.

The NetBackup Administration Console

B.

The OpsCenter Operational Restore feature

C.

The Backup, Archive and Restore interface

D.

The NetBackup Operations Manager Interface

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Question # 10

Which statement or statements describe the Scratch volume pool?

A.

There is one Scratch volume pool per NetBackup domain.

B.

The Scratch volume pool is an optional volume pool.

C.

All of the above.

D.

The Scratch pool donates volumes to pools that need additional available volumes.

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Question # 11

Several clients in the same network experience consistent, short-term network failures. The clients are sending data to a media server using a storage unit group. The network failures are causing job failures.

Which setting reduces the job failures in this situation?

A.

the Preferred Network master server host property

B.

the Resilient Network master server host property

C.

the Failover attribute in a storage unit group

D.

the Throttle Bandwidth master server host property

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Question # 12

Which two options are determined by the Security Level? (Choose two.)

A.

if the CA fingerprint needs to be confirmed during an installation or upgrade

B.

if a host requires a token during installation

C.

the idle log off timeout for the NetBackup Administration Console

D.

whether insecure communication with NetBackup 8.0 and earlier hosts is allowed

E.

how often CRLs are updated

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Question # 13

Refer to the Exhibit.

An administrator is trying to access client properties on the NetBackup Administration Console and receives the following message:

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When checking the services on the master server, the administrator sees that the PBX service is down.

Which two commands can the administrator use to increase the PBX log level to determine the reason for the message above? (Choose two.)

A.

vxlogcfg

B.

pbxcfg

C.

vxpbx_exchanged

D.

pbx_exchange

E.

vxlogmgr

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Question # 14

A NetBackup master server has many backups running each night to an MSDP pool that take a long time to complete. While these backups are running, replication jobs are queued.

Which action should the administrator perform to ensure replications can occur without waiting for the backups to complete?

A.

increase “Priority for secondary operations” in the storage lifecycle policy

B.

increase “Maximum concurrent jobs” in the storage server properties

C.

increase “Maximum concurrent jobs” for the disk storage unit

D.

increase the “Maximum I/O Streams” for the disk pool

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Question # 15

A BasicDisk storage unit is 500GB and is running out of space.

The disk and file system is resized to 800GB. What must occur to use this new disk space?

A.

Initiate a backup operation to the BasicDisk storage unit.

B.

Restart the Disk Manager (bpdm) process.

C.

Run bpstsinfo to update the high water mark.

D.

Run nbdevquery to refresh the disk inventory.

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Question # 16

Which method is NOT able to provide performance information for previously run backup jobs?

A.

running the All Log Entries report.

B.

running nbperfchk on the command line.

C.

viewing the detailed status of the job details in the Activity Monitor.

D.

viewing the Disk & Tape Device Activity Reports in OpsCenter.

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Question # 17

Prior to initiating a restore, an administrator realizes that media needed for the restore was written by a server that is unavailable. The administrator does have another server that can perform the restore and that is connected to the same library.

Which two commands can the administrator perform to change the server ownership, so the restore can be performed? (Choose two.)

A.

bpimage

B.

bpimmedia

C.

bpimagelist

D.

bpmedia

E.

bpimport

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Question # 18

An image of the volume past is expiration date or has reached its maximum number of mounts is no longer available for restores.

A.

True

B.

False

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Question # 19

An administrator has an environment that runs over one thousand jobs a night. Some nights there are hundreds of jobs queued waiting for a resource.

Which action should the administrator take in the event that specific queued jobs need to run when a resource next becomes available during that evening’s backup session?

A.

suspend the job and resume the job after changing the policy job priority

B.

change the job priority for the job in the policy

C.

increment the job priority in the Activity Monitor for the job

D.

change the job order in the job hierarchy

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Question # 20

A tape library had the robot firmware upgraded, and now the robot is reading the barcodes with additional characters.

How should an administrator enable NetBackup to use the same characters that were used before the firmware upgrade?

A.

update the Media ID Generation setting

B.

update Media settings

C.

update the device mapping files

D.

update the Barcode Rules setting

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Question # 21

Which feature is compatible with the NBU-Catalog policy type?

A.

Disable client-side deduplication

B.

Bare Metal Restore

C.

Checkpoint restart

D.

Enable granular recovery

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Question # 22

Refer to the exhibit.

A backup policy uses a Full backup schedule with a schedule type of Frequency: 1 day. The start window for the schedule is configured as shown in the exhibit:

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The administrator runs a manual backup at 10:00 on Thursday.

When will the next backup run, if all prior backups completed successfully?

A.

Friday at 2:00

B.

