VCS-261 Online Practice Questions and Answers

What is a benefit of Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager (ODM) for Oracle databases that reside on Veritas file systems?

A. reduced system call overhead

B. support for large file sizes

C. improved synchronous writes

D. enhanced data integrity

Which command should an administrator use to guarantee data is cached when SmartIO is configured?

A. vxcache set autocache

B. sfcache preload

C. vxassist cache pin

D. sfcache pin

Which process must be running for a Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager (VIOM) managed host to be added to one or more VIOM Management Servers?

A. vxdclid

B. vxconfigd

C. xprtld

D. sfmsecd

Which SmartIO caching mode primarily supports the applications that run directly over raw volumes?

A. block-level read caching

B. write-back caching

C. read-write caching

D. block-level write caching

How are primary and secondary roles determined in a Cluster File System cluster?

A. All cluster file systems are initially mounted on the same node which is designated as the primary; all other nodes are secondaries.

B. The first node where a cluster file system is mounted is designated as the primary for that file system; all other nodes are secondaries.

C. The Cluster Volume Manager master node is designated as the primary; all other nodes are secondaries.

D. The node with the lowest LLT ID is designated as the primary; all other nodes are secondaries.

Veritas File System is an extent based file system.

Which two pieces of information form the basis of an extent? (Choose two.)

A. inode number

B. offset

C. length

D. format

E. block size

Which benefit is acquired using SmartTier?

A. the one-time assignment of application files to a storage class

B. the automatic migration of files between storage types based on file system type

C. the migration of files in response to application downtime

D. the transparent move of data based on policies that implement business requirements

What is the function of a Veritas file system intent log?

A. It improves file system I/O performance for file systems spanning volumes.

B. It enables storage checkpoints for use in instant file system recovery.

C. It provides fast file system recovery by way of journal log replay.

D. It enables database to achieve raw partition I/O performance.

An administrator has configured replication using Veritas Volume Replicator between two sites. The replication mode is set to asynchronous and the replication status is consistent and connected.

The performance of which component impacts the application write performance?

A. write performance of the primary SRL volume

B. write performance of the secondary SRL volume

C. write performance of the data volumes at the primary site

D. network latency between the primary and the secondary sites

Which command should an administrator use to display the status when a volume layout is being changed?

A. vxinfo

B. vxvol

C. vxstat

D. vxrelayout