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taolv's avatar
taolv
Level 3
2 years ago

What's difficult

Dears,I've years of  working experience in IT infras, but a greenhand in NBU. Now I've enrolled the self-paced courses in preparation of "Administration of Veritas NetBackup 10.x exam".

I was provided with leanning material  of 2 PDF books (nearly 2000 pages total): "Veritas NetBackup 10.0: Administration"  and  "Veritas NetBackup 10.0: Advanced Administration" .

My question is what's difficulty level of the exam, compared with questions provided after each lesson in above 2 books. Is it difficult to pass the exam and get a certificate?

  • StefanosM's avatar
    StefanosM
    Level 6
    2 years ago

     the questions at the training are just for fun.
    there is a sample exam on veritas site. use this a a guide. And the exam is difficult. you must have a degree of experience before going to the exam

  • taolv's avatar
    taolv
    Level 3
    2 years ago

    Sorry missed the title: Is it difficult to pass the NBU exam and get a certificate?

  • jnardello's avatar
    jnardello
    Moderator
    2 years ago

    Generally they like putting questions about new & popular features on the cert tests as well as ones covering basic administration. For the new NetBackup cert test I'd expect to see questions covering:

    • basic NBU administration (setting up STUs, backups, restores, tape handling, tape drives, robots, Activity Monitor, etc. )
    • RBAC
    • WORM (and in particular Enterprise vs. Compliance modes)
    • Immutability vs Indelibility
    • basic Cloud setup
    • probably something general on database agent backups
    • IRE
    • Backup Anomaly detection
    • Malware scanning
    • maybe something on generating an API key
    • getting around in the web UI (and I'd be surprised if most/all screenshots didn't feature the web UI)
    • probably some questions on certs
    • Encrypting backups - NBU KMS, 3rd party key mangement, tape drive encryption, client-side encryption, etc.
    • MSDP and spoold/spad commands & config file locations
    • Tuning files

    So yeah, if you could just memorize all of the admin guides this weekend, that'd be great.... =)

    As was mentioned, experience using the features is the best way to get through the cert test. If you don't have that, study study study.

    Good luck !