Friday at 10:00

C.

Monday at 2:00

D.

Monday at 1:00

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Question # 23

Consider the configuration information for a single UNIX client displayed below.

Allow Multiple Data Streams is enabled. ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES is specified. Media multiplexing is set to 6.

Three tape drives are available in the storage unit and multiplex per drive is 2. Max Jobs per Client is set to 8.

The client has five local file systems with no exclude list.

How many concurrent data streams will there be when the policy runs?

A.

five

B.

eight

C.

three

D.

six

E.

two

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Question # 24

To reduce network use by limiting the number of parallel backup streams, which cloud setting should be modified under the Scalable Storage host property?

A.

Metering > Metering interval

B.

Network Connections > Maximum concurrent jobs

C.

Throttling > Total available bandwidth

D.

Throttling > Sampling interval

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Question # 25

An AdvancedDisk storage unit consistently reaches capacity, causing older, staged backups to expire.

How can the administrator control the prioritization of images that get removed?

A.

change the priority for secondary storage lifecycle operations.

B.

use Data Classification.

C.

change the priority of relocation jobs in the staging schedule.

D.

modify Retention Levels.

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Question # 26

Which port is used by Smart Meter?

A.

22

B.

443

C.

1556

D.

21

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Question # 27

Which command should an administrator use to show a list of incomplete copies of lifecycle managed images?

A.

nbstl

B.

bpimmedia

C.

bpimage

D.

nbstlutil

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Question # 28

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? (Choose two.)

A.

enable “Always use client-side deduplication” in the host properties

B.

enable Multiplexing for the storage unit

C.

enable Use Change Journal for the client

D.

enable Use Accelerator for the policy

E.

enable “WAN optimization” for the deduplication pool

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Question # 29

When NetBackup makes more than one image copy simultaneously during the backup, it is called

.

A.

Simultaneous copy

B.

Inline copy

C.

Duplication copy

D.

Storage life backup

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Question # 30

Which statement is true about client-side deduplication?

A.

It forces the media server to perform the fingerprinting thereby reducing the processing work for the client.

B.

It may significantly reduce the bandwidth used by backups between the client and media server.

C.

It requires an additional license for each client.

D.

It is not a recommended option.

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Question # 31

Which disk type is unsupported in a Media Server Load Balancing storage unit group?

A.

PureDisk

B.

BasicDisk

C.

AdvancedDisk

D.

Cloud Storage

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Question # 32

Where can an administrator configure cloud storage throttling?

A.

NetBackup Management > Host Properties > Media Servers > Scalable Storage

B.

NetBackup Management > Host Properties > Master Servers > Scalable Storage

C.

NetBackup Management > Storage > Storage Unit > Properties of the cloud storage unit

D.

NetBackup Management > Host Properties > Clients > Scalable Storage

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Question # 33

Which of the following can you not do with Logging Assistant?

A.

Setup debugging logging

B.

Collect logs

C.

View log contents

D.

Disable debug logging

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Question # 34

An administrator has a scheduled policy that backs up 20 clients, each with multiple mount points and multiple data streams enabled. One of the jobs has failed and is in an Incomplete state in the Activity Monitor.

How should the administrator verify the incomplete job runs prior to the next scheduled backup?

A.

run a manual job for the client

B.

resume the job

C.

run a manual job for the mount point

D.

resume the parent job

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Question # 35

Refer to the exhibit.

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The following Storage Lifecycle Policy was used to back up data from a client. All duplication jobs have completed, and none of the backups have expired.

How should an administrator restore data from the tape using NetBackup?

A.

from the BAR console, select the tape backup to restore from.

B.

from the NetBackup Administration Console, promote copy 1 to the primary copy.

C.

from the NetBackup Administration Console, promote copy 2 to the primary copy.

D.

from the BAR console, start the restore and NetBackup will automatically select the tape copy.

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Question # 36

Which backup storage is unsupported with media server load balancing?

A.

BasicDisk

B.

Media Server Deduplication Pool

C.

AdvancedDisk

D.

Media Manager storage

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Question # 37

An administrator has a backup policy with the following policy attributes:

3 paths listed in the Backup Selections list 5 clients listed in the Clients list

"Allow multiple data streams" is selected "Limit jobs per policy" is set to 4

How many jobs go Active when the job is started, excluding parent jobs, assuming there are enough storage resources to handle the expected jobs?

A.

3

B.

4

C.

12

D.

15

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Question # 38

Backups to a storage device fail with the following error message:

Disk storage server is down (2106)

The storage server is an OpenStorage (OST) host, and the master server and media server are both acting as media servers under Credentials > Storage Servers in the NetBackup Administration Console. The disk pool is in an Up state and the storage server is in a Down state. Troubleshooting confirmed the OST plug-ins on the servers are mismatched.

Which command should an administrator use to check the plug-in version installed on the servers?

A.

bpgetconfig

B.

nbemmcmd

C.

nbdevquery

D.

bpstsinfo

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Question # 39

To which VMware component does the backup host require direct access for SAN backups?

A.

Datastore

B.

VMware tools

C.

vCenter server

D.

vStorage API

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Question # 40

Upon arriving at work on a Monday, an administrator sees several replication jobs that have failed with the following error message:

no images were successfully processed

Which two reasons may be the cause for the error code? (Choose two.)

A.

The checkpoint restart is disabled for the replication jobs.

B.

There are network connectivity issues between the source and target domains.

C.

The NetBackup host ID-based certificate was revoked.

D.

There is insufficient storage space on the target storage server.

E.

There are insufficient tapes in the replication volume pool.

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Question # 41

Which storage unit group selection causes NetBackup to choose the least recently selected storage unit in the list as each new job is started?

A.

Prioritized

B.

Failover

C.

Round Robin

D.

Media Server Load Balancing

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Question # 42

A restore using the Java BAR is being attempted. Care has been taken to select the appropriate source client, but no backup image content is displayed.

What could be a reason for this to happen?

A.

All of the above.

B.

The wrong policy type has been specified.

C.

The date range is incorrect.

D.

The path does not exist in the images that have been selected.

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Question # 43

Where in the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface on a Microsoft Windows Client would an administrator define the source client for a restore job?

A.

Select for Restore > Restore from Normal Backup

B.

File > NetBackup Client Properties > General

C.

File > NetBackup Client Properties > Host Properties

D.

File > Specify NetBackup Machines and Policy Type

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Question # 44

An administrator is creating a Standard policy with the option ''Use Accelerator'' to back up files on a Linux server.

Which two options are disabled by default in this type of policy? (Choose two.)

A.

Cross mount points

B.

Compress

C.

Collect true image restore information

D.

Allow multiple data streams

E.

Encrypt

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Question # 45

An administrator working offsite is required to carry out a major upgrade to a NetBackup appliance. The appliance will need to be rebooted multiple times during the upgrade process.

How should the administrator connect to the appliance to monitor the upgrade progress without interruption?

A.

connect to the IPMI interface using a web browser

B.

connect to the eth0 interface using a web browser

C.

connect to the serial interface remotely using CLISH

D.

connect to the eth0 interface using SSH

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Question # 46

A volume is no longer used for backups if it is past its expiration data or has reached its maximum number of mounts.

A.

False

B.

True

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Question # 47

A file system on a server that has different files changing daily becomes corrupt, and a restore is required. The system is being backed up using True Image Restore with move detection enabled.

The most recent backups of this file system are displayed below:

  • Monday: A full backup
  • Tuesday: A differential incremental backup
  • Wednesday: A cumulative incremental backup
  • Thursday: A differential incremental backup
  • Friday: A differential incremental backup

What is the minimum number of backup images that will be used to fully restore the server to its most current state?

A.

one

B.

two

C.

three

D.

four

E.

five

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Question # 48

Where can an administrator change a disk pool to Down status in the NetBackup Administration Console?

A.

Media and Device Management > Device Monitor > Disk Pools

B.

NetBackup Management > Storage > Storage Unit

C.

Media and Device Management > Credentials > Storage Servers

D.

Media and Device Management > Devices > Disk Pools

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Question # 49

Which statement is correct?

A.

You can read NetBackup unified logs using vxlogview.

B.

You can read NetBackup logs in the NetBackup Administration Console.

C.

You can read NetBackup legacy logs using vxlogview.

D.

You can read NetBackup logs in OpsCenter.

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Question # 50

What must be confirmed during an interactive installation or upgrade to ensure certificate deployment is secure?

A.

the SHA1 fingerprint of the certificate authority (CA)

B.

the Hostname of the master server

C.

the admin/root password of the master server

D.

the MD5 fingerprint of the certificate authority (CA)

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Question # 51

Which two NetBackup features are available to protect the MSDP catalog? (Choose two.)

A.

NetBackup catalog backups

B.

MSDP catalog policy

C.

Optimized Catalog Duplication

D.

MSDP shadow copies

E.

Checkpoints

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Question # 52

To create a load balancing media server, you must first configure it as a storage server.

A.

True

B.

False

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Question # 53

Refer to the Exhibit.

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An administrator has created a policy that has three new Full schedules as shown in the exhibit. All the schedules are set to run on Friday, from 0200 to 0600.

What is the order of priority for the schedules on Friday?

A.

Full-Quarterly > Full-Monthly > Full-Weekly

B.

Full-Weekly > Full-Monthly > Full-Quarterly

C.

Full-Monthly > Full-Weekly > Full-Quarterly

D.

Full-Quarterly > Full-Weekly > Full-Monthly

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Question # 54

An administrator has backups for a Linux client that are failing with the following error message:

Status 58: can't connect to client

Which command should the administrator use to identify why the media server is unable to connect to the client?

A.

bpclient

B.

nbsetconfig

C.

bpclntcmd

D.

nbemmcmd

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Question # 55

Which two prerequisites must an administrator perform to allow restoration of individual objects and attributes in Active Directory? (Choose two.)

A.

install the NetBackup File System daemon (nbfsd) on the client

B.

choose the “Enable granular recovery” option in the policy

C.

choose the “Use Accelerator” option in the policy

D.

choose the FlashBackup-Windows policy type

E.

enable the Network File System (NFS) on the client

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Question # 56

An administrator of a multi-site, multi-domain NetBackup environment wants to be able to provide redundancy for backups as well as protecting the NetBackup image database. All backups must have on-site and off-site copies in multiple NetBackup domains as well as off-site tape copies.

Which NetBackup feature should the administrator use to implement the functionality?

A.

Vault with Catalog Backups

B.

Auto Image Replication

C.

Optimized Duplication

D.

Replication Director

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Question # 57

Some NetBackup jobs are affected by the failure of a disk in an AdvancedDisk pool, but the jobs are unavailable to view in the Activity Monitor.

In which two places can the administrator view NetBackup jobs affected by the disk failure? (Choose two.)

A.

Media and Device Management > Device Monitor > Disk Pool

B.

NetBackup Management > Reports > Disk Reports > Disk Logs

C.

NetBackup Management > Reports > Disk Reports > Disk Pool Status

D.

NetBackup Management > Reports > Disk Reports > Disk Storage Unit Status

E.

NetBackup Management > Reports > Media Logs

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Question # 58

Which schedule can be configured as a synthetic backup in addition to the full backup schedule type?

A.

Differential incremental backup

B.

Cumulative incremental backup

C.

User backup

D.

Automatic backup

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Question # 59

What is in the Backup Selections list for an Oracle backup policy?

A.

The device names or drive letters of the disks

B.

The file names of all files using by Oracle

C.

The file names of the transaction logs

D.

A script to be interpreted by Oracle

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Question # 60

The NetBackup Resource Broker (NBRB) maintains resource requests for jobs that are queued.

Which two criteria does NBRB use to evaluate the resource requests and provide resources to each job sequentially? (Choose two.)

A.

job priority

B.

retention level

C.

time when NBRB receives the request

D.

data classification rank ID

E.

date of last successful backup

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Question # 61

What is the certificate deployment and management behavior when the security level is set to High?

A.

Certificates are deployed automatically for known hosts and the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) is refreshed every 4 hours.

B.

Certificates are deployed automatically for all hosts and the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) is refreshed every hour.

C.

Certificates are deployed automatically for known hosts and the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) is refreshed every hour.

D.

Certificates are deployed with a token for all hosts and the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) is refreshed every 4 hours.

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Question # 62

What is the maximum number of policies that NetBackup can be configured to use?

A.

None of the above

B.

1,000

C.

Unlimited

D.

500

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Question # 63

An administrator has a job that has failed. Upon reviewing the Detailed Status tab for the job, the administrator sees the following information:

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Which setting value prevented the job from running during the backup window?

A.

the Global Attributes > “Maximum jobs per client” master server host property

B.

the Timeouts > “Client read timeout” master server host property

C.

the “Maximum concurrent jobs” storage unit setting

D.

the “Limit jobs per policy” policy setting

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Question # 64

The Activity Monitor shows a failed job. Which method is easiest to troubleshoot the error code?

A.

Go to www.veritas.com/support.

B.

Look up the error code in the NetBackup Status Codes Reference Guide.

C.

Click the status code link in the job's Detailed Status report.

D.

Run a problems report.

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Question # 65

When troubleshooting backup operation issues, which status code indicates that the start window was closed?

A.

96

B.

71

C.

196

D.

1

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Question # 66

From where is the Cleanup Wizard for Instant Recovery launched?

A.

From the NetBackup Administration Console

B.

From the vSphere Client for Windows

C.

From the NetBackup Plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client

D.

From the command line on the NetBackup Master Server

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